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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...
Spotify version 1.0.49.125.g72ee7853, Copyright (c) 2017, Spotify Ltd on linux I suspect the notification pops up when my laptop is suspended or something similar,which isn't a problem. The problem is it won't go away and stays there until I hit X wh...
One thing that had me really confused for a couple days is the error message you get if you put in a bad username and/or password. Instead of getting a message saying that's the issue, you get a message saying "Service is temporarily unavailable plea...
The queue does not work as it should be. Scenario:When playing an album, you search for an artist and click the play symbol on one of the albums, it starts to play. I decide to add an other album to the queue. When I click the three dots and select a...
I'm using Spotify on Linux (Ubuntu) and after a while of playing, my system slows down to an almost unresponsive point. I've been googling and read about htop, which I've run and I now see that over ~two hours of music playing, my swap memory amount ...
These are local files in queue, one playlist, randomness is on but as you can see in the picture, there's nothing random about it.Non-local file shuffle works great, problem is only local files. Continuos re-shuffle doesn't work, it just switches ord...
When I try to log in to spotify on the linux client I first go to Settings and configure a proxy complete with username and password. Upon entering my Spotify username and password thereafter, the first query to the proxy server is to http://apresolv...
Hi, today I installed PureOS on my computer. Of course I also wanted Spotify on my computer but still not working... This is the error i have in my terminal: Packetlist will be loaded…. Ready. Tree of requirements will be preparedThe status informati...
Hi, I've been using the Spotify Linux client for quite a while now. Unfortunately I cannot find a very awseome feature, which seems to be missing, since there is no menu-bar in the Linux client. How can I activate/configure the cross-fade feature? I ...
Dear all, after freshly installing ubuntu Budgie 17.10 I try to install spotify. The repository and the key are there, I already aded the testing repo as well. But: when I type sudo apt-get install spotify-client I get this output: spotify-client : H...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
=== 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...
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...