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Thanks for the great work! Works perfectly for me.
Could you please provide an install option for people that aren't superusers?
The recent web-browser "upgrades" require a system upgrad I cannot make, and I can't install the player w/o superuser privledges. So I cannot listen to Spotify on this machine, where I spend a majority of my time. If this isn't fixed, I'll have to cancel my account.
If you download the debian package to a directory you own on that machine, you can unpack the contents with:
ar xv spotify-client_....deb
There will be a /usr/bin directory under there with the script that launches spotify.
Adjust the paths, if needed, to work relative to your directory instead of / and you should be able to run this version of spotify for yourself, without installing globally.
Please note that in your new version, the HiDPI fix should be applied to a different desktop file.
The file file which needs to be amended is now: /usr/local/share/applications/spotify.desktop
Instead of:
/usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop
The fix in the file remains the same:
add: --force-device-scale-factor=x to the Exec line of the file, where x is the scaling factor.
Exec=spotify --force-device-scale-factor=2 %U
Thank you for supporting Spotify for Linux,
This issue is still present on Linux client: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Desktop-Podcast-shortcut-gone-in-ver-1-0-94-262-g3d5...
When will the updated version be released?
Thanks for a hint. I just downloaded http://repository-origin.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify-client/spotify-client_1.0.94.262.g3d5c2...
and there is only ELF which works out of box, even w/o tweaking paths.
Peace
Somehow that version was pushed through my apt update channel only yesterday. On Ubuntu 14.04 it crashes immediately.
I managed to the spotify snap on my system (and then uninstall snapd, systemd and cgroup stuff to get my system to boot normally again 😠 ).
I can run the version from the snap against the system libraries so it looks like the official .deb package just has a glitch somewhere (or doesn't yet have a patch which is already present in the snap version).
Could you elaborate how to do this or maybe provide the package? I'm currently trying to get spotify working on i386 machine.
I would also like to say my thanks. I would not be using Spotify if it wasn't for the great Linux support. Keep up the good work!