topic Re: [Solved] Linux app not syncing liked songs in Desktop (Linux)

[Solved] Linux app not syncing liked songs

utomsig — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:31:45 GMT

Songs that i liked stopped showing up in the linux app. What worked was to close spotify and then remove the files in:

~/snap/spotify/current/.config/spotify/Users/YOUR_USER_NAME-user

I removed all of them, but that may not be necessary.

I previously tried to uninstall the spotify snap:

sudo snap remove spotify && sudo forget spotify && sudo snap install spotify

But that changed nothing, I guess that the config files was left intact.

I also tried to make my linux machine play a newly liked song, via my android phone. But the linux app didn't play it, nothing was played.

Thanks for the linux app, I'm a heavy user!

Plan

Premium

Country

Sweden

Device

Laptop

Operating System

Ubuntu 16.10

Re: [Solved] Linux app not syncing liked songs

derschwamm11 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:41:58 GMT

This did not work for me, but I did find a simpler trick that did.

I added a new liked song, then went to another device and removed that song. After that, it picked up all the changes and got in sync again.

Re: [Solved] Linux app not syncing liked songs

dominges987 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 19:53:57 GMT

Can confirm adding song on PC app and them removing it on Mobile app forced PC app to sync 😉

Re: [Solved] Linux app not syncing liked songs

tehthird — Thu, 22 May 2025 11:56:04 GMT

Same here, the solution from these commends above worked for me too. Why is this marked as solved as its clearly a bug?

Re: [Solved] Linux app not syncing liked songs

TwoPlay — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:23:32 GMT

How can it be that after more than 5 years the bug still exists? And I pay money for that?

Re: [Solved] Linux app not syncing liked songs

3m7ecc — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:05:02 GMT

This helped me too!
Although I'm running Manjaro (Arch-based) and had Spotify installed via flathub, so the paths were a little different:

~/.var/app/com.spotify.Client/cache/Users/{username}-user

Re: [Solved] Linux app not syncing liked songs

fritzgrant — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 01:00:09 GMT

Legend.

Re: [Solved] Linux app not syncing liked songs

RevolverSnake — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 19:37:39 GMT

the consumer linux era is close and still after 5 years no one fixed this bug

Re: [Solved] Linux app not syncing liked songs

ctrLd — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:21:52 GMT

fix**bleep** spotify instead of shoving ai features down my throat 🤣

Re: [Solved] Linux app not syncing liked songs

WildCats — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:24:58 GMT

I found a workaround: I go into "offline mode", then deactivate "offline mode" and my "Liked Songs" get synced again

Re: [Solved] Linux app not syncing liked songs

Rashek — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:37:05 GMT

I'm on EndeavourOS with spotify installed via AUR (yay). I tried offline/online mode but it didn't seem to help. To get my liked songs to sync back up I existed the app and just did 'rm -rf ~/.cache/spotify'. Opening the app I did not have to re-login and the liked songs were correct now.

Re: [Solved] Linux app not syncing liked songs

UHAX — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:40:55 GMT

I am also having this issue on Arch using Spotify from the repo, deleting the cache dir fixes the issue, but its only a tenp fix as it happens constantly, please patch this issue!