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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 have a playlist with 3400 songs. Can I keep that playlist intact but remove the check marks from all the songs in it? This is an attempt to regain the ability to add songs to My Music until Spotify hopefully removes the 10k limit.
luke@T410:~$ uname -a Linux T410 3.16-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.3-2 (2014-09-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux luke@T410:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) Release: unstable Codenam...
Hi, I run my Windows player in the italian language, while my Linux player is running in English language. I can find with both the players a playlist named "Scelto dalla radio" that contains all the tracks I liked while running a radio. I filled the...
Hello all, not sure if I am in the right message board board, but since my spotify updated on October 8th 2014 I have not been able to play any tracks. Any ideas?
Hi I've updated the linux client to latest version. I have an Elementary OS luna installation (Ubuntu 12.04 equivalent) and now I'm facing some visual problems: I can't see some images, icons, album covers, artists. I think some icons are font-icons ...
Hi, I don't know where to report bugs, so I'm gonna do it here. I have a small annoyance with Spotify. Basically when Spotify is open when I try to close my system user session (system shutdown/restart included), my system hangs there for a while ins...
Hi! I want to have Spotify in my autostart on Ubuntu (which is no problem), but minimized to systray. I installed "AllTray" in Ubuntu (14.04, 64bit) , wrote a shell script: #!/bin/bash alltray spotify & exit 0 made it executable, but Spotify still st...
Does anyone know if royalties are paid when songs are streamed using a third-party applications built with libspotify, or only using the official Spotify-released desktop clients? There are many apps out there using libspotify. Does this mean that I'...
I draw the launch-button for spotify into the unity-launcher of ubuntu 14.04 - as You see in attached image. Sometimes, after fresh login, there pops up a second launch-icon after starting spotify, so the icon is doubled then. It is not always, but o...
Hi:I just added the spotify repository to my sources list, added the key, downloaded Spotify, installed it, opened Spotify,all from the command line. Everything worked, no hassle. I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on an AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Pro...
Hi! I can't play some musics even i found them my search results. I can not play soft title musics. Here my screenshot: How can i fix it? (It does not matther which device i use. Desktop app(Linux), Web Player or Android App)
How do I enable Spotify links handler in Chrome? Usually theres a little thing in the address bar, but i don't know where to search it.
Hi, Does anyone else experiance the problem with spotifiy linux minimiseing ? specifically i use ubuntu, when i have ubuntu open and go to minimise it does so but then opens up again, this is anoying.
This happens irregularly, but everytime Spotify is launched: My keyboard works just fine, my cursor is moving where I want it to, but it doesn't accept mouse clicks (or scrolling). A workaround is pressing the "[SUPER]+[ARROW DOWN]" keys. That minimi...
Hi, I couldn't find any similar issue in the forum, so I'm just reporting a bug I've come accross. Anyone else having the same problem? - I go to the Browse view, Genres & moods. - I click on any genre (for instance, Focus). Then the view doesn't cha...
Hi, I'm an avid Spotify user and glad it exists, but there is a seemingly easy to fix problem that is a major issue that affects all distributions. Spotify for Linux does not listen to SIGQUIT, which causes the notification icon's "Exit" menu to not ...
Hi, I just upgraded to version 0.9.11.27 on Ubuntu 14.04. The notification area now shows song title, album name, and cover art, but not the artist. Is that a bug?
Hi All, Is anyone else having render issues with the spotify client on Ubuntu Linux? This is what I mean: and another example: As you can see, there is no text being rendered in the main pane, and I have no idea what's causing it or why nor how to fi...
Hi, anyone knows if there will be an updated 32 bit version for Ubuntu shortly? I'm still stuck on 0.9.4
Hi! With the native client under linux, I want to use the hidden prefs ui.track_notifications_enabled=false in order to hide notifications while I'm working. I'm using my own custom script to put non intrusive information about the current song in my...