Ubuntu desktop client crashes when I try to play a local file

[petrbel]

Hi everybody,

I became a premium user last month and I'd like to use the local files feature.

I use ubuntu 15.04 and spotify ubuntu client 1.0.28.89.gf959d4ce. When I add new (and only) local file source (setting -> show songs from), the files (mp3) are diplayed in Local Files tab. The local files source is an absolute path to a directory containing mp3s and directories of mp3s.

However, anytime I try to play any local song, the client crashes without any error. For that reason I tried to run the client from the command line in order to figure out what's happening and I got this:

[1] 13723 segmentation fault (core dumped) spotify

Could you help me determine what I am doing wrong?

Thanks, Petr

[jooon · Accepted solution]

Crash on local files for Ubuntu version later than 14.04 is unfortunately a known, but still not fixed problem.

You can workaround it by installing libavcodec54 and libavformat54 from Ubuntu 14.04 as described here:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Unable-to-Add-a-Directory-to-Play-Lo...

Local files playback is still unstable with these older libraries (certain files can still make it crash), but at least it works better than what you experience now.

[petrbel]

great! it works!

[shinigamiphobos]

In arch you need to install ffmpeg0.10 or other similar version. Check other version present in pacman.