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Spotify is introducing a new "Now Playing View" sidebar in the desktop app and Web Player to go along with the recently released "Your Library" sidebar. The Now Playing View in the right sidebar shows the album art and info of the current song or pod...
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Spotify is introducing a new Your Library sidebar in the desktop app and Web Player. The new Your Library sidebar is rolling out to all desktop users now, so you will be seeing it soon if you haven't already. The new Your Library sidebar improves nav...
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Hey! There has been an update to the Spotify Linux client signatures.Users may see errors linked to missing keys and failed signature verifications for Spotify when updating the system. If this happens to you, this can be fixed by manually adding the...
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PlanFreeCountryCZDeviceNotebookOperating SystemLinux Mint My Question or IssueI have issue with playing music and seeing playlists and my liked songs like been banned or dont have authorization. I cant even see songs at album or playlist. I tried rei...
PlanPremiumCountryFinlandOperating SystemUbuntu 24.04My Question or IssueMy spotify is not starting. I tried to reinstall and still not working. What should I do? I tried everything (clearing cache, troubleshooting etc) but its just not starting. The...
PlanPremiumOperating SystemLinux, Spotify from deb version 1:1.2.37.701.ge66eb7bc My Question or IssueAs has been reported a few times before and incorrectly marked as resolved, Spotify client on Linux correctly registers the `x-scheme-handler/spotif...
This was tested on Fedora34/Gnome but could be applicable elsewhere in Linux. I'd like to request pausing suspend while Spotify is actively playing music. Currently Gnome doesn't know that Spotify is active because Spotify doesn't issue Inhibit() req...
I just installed the Spotify desktop app from snap on Ubuntu 23.10 and was listening to music. I paused playback so I could join some work meetings. During the meetings, suddenly a commercial started blasting out of my desktop speakers and it was aud...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceDesktop PC and LaptopOperating SystemLinux (KDE Neon, with Ubuntu 20.04 base)Spotify Version1:1.1.72.439.gc253025e (from the official Spotify public repository) My Question or IssueI recently discovered that Spotify has add...
PlanPremiumCountryUSA Operating SystemLinux Mint 22 My Question or IssueSpotify keeps saying "Spotify can't play this right one. If you have file on the computer please import it now" when playing local files.
The Ubuntu snap store just updated my Spotify version to 1.2.48.405.gf2c48e6f and the application won't open. Terminal states this error:ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (failed to map segment from shared ...
My Chromebook (laptop) has Linux installed, since last week, the homepage isn't showing. I can use the queue, I can search stuff up, and it works on my other devices. But I can't access the homepages, nor the playlists as-is, and the Chromebook and S...
PlanPremiumCountryUKDevicePCOperating SystemArch Linux My Question or IssueRunning spotify either as re-packaged spotify for linux via aur helper or spotify-launcher doesn't work spotify --show-console --debug-level=MAX16:34:56.744 E [f:25 ] TCPServe...
PlanFreeCountryUnited StatesDevice Operating SystemChromebook My Question or IssueWhen I open up my Spotify (web browser or app) I can't open up any of my playlists because it either says sorry an error occurred or it says it couldn't find that playl...
Plan PremiumCountry Brazil Device Non-apple PCOperating System Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS My Question or IssueI simply cannot join any Jams on Linux, at all. Whenever I click on a Spotify Jam link, my browser (chrome) gets opened, which then instructs me to ...
PlanFree/PremiumCountryDEDeviceDell XPS 15"Operating SystemUbuntu 24.10 My Question or IssueThe snap package from the Ubuntu snap somehow seems to be starting with the mobile UI. There's only a fullscreen mode and everything is *huge*, like zooming i...
Hey,Since about two (?) days ago, the shuffle function in spotify entirely started to break more and more on my Desktop.So it always worked as usual, even with the whole "Enhancing" or later "Smart shuffle" (which seems like it's unstable at this poi...
Hi,Can you release a linux package with ozone support built so that we can use the client under Wayland? There have been posts requesting this in the past because it is highly anticipated. It shouldn't be that complicated it seems:https://www.collabo...
Hello everyone,Some days ago Spotify started to randomly skip seconds of a song. It's not happening on every song neither at every moment of the song. It's just happening at any moment that the song jumps for example from second 0:21 to second 0:27 w...
Plan: PremiumCountry: United States of America Device: PC with RX 6800, Ryzen 7 3700x, and 64GBs of RAMOperating System: Arch Linux My Question or IssueFor some reason clicking seems either super delayed or broken in Spotify, I am not sure what cause...
PlanPremium StudentCountryGermanyDeviceLenovo LaptopOperating SystemLinux Mint 22 Cinnamon My Question or IssueI'll keep it short: I have an issue with playback speed. If i try to change the playback speed for podcasts to my favorite (3.5x), it stays...
PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceFujitsu LifeBook E744 / Dell Latitude D630Operating SystemLinux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon 64bit / MX-Linux 21.3 Wildflowerspotify --versionSpotify version 1.2.11.916.geb595a67, Copyright (c) 2023, Spotify Ltd My Issue:System g...