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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'm using Linux mint and since I installed Spotify (two months ago) I don't think it's updated. It's my first time using Linux so I don't know how to check for updates or just know if I have the latest version available.
PlanPremiumCountryPoland DeviceDesktopOperating SystemFedora Linux 35 My Question or Issue I did several encodes of CDs to my Vorbis using oggenc and every time using proper blind test I can point to my encode as very much higher quality.I have premi...
Hi, I stepped on this album: "Ocean Music: Ambient Ocean Waves"https://open.spotify.com/album/0qRdvozaG58XysD8hi8TSf?si=sEhdXMgxRaGsXbmF1YdCyQ and it's marked (and linked to):Ocean Sounds CollectionAstral ProjectionNature Noise all is probably fine. ...
PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceACER Swift 3Operating SystemLinux Mint 20.2 The new call to action cards are very messed up on the Linux client. The card appears with a bunch of placeholder icons. The list of sponsors is the same no matter which podcast I ...
PlanPremiumCountryFranceDeviceASUS PCOperating SystemWindows 10 (fonctionnal) in dual boot with Kali LinuxMy Question or IssueHello !I wanted to install Spotify on my PC but I have the same error message saying that the respository is non-secure so i...
PlanPremiumCountryPolandDevicePCOperating SystemArch Linux 5.15.11-arch2-1Client versionaur/spotify 1:1.1.72.439-3 My Question or IssueAfter skipping to the next track, playback stops completely, and the blue "Can't play the current song" error shows...
PlanPremiumCountryArgentinaDeviceNotebook HPOperating SystemLinux - Kubuntu My Question or IssueHi. I downloaded Spotify in Ubuntu and it goes well, but I would like to be able to run it in the background, as it can be done in Windows. Is this possib...
PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceDESKTOPOperating SystemLINUX My Question or Issuei have explicit content enabled. however i only get the censored parental advisory versions of everything. i'm 34 **bleep**ing years old. if i can only get the 6th grade versi...
PlanFree & PremiumCountryUSA DeviceThinkPad Quad-Core Intel® Core™**bleep**Operating Systemelementary OS 6.1 Jólnir, Built on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, Linux 5.11.0-43-generic My Question or IssueWhen I disabled Spotify notifications they still display. Ac...
Hi Spotify, There are many users out there that use your service on the Linux desktop and us Linux users tend to like to do things on the CLI as much as possible. I did a small amount of work on an open-source spotify controller that runs in the comm...
PlanFreeCountryCanadaDeviceLinux PCOperating SystemPop!_OS 21.10******UPDATE******I fixed it. Sorry for the bother.My Question or IssueI was listening to music and decided to manually select another song, and the error message "This content is not av...
PlanPremium DeviceDesktopOperating SystemFedora, running Spotify version 1.1.72.439.gc253025e (via snapd) My Question or IssueThe Friend activity tab seems to have changed recently. It now very much insist on me login into Facebook, and since I have ...
Dear Spotify,, Why can't I access my FULL listening history? I'd say that, for a company that is storing (probably) petabytes of music, a couple of song ids can't matter that much, correct? I can access my complete browsing history in Google Chrome. ...
PlanPremiumCountryThe NetherlandsDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemManjaroMy Question or IssueI am using fcitx together with fcitx-mozc for Japanese input.Up until now, I have always been able to input Japanese into Spotify's search field. After the up...
Why there is no minimize to systray in 2021, is it that hard to do?Nowadays almost all programs have the ability to run in background and have a systray icon, see the attachment.I'm running Ubuntu 21.10 and not being able to run spotify in the backgr...
PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceChromeBoxOperating SystemChrome OS / Gentoo Linux-basedVersion 76.0.3809.136 (Official Build) (64-bit) My Question or IssueAs title suggests, my chromebox web player AND app on the same machine BOTH skip songs repeatedly, will...
With Friend Activity you can see what your friends are listening to. Personally, I love Friend Activity because I can really get to know my friends’ tastes in music and dive right into what they’re listening to. As of recently, if you want to continu...
Hello, I use Spotify on Linux machines but there is no way to collapse the right sidebar that is used for Facebook connection. This means that when you shrink the size of the window in the horizontal position you only see the facebook sidebar. I do n...
Hello, I have a problem with the webplayer, I select a song and then it does not play it, it selects the next song, fails to play it and repeats this procces five times until it lands on a song I didn't want to play and it plays it. I tried Firefox E...
PlanPremiumCountry DeviceDell XPS13Operating SystemLinux Mint 20.2 My Question or IssueSpotify won't start up - I just get a message Something went wrong - Try reloading page. I can use Spotify fine on my Android phone.I seem to get the following err...