topic Re: Spotify app not starting since the latest update in Desktop (Linux)

Spotify app not starting since the latest update

fpauser — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:26:25 GMT

Device

AMD Ryzen 9 CPU / 32 GB RAM / NVMe

Operating System

Fedora 41

My Question or Issue

Flatpak app stopped working since the latest update. All Fedora updates are installed. The app starts - but no window comes up and no error is displayed.

Re: Spotify app not starting since the latest update

gordonzed91 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:47:32 GMT

Just fyi, the Flatpak isn't supported by Spotify. They only release a .deb package and a Snap (which is irritating, but it's just the way it is).

I'm having the same issue though. I don't think it's the Flatpak itself that's the problem though; Are you running KDE by any chance?

Easiest solution is probably installing the official Snap package though. I have a desktop running f41 and a laptop on 42, and they're both still running the Flatpak. On my media centre PC running Fedora 42 however, it's doing the same thing you described (no launch, no error), so I enabled snapd and tried the Snap, and it works (as much as I prefer Flatpak to Snap, but it is what it is 🤷).

Re: Spotify app not starting since the latest update

gordonzed91 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:25:17 GMT

Hold up. Try manually deleting the flatpak user data for the spotify app. Got mine to launch again after removing the leftover directories, then reinstalling it. May not be much of a solution if the problem repeats itself and it requires wiping the user data for every launch, but worth a try.

rm -r ~/.var/app/com.spotify.Client/config/spotify ~/.var/app/com.spotify.Client/cache/spotify

Re: Spotify app not starting since the latest update

poppet3re — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:55:39 GMT

Hey bro thanks this worked for me. In general for my own knowledge, I wanted to ask where do you get this information from? Like where important file locations are.