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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...
Casual Listener
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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...
Roadie
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Hi! I've seen several post regarding this issue but non of them applies to my problem. I'm using Manjaro Linux (Archlinux based distro), ffmpeg-full package for audio (on AUR) and I'm not able to play Local files. When I click "play", nothing happens...
Hi! I've seen several post regarding this issue but non of them applies to my problem. I'm using Manjaro Linux (Archlinux based distro), ffmpeg-full package for audio (on AUR) and I'm not able to pla...
Gig Goer
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I reinstalled my computer (Debian testing/stretch) and installed latest Spotify client for it. Local files playback doesn't work, so I tried that existing solution:sudo wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8593574/Spotify/ffmpeg/libavcodec.so.53 ...
I reinstalled my computer (Debian testing/stretch) and installed latest Spotify client for it. Local files playback doesn't work, so I tried that existing solution: sudo wget https://dl.dropboxu...
Regular
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Hi, first, thanks for your effort in regurlarly releasing linux builds!With the recent 1.0 betas the DBus support is back...more or less. But many of the advertised properties can not be retrieved and time out. The only property which is working is "...
Hi, first, thanks for your effort in regurlarly releasing linux builds! With the recent 1.0 betas the DBus support is back...more or less. But many of the advertised properties can not be r...
Spotify
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I have about as much knowledge of technology as the adverage 80 year, so I need things explaining simply! I've recently started listening to Spotify on my lap top at home but I would now like to be able to take it with me when I travel to work and th...
I have about as much knowledge of technology as the adverage 80 year, so I need things explaining simply! 🙂 I've recently started listening to Spotify on my lap top at home but I would now ...
Casual Listener
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A changelog?
A changelog?
Music Fan
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I create account on spotify to see liist song my friendand spotify loading very long and dont show. radio on spotify working I use Firefox 40.0.3 without any plugins or Add-onsradio (spotify) probably working with HTML5 from Firefox OS: PCLinuxOS 64b...
I create account on spotify to see liist song my friend and spotify loading very long and dont show. radio on spotify working I use Firefox 40.0.3 without any plugins or Add-ons r...
Casual Listener
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Hi there! Does anyone know, if the Linux Desktop Client supports Spotify Connect and Volume Control? I want to use my Android phone to control the Linux Desktop Client on my Raspberry Pi. Thanks in advance,Juergen
Hi there! Does anyone know, if the Linux Desktop Client supports Spotify Connect and Volume Control? I want to use my Android phone to control the Linux Desktop Client on my Raspberry Pi. &...
Community Legend
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Hello guys , When I put a song to play at Local Files the music does not run, does anyone know what can it be ?
Hello guys , When I put a song to play at Local Files the music does not run, does anyone know what can it be ?
Regular
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Hey, I've got a Problem with Spotify (0.9.17.1) on Ubuntu 14.04 LTSWhen I'm looking at an Artist in my main (center) window, or if there is a search result, I can't click the PopUp away that will come up if i search for something.If I look at one of ...
Hey, I've got a Problem with Spotify (0.9.17.1) on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS When I'm looking at an Artist in my main (center) window, or if there is a search result, I can't click the PopUp away th...
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I'm currently using spotify free and during the ads there is a high frequency noise. The ads are separated into music and some guy talking and it's when the guy's talking that I hear the noise in the background. The ads are in swedish and I hear the ...
I'm currently using spotify free and during the ads there is a high frequency noise. The ads are separated into music and some guy talking and it's when the guy's talking that I hear the noise i...
Visitor
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I have gone through all the different troubleshooting I can find. Spotify shows up on my dash, but opening the application produces no results.Running spotify from the terminal yields:spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.11: ca...
I have gone through all the different troubleshooting I can find. Spotify shows up on my dash, but opening the application produces no results. Running spotify from the terminal yield...
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Hello!I can't successfully log into any player. It's fine for the forums and the main page. The web player: When I click sign in with Facebook, I get an empty pop-up and that's as far as I can get. The desktop app: I had to install the additional lib...
Hello! I can't successfully log into any player. It's fine for the forums and the main page. The web player: When I click sign in with Facebook, I get an empty pop-up and that's as far as I...
Gig Goer
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I did search the forum, and google, but I only found some docs on old version of Ubuntu, and the repos these mentioned no longer work. I'm on newest ubuntu (15.04), and while spotify works great, it doesn't play local mp3 files. It loads them to libr...
I did search the forum, and google, but I only found some docs on old version of Ubuntu, and the repos these mentioned no longer work. I'm on newest ubuntu (15.04), and while spotify works g...
Gig Goer
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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...
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 se...
Roadie
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151 replies
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Carly Rae Jepsen's new record "E•MO•TION" is wrongly listed on Spotify's library as "Emotion". This is an issue as I have my spotify account linked with last.fm, and E•MO•TION and Emotion are considered two different albums.
Carly Rae Jepsen's new record "E•MO•TION" is wrongly listed on Spotify's library as "Emotion". This is an issue as I have my spotify account linked with last.fm, and E•MO•TION and ...
Casual Listener
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Hello everyone, I don't what is happened, but in few versions earlier I have the possibilite to save an album or a playlist under "Your Songs" menu then an option to make these selection offline. But now, this option gone! It really not pleasent to m...
Hello everyone, I don't what is happened, but in few versions earlier I have the possibilite to save an album or a playlist under "Your Songs" menu then an option to make these selection off...
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some files could not be played on linux client, for example Beardfish: Voluntary Slavery; another song from the same album (Ludvig & Sverker) plays just fine; there are many more songs affected; same with spotify & spotify-beta (arch linux packages) ...
some files could not be played on linux client, for example Beardfish: Voluntary Slavery; another song from the same album (Ludvig & Sverker) plays just fine; there are many more songs affected; ...
Casual Listener
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Hi I am looking for the old 64bit .deb file of the old grey spotify.There is 32bit .deb file around easy to find here: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Spotify-0-9-4-for-32-bit-Linux/td-p/1130452 But I am looking for th...
Hi I am looking for the old 64bit .deb file of the old grey spotify. There is 32bit .deb file around easy to find here: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Spotify-0-9-4-...
Casual Listener
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Hello, I have a big problem. I can't install anything via the Lubuntu Software Center or the terminal. This shows up with the terminal AND when I try to install via the software center. Can anybody help me? I didn't find any help via google or youtub...
Hello, I have a big problem. I can't install anything via the Lubuntu Software Center or the terminal. This shows up with the terminal AND when I try to install via the software center. Can anybody h...
Casual Listener
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Hello, Just as the title says, doesn't even show anything, this only happened after I upgraded from 14.10 to 15.04, I tried to reinstall but it still doesn't work.
Hello, Just as the title says, doesn't even show anything, this only happened after I upgraded from 14.10 to 15.04, I tried to reinstall but it still doesn't work.
Regular
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