Desktop notifications no longer work

[Schnoogemetzger]

Operating System

Debian Testing (up2date)

Kernel 6.18.12+deb14-amd64
XFCE 4.20.1

Spotify 1:1.2.82.428.g0ac8be2b

My Question or Issue

Once a week on Mondays, I update my Laptop (my patchday) and since this week I don't receive any Desktop Notifications from Spotify (Show desktop notifications when the song changes) anymore.

My gut feeling tells me that this stopped working today, but it could also have stopped working on Monday. I'm not 100% sure.

Anyway, it does not work with the previous Spotify version (1:1.2.77.358.g4339a634) and with the newest/current version (1:1.2.82.428.g0ac8be2b). In addition, with the newest version the toggle "Show desktop notifications when the song changes" under settings => display is gone. This is very odd.

I can't find anything related to it for the moment. Does anyone encounter the same problem or can share some information about it?

[Jaxius]

1. Your device and operating system: Kubuntu 24.04/Fedora 43 KDE
2. Type of Spotify account you have (Free/ Premium): Premium
3. The app version of Spotify you’re using: Spotify for Linux
   1.2.82.428.g0ac8be2
4. I have tried snap, rpm, flatpak versions on both kubuntu and fedora kde... same observations and troubleshooting steps as the OP... 

[Erlendfog]

1. Fedora 43 KDE
2. Premium
3. Spotify for Linux 1.2.82.428.g0ac8be2b

I have the same issue. this seems like a stupid thing to A/B test so id guess its a bug instead.

[miken700]

same issue here

1. gentoo

2. premium

3. Spotify version 1.2.82.428.g0ac8be2b

I see this message on startup. Does this integration affect this?  

❯ spotify --version
Neither gnome-integration-spotify nor spotify-tray are installed.
Launching spotify without systray integration.
Spotify version 1.2.82.428.g0ac8be2b, Copyright (c) 2026, Spotify Ltd

[Schnoogemetzger]

Would be nice, if someone of the developers could reach out and explain this. Could be a problem on our side or on server side, because the feature was removed.

[scartiloffista]

confirming this as well. honestly it's such a basic (and already working!) feature so it would be great to have it back

[namelessjade]

I concur. This feature should be brought back if it was removed intentionally.

[scartiloffista]

since it's probably not coming back, here's a script to get some working notifications (formatting is lost while pasting, sorry):

```

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Monitor Spotify track changes via MPRIS and send notifications with album art.
# Requires: playerctl, libnotify (notify-send), curl

tmp_icon=""

cleanup() {
[[ -n "$tmp_icon" ]] && rm -f "$tmp_icon"
}
trap cleanup EXIT

playerctl --player=spotify --follow metadata --format $'{{artist}} - {{title}}\t{{mpris:artUrl}}' \
| while IFS=$'\t' read -r track art_url; do
[[ -z "$track" ]] && continue

icon="spotify"

if [[ -n "$art_url" ]]; then
if [[ "$art_url" == file://* ]]; then
icon="${art_url#file://}"
elif [[ "$art_url" == http* ]]; then
tmp_icon=$(mktemp /tmp/spotify-art-XXXXXX.jpg)
curl -sf -o "$tmp_icon" "$art_url" && icon="$tmp_icon"
fi
fi

notify-send --icon="$icon" --app-name=Spotify "Now Playing" "$track" --expire-time 10000
done
```

[miken700]

---

 wrote:

since it's probably not coming back, here's a script to get some working notifications (formatting is lost while pasting, sorry):

---

Thanks for this script! That's a pretty good workaround for now, at least for me. Doesn't change the fact that spotify needs to fix this.

[Jaxius]

 i made a spotify sh file but get line 12: playerctl: command not found.... where do i put this file to run it etc?

[Jaxius]

nm i needed the playerctl installed... it works fine now 😛