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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...
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My Question or Issue Running Spotify on Samsung Chromebook Plus. I'm trying to make playlist folders but I don't get a "Create Folder" option when I right-click on a playlist. Any help would be appreciated...
Hello everybody,I would like to report an issue on the GNU/Linux client. PlanPremiumCountryFrance Devicea DELL workstationOperating SystemDebian 9 (Jessie) 64 bits My Question or Issue I think there's a string encoding issue, as the attached image sh...
PlanPremiumCountryCanada DeviceAsus FW seriesOperating SystemUbuntu 18.04 My Question or IssueOn startup, the main window displays but it is a dark blank. Starting from terminal gives the message:Attempting to run unsupported native service: /usr/sha...
PlanPremiumCountry DeviceDellOperating SystemLinux My Question or Issue The Paly Queue is driving me mad on the Linux client. I try to listen to a playlist on playlist radio, it will play the first thing on that playlist, then my Play Queue starts to...
When you are listening on a remote device, for example an Iphone, in the desktop app the volume slider is disabled, however you can move the slider with the mouse weel.
PlanPremiumCountry DevicePCOperating SystemArch Linux My Question or IssueSpotify's Linux client has a bug when trying to update playlist descriptions. Often the description is changed, and when you go back to it later, it's still the old description...
I'm running a Linux terminal on Chrome OS on a Chromebook using Project Crostini. It's an experimental feature and I believe it is using Debian Linux. I installed Spotify's Debian package via this link. I launched the app using the terminal and it gi...
PlanUnlimitedDeviceUbuntu 18.04Operating SystemLinux I have an older plan, Spotify Unlimited, which doesn't exist anymore. Until a few days ago I never had ads before on my desktop. Now every half an hour or so ads come blasting in my livingroom. Bas...
PlanPremiumCountryFR Operating SystemUbuntu 18.04.1 LTS My Question or Issue Since the last Spotify update i can't play my local files. They're not greyed, but when i want listen them it say "This song is unavailable. If you have the file on your com...
PlanUnlimitedCountry U.S.DevicecomputerOperating Systemlinux mint spotify works fine on my Mac but when I pull it up on my other computer which only has Linux Mint, I am unable to install spotify and can only use the web browser. Spotify recognizes m...
PlanPremiumDevice(Debian Stretch on a PC)Spotify version1:1.0.80.480.g51b03ac3-13Issue i installed spotify-client from spotify's repos. i need to login with facebook. i click on the blue _login with facebook_ button and it does nothing. cannot login!
PlanFree/PremiumCountry BrazilDeviceAsus ROG StrixOperating SystemDebian 9 My Question or Issue In version 1:1.0.38.171 when i try to play local files the application crashes/closes.This issue already happened in olders versions and it's back.
Hello, I am using the desktop version, and I would like to know if it would be possible to search/jump to a specific song in the play queue. I have tried to filter the songs from the playlist but it only plays the search result. If I use the global s...
PlanFree CountryUnited States of America DeviceCustom CyberPowerPC System Operating SystemUbuntu 18.04.1 My Question or Issue Recently I tried Clam AV with the Clam TK GUI to just add extra protection to my fresh Ubuntu 18.04.1 installation and found...
Operating SystemUbuntu 18.04.1 LTS Empty section in 'Advanced Settings' I'm using Spotify on Linux and the section 'Startup and Window Behaviour' in my Advanced Settings is just empty, as you can see below. According to 'Ubuntu Software' i'm currentl...
PlanPremiumCountry SlovakiaDeviceASUS F556UOperating SystemUbuntu 18.04 My Question or Issue If I click the full-screen icon in the bottom-right corner, I do get only a "full-window" mode (I.e. the album artwork is in the middle of the app window, et...
PlanFree/PremiumCountry Operating SystemLinux - Debian / Ubuntu + Varians My Question or Issue Spotify on High DPI screens will not launch with the scalar settings in some versions of linux. To fix this, people have previously suggested modifying the...
I've installed my distro yesterday and then spotify-client. But no icon appeared, this can be a workaround if you have a similar issue. 1. Your device and operating system: Desktop PC (AMD FX-6300) - OS: Debian 9.5 (4.9.0-7-amd64)2. Type of Spotify a...
I've turned an iOTA laptop into an Ubuntu system (works fine for Chinese product released with Windows 10 - W10 too bloated for iOTA with only 32 Gb!BUT - the Spotify app on Cosmic Cuttlefish doesn't work. It doesn't run/launch or do anything?Haven't...
PlanPremiumCountryBrazil DeviceNotebookOperating SystemUbuntu 16.04LTS My Question or Issue Hi there. From last week to now I've experiencing something very annoying in Spotify client. Randomly, volume goes up and down when playing a track. I've trie...