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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 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 ...
Makes absolutely no sense to have two songs by the same artist, that are different The second one played, is the actual song by Big Sean. The first is not, it is another song, "I'm So Blessed" by DJ Khaled and others
^^^^^^^ not for every song, but there are multiple that i enjoy the actual version of that are incorrect it is playing another song, in place of the one chose
"sudo apt install spotify-client" returns this:E: Impossible to find the package spotify-client
I realize this is not necessarily the place to post this but I just want to send a simple thanks to the Spotify team for offering a nicely packaged Linux client. As an avid, not recreational, Linux user I am always impressed and pleased to find organ...
So a friend has sent me a playlist with a few albums on it and I was wondering whether it is possible or not to import that playlist into the 'Your Music' section on Spotify. This would be so that I can listen to each album individually without havin...
some files could not be played on linux client, for example Beardfish: Voluntary Slavery; another song from the same album (Ludvig & Sverker) plays just fine; there are many more songs affected; same with spotify & spotify-beta (arch linux packages) ...
Hi, I am a paying customer using Linux desktop client. Somewhere in the update chain controlling spotify on Linux using media keys on my keyboard stopped working. Spotify also used to have integration with linux standard media player controls using d...
For many hip hop/rap songs, it now is not playing the correct song when a song is selected, I don't know if any other types of music are having this issue. example --pic recording wrong track song: http://prntscr.com/7ta1sospotiify's edition's audio:...
We are developing a product where our users will use their Spotify account to stream music to a device. The device will be running on a small linux distribution and will need to be able to make calls to Spotify and stream music directly on the device...
Hi I am looking for the old 64bit .deb file of the old grey spotify.There is 32bit .deb file around easy to find here: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Spotify-0-9-4-for-32-bit-Linux/td-p/1130452 But I am looking for th...
The ctrl+f keybind never worked for me since it got reïntroduced. It does work for friends and family on their computers so I figured it must've been related to my client. I tried completely reïnstalling Spotify (by reïnstalling Windows) but it still...
I joined Spotify around Christmas time and have really enjoyed it. I had Premium for a while but then couldn't afford it any longer, so I had to go back to a free account. Now, I understand that Spotify's free service requires ads, and I'm totally fi...
I was playing a playlist of Jazz music, paused in the middle of some Coltrane, went to lunch. Searched for Yngwie Malmsteen when I got back, hit "Play" on the artist page. I promise when I took this screenshot, "John Coltrane" was not coming out my s...
Hello, If you have installed spotify on ubuntu 15.04, you might have message like this when launching spotify in command line: spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryTh...
I just run update manager and now can't run the client. I get the following when I attempt to launch from the shell: spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Anyone else ha...