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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...
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...
Hi: I am using spotify1.0.17.75.g8f111100 on Arch Linux. Whenever I try to play an album via DBus, for instance dbus-send --print-reply --session --type=method_call --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2....
Hi everyone, since today I've got some perhaps unusual trouble with Spotify: When I opened the program there was an additional window opened with the terms and conditions (see picture). I haven't find a way to close it yet, and while it's open, I can...
Hi there, Just notice that the current spotify app version is not compatible with libgcrypt20.In http://askubuntu.com/questions/613081/spotify-has-stopped-working-on-the-latest-ubuntu-today-15-04 you find a quick solution, but I think that a new spot...
I reinstall Spotify but same problem. Also i cleaned cache but it didn't fix.
When trying to login via Facebook in a browser (Chrome and Firefox) I get a redirect loop problem. When I try to login via an app on my mobile phone it does not recognize my username. I have had a premium account for a number of years, and this is th...
I'm trying to log in to Spotify Linux using Facebook, but I'm seeing the "Spotify desktop client communication failed" error. This is the URL that fails to load is https://login.spotilocal.com:4371/, which does correctly resolve to 127.0.0.1. I'm run...
tl;dr: Spotify Connect doesn't work with iptables, please use fixed instead of random ports for mDNS and SSDP to facilitate a more secure firewall configuration. Long version:So I discovered that after enabling UFW (a iptables front-end), Spotify Con...
Hello Spotify team, I'm having some issues with spotify connect on the linux client. Basically here's my setup:- an iphone 6 (ios 8.4) that plays music from spotify to airplay speakers- a laptop running ubuntu 14.04 Both devices run the latest spotif...
Hoping I'm not alone with this but I'm getting a whited-out screen when running the desktop client. I recently tweaked my theme but it appears that Spotify is not resetting back. Intel® Core™ i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz × 4 PC (8GB RAM using the inbuilt In...
Recently installed spotify desktop app on my linux desktop and logged into my premium account but only like 15 of the songs I have "saved" on either my phone or mac have come up? I have tried logging out and back in and also clearing the cache but no...
I noticed that we can use spotify windows client to control the music while the music is still playing on the phone. However, linux client doesnt seem to be able to do that. Let me know if I am wrong or if there is anyway to work around in linux. Tha...
Hi, I've got Spotify premium, I use the linux desktop app and the android app. I used to be able to control the music playing on my android phone using the linux desktop app (pause, play, select song, ...).But the button to select a device (laptop or...
Hello community!I have a problem. I could not fix on my linux. The discover does not. Does anyone know how to fix this?I was in trouble on the radio function, but I managed fix gathering information here on the forum. But really discover still can no...
Can someone please help me. I am a premium user and my spotify has not been working for about 8/9 weeks. As soon as I open the app I get a black screen with Spoitfy on top left and it just crashes. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, done a factory rese...
I have found an issue in spotify for linux, using Ubuntu 14.04 that if I right click twice it opens two menus, if I do it three times it opens three and so forth. And the thing is they don't disappear and stay above everything in the program and the ...
Does Spotify require pulse audio? Especially of recent updates? Using the debian package repo a recent update broke audio. The error log seemed to indicate an issue with connecting to a service, and after installing PulseAudio it worked fine. My gues...
Hello, This is mostly for reference only in case someone hit the problem I am seeing. I haven't had time to test it on the latest stable release (Ubuntu Vivid Vervet 15.04) but I see the problem on the current development release (Wily 15.10) : on so...
Hi there, I'm a New Linux User Trying to Install Spotify
I understand that our starred playlists were converted rrecently to ordinary ones, way down in the list of playlists.Hate it, but I understand it. My problem is, I was following a friends "starred" playlist, and that is now the only "starred" I hsve....
Hello, all. Have encountered an extremely strange problem in recent weeks.. I built a silent Linux/Ubuntu nettop with a good DAC, to playback Spotify on my home network. It works *perfectly* - I use my iPhone and iPad as remote controls (or the other...