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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...
Folks, never ever turn on volume normalization. It is simply amazing how much it damages the music quality. I don't even need any A/B compare, it's like nigh and day. It is on by default when you install. First thing to do - go to settings and turn i...
Hi,After combining a few ideas, I got my firefox to open spotify links à la https://open.spotify.com/track/4kLyPZvYQE2N1K2rFQ3e6a?si=sLbFkVGvS6izC2-6J74iZQdirectly in my running Linux Spotify client. Here's how: 1. Install Greasemonkey (Firefox) or T...
I've some playlists and I expected them to be the first results when I search a keyword that is in the playlist name.This logic is very simple and is valid for all the user content. If I've created/liked something, I expect the search to show it firs...
Linux 18 Sometimes spotify just tells me I'm not connected, and nothing plays. It says "offline" yet here I am writing a complaint, because my Internet works just fine Tried closing it and opening it again, no fix. Please stop outsourcing your progra...
PlanFreeCountry USADeviceLenovo T470sOperating SystemDebian Linux My Question or IssueMy desktop player doesn't have sound when started. It always has the "Web Playes (Chrome)" selected, even if I do not have any tabs opened to spotify. I do not own ...
Device(Lenovo y580)Operating System(Ubuntu 18.04) My Question or Issue Hi, I use Spotify client for ubuntu from official repo . I'm getting these errors: Dec 30 16:14:51 y580 spotify.desktop[4733]: [1230/161451.503430:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(10168...
PlanPremiumCountryUSAOperating SystemArch Linux My Question or IssueSeems like dbus no longer recognizes Spotify? Whenever I try to control Spotify through dbus, I get this error: Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.mpris.Me...
PlanFreeCountryUS DeviceDell Latitude E6420Operating SystemArch Linux My Question or Issue When I try logging in, spotify crashes with this error: /usr/share/spotify/spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by...
PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceLenovo Yoga 920Operating SystemUbuntu 18.10 My Question or IssueI just installed Spotify on my Ubuntu 18.10 machine, however since it's a 4K UHD display, everything is unreadably tiny. I have seen some posts saying to modify...
PlanFree/PremiumCountryFranceDeviceDell PCOperating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) Linux Xubuntu 18.04.1 LTS My Question or IssueHello Spotify penguins I installed Spotify version "1.0.94.262.g3d5c231c-9" via snap without problem.Spoti...
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited States DeviceLinux workstationOperating SystemArch LinuxSpotify Version1.0.94.262 The AUR community figured out that using a newer version of ffmpeg-compat stopped spotify from crashing when playing any local file, but I dug ...
I have an apple 7plus. My Facebook is linked to my account. Everytime I search anyone nothing comes up. No search results. Nothing no Facebook friends found. People can find me but I can’t search anything. I have gone they chat and they have done eve...
PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceHP ENVY Laptop - 13tOperating SystemUbuntu 14.04 LTS My Question or Issue The play/pause, previous track, and next trackThe buttons don't work after a recent update. They work on my Windows 10, but not my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. ...
PlanPremiumCountryEgypt DeviceDell inspiron 15 3521Operating SystemDeepinOS 15.8 (based on Debian) My Question or Issue I have no "made for you" section at all on linux while it's visible on Windows 10 & Android, any ideas how to get it?
Hi,I've noticed some really strange behaviour during listening to playlists. When the current song comes to an end, the next starts playing at 0:30sec and later. You can see some example in the attached webm. Has anybody seen this issue and knows you...
Hello all, So I have been trying to write a bash script with my shallow knowledge to control spotify and see what is currently playing on my sidebar. I successfully binded some keys for play/pause-next-previous. And also wrote a python script using d...
The previous version (0.9) of Spotify seems to have Startup and Windows behavior switch to minimize in the Notification bar whenever you click the Minimize or Close button of the app. I'm using Linux Mint 19 by the way. When will you put the feature ...
PlanPremium - Family PlanCountryUnited States DeviceCustom DesktopOperating SystemUbuntu 18.04 My Question or Issue I think my Spotify crashed and kept playing, but when I opened it, it showed me playing the music on another device, but it was the de...
I have a premium subscription and a lot of times after I play something on Spotify I see these artists show up on my suggested list on YouTube. Is data being shared? I'm very unhappy with this as this is a severe privacy violation