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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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  • sleeksorrow
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[Linux] Spotify Cannot Play Local Files

I am on elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki 64 bit, which is built on Built on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTSI cannot play local files when I try to I get the message "this song is not avialable if you have this file on your computer you can import it" as shown on the scre...

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  • I am on elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki 64 bit, which is built on Built on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS I cannot play local files when I try to I get the message "this song is not avialable if  you have this fi...
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This song is not available with local file

I'm add local files folder as described here: https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/listen-to-local-files/ After restart spotify app I'm see my songs (currently 1 album), but when I start to play songs, I see message with flag at top ...

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  • I'm add local files folder as described here: https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/listen-to-local-files/   After restart spotify app I'm see my songs (currently 1 album), but...
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Spotify Linux version client can not input Japanese

Spotify Linux version client can not input Japanese into the search box using Kana-Kanji conversion system.I can input by copying and pasting.But that is troublesome. I am using ibus/mozc, but there is a report that it can not be done with fcitx/mozc...

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  • Spotify Linux version client can not input Japanese into the search box using Kana-Kanji conversion system. I can input by copying and pasting. But that is troublesome. I am using ibus/mo...
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Solved!! Prevent spotify from playing any radio songs

My spotify automatically starts playing radio stations after each playlist is done playing. How do i turn this off? I don't want to listen to the radio and it's especially annoying because I listen to songs before I go to sleep but spotify keeps play...

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  • My spotify automatically starts playing radio stations after each playlist is done playing. How do i turn this off? I don't want to listen to the radio and it's especially annoying because I listen t...
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Cannot share songs with friends

Hi,We have a Spotify family account, I use Linux and the Linux client. When I want to share a song I am plying with my son all seems to go well until I click the "send" button. The button greys out and the pop-up screen does not disappear. Any ideas ...

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  • Hi, We have a Spotify family account, I use Linux and the Linux client. When I want to share a song I am plying with my son all seems to go well until I click the "send" button. The button greys out...
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How can I go offline mode in Linux client?

I have my premium account since two years ago and I have all my music downloaded so when I leave my home/office I can still listening my music, but I used to connect to my mobile data and if I play the wrong playlist, spotify starts using my mobile d...

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  • I have my premium account since two years ago and I have all my music downloaded so when I leave my home/office I can still listening my music, but I used to connect to my mobile data and if I p...
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Memory increase with scrollbar

Hello, environment: ubuntu 14.04When viewing artists playlists and when using scrollbar by dragging it, the memory usage jumps to around 8gb. Though if you click on a scrollable area, which makes scrollbar jump down, memory usage is minimal. Looks li...

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  • Hello,   environment: ubuntu 14.04 When viewing artists playlists and when using scrollbar by dragging it, the memory usage jumps to around 8gb. Though if you click on a scrollable area, whic...
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Issues playing on Sony smart TV browser

Hi everyone I haven't posted in a community forum for help before so I'm not quite sure what's required. Anyway I have a Sony Smart TV literally just a month old, and I am a premium user on Spotify. I believe the operating system and the web browser ...

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  • Hi everyone   I haven't posted in a community forum for help before so I'm not quite sure what's required.   Anyway I have a Sony Smart TV literally just a month old, and I am a premium...
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"Autoplay similar tracks" keeps turning itself back on

I've been with Spotify Premium for almost a year. I sometimes put on either an album or a playlist late at night and may go to sleep before it's over. I've turned off "autoplay similar tracks" and every few weeks it turns itself back on. Like last ni...

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  • I've been with Spotify Premium for almost a year. I sometimes put on either an album or a playlist late at night and may go to sleep before it's over. I've turned off "autoplay similar tracks" a...
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Can't Get to Settings

=== START OF TEMPLATE ===Your device and operating system:Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHzMemory : 3091MB (966MB used)Operating System : Lubuntu 16.04.3 LTSType of Spotify account you have (Free/ Premium):PremiumThe app version of Spotif...

