Download offline playlist once for two OS

[Adrisaboss]

Hi there !

My computer has two OS : Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. I have spotify installed on both, and I would like to have my playlists available offline on both OS. But it seems quite stupid to download them twice when I know that they are already once one my computer.

I tried to use the same directory on both OS, on a drive that is independant from them, but it didn't work : E:/ on Windows and /data oon Linux are the same drive, and I first downloaded all my songs on E:/SpotifyCache, but when I set /data/SpotifyCache as my download dir on Linux, nothing happens and I still have to download my playlists.

For information I use Spotify Linux Beta and not the Wine version (obviously, I couldn't access /data otherwise).

Thanks a lot for your help,

Keep up the good wok! 🙂

(Would be even better work if you had the In Rainbows album from Radiohead, but I forgive you this time !)

[Adrisaboss]

Up ! 🙂

[licenced · Accepted solution]

Sorry no one noticed your post first time around.

Unfortunately you'll need to download them once for each OS. Spotify uses DRM to protect the tracks you have. I have no idea how this works at a low level, but DRM schemes are normally tied to your OS account in some way, so the tracks downloaded under Windows will not be useable by the Spotify install for Linux

Dave

[Adrisaboss]

Oh, that's sad. But thanks for the reply. I started downloading my playlists under linux anyway, lucky me my hard drive is large.

Bye !