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New "Now Playing View" sidebar

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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New Your Library sidebar

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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Recent Linux client update changes

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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Solved!! [Troubleshooting] Linux Spotify

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...

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Music playback pausing when screen turns off (Ubuntu)

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...

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  • Plan Premium Country  Canada Device Computer Operating System Ubuntu 18.04   My Question or Issue   I recently discovered that a Spotify client is available for Linux an...
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Spotify D-Bus issue - cannot send CLI commands

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...

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  • Please find below my detailed information regarding my problem, my desired result, and how to reproduce.   Plan Premium   Country The Netherlands   Device   ➜ ~ neofetc...
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Solved!! Large Cache 256GB to save downloads, is it bad?

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 ...

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  • 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   Plan Premium Co...
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Can't drag to playlist from album view

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.

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  • Operating System Ubuntu 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 th...
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Superuser Contribution Linux Spotify (installed from snap) mini icon tray, indicator sound menu

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.

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  • 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.
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Mountpoints are not visible in local file source dialogue

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...

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  • Plan Premium Country UK  Device Dell XPS-15 Operating System Linux - Ubuntu 18.04 Installed version 1.0.80.474.gef6b503e-7   My Question or Issue  Hi there,   I'm tr...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution libcurl4

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...

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  • 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 rebui...
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Web Tool to randomize/rearrange tracks order inside of a playlist

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...

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  • 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/...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution [Troubleshooting] Linux Spotify

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...

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  • 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 se...
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Spotify Arch Linux Segmentation Fault

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

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  • 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
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Issue with Updating Profile Pic Within The App

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...

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  • 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 ...
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Friends list does not appear

Hi!I don't see my friends activity. I've tried reinstall spotify client but it doesn't work. I still see "Hmm, the Friend Feed failed to load". I've got the same problem on Windows too.

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  • Hi! I don't see my friends activity. I've tried reinstall spotify client but it doesn't work. I still see "Hmm, the Friend Feed failed to load". I've got the same problem on Windows too.
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Desaparece audio

Comienzo a escuchar una canción y a mitad desaparece el audio, sigue conectado via web, hay otros sonidos, descartado conexión y hardware.Esto no pasa en dispositivos MóvilesPlanFree/PremiumCountry ArgentinaDevicePC DesktopOperating SystemLinux 18 My...

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Ubuntu gets frozen when I run spotify

PlanPremiumCountry SpainDeviceDesktop -Aspire-M7811 Intel® Core™ i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz × 4 Operating SystemUbuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic beaver My Question or Issue Hello to all members! I wish to thank you all for your great effort! Im very happy to be abl...

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[Discussion][ALL Platforms] The New UI concept

Hi everyone, The new UI is really clean but it still feels exactly the same. I was checking Behance as I usually do and came across this concept by Gabrielle Nguyen:https://www.behance.net/gallery/56534635/Spotify-UI-Redesign-Concept It was nice and ...

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  • Hi everyone,   The new UI is really clean but it still feels exactly the same.  I was checking Behance as I usually do and came across this concept by  Gabrielle Nguyen: https://w...
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Thanks for letting your developers support linux!

And also thanks to the people who put together the packages for the various distros. I installed on a Manjaro machine out of the AUR repository and it was much easier than tying my shoe. It works good so far no issues.

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  • And also thanks to the people who put together the packages for the various distros. I installed on a Manjaro machine out of the AUR repository and it was much easier than tying my shoe. It works goo...
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How to limit the cache size for the snap-installed client?

Operating System: Linux Any place to specify storage.size option other than in:~/snap/spotify//.config/spotify/Users/-user/prefshuh? Doesn't look like a reliable way to do that.

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  • Operating System: Linux   Any place to specify storage.size option other than in: ~/snap/spotify/<NUMBER>/.config/spotify/Users/<USERNAME>-user/prefs huh? Doesn't look like a rel...
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activity problem

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Moving my local music library on startup

PlanPremiumDeviceLenovo Y510p laptopOperating SystemUbuntu 16.04.4Versionsnap installed: 1.0.80.474.gef6b503e-7 (16) 170MB My Question or IssueI installed the spotify client as a Snap. To be able to use local files which are located on a different pa...

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  • Plan Premium Device Lenovo Y510p laptop Operating System Ubuntu 16.04.4 Version snap installed:   1.0.80.474.gef6b503e-7 (16) 170MB   My Question or Issue I installed the spo...
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Is it possible for Spotify to use adoptable storage

PlanPremiumCountry UKDeviceMoto G4 2016Operating SystemAndroid 7.0 My Question or Issue My phone internal storage is almost full, but I have 32 GB SD card which has been converted to Adoptable storage. Will Spotify auto use this adopted storage when ...

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  •   Plan Premium Country  UK Device Moto G4 2016 Operating System Android 7.0   My Question or Issue  My phone internal storage is almost full, but I have 32 GB SD card w...
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