Linux Mint - musicfiles from disk: Error Message: Spotify can't play this right now.

dtkol — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:05:43 GMT

Plan

Premium Individual

Country

Germany

Device

Netbook with INTEL Celeron N4020; 8GB RAM; 2TB SSD

Operating System

Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon 64-bit, all packages updated

Neither Spotify nor Linux indicates that an update is needed
Spotify - license key manually updated
ffmpeg - version up to date

My Question or Issue

Problem Description:

I can't play files from my hard drive.

Error Message: Spotify can't play this right now....

It was working just two weeks ago! Currently, it doesn’t work even in old playlists.

Troubleshooting attempts:

Deleted and re-added files to the playlist

Deleted and reloaded “Local Files”

Disabled and re-enabled all sources (Settings)

Enabled only one source (in Settings)

Cleared the cache

Repeated the above steps multiple times

Current status:

Spotify launches normally

All tracks from Spotify can be loaded and played

My older playlists can be played, but tracks from the hard drive contained within them cannot

Playlists can be played offline

Sources from the hard drive are enabled (Settings)

Music files appear in “Local Files”

Files from disk can be added to playlists

Tracks cannot be played in either “Local Files” or playlists; see error message above

However, tracks that cannot be played appear in “Recently Played”

Is there a fix to this problem for Linux?

Re: Linux Mint - musicfiles from disk: Error Message: Spotify can't play this right now.

dtkol — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:33:25 GMT

solved with today's update