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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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Linux clients don't show up as local devices on home network

Hi,I'm trying to sync a playlist using "Local files" located on my computer onto my phone. The suggested way to do this is to connect both the computer and phone to the same WiFi network, and then to toggle the "Download Offline" option on the phone....

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  • Hi, I'm trying to sync a playlist using "Local files" located on my computer onto my phone. The suggested way to do this is to connect both the computer and phone to the same WiFi network, and then ...
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How to play just one track from an album?

When searching for an artist and selecting just one track and telling it to play, rather than just platying that track it adds all the following tracks on the album to 'Next Up' (or replaces any which are already there). If the play queue is not empt...

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  • When searching for an artist and selecting just one track and telling it to play, rather than just platying that track it adds all the following tracks on the album to 'Next Up' (or replaces any whic...
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Spotify in Linux Ubuntu - Unable to Log-in

I'm using the most recent release of Linux Ubuntu and I am unable to log into my Spotify Account via Facebook. Is there a way I can access my account without having to create a new one? I have like 6 years of Music on that account and my Spotify Prem...

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  • I'm using the most recent release of Linux Ubuntu and I am unable to log into my Spotify Account via Facebook.   Is there a way I can access my account without having to create a new one? I ha...
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Thanks for providing Spotify for Linux

I just wanted to say thanks for making a Linux client. As an Ubuntu user, I just get tickled pink when someone provides commercial software that actually works for Linux, let alone software that I actually use. So once again, thanks.

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  • I just wanted to say thanks for making a Linux client. As an Ubuntu user, I just get tickled pink when someone provides commercial software that actually works for Linux, let alone software that I ac...
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[Linux][Web player] problem on click on track in random mode

Hi, I noticed for a few days now that when the random mode is activated, the manually selected song is not the the played one, as if the random mode was also triggered after the selection of the track. I'm on Ubuntu 14.04. Friendly.

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  • Hi,    I noticed for a few days now that when the random mode is activated, the manually selected song is not the the played one, as if the random mode was also triggered after the s...
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Spotify causes a logout when clicking play

Version: newest version (1:1.0.69.336.g7edcc575-39)OS: Elementary OS LokiAudio card: RME Babyface Pro (Class Complient Mode)Issue:1. Start Spotify2. Hit the play button the first time (starts playing music)3. Choose another track by "clicking a track...

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  • Version: newest version (1:1.0.69.336.g7edcc575-39) OS: Elementary OS Loki Audio card: RME Babyface Pro (Class Complient Mode) Issue: 1. Start Spotify 2. Hit the play button the first time ...
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Latest spotify-client for Linux with tray icon support?

Hello all, I followed these instructions: https://www.spotify.com/es/download/linux/ Installed spotify-client 1:1.0.49.125.g72ee7853-111 on Ubuntu MATE 17.10. I have the main window but if I click the close window button, it closes. If I hit minimize...

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  • Hello all,   I followed these instructions: https://www.spotify.com/es/download/linux/   Installed spotify-client 1:1.0.49.125.g72ee7853-111 on Ubuntu MATE 17.10.   I have the ma...
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Superuser Contribution Can not install per guidelines - libatomic1 and consequently gcc-5-base

I am attempting to install per official Spotify steps on their homepage. But, when I get to the apt-get install spotify-client, I get the error: spotify-client : Depends: libatomic1 but it is not going to be installed attempted to install libatomic1 ...

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  • I am attempting to install per official Spotify steps on their homepage. But, when I get to the apt-get install spotify-client, I get the error:    spotify-client : Depends: libatomic1 bu...
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Queues clear on restarting Spotify

My system crashed earlier today for some reason. Of course I had to restart it. The problem was that I had added about 90+ songs to my Spotify Queue before that, and wasn't even half-through them. I lost the entire queue when I restarted my system an...

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  • My system crashed earlier today for some reason. Of course I had to restart it. The problem was that I had added about 90+ songs to my Spotify Queue before that, and wasn't even half-through them. I ...
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Superuser Contribution Update Spotify on Linux Mint 18 - Can't be Authenticated?

I installed Spotify on Linux Mint 18 several weeks ago using the software manager. Today, I tried to update the client and I got the warning seen in the screenshot. I'm wary about ignoring these types of errors. What should I do?

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  • I installed Spotify on Linux Mint 18 several weeks ago using the software manager. Today, I tried to update the client and I got the warning seen in the screenshot.   I'm wary about ignoring t...
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Superuser Contribution Erro Install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I am receiving back this message when I try to install spotify on ubuntuExecuting: /tmp/tmp.V1ZhJypaWz/gpg.1.sh --keyserverhkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80--recv-keys0DF731E45CE24F27EEEB1450EFDC8610341D9410gpg: requisitando chave 341D9410 de servidor hk...

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  • ...DF731E45CE24F27EEEB1450EFDC8610341D9410 gpg: requisitando chave 341D9410 de servidor hkp - keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: chave 341D9410: "Spotify Public Repository Signing Key <tux@spotify.com>" gpg: N...
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Spotify Snap and Arch Linux

I just removed my flatpak install of spotify, installed snapd and through snapd I installed spotify == not working spotify which throws a coredump => me being a sad panda. snap run spotify(spotify:10421): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine...

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  • I just removed my flatpak install of spotify, installed snapd and through snapd I installed spotify == not working  spotify which throws a coredump => me being a sad panda. 😄 snap run s...
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[LINUX] Minimizing to task bar or tray

Hi Spotify, I recently just updated my linux client on Linux Mint 17.3 and I can no longer minimize it to either the task bar or tray icon. The only way I can re-open spotify is if I open my workspace area which lists which things I have active. Also...

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  • Hi Spotify,   I recently just updated my linux client on Linux Mint 17.3 and I can no longer minimize it to either the task bar or tray icon. The only way I can re-open spotify is if I open my...
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Solved!! Unable to install on ubuntu 15.04 for hash sum mismatch

Hi, I just installed ubuntu 15.04, was following https://www.spotify.com/us/download/previews/ and after adding the key and the repo to sources.list apt-get says: W: Failed to fetch http://repository.spotify.com/dists/stable/non-free/binary-amd64/Pac...

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  • Hi,   I just installed ubuntu 15.04, was following https://www.spotify.com/us/download/previews/ and after adding the key and the repo to sources.list apt-get says:   W: Failed to ...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution spotify-client on Linux, update to libssl1.1

Hi, Is it possible to update the dependency of spotify-client linux to libssl1.1: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libssl1.1 Also, libavcodec57 and libavformat57 Thanks, Thanks

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  • Hi,   Is it possible to update the dependency of spotify-client linux to libssl1.1: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libssl1.1   Also, libavcodec57 and libavformat57 😉   Than...
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Superuser Contribution libssl1.0.0 issue

When are you gonna remove the dependency to old libs like libssl1.0.0? cannot install the client because of this: $ sudo aptitude install spotify-client [sudo] password for phobos_: The following NEW packages will be installed: libjavascriptcoregtk-4...

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  • When are you gonna remove the dependency to old libs like libssl1.0.0?   cannot install the client because of this:   $ sudo aptitude install spotify-client [sudo] password for pho...
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