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Discuss Spotify for Linux
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...
MattSuda
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...
MattSuda
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...
Sebasty
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...
Just wanted to say thanks to my fellow Linux Dev's for the great job. Been using the Linux platform for the last few years and I NEVER have issues. It honestly seems more stable than my Windows setup but maybe that's just potato OS. I've had the app ...
As ARM64 becomes more popular, supporting Spotify for ARM64 on Linux seems like a great move. Most Chromebooks are now getting Linux apps and several of them run ARM processors. Apple plans to release an ARM Macbook soon and Windows now supports ARM,...
I felt compelled to make a post for posterity for the events over the past few days. In a nutshell, Spotify's key signature expired so no one could update or install Spotify for a couple days (How long exactly I'm not sure). No word from Spotify when...
I recently got a laptop with a 4K display, powered by a Ryzen 2500U. There's been some rendering bugs: Is there an option to use software rendering?--disable-gpudidn't do anything. (Fortunately, --force-device-scale-factor=1.5 works just fine.) This ...
Just installed on Kubuntu 18.04 LTS and it's not loading one bit, just sits there as a blank window. Terminal outputs this when trying to run Spotify:mkdir: cannot create directory '/run/user/0': Permission denied ln: failed to create symbolic link '...
PlanPremiumCountryNL DevicePCOperating SystemKDE Neon 5.12 (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) My Question or IssueDebian package installation description on page https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/ is out of date.The key for repository.spotify.com expired. Th...
PlanPremiumLinux Spotify client in the latest version (1.0.80.474.gef6b503e). The same problem occurs with the Windows client (link).
PlanPremium FamilyCountry North AmericaDeviceAcer Aspire A515-51-55FDOperating SystemXubuntu 18.04 My Question or Issue integral@ricestation:~$ sudo snap install Spotify [sudo] password for integral: error: snap "Spotify" not found integral@ricestati...
The Shuffle and Repeat buttons are replaced by thumbs up and down buttons on Spotify Desktop Ubuntu and I'm really annoyed.I want my control buttons back and I don't see the harm in having them both with the thumbs buttons together.I've found this si...
PlanPremiumCountry CanadaDeviceComputerOperating SystemUbuntu 18.04 My Question or Issue I recently discovered that a Spotify client is available for Linux and I tried it. It works great, very nice for my Linux-based HTPC, but after approximately hal...
Please find below my detailed information regarding my problem, my desired result, and how to reproduce. PlanPremium CountryThe Netherlands Device ➜ ~ neofetch --stdout larry@gentoo --------------- OS: Gentoo/Linux x86_64 Kernel: 4.17.5-zen Uptime: 1...
I have manually set my cache size to 256Gb are there any negative effects from this apart from what I have noticed. Slow initial start times and using more hard drive space PlanPremiumCountry AustraliaDeviceSamsung Galaxy s7 & Desktop customer build ...
Operating SystemUbuntu 16.04 My Question or Issue Title says it all - when on the album view, you cannot drag and drop a song into your playlists. This function does work when on the artist view or another playlist.
I recently install spotify from snap on Ubuntu 16.04, when playing music, the menu sound does not recognize spotify, so i cannot control music from menu sound.
PlanPremiumCountryUK DeviceDell XPS-15Operating SystemLinux - Ubuntu 18.04Installed version1.0.80.474.gef6b503e-7 My Question or Issue Hi there, I'm trying to add a local folder of music to my laptop's spotify install. The folder is:/dev/nvme0n1p7 on...
Hi, the upcoming LTS Release of Ubuntu (Bionic) uses libcurl4, and that conflicts with libcurl3.But the Spotify Desktop client depends on libcurl3... Would it be possible to rebuild (a version of) spotify against libcurl4 for the Debian/Ubuntu reposi...
This works on Windows/Linux/Mac (Only Desktop Version, does not work with the Web Player or Smartphone app) also. Here's the link: http://textmechanic.com/text-tools/basic-text-tools/sort-text-lines/ 1. Just go to the playlist you wanna randomize pre...
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...
First please fix this forum posting system so I don't need to retype all I typed once again if an error occures.Force scaling didn't work don't suggest then.aur-archlinux/spotify 1.0.80.480-1
When I try to update my profile pic within the app, it won't let me pic another directory other than "/home/"my_user_name"/Music". If I try to choose something from my pictures folder, it just tells me that the directory doesn't exist. Build Info:Fed...