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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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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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I'm running Arch Linux with KDE and using VLC / phonon as my audio backend, and getting no audio. Though my "system settings" specify my USB headset as the default output, I believe Spotify may be sending the audio to the analog hardware output. I ca...
I'm running Arch Linux with KDE and using VLC / phonon as my audio backend, and getting no audio. Though my "system settings" specify my USB headset as the default output, I believe Spotify may be se...
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What's new in this version (1.0.7): On Windows, the corner X button can close or minimise Spotify. Choose in your Settings. Making a collaborative playlist in 1280x800 resolution? Excellent. Now you can see who's added songs in the User column. Creat...
What's new in this version (1.0.7): On Windows, the corner X button can close or minimise Spotify. Choose in your Settings. Making a collaborative playlist in 1280x800 resolution...
Casual Listener
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I am a huge fan of Linux and am now using Fedora 22 at the moment. To be honest, installing Spotify on rpm based Linux machines is (when doing it all yourself without scripts or repo's) a hell. You got to convert it and change lots of stuff. That's w...
I am a huge fan of Linux and am now using Fedora 22 at the moment. To be honest, installing Spotify on rpm based Linux machines is (when doing it all yourself without scripts or repo's) a he...
Visitor
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Hello, This is mostly for reference only in case someone hit the problem I am seeing. I haven't had time to test it on the latest stable release (Ubuntu Vivid Vervet 15.04) but I see the problem on the current development release (Wily 15.10) : on so...
Hello, This is mostly for reference only in case someone hit the problem I am seeing. I haven't had time to test it on the latest stable release (Ubuntu Vivid Vervet 15.04) but I se...
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Why does the display time disappear in a song now??? I hate this feature that you have to tap it and then it disappears in three seconds.
Why does the display time disappear in a song now??? I hate this feature that you have to tap it and then it disappears in three seconds.
Casual Listener
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Normally, Spotify seems to refresh my most listened to tracks, artists and albums every week or so. It is now well over a week since it did this and It has still got my top track as one I haven't listened to in quite some time. I saw somewhere that t...
Normally, Spotify seems to refresh my most listened to tracks, artists and albums every week or so. It is now well over a week since it did this and It has still got my top track as one I haven't lis...
Roadie
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I'm very frustrated, why? I had spotify app on my 32bit linux. On my second PC (64bit) I've installed spotify. I saw that new designs were made, so decided to upgrade spotify on my 32bit linux. I couldn't upgrade it, so decided to unistall it. Then w...
I'm very frustrated, why? I had spotify app on my 32bit linux. On my second PC (64bit) I've installed spotify. I saw that new designs were made, so decided to upgrade spotify on my 32bit lin...
Casual Listener
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How do you sort your Song or Artist list alphabetically? Is there a way to print out your song titles? Is there a way to save a song, artist, and CD title to a Firefox bookmark?
How do you sort your Song or Artist list alphabetically? Is there a way to print out your song titles? Is there a way to save a song, artist, and CD title to a Firefox bookmark? &n...
Newbie
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Separation Anxiety - track no. 4 corrupted
Separation Anxiety - track no. 4 corrupted
Community Legend
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(Mods, it is kinda unclear to me where this topic truly belongs, so sorry if I have posted it in the wrong section. If so, I'd appreciate seeing it moved.) With the last bastion of free but sadly unlicensed music going shark-belly up, I have finally ...
(Mods, it is kinda unclear to me where this topic truly belongs, so sorry if I have posted it in the wrong section. If so, I'd appreciate seeing it moved.) With the last bastion of free but ...
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Hey guys I just added the Repository to my 32bit 12.04 ubuntu. but i couldn't install spotify-client. So i took a little look around in the repo and the only files in there are 64bit ... i am 100% i had spotify installed on this machine before. pls h...
Hey guys I just added the Repository to my 32bit 12.04 ubuntu. but i couldn't install spotify-client. So i took a little look around in the repo and the only files in there are 64bit ... i a...
Casual Listener
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Hello guys, I really like Spotify but the volume is lower than deezer and the others music streaming services.In cellphone it doesn't really annoy me, but in the Windows app, it is really annoying, do you guys have a solution?
Hello guys, I really like Spotify but the volume is lower than deezer and the others music streaming services. In cellphone it doesn't really annoy me, but in the Windows app, it is really annoying,...
Casual Listener
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Hello. Trying to install Spotify for my old machine, it appears that the last version which supports 32-bit is Spotify 0.9.4. I don't mind using an old version if it works; however, I've added the repositories suggested and attempted to install the c...
Hello. Trying to install Spotify for my old machine, it appears that the last version which supports 32-bit is Spotify 0.9.4. I don't mind using an old version if it works; however, I've add...
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Hi, I just installed ubuntu 15.04, was following https://www.spotify.com/us/download/previews/ and after adding the key and the repo to sources.list apt-get says: W: Failed to fetch http://repository.spotify.com/dists/stable/non-free/binary-amd64/Pac...
Hi, I just installed ubuntu 15.04, was following https://www.spotify.com/us/download/previews/ and after adding the key and the repo to sources.list apt-get says: W: Failed to ...
Newbie
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Hi, as of the latest Spotify version, Local files are apparently handled in a different manner...If I understand correctly, rather than as before dragging & dropping songs/folders into the interface, you now instead designate sources in "Preferences"...
Hi, as of the latest Spotify version, Local files are apparently handled in a different manner... If I understand correctly, rather than as before dragging & dropping songs/folders into...
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Hi everyone, I just got updated last night to 15.04, after this, the spotify app does not launch. This is the message i get after run the "spotify" command:spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file...
Hi everyone, I just got updated last night to 15.04, after this, the spotify app does not launch. This is the message i get after run the "spotify" command: spotify: error while loading sha...
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I've recently ran into issues running spotify on my Ubuntu 14.04LTS installation, it had started randomly and I do believe that I had not done any updates before hand to start the cause of the errors I ran: spotify &>> spotify.txt I have pasted all t...
I've recently ran into issues running spotify on my Ubuntu 14.04LTS installation, it had started randomly and I do believe that I had not done any updates before hand to start the cause of the e...
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after update from 0.9 i noticed what there are no any dbus endpoints provided by app and no any signals sent on any activities. is that sorta bug or one more removed feature? UPD:Now it's possible to control playback status and get current track meta...
after update from 0.9 i noticed what there are no any dbus endpoints provided by app and no any signals sent on any activities. is that sorta bug or one more removed feature? UPD: ...
Music Fan
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Hi!!Since the last update I have a problem. I run Spotify but nothing happens. Do not know how to fix it. Can anybody help me please?Thanks!!
Hi!! Since the last update I have a problem. I run Spotify but nothing happens. Do not know how to fix it. Can anybody help me please? Thanks!!
Newbie
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