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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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How to install SPOTIFY on UBUNTU 20.04 without this **bleep** called SNAP ?! Is there a deb package or ppa repository somewhere?My patience with Ubuntu, and the Canonical junk is running out...
PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceHP x360 Chromebook 12b ca0001TUOperating SystemChrome OS with Linux container enabled My Question or IssueI downloaded the Spotify client, and whenever I listen to a song, it gets to about 10 to 50 seconds in then it ...
PlanPremiumCountryHungary DevicePCOperating SystemLinux My Question or Issue⋊> ~ snap info spotify | grep -e installed -e publisher 15:36:31publisher: Spotify*installed: 1.1.26.501.gbe11e53b-15 (41) 171MB -⋊> ~ spotify 15:36:35ln: failed to create sy...
PlanPremiumCountryFrance DevicePCOperating SystemLinux Ubuntu 19.10 My Question or IssueI have this message in my logapparmor="DENIED"operation="dbus_method_call"bus="session"path="/org/freedesktop/Notifications"interface="org.freedesktop.Notificatio...
I just wonder, why the feature "Repeat ONE song" is gone after the lastest update?This is really annoying...
Hi, I am running Ubuntu and I would like to open and play albums and playlist with a script using commands. I read that spotify version after 1.0 do not support this and I was wondering if and how it is possible to downgrade to an older version of sp...
PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceIntel® Core™ i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz × 4Operating SystemUbuntu 19.10 (5.3.0-42-generic) My Question or IssueThe Gnome menu bar only displays "Unknown Title" while Spotify 1.1.26.501.gbe11e53b is playing. The controls work, but...
PlanPremiumCountryDenmarkDeviceHP EnvyOperating SystemKubuntu 20.04 My Question or IssueNo issue! I took some time in the weekend to switch from Windows 10 to Kubuntu 20.04 on my laptop, and was happy to see that the Spotify client seems to work flaw...
PlanPremium (trial started today)CountryUSADeviceLenovo P50Operating SystemArch Linux My Question or IssueHello, total Spotify noob here. I'm looking for radio-like functionality. It looks like Spotify has been steering users away from the radio stat...
PlanFreeCountryEstoniaDeviceDesktop computerOperating SystemUbuntu 20.04Spotify versionSnaps are auto-updated always to the latestMy Question or IssueMusic randomly pauses, nothing is logged into the console. It is really infuriating.
Hi,since the latest UI update I cannot sort artists by "date added" anymore. The "Sort by" dropdown has only one option and that is "Name". It was very handy to always see the artists you added last. Now they just disapear in the bottomless pit that ...
Hi all. As far as I can tell, only x86 architecture is currently supported on linux. Are there any plans to support other architectures in the future? I'm sure ARM would be popular but I would also love to see support for powerpc.
DeviceDell XPS 13 (9380) Operating SystemUbuntu 19.10 My Question or IssueOn a HiDPI screen with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 scaled 200% to 1920 x 1080 the Spotify app doesn't scale with the rest of the operating system. The work around is to edit th...
PlanFreeCountryItalyOperating System(Raspberrypi)My Question or IssueIs there a way to use Spotify on Raspberrypi3 without having a premium account? I am using raspotify on my local network but without Premium it does not work. The same for every oth...
I have been using Spotify on Ubuntu for a while and it has always been great. I switched to from Gnome to KDE yesterday and have had nothing but problems with Spotify. All the problems I will detail do not occur if I open Ubuntu in the Gnome shell. A...
PlanPremiumCountry Austria Operating System(Android Oreo, Ubuntu) My Question or IssueAs I am having quite a big audio system, hooked over USB audio interface to my ubuntu computer, I like to use the android cellphone app as remote control.I can chan...
Hi everyone. I'm on Lubuntu 16.04 LTS. I use snap version of spotify 1.1.26.501.gbe11e53b-15When I click on settings nothing happens. Should I use a different version?
I've had Shazam connected to my spotify for years but it stopped working a while back and nothing new is in the Spotify playlist since September. I reconnected it but no new songs were going in. So I disconnected it, renamed the playlist - connected ...
Surface pro 6 with Xubuntu 19.10 Surface pro has a slot for Micro SD. I use that SD as normal Storage. I also used it to store my Spotify music, but when i restart my SP6, the folder change automatically to the default one. It's annoying because i re...
PlanPremium, developerCountryMilanoOperating SystemUbuntu Desktop 16.04 My Question or IssueI may use 2 Spotify instances (--mu flag) to redirect audio on different cards / rooms. But an issue raised as soon as I opened the first instance. If you use...