Spotify 0.9.11 for GNU/Linux

[parbo]

Hi, fellow penguin fans!

Today we've pushed version 0.9.11.26 of the Linux desktop client to our public repo. Just update your system!

General release notes: http://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/Release-Notes-Spotify-for-Desktop-0-9-11/...

Linux specific changes:

 - collectionCache.bnk is no longer written to $HOME

Known issues:

 - It still doesn't work to drag from an HTML5 view to a legacy view (such as the sidebar).

 - On first start, the HTML5 views may not appear (just empty black views), try restarting the app if it happens

 - Some users have reported problems with the new track change notifications. If you experience problems, you can start the client with "spotify --ui.track_notifications_enabled=false", or you can edit the file called ~/.config/spotify/Users/<your-spotify-username>-user/prefs and add a line with "ui.track_notifications_enabled=false". Sorry for not having this option available in the UI.

 - No 32-bit build is available

 - This build is not compatible with debian squeeze or wheezy

If you don't already have the Linux client installed, install like this:

# 1. Add our repository. As root or with sudo, create
#    a file called /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list and add
#    "deb http://repository.spotify.com/stable non-free" to it.
#    Here's a one-liner:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://repository.spotify.com/stable non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list'
 
# 2. If you want to verify the downloaded packages,
#    you will need to add our public key
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59
 
# 3. Run apt-get update
sudo apt-get update
 
# 4. Install spotify!
sudo apt-get install spotify-client
 
You don't have a debian based system? Well, it's still possible to get things running. Either you convert the debian package to something else using alien, or you can just download and extract the stuff you need from the package. There is no need to install the client, it can be run from anywhere.
 
# 1. Get the right filename
SPOTIFY_DEB=http://repository-origin.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify/spotify-client_0.9.11.26.g995ec04.78-1_`uname -m | sed s/x86_64/amd64/ | sed s/i686/i386/`.deb
 
# 2. Download the package
wget repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify/$SPOTIFY_DEB
 
# 3. Extract the required parts
ar p $SPOTIFY_DEB data.tar.gz | tar -zx --strip-components=3 ./opt/spotify/spotify-client
 
# 4. Go in to the extracted folder
cd spotify-client
 
# 5. Setup symlinks to libs (NOTE: this script assumes Fedora 17, edit to suit your needs)
./linklibs-fedora.sh
 
# 6. Optionally register icons and menu item
#    Note: for the menu item to work, you need to ensure
#    spotify is in your $PATH, either by symlinking
#    it from /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, or by adding
#    the spotify-client folder to your $PATH
./register.sh
 

[Peter__]

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@parbo wrote:
There will be a Linux version of the beta client. I use it myself. As you say, there will be less differences from Win/Mac with it. Right now its missing the dbus stuff (mediakeys/mpris), because there is no sane, working, dbus-lib if you don't wanna bring in Qt as a dependency. But we're working on it, albeit slowly.

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This sounds like good news! 😄 

[gabor_bernat]

Here's a really annoying problem. Whenever the current Spotify versions sends a notification to the System (changed song, etc) Empathy goes immidiatly offline. Any ideas why?

[olejon]

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@parbo wrote:
There will be a Linux version of the beta client. I use it myself. As you say, there will be less differences from Win/Mac with it. Right now its missing the dbus stuff (mediakeys/mpris), because there is no sane, working, dbus-lib if you don't wanna bring in Qt as a dependency. But we're working on it, albeit slowly.

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@parbo - Sounds great. We certainly want to the MPRIS support before release, though. Is there any problems adding Qt as a dependency? You only support Ubuntu, and it comes with Qt preinstalled anyways. I get from what you're saying that there are absolutely no native widgets/elements left.

BTW: Hope this means 32-bit builds as well.

@Peter - When mentioning a user using @, how do you make it appear as a link, and does it mean the user is notified?

[Peter__]

@olejon - Yes the user gets a notification and an email to say they have been mentioned. It is currently a feature only enabled for high ranks on the community to prevent spam. As you could imagine if everyone could do it my email inbox would be overflowing I would guess!

