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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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unable to download music on lubuntu

hello to the community, i have one question. i search for the function to save my playlist on spotify (lubuntu) but i can't find this option like in android to download the music and play it offline. can someone help me? best regards

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  • hello to the community,   i have one question. i search for the function to save my playlist on spotify (lubuntu) but i can't find this option like in android to download the music and play it...
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Shortcut for settings

Hi there!My problem is that I can not access th settings page via the menu.When I press the button nothing happens. Sometimes it works after several tries.[Edit] I found out that I can access it by pressing the Enter-key when highlighted by mouse or ...

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  • Hi there! My problem is that I can not access th settings page via the menu. When I press the button nothing happens. Sometimes it works after several tries. [Edit] I found out that I can access i...
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Add StartupWMClass to spotify_spotify.desktop file in the snap package

This property allows the window manager to keep only one icon for all the windows opened by the application. Since snap actually runs itself, which in turn runs spotify, then users end up with two icons in the Dock, which is quite annoying. It is a v...

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  •   This property allows the window manager to keep only one icon for all the windows opened by the application. Since snap actually runs itself, which in turn runs spotify, then users end up wit...
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Incorrect DBus Name

Edit: Never Mind, I Stand corrected, nothing to see here. Would delete this if I could?

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  • Edit: Never Mind, I Stand corrected, nothing to see here. Would delete this if I could?
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DBus OpenUri no longer works with artists

Until somewhat recently when I used the OpenUri command from DBus I was able to open an artist Uri(i.e. spotify:artist:2ye2Wgw4gimLv2eAKyk1NB) and it started playing. This still works for album/playlist/title just not for artist. I tried different ve...

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  • Until somewhat recently when I used the OpenUri command from DBus I was able to open an artist Uri(i.e. spotify:artist:2ye2Wgw4gimLv2eAKyk1NB) and it started playing. This still works for album/playl...
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Dekstop file

Good morning,I was unable to file a bug report due to the complicated procedure you have for this Anyway, in the Ubuntu version of Spotify, you have to add the following stringStartupWMClass=spotifyAt the end of the file "/var/lib/snapd/desktop/appli...

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  • Good morning, I was unable to file a bug report due to the complicated procedure you have for this   Anyway, in the Ubuntu version of Spotify, you have to add the following string StartupWMC...
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Superuser Contribution Advanced Settings Not Saving After Update

Hi, After updating to the Linux desktop client that was released mid December 2017, various advanced settings such as crossfade and volume normalization are defaulting to a disabled state. If I enable them, and then set their preferences, they work.....

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  • Hi,   After updating to the Linux desktop client that was released mid December 2017, various advanced settings such as crossfade and volume normalization are defaulting to a disabled state.&n...
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Superuser Contribution Problems - mouse and local music

Ubuntu 17.10 here. I installed Spotify 1.0.70 (snap). Everything works as expected except: a) clicking on local files button under preferences is ineffective (you can’t choose local files) b) clicking on drop down windows (the ones to choose how you ...

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  • Ubuntu 17.10 here. I installed Spotify 1.0.70 (snap). Everything works as expected except: a) clicking on local files button under  preferences is ineffective (you can’t choose local files) b) c...
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Premium only working on one device

I had a galaxy s4 and an iPad when I bought spotify premium and it worked fine on both until I got a new phone. I now have the note 5 and spotify premium is only working on my ipad. It's the correct account because my Playlist is there, but no matter...

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  • I had a galaxy s4 and an iPad when I bought spotify premium and it worked fine on both until I got a new phone. I now have the note 5 and spotify premium is only working on my ipad. It's the correct ...
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Connect between two laptops in LAN doesn't work anymore

Spotify Connect used to work with the two laptops I have in my LAN. Now the instances don't see each other. Running the web player on one of the device is a workaround, but I would like to avoid that since gapless playback doesn't appear to work.

