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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...
MattSuda
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...
Having trouble with Spotify on your Desktop app? Here’s what to try first. Search the Community Someone might have asked your question on the Community before.So type your issue into the search box and have a look. Basic troubleshooting Go through th...
PlanFreeCountrySlovakiaDeviceDell LaptopOperating SystemUbuntu 22.04.2 LTS My Question or IssueThe bottom-left corner of the Client shows the currently playing song. First is the song's name and below that the Album. However there's a visual bug, whe...
After some time Spotify for Linux starts to use too many connections to PulseAudio. This makes it impossible to use any sound on the computer. This shows an output after one day of usage:http://pastebin.com/E5AVQd62 Spotify version 1.0.36.120.g536a86...
Device acer chromebook 2019 My Question or Issueshrank my screen size (ctrl +shift + -) now it wont go back. all other tabs are normal size but then no matter how many times I close it or reload it spotify is still tiny. I shut it off for the night b...
Spotify shows a desktop notification when it starts playing a new track. However, this only gets shown for streamed tracks, not when it starts playing a local file. At least on Linux.
DeviceComputerOperating SystemUbuntu MATE 22.04 - LinuxMy Question or IssueThe repository.spotify.com server is inaccessible via current Internet Protocol a.k.a. IPv6. Debian/Ubuntu Linux client can't be installed and/or updated because its resposito...
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...
When listening to a song from Spotify on Linux, the cover art is shown alongside the MPRIS playback controls. However, when listening to a local song, no cover art is shown there (even though the cover art is shown within the Spotify app).
PlanPremium CountryU.S. DeviceLinux Desktop (running your native app) Operating SystemLinux (Pop_OS!) My Question or IssueI was reading an artist profile. The "monthly listeners" column listed the same city twice, but with different numbers. See atta...
PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDevicePCOperating SystemArch Linux My Question or IssueHow can I disable hardware acceleration of graphics? I use spotify for listening to music and I don't want it to hog GPU resources. Lately I have noticed segfaults in my G...
PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue
PlanFreeCountryItalyDevicePC LinuxOperating SystemDebian Testing gconf2 is used for gtk2 application and is an archived project.https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gconf gtk3 and gtk4 application use dconf.https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dconf
PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue
PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue
In the Linux client you already populate many dbus values, which is why KDE can know what song/album/artist are playing and can pull artwork and put it in the system tray. The problem is that you don't populate the position value and thus it always r...
PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue
Plan:PremiumCountry:CanadaDevice: PCOperating System:Linux My Question or IssueA recent change to the spotify application lists playlists as icons. I want to see labels. Please
PlanFreeCountryaustraliaDevicelenovo thinkpad 11eOperating Systemfedora 36 My Question or Issueis there going to be an appimage version of spotify? i really dont want to go through the hassle of installing snap to the system.
For the last couple of days the individual play buttons on songs under an album/playlist are NOT working on Spotify web (Firefox 112.0.1 64-bit Linux). The buttons on the current song playing widget at the bottom aren't reflecting the current state o...
With Spotify on Windows I can copy/paste tracks with CTRL+C/CTRL+V to/from clipboard in format https://open.spotify.com/track/, but this does not work on Spotify on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04).
i have tried downloading spotify on my raspberry pi but terminal says this: error: snap ''spotify'' is not available on stable for this architecture (armhf) but does exist on other architectures (amd64). reply if you also had this proglem