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
 

[user-removed]

Okay, i removed pipelight, also i was quite sure this wasnt the problem, because i installed it after i already had the spotify problem.

But now it gets even weirder. I copied the .cache/spotify and .config/spotify, rebooted, deleted the .cache/spotify and .config/spotify folders in my home folder and then copied the saved ones back in place.....but the login prompt reappears! Oo somehow spotify must be unable to read from these files or it saves some other files or its some other bug, idk.

[olejon]

Really weird. I of course assume you enable the "Remember me" toggle at login.

When copying, make sure you use "cp -pr" to preserve permissions.

[user-removed]

Nope, did all that ...somehow it doesnt work -.-' i just checked it on my Mint 17.1 VM ...it works there, so its probably not my account...i dont't know if this happened to other ubuntu 14.10 users...

[jim_mcneill]

Thanks Guys!

I've used Spotify for the first time today, I never thought there would be a 'buntu client. Just followed your instructions, total breeze, now I'm going through Nickleback's back catalogue . . . dang, showing my age there.

Cheers big ears,

Jim

[adytzu2007]

I want to report a bug. Don't know if this is the proper place. If not, please excuse this intervention and tell me where the best place to post would be.

The bug is the following. If I browse the albums from an artist while listening to a song, every time the browse screen has to load more albums, playback is stopped. I am using the 0.9.11.27.g2b1a638c version on ArchLinux. If you need any more information, I'd be glad to provide it.

[olaor]

I get this bug when starting up spotify now:

oo@ooHP:~$ spotify
spotify: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtDBus.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN6QMutex12lockInternalEv

Some info:

oo@ooHP:~$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtDBus.so.4
libqtdbus4:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtDBus.so.4
oo@ooHP:~$ dpkg -l libqtdbus4:amd64
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version          Architecture     Description
+++-=======================-================-================-===================================================
ii  libqtdbus4:amd64        4:4.8.5+git192-g amd64            Qt 4 D-Bus module library

oo@ooHP:~$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:security-4.0-amd64:security-4.0-noarch:security-4.1-amd64:security-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:    trusty

oo@ooHP:~$ dpkg -l spotify-client
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                    Version          Architecture     Description
+++-=======================-================-================-===================================================
ii  spotify-client          1:0.9.11.27.g2b1 amd64            Spotify desktop client

[olejon]

See below 

[olejon]

Try

sudo apt-get --purge reinstall libqtdbus4
sudo ldconfig

[olaor]

Thanks for your input, but no cigar.

oo@ooHP:~$ sudo apt-get --purge reinstall libqtdbus4
E: Command line option --purge is not understood

I also tried
sudo apt-get purge libqtdbus4
sudo apt get install libqtdbus4
sudo ldconfig

Which didn't do it.

[Pendrokar]

adytzu2007 last described problem is the same bug as described in the following topic - https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/Linux-Client-0-9-11-27-Scrolling-on-arti...

[olejon]

---

@olaor wrote:
Thanks for your input, but no cigar.

---

So I have googled your problem, and it's a pretty common one. It is probably caused by you installing one or more 32-bit Qt applications. I tested Spotify in my fully updated Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit virtual machine (apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade) and it works perfectly, except local files playback which I have provided a solution to in this thread.

So I installed Skype, which installs a bunch of 32-bit packages, but Skype itself claims to be multiarch. Spotify still works. Then I tried Google Earth. The 64-bit package would not install due to the package "ia32-libs" not being in the repositories anymore. So I installed the 32-bit version, and Spotify still works. So I am not able to reproduce your problem. But there are solutions out there, it's just that many of them require various changes so make sure you note down everything you do in case something stops working.

Check out this Google search for possible solutions.

There's a bug report for it here, but the Ubuntu developers blames the apps. 

It could also be that the repository you are using has a corrupted version, so you could try changing that (sudo software-properties-gtk)

and then:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt get --purge --reinstall libqtdbus4 libqt4-dbus qdbus
sudo ldconfig

 Maybe you should try that before the Google solutions.

[Muskratt]

Hello.
Any tentative ETA for 32bit build 0.9.11?

[olejon]

Don't expect it. Wait for 1.0. With the new tech underneath it should be easier to compile it to both architectures.

[jannot]

Hi there, is it still possible to use spotify with jack? it was ok times ago, and all went fine for me, but with the recent version, it doesn't work anymore (or i didn't found how to configure it). This is a real stopper for me, as my monitoring sound sytem is only available through jack! On debian SID if that matter.

[ca1ek]

APT keeps insisting that my spotify is in the newest version even though it is not. How to fix this?

[olejon]

Are you running 32-bit?

[ca1ek]

Yea, I didn't read whole OP.

When will someone actually care and build 0.9.11 for i386?

[olejon]

There will be none. They have had troubles with their build system.

But when v 1.x is released which is more cross platform my guess is we'll get 32-bit as well. Maybe even ARM could be possible.

[pabloff9]

Hey, people. Where can I report a bug for the LInux version?

[olejon]

There is no bug tracker unfortunately, so you must do it here, but search first.

Anyway, version 1.x is upcoming which is radically different, probably will eliminate many existing bugs and probably introduce some new ones, so I don't see any point reporting bugs at the moment.