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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...
When I logged into Spotify, the subtitles on cards (artists, podcast release dates) and text on buttons showed text like these: shelf.see-allnavbar.searchcard.tag.artistsearch.playlist-byweb-player.your-library-x.type... This is a minor bug solved by...
PlanPremiumCountryBrazil DevicePositivo Desktop (Core i5-9400)Operating SystemGNU/Linux - Gentoo AMD64 distribution My Question or IssueI can't open Spotify. Probably due to libcurl.so.4 error. Spotify dump is attached. Possibly relevant information ...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue
Operating SystemLinux (Fedora 40) My Question or IssueThis is really a RFE: Spotify desktop app on Linux should comply with the standard of quitting with the CTRL+q key combo, as all well-behaved apps do
PlanPremiumCountry: PL DevicePCOperating SystemUbuntu 23.04 My Question or IssueI have smart shuffle enabled. The problem is that if a song is playing that is not on my list of liked songs and I want to add it using the + button in the lower left cor...
PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue
The Spotify for Linux client on both the Debian/Ubuntu repository and Flatpak repository have the same problem. Every time the computer is restarted, you have to re-login. Marking the "remember me" element does nothing, and there is no option under t...
PremiumCountryGreeceDeviceOperating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)My Question or IssueHello.do you know what command can my spotify desktop app play a song directly? i mean like i say to alexa "alexa play smoke on the water"and alexa p...
Hi, when Spotify is minimized to tray I can't open the window with the command. /opt/spotify/spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify) /opt/spotify/spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4...
I have recently installed the app, on Linux (Pop! OS 22.04 LTS, flatpak version 1.2.31.1205.g4d59ad7c). Occasionally, there will be ads that play a short audio. However, once the audio finishes, it just sits there. Attempting to move on to the next s...
To start with I am using Spotify downloaded from AUR. I am looking for a way to have Spotify open maximized. I have tried playing around with the prefs but have just been guessing. Anyone have any ideas?
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Operating SystemUbuntu 22.xx My Question or IssueHi, the instructions to install the spotify client via APT are outdated.Nowadays the GPG Key should be stored in a extra keyring. curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey_6224F9941A8AA6D1.gp...
PlanPremium (Family)CountryGermanyDeviceCustom-Built PC (AMD Ryzen 5 1600, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1600 6GB, 250GB SSD)Operating SystemDebian 12 "bookworm" My Question or IssueI am able to download songs and playlists just fine, but going offline and play...
PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue
When I press any song on Spotify, it will always show the words “Spotify can’t play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." and switch to a series of other songs to a song, but only hear the first 10 seconds and lose...
PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue
PlanPremiumCountryEUDeviceAMD Framework 13Operating SystemDebian 12 My Question or IssueWhen i try to log into the app it should open in a browser but does not. so it is impossible for me to log in.
DevicePC Operating SystemLinux General My Question or IssueCurrently Spotifys distribution options are: Snap and general Debian apt-repository.If you do not run Ubuntu or Debian you have to do a lot of, sometimes strange, actions to make spotify work...