Something went wrong while trying to search a song.

[b1nd]

Plan

Premium

Country

Poland, English version of OS

Device

Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP EliteBook 820 G3

Operating System

System:
  Kernel: 6.8.0-60-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin dm: LightDM
    Distro: Linux Mint 22.1 Xia base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

My Question or Issue

Hello Spotify !

Spotify version 1.2.37.701.ge66eb7bc, Copyright (c) 2024, Spotify Ltd

I can't search for any song from the Desktop app. I have to search for a song via mobile app and put the song to any playlist to play it on my laptop.

The message appears immediately after I put any letter in the search bar.

As long the message is active nothing can be done from the app screen, I have to reload the page to make the Spotify usable.

I tried to reinstall the app, clean cache. Did not help.

I made a log from one session - but seems nothing is stored there while the issue comes.

On the Windows app all works fine.

[edit]

The Spotify Web Player works fine as well.

[4ourth]

Running into the same issue. Can't search anything, but everything else works. I'm on NixOS.

Spotify version: 1.2.48.405.gf2c48e6f, Copyright (c) 2024, Spotify Ltd
NixOS version: 24.11.717837.a39ed32a651f (Vicuna)

[anneofthesea]

I'm having the exact same issue (also Linux Mint). Search was working fine until this morning. Everything else seems okay. 

[fehna23]

same

[lovewey]

same

[chr1sb]

same issue all evening

[qtds35k]

+1 on Windows 10. been having this issue for over 2 weeks now

[arianna1202]

Currently having this issue as well on my windows pc.

[b1nd]

I have switched to totally different machine with same Linux distro - same problem there.

But on the Win11 OS searching works well.

[brujonica]

I have the same issue, Linux mint 21.3
I uninstalled Spotify and while trying to reinstall the package it gives me this error:

E: https://repository.spotify.com stable/non-free amd64 spotify-client amd64 1:1.2.50.335.g5e2860a8 is not (yet) available (404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.218.250 443])

It really sucks, please fix it

[b1nd]

@brujonica how did You try to install the Spotify ?

I have tried reinstall the app couple of minutes ago - was ok. Seems Your repos are bad.

[brujonica]

I ran the script in the spotify page in order to update the repos and the installation went okay. Pretty strange software update procedure.

[lynyrd_cohyn]

Same issue on Debian and there is nothing wrong with the repo. Currently forced to use the web client.

[myth1c]

same here

[fadiandari]

I have the same problem. Everything works except search. I'm on Linux Mint.

[whateverwhatever]

Same here. Linux Mint Cinnamon

[myth1c]

Hey folks it just occurred to me that we can also search by hitting Ctrl + K. I prefer that over being forced to use the web client and low-key over the regular search bar too now 😂

[b1nd]

It works ! 😀

Thanks myth1c !!!

[b1nd · Accepted solution]

There is a solution.

Uninstall the Spotify completely.

Go to https://www.spotify.com/cl/download/linux/ and make everything as it's been written there.

Newer 2025 version will be installed on Your PC and searching works well.

[1123583055]

You have some localization in your link. I fixed it for you:
https://www.spotify.com/download/linux/
If someone already clicked the link the localization is "locked". For those people use this to get back to english
https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/
or replace "us" with whatever language/localization you want.

Also, uninstalling is not needed. On debian just run:

curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey_C85668DF69375001.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor --yes -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/spotify.gpg
echo "deb https://repository.spotify.com stable non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list

and then

sudo apt update && sudo apt install spotify-client

 This fixed it for me.