topic Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu in Desktop (Linux)

Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

gufosowa — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:23:27 GMT

Plan

Premium

Device

Dell Latitude Laptop

Operating System

Ubuntu 18.04

My Question or Issue

Spotify opens OK and when I click play, the play bar moves as if it is playing but there is no sound. Other system sounds are there, Youtube and VLC player work well, only Spotify is mute. I could suspect Skype to mute it, as its habit, but the problem persisted after restarting the system. It used to play well on this system since a few months, except a few times it would mute like this, but it would be solved when I kill the process and restart.

What I tried?

Restarting the system, deleting cache, killing all Spotify processes do not solve. When I start Spotify in terminal I see this:

[0422/114804.710443:ERROR:buffer_manager.cc(488)] [.DisplayCompositor]GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_OPERATION : glBufferData: <- error from previous GL command

I tried the solution mentioned here, no luck.

Even reinstalling the program did not solve.

I think this time it died forever unless you can help it.

I attached the output of "strace spotify > $HOME/spotify-dump 2>&1"

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

gufosowa — Fri, 01 May 2020 11:13:48 GMT

A week has passed. I still cannot use Spotify services on my PC. Anyone checks here?

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

OlegElantsev — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:31:48 GMT

Already a month =(
web version works however

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

matthisw94 — Thu, 07 May 2020 11:38:43 GMT

Hey, I had the same problem. My suspicion was that Spotify might just be muted for some reason. I installed "pavucontrol" (the pulse audio volume control) and found that Spotify was actually muted.
Maybe that helps you, too.
Best of luck!

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

thoma711 — Mon, 11 May 2020 21:03:04 GMT

was having exactly the same problem as Oleg Elantsev today. PulsAudioControl was part of the software-center, and it's been the solution!

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

OlegElantsev — Tue, 12 May 2020 08:41:04 GMT

That indeed fixed the problem. Thanks!

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

smashu — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:33:24 GMT

indeed, that was it

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

ianturton — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:21:49 GMT

I don't suppose anyone knows how it gets muted?

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

matthisw94 — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:34:49 GMT

Unfortunately I don't know why it happens. I've only encountered this problem once, so did not have any chance to investigate it. If it's recurring for you, maybe you could figure out how it happens. I'd be curious to know.

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

Moxo26 — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 22:24:42 GMT

This happened to me, I solved it using the following:

Settings -> Sound -> Applications->spotify-> switch "on"

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

tekinalp — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 08:05:53 GMT

in my case it was giving the audio to the mic jack, but I was using bt headphones. In any case pavucontrol helped me fix that

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

lcrost — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:55:32 GMT

Pules audio helped: The output was not muted as others mentioned, but audio was going to a different output source

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

farhanarrafi — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:50:39 GMT

The option can be found in ubuntu Settings > Sound > Applications (Tab)

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

marduc — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 09:41:59 GMT

@matthisw94 suggestion solved this for me.

On my manjaro, spotify was not muted, but pavucontrol shows that even if I launch spotify after starting jackd and the pulseaudio bridge, spotify's output is still redirected to my sound card, hence outputs no sound. Switching it to the jack sink using pavucontrol brings back my sound \m/

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

palinejs — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 13:51:51 GMT

This error is for another app like discord or skype. If you have close them

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

Kleison — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 21:54:40 GMT

This appears to be a PulseAudio thing and thus should be fixable by doing the following:
1. Open Terminal, open this file using whatever you like (I use nano):

sudo nano /etc/pulse/default.pa

2. Look for this line and comment it out:

load-module module-role-cork

3. Restart Pulseaudio.

According to the file, this module will mute/stop audio and video playback when a phone stream is active.

Original post:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/Microsoft-teams-mutes-Spotify/td-p/5061607

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

so0p — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:12:51 GMT

Hit same problem just now and found a different solution. May be it helps some one. Spotify was not producing any sound when i run it in app or browser (Opera browser). Tried pavucontrol, but playback was not even appearing there, when spotify was "playing". I launched spotify player in Firefox and Firefox asked for a permission to install DRM (i assume its Direct rendering manager). After this Spotify started to play everywhere (app, opera, Firefox etc.)

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

fshjgfkjsdgfSDJKFHKJ — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 19:47:10 GMT

this actually works thaks alot i started spotify using in browser but now i can jump back to the app. you made my day

Re: Spotify plays without sound, in Ubuntu

Akhoury — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:40:45 GMT

Using pavucontrol solved it for me. It was somehow pointed to play through HDMI, not my headphones. (my monitors dont have speakers!