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  • === START OF TEMPLATE === Your device and operating system: Processor        : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Memory        : 3091MB...
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Spotify doesn't know my default browser

I use Spotify on Linux Mint. Today when I wanted to share something on FB, it tried to share via Firefox that I am hardly using, and never logged into FB. My default browser is Chromium where I am logged in most of the time. Why doesn't Spotify recog...

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  • I use Spotify on Linux Mint. Today when I wanted to share something on FB, it tried to share via Firefox that I am hardly using, and never logged into FB. My default browser is Chromium where I am lo...
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unmet depencdency

spotify-client : Depends: libssl1.0.0 but it is not installable Recommends: libavcodec54 but it is not installable or libavcodec-extra-54 but it is not installable Recommends: libavformat54 but it is not installable how can ı fix this problem ? *****...

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  •  spotify-client : Depends: libssl1.0.0 but it is not installable                   Recommends: libavcodec54 ...
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[linux, desktop] UI bug - Disabled context menu

The context menu next to my user's profile image consistently has all of its meny items disabled (fig. 1). Meaning they can not be clicked. This prevents access to the account/profile settings. This bug already existed in the old UI version. However,...

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  • The context menu next to my user's profile image consistently has all of its meny items disabled (fig. 1). Meaning they can not be clicked. This prevents access to the account/profile settings. This ...
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Spotify Connect can't distinguish different machines even though they have different IP and hostname

When I press play on spotify on my android device and I have selected one of my computers in my local network as the device to listen to, all my computers starts to play music, often different songs. The only way I can use spotify connect is to kill ...

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  • When I press play on spotify on my android device and I have selected one of my computers in my local network as the device to listen to, all my computers starts to play music, often different songs....
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Spotify automatically changes the offline songs location on Linux

Hello,I am currently running Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS on my desktop. I changed the default storage location (/home/username/.cache/spotify/Storage) because I wanted to save my library on another hard disk partition. Although this location works at first (n...

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  • Hello, I am currently running Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS on my desktop. I changed the default storage location (/home/username/.cache/spotify/Storage) because I wanted to save my library on another hard dis...
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errors downloading on linux

Trying to download spotify on my linux machine and got the error "Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored or older versions used." Tried to see of it would install anyways and got "Unable to correct problems, you have held broken ...

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  • Trying to download spotify on my linux machine and got the error "Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored or older versions used." Tried to see of it would install anyways and got...
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Settings and System Tray not work in Linux.

I use Debian Buster with LXDE, when click and arrow and settings, settings not appear, please fix this. Please implement minimize spotify for system tray, same feature that have in Windows. Local Files not work. If fix this, i buy a premium account. ...

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  • I use Debian Buster with LXDE, when click and arrow and settings, settings not appear, please fix this.   Please implement minimize spotify for system tray, same feature that have in Windows. ...
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Solved!! Commands to play songs and playlists from terminal

Hello, so I want to wake up listening to some music and I've found an app that lets me execute a command at a given time. I want that app to start spotify and automatically play a song or a playlist but I can't figure out a command to do that from th...

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  • Hello, so I want to wake up listening to some music and I've found an app that lets me execute a command at a given time. I want that app to start spotify and automatically play a song or a playlis...
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Issues with the client on Archlinux

Hi,There is an issue with the client on spotify where after a while it stops responding (let's say you don't shut down the client for a day) due to it taking a while for loading images and other stuff I suspect.As soon as the albumart has been loaded...

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  • Hi, There is an issue with the client on spotify where after a while it stops responding (let's say you don't shut down the client for a day) due to it taking a while for loading images and other st...
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[linux, desktop] UI bug -Ctrl-f playlist search is selectively broken

Playlists can be searched with ctrl-f (fig 1). However, this search now yields incorrect results (fig 2, 3) specifically when the playlist is opened by clicking on the album cover of the currently playing track (fig 4). When visiting the playlist by ...

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  • Playlists can be searched with ctrl-f (fig 1). However, this search now yields incorrect results (fig 2, 3) specifically when the playlist is opened by clicking on the album cover of the currently pl...
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