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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...
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...
Hi:I just added the spotify repository to my sources list, added the key, downloaded Spotify, installed it, opened Spotify,all from the command line. Everything worked, no hassle. I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on an AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Pro...
Hi, I'm an avid Spotify user and glad it exists, but there is a seemingly easy to fix problem that is a major issue that affects all distributions. Spotify for Linux does not listen to SIGQUIT, which causes the notification icon's "Exit" menu to not ...
Hi there, A number of songs by the band "Moonlight Breakfast" only play as 3s white noise. This started maybe two weeks ago, before that, they played fine. Any idea what would be the cause? The band: spotify:album:6yLnzmuWJ6n3sOxXKFbz6j Some of the a...
Hello, Since I deleted most of my iTunes songs, my spotify playlists are hit with a lot of greyed out, unplayable titles. Is there a way to have Spotify re-download those titles based on the info already displayed? I do not want to go through the who...
Referrering this answer: http://askubuntu.com/a/372028/255935 I have Lubuntu 14.04 with Spotify 0.9.11.27.XXXXXXXXX. My previous, play and next keys don't work (nothing happends when I hit them and have Spotify running). When I test them in xev in a ...
I searched quite a bit for an answer to try to avoid being redundant, but I couldn't find anything similar to the issue (bug?) I am experiencing. Any time I click inside the empty box on the right side of the Linux client (see screenshot), my compute...
I am not connected facebook. A few months ago my activity feed stopped updating for people I am following that are connected to facebook. In my feed is shows the same activity that is months and months old for these individuals. I think the change ma...
The latest spotify update (0.9.11) made the spotify UI really unresponsive/broken in Ubuntu 14.04. If I try to do a search, the whole application basically freezes for 10-15 seconds after typing few letters, then continues but the UI elements aren't ...
Hi, Firstly, thanks for making Spotify available on Linux. I've added local tracks on Spotify, no problem with Windows. Once on Linux (Ubuntu 14) some of those tracks are not available. If I want to play the track I have the message "The track was ad...
Hi, With the new version, the spotify client has a strange behavior. The main window (the center panel) doesn't lose the focus and always is top. I can not view the right click option menu and other apps windows. In the screencast the main window is ...
Dear, I have upgraded today (may 21 2014), via public repository, my linux desktop spotify to version 0.9.10.17.g4129e1c9 and encountered a bug. Whenever a new song starts playing or I resume playing after I paused the song, my system freezes. I have...
This album came out two months ago, and we still don't have the explicit version. The majority of the album has explicit tracks but we only get Work and Change Your Life because they're singles. Why do we not have the full version of the tracks when ...
Hi, I need to see how close I am to the 10,000 track limit in My Music but can't see where the number of tracks I have is displayed, can anyone help? Many thanks, Gaz.
Hi Spotify, just an idea, how about adding a function to set automatic time limits to your music playfeed? This could just be so that you can leave spotify playing and make sure it turns off if you go out or go to sleep. However, more usefully you co...
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I'm using Sabayon Linux (Gentoo Overlay) From what I've read so far I think the problem is that libavcodec got updated to libavcodec.so.54 but it doesn't show with ldd /usr/bin/spotify: /opt/spotify/spotify-client/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no version infor...
I'm new to Spotify and enjoying the large catalog, but there is a huge disadvantage to using it: Where's the vote down or don't play this button? I can't actively filter out stuff I do not like and it drives me nuts. I can listen to a radio station a...
Hello, i have a suggestion. If a NEW user come to spotify, the only way to make his current "Discover" is listening diferents artist.... My suggestion is: If i Follow a lot of artist (or friends or someting) "Discover" must to use this information to...
I run native Linux client 64-bit. In the latest version I can't search for anything, because it crashes with 'segmentation fault' as soon as I type anything in the search field. Therefore I repackaged an older version, removed the files that conflict...