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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...
I often find myself afraid to add songs by drag-and-dropping them into a playlist because of the uncertainty if they're added to the intended playlist and the lack of confirmation. When I drag-and-drop a song to the playlist menu this often trigger a...
A few days ago, I added some songs to my library from the Web Player, and they still don't show up in my library in the Desktop Player for Linux. Even if I search for the songs, they appear as not being in the library.
Hi fellows, I've been wondering what's up with negativo17's Fedora client of Spotify. It looks identical to official client to the extent it seems to be built from the same source. However it's totally unofficial. Do anyone of you know who that dude ...
Brief description of the issue:Spotify crashes when clicking the play button of the player when it's about to play ads but another song is in the queue first. Steps to reproduce the issue:There are multiple ways but this is definitly a bulletproof wa...
When I try to start spotify native linux client I get the error "Failed loading skin".I am using Kubuntu 14:10 with KDE 4. Changing the QT theme away from oxygen fixes the issue, however the reason no one switches the theme is because oxygen is the o...
There is an issue with 'Enslaved - The Wathcer' track which the title is obviously displayed wrong. The funny thing also is that you can dig to find the same song with correct title but it's not officially shown in albums of this artist. This should ...
Hi, in the linux version I don't see my pioner receiver. I do see it from the windows and android version. tksSebas
Dear Spotify community, I am here today to address the crowd in regard of a very sensible topic, discrimination. Yes, discrimination, here my voice: Everyone is well aware in our society to avoid people with long hair and dressed in black because the...
I'm using spotify on Xubuntu (linux), on Mozilla Firefox v39.0.3.Trying to see my saved album "Leonardo e Eduardo Costa no Cabaré (Ao Vivo)", artist: "Leonardo".When I click the album in my saved albums list, the new tab is open but nothing is shown....
Hello everyone, I don't what is happened, but in few versions earlier I have the possibilite to save an album or a playlist under "Your Songs" menu then an option to make these selection offline. But now, this option gone! It really not pleasent to m...
Hi!So as we all know, it is quite easy to arrange your playlists by artist, album, date added, etc. This presents a temporary arrangement of the playlist and is quite a useful feature. However, this does not change the 'default' order of the playlist...
I haven't done any extensive replication on this issue as the only computer I have immediately available is running Arch Linux, but I see no reason Windows users won't be equally affected. As far as I can tell, this issue is present in the latest (Li...
Running Elementary OS 0.3, I regularly (every 2-3 days) get a "spotify crashed with SIGABRT in pa_stream_get_timing_info()" message. Package is spotify-client 1:0.9.17.1 I found 3 threads in the forums about previous versions with similar error messa...
I ran the instructions in terminal exactly, everything exectued fine. But where do I go from here? I searched over every location and kicked back nothing but an empty Spotify file somewhere in system files and some .pgn icons. I re-ran the instructio...
I'm running Arch Linux with KDE and using VLC / phonon as my audio backend, and getting no audio. Though my "system settings" specify my USB headset as the default output, I believe Spotify may be sending the audio to the analog hardware output. I ca...
I just tried starting Spotify about 4 times. I am running stable Debian with Gnome 3. Then when I ran it from the command line I got this error: spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by spotify)spotify: /l...
Hey, KDE is automatically restarting applicatios on login, that were running in the last session and thus, spotify is also restarted. Applications are started with a -sesstion argument, for example: spotify -session 1020b17c18416500013860243230000002...
Apologizes everyone I tried to provide quick links to Spotify music service profile pages, but the coding on the board has dramatically changed now. You will have to copy and paste the profile URI's and paste them into the search box in the desktop a...
Last few days, system has frozen 3 times. /var/log/sys.log reports kernel: [] Watchdog[]: segfault at 0 ip 00007faf6 sp 00007f650 error 6 in libcef.so[7f000+3cc7000]I'm not totally sure this is a Spotify problem, but it was the only application lau...
As shown in the first attachment, I have some mp3s for a japanese artist, and one of the tracks spotify wrongly associates it with a completely different track. the title of the track isn't even the same (it is "Please Please", all other details are ...