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Spotify --uri=%U opens new instance instead of opening URI in running instance

Spotify --uri=%U opens new instance instead of opening URI in running instance

Plan

Premium

Country

Hungary

Device

Asus ROG G14

Operating System

Arch Linux 5.18.16-arch1-g14-2

 

My Question or Issue

`spotify --uri=%U` opens the song in a new instance instead of the currently running instance. It also causes the new instance to hang.

 

Spotify version is `1.1.84.716.gc5f8b819`

 

output of the command:
```

[user@host ~]$ spotify --uri=https://open.spotify.com/track/5VHP7EkhAW9Vmn7SxuRuuk?si=j80Z43FwShKIpEaSSJFqpA --show--console --log-file=spotify.log
spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by spotify)
/opt/spotify/spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify)
/opt/spotify/spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify)

(process:299264): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:10:00.177: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
/proc/self/exe: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by /proc/self/exe)
libGL error: failed to open /dev/dri/card1: Permission denied
libGL error: failed to open /dev/dri/card1: Permission denied
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[libprotobuf ERROR ../core/vendor/protobuf3/src/google/protobuf/wire_format_lite.cc:577] String field 'spotify.event_sender.proto.DroppedEvents.DroppedEventsBySequenceIdEntry.key' contains invalid UTF-8 data when parsing a protocol buffer. Use the 'bytes' type if you intend to send raw bytes.
[user@host ~]$

```

 

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Can this please be addressed? It is annoying to having to close the running instance to open a link that was shared.

 

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