App finder infinite spinner on Ubuntu 14.04

[Cami5ado]

Hi everyone!
I have some problem with app finder.

When a click on it, page is opening, but appears infinite scroll and no app is loaded 

I've tried to launch spotify by terminal, and when a clicked on "app finder" link got some errors in terminal:

[AppManager.cpp:258 ] Creating instance of the application finder.
07:52:23.010 I [MainView.cpp:6828 ] Load complete (0) url: sp://04c321cbc522df5fbaeb49a284a25a6a9f543212.finder/index.html
07:52:23.043 I [index.html:297 ] Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of null
07:52:23.159 I [index.html:51 ] Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'setup' of null

May be it can help you determine the reason of problem.

By the way, spotify version is 0.9.17.1.g9b85d436

Also I've tried to reinstall spotify several times with cleaning chache files, but it doesn't help

[jooon · Accepted solution]

The backend powering the app finder has been shutdown. It has been deprecated since the announcement of closure of spotify apps submission early 2014 and the app finder itself is not available in the new desktop client since early 2015. The problem is that the latest desktop client for linux in the stable channel 0.9.17 is very old.

The new version will soon be rolled out in the stable channel even that one has flaws of its own. Meanwhile, you can download it from the testing channel. Follow the same procedure as on https://www.spotify.com/download/linux/ but replace stable with testing:

# 1. Add the Spotify repository signing key to be able to verify downloaded packages
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys BBEBDCB318AD50EC6865090613B00F1FD2C19886

# 2. Add the Spotify repository
echo deb http://repository.spotify.com testing non-free | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list

# 3. Update list of available packages
sudo apt-get update

# 4. Install Spotify
sudo apt-get install spotify-client
        

[Cami5ado]

thanks a lot!
I didn't know that official steps install too old version.