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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...
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PlanPremiumCountryCroatia (any VPN country)DeviceAcer Aspire 7750g (laptop, cable connection)Operating SystemLinux Mint 20.1 cinnamon$ uname -aLinux *** 5.4.0-74-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Sat May 8 02:35:39 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux My Que...
Hi,I am running the linux client (1:1.1.72.439.gc253025e) from the repo on Debian 11 (gnome on X). When I play songs over Spotify Connect it stops marking wich song is playing in green in the current playlist. If I stop streaming and listen locally i...
PlanPremiumCountrySweden DevicePCOperating SystemOpenSUSE TumbleweedFlatpak My Question or IssueIf I add a local file to a playlist in the desktop app, it stops syncing that playlist. So the file I added, and any tracks I add to the playlist afterwar...
Linux client boots very slowly with graphical errors until launch is complete. I've found that running the commands below fixes the issue but I generally have to run this every login.cd ~/snap/spotify/common/.cache/spotifysqlite3 mercury.dbVACUUM;I'm...
PlanPremiumCountryGB DeviceDesktopOperating SystemUbuntu 18.04.6 LTS After recent updates, when I now click the close window button on the Spotify client, the app hangs before actually closing. If the app has only just been opened, then it closes qui...
PlanPremiumCountryCzech RepublicDevicePCOperating SystemDebian Sid/Experimental, amd64, PulseAudio, 192kHz/24b My Question or Issue Good day,since the Spotify client for Linux (hereafter SCL) is buggy since the last update, I now listen to Spotify vi...
PlanPremiumCountryUSADevicePCOperating SystemUbuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa My Question or Issue Spotify Notifications steals current windows focus on initial song plays. The ability to turn off notifications from the Ubuntu desktop's notifications setting...
All use of the linux client for debian/ubuntu using the posted instructions fail as recent updates on the server failed to include the correct ssl certificate for repository.spotify.com. Instead, the provided certificate is from Amazon, cloudfront.ne...
Hi everyone, i have the issue of: "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it."I know that there is other forum for the same topic, but i didn't find nothing for the linux user.I use desktop linux versi...
PlanPremiumCountry EC +593 DevicePCOperating SystemLinux-Ubuntu My Question or IssueI can not find the spotify option "offline" , is it available in spotify for linux OS?. Please, Thanks and I apologize for my english.
has anybody managed to make it work?it installs here, but running it renders only a black screen.(why do I need it? linux port has an practical unfixable issue in my system)
PlanPremiumCountrybrazil Operating Systemlinux My Question or Issue for quite some time now I have observed that the loudness normalization went to "loud" (or is it off?) and I can't change it back to normal no matter what. the change in settings wil...
PlanPremiumOperating SystemDebian 9.13 My Question or IssueWhen I click on "Replace image" in the "Edit Playlist Details" view, Spotify crashes, its window closes instantly.(I can't do that in web browser version either because of another bug I poste...
I switched over from Pandora because of variety and extra features exclusive to Spotify, but one thing I miss is that the channels can have several artists lumped into one, as well as looking for similar artists. Is there a similar thing in Spotify?
I have been trying for a few days to fix this issue and it just won't work at all. I'm using the web browser and NO songs will play. It plays about 1 second and then skips to the next song. and the only thing that plays all the way to the end is ads....
I have problems with Spotify in my local network. The problematic function is Other devices discovery in my local network. Spotify on Android does not reliably discover my Linux PC running Spotify client for Linux. They are both on the same WiFi.I ca...
Plan:PremiumCountry:CanadaDevice(Desktop PC)Operating System(Arch Linux) My Question or IssueDon't know why but every time I have spotify open and I'm doing something else on my computer like watching youtube videos or something like that spotify mut...
As title; the issue has persisted for years.
PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceDesktopMotherboard: ASUS PRIME Z390-PCPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9 9990kOperating SystemUbuntu 20.04.03 LTSMy Question or IssueSpotify UI crashes, regardless of if it's playing music or not. When the UI crashes it leaves behind...
Hi there, I've tried to update to the newest version via flatpak, but I always get the error message that the script "apply_extra" failed and that the exit status is 256.The same thing happens when I try to install Spotify on a fresh install of Fedor...