[olejon]

@Peter: Thanks, that's what I suspected.

@parbo: BTW, regarding MPRIS I hope you will fix the bug where you can't get currently playing metadata through D-Bus if you disable desktop notifications.

[user-removed]

Is it possible to make Spotify quit when I close its main window? I realize that it is supposed to show some sort of tray icon but I'm using a tiling window manager and don't use a system tray. Therefore the only option is to close it using the main menu or to kill the process. This behaviour is very annoying 😕

[olejon]

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@miraculix wrote:
Is it possible to make Spotify quit when I close its main window? I realize that it is supposed to show some sort of tray icon but I'm using a tiling window manager and don't use a system tray. Therefore the only option is to close it using the main menu or to kill the process. This behaviour is very annoying 😕

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You can bind a key combination to this command, which will quit Spotify cleanly.

qdbus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify / org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer2.Quit

BTW the popup bubble we get the first time we close Spotify to tray is really ugly Windows XP-ish. Also, toggling repeat from the right click menu in the tray is now broken because repeat now has three levels (repeat all, repeat one and repeat none), so the checkmark disappears and appears when it makes no sense.

I'm not sure how the new Beta behaves, as I only have it on OS X, but since Spotify is going to stop using P2P I guess this behaviour may change so that closing actually closes the app.

[user-removed]

So I guess that means that it is not possible to make Spotify quit when closing its window?

I'm already using a "killall spotify" shortcut but I dislike it when applications require special treatment like this. Hopefully that gets fixed soon.

[Akronix]

@mirculix: There should be a cntrl + Q shortcut in order to quit the app, but it seems to not be implemented.

[wade1987]

hi im trying to put  Spotify 0.9.11 onto my linux system, and i have tried using the provided lines given
and have not gotten anything to show or work for me, how did any of you load it onto your OS

Debian

# 1. Add this line to your list of repositories by
#    editing your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

# 2. If you want to verify the downloaded packages,
#    you will need to add our public key
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 94558F59

# 3. Run apt-get update
sudo apt-get update

# 4. Install spotify!
sudo apt-get install spotify-client

[Schw4rz]

did ou get an error while installing? I recently experienced that a library from debain stable was too old to satisfy spotify's dependences. Open a terminal and type "spotify" (without the ""). See if you get an error message. ou may have to install a newer version of libc6-dev.

[wade1987]

would you be able to give me the step by step process, im still a bit new with running linux and havnt messed with mint 17 at all, and still learning

[Schw4rz]

I found this step-by-step guide at the time i experienced the problem. Unfortunately it's written in german, but even if you cant read it the steps should be quite clear. Be sure to first check if this is our problem b typing spotify in a terminal.

http://www.random-dev.de/fix-version-glibc_2-14-found-error/

[wade1987]

thanks, if i have any more issues ill keep posting in here, but i have horrible internet connection where im at right now and its taking forever to load anything up

[alfredocalcare]

Just downloaded today, installed without a glitch and working wonders.

Thanks for developing a Linux version.

[Majkus_]

Hi,

I just have installed Spotify for Linux (running Ubuntu 14.10) and it's AWESOME, works like a charm! Great job guys, really.

Thank you for your hard work and effort to make this possible :).

[bali]

Thank you for releasing the new version 🙂

I got it working under Centos 7.0 and runs like a charm.

Kind regards

bali

[lxsoundmachine]

Still missing the 32bit client.

[donbex]

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@olejon wrote:

The Beta seems to be largely based (even more than the previous) on web technologies running in a Chromium frame. This should make Linux support easier.

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Does this mean Spotify is finally moving on to using html5 or that we're going to have Flash in the desktop player, too?

@user-removed : Where did you find those icons? I can't find those on my system. I think, though, that overwriting one with the green one might do the trick, as long as they have the proper size.

[wade1987]

when i went to my synaptic this is what i got from it: 
E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list (dist parse)
E: the list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.


what is it i can do to fix that because i tried to clear it out from everything and since it has that wont let me install anything else