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  • Spotify Connect used to work with the two laptops I have in my LAN. Now the instances don't see each other. Running the web player on one of the device is a workaround, but I would like to ...
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Advertisement Screening

I am having a hard time playing my music or playlist or getting the player to work at all. I can not sem to get the player away from the advertisement. I have tried turning ad-block off and on, no change.

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  • I am having a hard time playing my music or playlist or getting the player to work at all. I can not sem to get the player away from the advertisement. I have tried turning ad-block off and on, no ch...
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Superuser Contribution [bug] 'this song is not available' on all songs

I've seen this issue in a few other posts, going back a few years [0], there's a few suggestions involving re-installing & scrubbing all data from the hard drive or changing the quality it's set to use [1, 2], none of which worked. Funny thing is tha...

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  • I've seen this issue in a few other posts, going back a few years [0], there's a few suggestions involving re-installing & scrubbing all data from the hard drive or changing the quality it's set ...
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Third-party apps for lyrics on linux desktop?

Hi, is there any good app easy to install and use to display lyrics on the linux desktop client?Thanks

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  • Hi, is there any good app easy to install and use to display lyrics on the linux desktop client? Thanks 😉
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Superuser Contribution Local Songs Not Available

Anytime I try to play a local song on Spotify, I get the blue banner saying the song is not available. Other songs play just fine, but if I go to the Local Songs list and hit play I see it rapid-fire cycling through, skipping every song until it's ex...

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  • Anytime I try to play a local song on Spotify, I get the blue banner saying the song is not available. Other songs play just fine, but if I go to the Local Songs list and hit play I see it rapid-fire...
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Superuser Contribution Easy way to install on Linux needed

Hi, I wanted to download spotify for linux. But the instructions are incomplete and unclear. Is there a simple, more familiar, way to download and install it, like other linux programs? I'm using Kubuntu 17.10Often web pages have a one click download...

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  • Hi, I  wanted to download spotify for linux. But the instructions are incomplete and unclear. Is there a simple, more familiar, way to download and install it, like other linux programs? I'm usi...
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Spotify-client package that works on fedora, rhel etc.

Ok, so after some searching, I remembered that there is actually a guy who makes rpm's for:Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)CentOSScientific LinuxOracle Linuxversions 6.x and 7.xAnd also Fedora.Here's his page: http://negativo17.org/spotify-client/ Hap...

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  • Ok, so after some searching, I remembered that there is actually a guy who makes rpm's for: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) CentOS Scientific Linux Oracle Linux versions 6.x and 7.x And also Fe...
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Solved!! Unable to play specific songs

I am unable to play some songs, see the attached screen. I am a premium user and I already removed cache and restarted thy system. Tried to change the cache locatin as well. Client version: $ spotify --versionSpotify version 1.0.69.336.g7edcc575, Cop...

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  • I am unable to play some songs, see the attached screen.   I am a premium user and I already removed cache and restarted thy system.  Tried to change the cache locatin as well.   ...
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Spotify for mandriva?

Hi Everyone!I wonder if someone out there could help me.Is it possible to install Spotify for Linux openmandriva?Best from Brazil,Cassio

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  • Hi Everyone! I wonder if someone out there could help me. Is it possible to install Spotify for Linux openmandriva? Best from Brazil, Cassio
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Unable to Add a Directory to Play Local Files (linux)

HI! I'm using the Desktop version of Spotify on linux (Kubuntu), and I'm having some trouble when trying to add a Local diretory to import some local files. I click oh the "Add a Source" button under Settings, but nothing seems to happen. I was wonde...

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  • HI!   I'm using the Desktop version of Spotify on linux (Kubuntu), and I'm having some trouble when trying to add a Local diretory to import some local files.   I click oh the "Add a So...
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Missing spotify.desktop

I just installed spotify on my Mac running Ubuntu. I tried to change the scale factor in the spotify.desktop file located in /usr/share/applications, but it didn't exist. I created it, added the regular stuff, and rebooted. The scale didn't change, a...

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  • I just installed spotify on my Mac running Ubuntu. I tried to change the scale factor in the spotify.desktop file located in /usr/share/applications, but it didn't exist. I created it, added the regu...
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