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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Edit: Never Mind, I Stand corrected, nothing to see here. Would delete this if I could?
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...
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...
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.....
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 ...
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...
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.
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.
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...
Hi, is there any good app easy to install and use to display lyrics on the linux desktop client?Thanks
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hi Everyone!I wonder if someone out there could help me.Is it possible to install Spotify for Linux openmandriva?Best from Brazil,Cassio
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...
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...
tell me how to install music in spotify.and how to download music from spotify ?