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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'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...
Linux, Ubuntu 12.04, Spotify version 0.9.11.27.g2b1a638c After a fresh installation of the app, the initial terms and conditions modal that you must agree to has a piece of text with an ampersand (&) that displays as "amp;". I've since closed the mod...
I am using Apple bonjour protocol to advertise spotify service. I have to give http port number, IP address of the host and path to zero conf implementation. Can someone please tell me how to mention these arguments in DNSServiceRegister() function. ...
I've been trying to sync spotify library to a 32GB SD card in order to be able to listen to music while I'm offline. Problem is it starts syncing but always stops and throws an error. Then my SD card always gets corrupted and I need to format.Ok so I...
Hi there, A number of songs by the band "Moonlight Breakfast" only play as 3s white noise. This started maybe two weeks ago, before that, they played fine. Any idea what would be the cause? The band: spotify:album:6yLnzmuWJ6n3sOxXKFbz6j Some of the a...
Hello, Since I deleted most of my iTunes songs, my spotify playlists are hit with a lot of greyed out, unplayable titles. Is there a way to have Spotify re-download those titles based on the info already displayed? I do not want to go through the who...
Referrering this answer: http://askubuntu.com/a/372028/255935 I have Lubuntu 14.04 with Spotify 0.9.11.27.XXXXXXXXX. My previous, play and next keys don't work (nothing happends when I hit them and have Spotify running). When I test them in xev in a ...
Kära ägare av mjukvaran med namnet spotify. Jag och många med mig har lite problem med att använda denna tjänst som vi dessutom betalar för att använda. Det största strulet är att man inte äns kan starta denna mjukvara ibland. Denna lilla lustighet h...
using nvidia drivers 340.24 debian testing (jessie) 64bit when starting spotify the main windows is black, if you search a artist and select that artist. the window is black so you cannot select any songs. the playlists when clicking do show the main...
I searched quite a bit for an answer to try to avoid being redundant, but I couldn't find anything similar to the issue (bug?) I am experiencing. Any time I click inside the empty box on the right side of the Linux client (see screenshot), my compute...
After installing Spotify on Kubuntu 14.04 it did not start. After installing missing library it does. Just execute sudo apt-get install -y libpangoxft-1.0-0 greets
Does anyone know if there is a way to display the album art and current song on a second screen? For example, one monitor is for controlling Spotify, and the other is for displaying the current song to a crowd. A third-party app would be fine. Thanks...
I am not connected facebook. A few months ago my activity feed stopped updating for people I am following that are connected to facebook. In my feed is shows the same activity that is months and months old for these individuals. I think the change ma...
Currently running Spotify 0.9.4.183 at Archlinux. When the internet goes down, spotify notices it and displays a message warning me it's working on offline mode. When the connection comes back up, spotify still tell me I'm offline and even after seve...
The maximize button on the spotify window appears to maximize the window for a moment before it reverts to its original size. Double-clicking the title bar has the same effect. This happens under xubuntu going at least as far back as 13.04, but possi...
I can't remember how to search for a specific playlist in Spotify. How can I do that? It's something like this: "spotify:playlist:[the playlist]"