Spotify on the Kitchen Media Centre

I've held on to the free Spotify account I've had since you got to have an invite to get one (2008/2009 or so) and never bothered to upgrade since the commercials hasn't been that annoying (the more recent daily cut-off is worse). However, for convenience, on our last trip abroad, we kind of needed the ability to access a large catalogue of music and play it uninterrupted, so I did go premium (enjoying their X-mas discount).

That, in turn, led to my wife becoming hooked on Spotify on the tablet which led her to once place the tablet playing songs off Spotify on the speakers of the kitchen media centre, in front of the kitchen media centre touchscreen...Well, we can't have that, can we? 

Some googling later, I pulled the zip-archive of SpotiMC off http://azkotoki.org/downloads/ and installed it. Works well, although playing the playlist in my account seems a bit buggy with tunes falling silent in mid-song and then, sometimes after minutes of silence, all of a sudden starting on the next - everything else (searches and playing the resulting hits) works as expected. 

Though one quirk is that there is no easy access to a touchscreen friendly volume control from within the SpotiMC interface - not until the screen-saver blackens the screen, after which, if you wake it, you are in the "normal" Kodi tune-playing window with the on-screen volume control bar. As they say, patience is a virtue.

UPDATE 2016-01-19: The problems with the playlists seems to have been some gremlins in the system, now it works just fine to use playlists. Also, I've discovered that if you tap the "now playing" area decisively, you're transported from the SpotiMC view to the regular OpenElec song-plaing view and can access the Re-Touched skin volume control bar as usual.