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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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PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceLenovo Y530Operating SystemElementary OS 5.1.7 Hera (Linux) My Question or Issueopening spotify from shortcut (/usr/bin/spotify) opens a new icon tray as following This does not happen in case of snap package; and i actually s...
I am playing Spotify on my Linux Mint desktop and I have a similar-named artist I clicked on. I briefly played something and it was not anything I want. There are 3 dots for more options, but all I can do is go to the artist's radio, follow, report o...
When I am trying to change the default storage location of where cached/downloaded songs will be saved to, the app simply crashes. It seems to be correlated with the other presented issue of people trying to add local songs to the app. This is happen...
W:GPG error: http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 4773BD5E130D1D45, E:The repository 'http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease' is not s...
PlanFree/PremiumCountry. Mexico Tijuana Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue
Do you have any plans to update spotify to GTK3 or at least provide better HiDPI support ?
Student premium plan, USA, Spotify for Linux desktop app Video is an essential element of some podcasts, and I have enjoyed audio-only podcasts on Spotify for a while, so I'm excited to see Spotify take on the video podcast segment. Unfortunately, on...
PlanFree/PremiumCountry: Australia DeviceCustom PCOperating SystemLinux Mint 20 My Question or IssueI can create a custom playlist. BUT when I go to add/change an image, Spotify opens a new window, then crashes.
Plan PremiumCountry Australia Device DesktopAMD R5 3600AMD Powercolor RX580 8GBThermaltake Tough Ram 16Gb 3200MHzOperating System Ubuntu 20.04-1 My Question or Issue When I attempt to "add a source" for local files Spotify will crash. You can see the...
PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceLenovo YogaOperating SystemUbuntu 20.04 My Question or IssueSpotify's chromecast support is second to none and is the reason why I subscribed to Spotify premium after Google killed Play Music, since Youtube Music Premium ch...
I noticed while trying to see my Wrapped this year it requires me to download the mobile app. I don't have a smartphone and listen exclusively via desktop. I've been looking forward to this for a while, am I out of luck?
The Spotify client crashes as soon as I click to change the Offline Songs Storage location setting on my laptop. I use the debian package. OS: Pop!_OS 20.10
PlanPremiumCountry DeviceLenovo Operating SystemLinux Mint 19.3My Question or IssueSpotify keeps going offline. There is nothing wrong with my internet connection. It does this while I am listening. Internet is not down it's only Spotify.
1. I've had the issue this fall that sometimes when selecting a song manually, playback will halt. After that no songs can be played. Closing spotify and restarting it will make it work again, even the failing song. 2. Recently, when selecting a song...
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PlanPremium FamilyCountryUS DeviceDesktop Nvidia 1070 TI, Intel I7, 16 GB RamOperating SystemUbuntu 18.04 bionic (x86-64) My Question or IssueWhen I attempt to listen to or watch JRE I get an error "Sorry we're not able to play this video." But I don...
PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDevicePCOperating SystemLinux Mint 20My Question or IssueHi Spotify-Team,I just installed Spotify on Linux.Deactivating Crossfade in settings does not have an effect.It's even worse, I can't hear songs to the end and the next...
Hi,On my Fedora 25 machine, Spotify has suddenly stopped working over one of my VPNs (NL based). I get "No internet connection detected... (error code:4)". If I reconnect to another UK based VPN, it works fine. If I connect to the same NL VPN on my A...
See my post: https://superuser.com/questions/1574114/audio-interface-audio-output-in-debian-linux-not-as-good-as-windowsI use the Behringer Uphoria UMC404HD audio interface headphone output to listen to Spotify on my high-end headphones.The interface...
PlanPremiumCountry Germany (currently)DeviceDELL Latitude E6230Operating SystemFedora 28 (Linux) My Question or IssueOn my laptop with Fedora 28, the "add source" button in Spotify does not work. (I can press it, but it won't do anything). I am aware...