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Can't play local files on Linux

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Can't play local files on Linux

1. Device: PC (AMD athlon X4 860k, 16GB ddr3 RAM, 1TB hdd, GTX960).

2. Spotify free account

3. Spotify version: 1.0.**bleep**.336.g7edcc575

4. I have some local mp3 files that I wan't play in Spotify, but if I click on the play button I get this message "This song is not available. If you have the file on your computer you can import it".

 

5. Steps to reproduce:

 

1. Go to settings

2. Local Files: add a source

3. Restart Spotify

4. Go to Local Files

5. Play a song from Local Files

 

6. spotify-dump.txt

[0215/213452.577158:ERROR:gl_context_glx.cc(239)] Couldn't make context current with X drawable.
[0215/213452.577241:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(4330)]   GLES2DecoderImpl: Context lost during MakeCurrent.

 

 

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Add Spotify's testing repository:

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

Install Spotify 0.9.17

sudo apt-get install spotify-client-0.9.17

 

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Add Spotify's testing repository:

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

Install Spotify 0.9.17

sudo apt-get install spotify-client-0.9.17

 

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