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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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PlanPremiumCountryUnited Kingdom DeviceDell XPS 13 9360Operating SystemLinux 5.2.5-2-MANJARO My Question or IssueMy spotify install (installed via snap) keeps sporadically breaking and has to be reinstalled to start working again. It fails with: inte...
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