Mopidy-Spotify 5.0 is a backward-incompatible release because our dependencies have changed.
RIP libspotify
This has been a very long time coming... we no longer require the non-functional libspotify library (110). Not everything works yet. Most noticeably, seeking and gapless playback need work, any help would be very welcome.
For audio, we are using a new GStreamer plugin called [spotifyaudiosrc](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/spotify/index.html) (#342). This plugin isn't available in any apt repositories yet but details of how to obtain it are in the [readme](https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/blob/main/README.rst#dependencies). Hopefully it will be available from apt soon.
For all other Spotify content, we are using Spotify's Web API (342).
This will be the last tagged release which supports both spotifyaudiosrc and Python 3.10 (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS). All future releases will require at least Python 3.11, in keeping with the upcoming Mopidy v4 release.
Dependencies
* A Spotify Premium subscription.
* A non-Facebook Spotify username and password.
* Mopidy >= 3.4
* Python >= 3.9
* **gst-plugins-spotify >= 0.10 (NEW)**
What's Changed
* Use the long-form Spotify URL for user playlists. by kingosticks in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/299
* Log when refresh of playlists starts by simeg in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/311
* Update list of countries by djmattyg007 in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/315
* Do not ignore the `exact` parameter in the `search` method by telnet23 in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/318
* Support lookups for 'your' URIs by djmattyg007 in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/313
* Support Python 3.10 by djmattyg007 in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/327
* Replace pyspotify with Web API and gstspotifysrc by kingosticks in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/342
* Require Python >= 3.9 by kingosticks in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/350
* Configurable maximum cache size by beaverking1212 in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/356
* Improve credentials cache by beaverking1212 in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/357
* images: ignore bad image uris (Fixes 364) by kingosticks in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/365
* Fix Spotify's field syntax change by kingosticks in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/367
* Fix for empty playlists by kingosticks in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/368
* images: more robust to missing fields by kingosticks in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/370
* Ignore internal browse uri images by kingosticks in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/371
* Fix floats in API response (Fixes 375) by kingosticks in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/376
* I am the maintainer by kingosticks in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/379
New Contributors
* simeg made their first contribution in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/311
* djmattyg007 made their first contribution in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/314
* telnet23 made their first contribution in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/318
* beaverking1212 made their first contribution in https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/pull/356
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/compare/v4.1.1...v5.0.0a1