Redistribute Spotify on Linux Distributions

[NicoHood]

Dear Spotify Team,

my name is NicoHood and I am an official ArchLinux Trusted User. This means I maintain some packages in the official [community] repository [1]. I am also able to move packages from the ArchLinux User Repository (AUR)[2] into [community] if the packages are popular enough (>10 votes).

As you can imagine spotify is really popular on ArchLinux with more than 1100 votes on AUR[3]. Me and the community would love to have spotify in our official repositories to provide our users a simpler channel of installing Spotify on ArchLinux.

The problem we face is that the Terms of Use forbid us to redistribute Spotify. We'd require an official statement that ArchLinux is allowed to package Spotify in its repositories.

I've already contacted Brendan Marsh (Product Owner, Desktop) about this topic via email without any further response. It would be nice if you can give the linux community a better channel for installing Spotify on non-debian systems.

Furthermore we then can cooperate and optimize spotify for ArchLinux (e.g. using more shared libraries, providing gpg signed tarballs and https downloads etc).

Me and the community hope to get some positive feedback. Thanks for taking the time. Please upvote this post if you also with to natively install Spotify on ArchLinux and other Linux Systems.

[1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?maintainer=NicoHood

[2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/

[3]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify/

Edit 28.08.2019: This request has been marked as idea by the spotify staff. Please upvote it here: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Linux-Add-Spotify-to-the-official-Linux-repositories/idi...

[user-removed]

This needs to happen.

It's kind of strange that Spotify is available on the Snap store, but not on the official Ubuntu repositories.

[cw_iluv-oqz7]

For that matter, the Spotify client needs to be brought up to par with the Windows version. It's too buggy and crashes.

[kallejo]

Linux is the future and you know it! All real devs run linux. 

[jepriana]

I'am both Arch Linux and Spotify Premium user, please bring official Spotify package to Arch Official Repository (Community).

[mr_felixoid]

Well, I've done with Spotify. Will give a second chance to gpmdp https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gpmdp/

If somebody doesn't listen to me, then I'll vote with my money.

[Sponge5]

I mean spotify already is on the AUR. It's just not an official release.

[DarkElf]

Yes, it should be a official distribuition to Linux 

[Jrank2k13]

Just doing my part to add to this. This would be awesome to have it in the community repository

[jessestryker]

Please make Spotify officially available for Linux!

[ArtGravity]

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@jessestryker wrote:

Please make Spotify officially available for Linux!

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Spotify is officially available for Linux. Snap apps run on essentially every Linux distribution and the Spotify snap app has been the official Linux application for over a year. I switched from the .deb package to the snap app shortly after it came out. It works great and it keeps itself up to date without any user intervention required. It really is as simple as typing 'snap install spotify' and Spotify will be available on your Linux desktop.

If your distribution doesn't ship with snapd installed, Snapcraft has a document that provides directions on installing snapd on over dozen (currently 19) different distributions. https://docs.snapcraft.io/installing-snapd/6735