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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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Spotify UsernamedanliiPlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceHP EliteBook 820 G4Operating SystemDebian 9.4 My Question or IssueI can't play local files which are added to Spotify. They show up under "Local files", and I can add them to playlists, but if I try...
I can't find a way to get it to work .
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Hi folks, I'm user with mail *snip* I'm banned this song and its artis 3 days ago.https://open.spotify.com/track/6DFrYKmSxwvnHuxFFfwK8w?si=cq_di3_qRnaw-fbEIRmrWA but it's just played again in my daily mix! ok spotify worked fine so far and I am happy...
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Hello! I'm using laptop Lenovo G50-70 with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and I have premium account. I'm using latest Spotify from Ubuntu Software (Snap). When I disconnect HDMI monitor with speakers, Spotify sounds stop working.Steps to reproduce this problem:Co...
Hi! I'm running Spotify in Ubuntu on an SSD and would like to change the directory for offline songs storage to a larger HDD I have available. The HDD is mounted in /XXXX and the permissions to rwx it are for my standard user account.When I try to se...
My main playlist with about 400 songs randomly stopped while I was listening to it, and when I when I clicked on the playlist to resume it said the playlist had 0 songs. I tried seeing if I could recover the playlist but it was not listed as one of t...
Hi there, mi spotify client is offline and I cant swich it to online mode, I never press the Ctrl + Shift + O to go offline....
Hello, I'd like to report that I can't open the settings page from the Linux client. I click on the dropdown menu option, but nothing happens. The OS is Lubuntu 17.10, and the client version is 1:1.0.72.117.g6bd7cc73-35
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Hello, so today I removed old songs from Your Music in my Ubuntu client (from ppa).When I try to start the client again, it just shows black window even after reinstall.On the website it says Oooops, something went wrong while loading your songs. Rel...
Hello, I've been using Spotify for 2 months, but my Discover Weekly never showed up. So today I decided to search for Discover Weekly in the search bar and I found the playlist, I followed it and now it appears in my Playlists. But it bothers me a li...
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Hi,I have tried to get Spotify Client running on my new Fedora 28 host. I will include the strace and stderr output. This forum is being very difficult in allowing me to post so I have deleted many of my details. Please reply if you need more info. I...
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