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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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DeviceXPS 15 2018Operating SystemLinux ludonope 5.5.9-arch1-2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu, 12 Mar 2020 23:01:33 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux My Question or IssueSpotify randomly segfaults and forces me to switch to tty to restart my graphical session (xorg). The so...
PlanPremiumCountryIT Is there a client for RPM based distro?
PlanPremiumCountryIsraelDeviceDell Inspiron N5110Operating SystemRelease: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia 64-bitKernel: Linux 4.15.0-132-generic x86_64MATE 1.18.0My IssueBackground:I watched a podcast episode (including video) on the web player and the playba...
Plan: PremiumCountry: ArgentinaDevice: Desktop PC with AMD Ryzen CPUOperating System: Arch LinuxLinux 5.10.7-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:02:01 +0000 x86_64 GNU/LinuxI am having issues with the playback, every couple of seconds the song...
PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceLenovo P50Operating SystemFedora 32 My Question or IssueThe dislike button that is present in the Windows and web client is not present in the Linux client. Additionally, songs that are disliked are not greyed out like the...
PlanPremiumCountryGermany Operating SystemUbuntu 18.04, installed via snap. Application version1.1.46.916.g416cacf1 My Question or Issue The album cover in the lower left corner is gone. Without it, I can not easily access the currently playing playl...
Hello to All,first, I want to thank for the development work.PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceFSC Esprimo E5600Operating SystemKnoppix 9.0 working on USB-stickMy Question or IssuePlaying of local files is not possible. But it is builtin function so par...
Operating SystemLinux (Slackware-current) Spotify Version1.1.26 My Question or IssueWhen I try to play and import local .mp3 files in spotify, I keep getting the error Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can i...
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...
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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...
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.