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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...
i have tried /etc/pulse/default.pa### Cork music/video streams when a phone stream is active # load-module module-role-corkbut my audio system crsh when i reboot and pulseaudio will not start
Hi everyone.Unfortunately, since November 2016 my Friend Feed bar has not been working (disappear after one update). Since then I cannot track my friends' activity. I wrote to Spotify support 10 times, but it seems that they cannot help me with this ...
I'm using spotify-client package version 1:1.0.49.125.g72ee7853-111I do not see any notifications pop up on my Ubuntu 16.04 desktop with Unity DEFrom Display Options in Settings, I have the following enabled:Show unavailable songs in playlists Show d...
Device and operating system:Dell E7440Ubuntu 16.04 LTSLinux 4.8.0-52-generic Type of Spotify account:Premium App version of Spotify:1.0.49.125.g72ee7853 Description of the issue:Spotify crashes with segfault after pressing the play button.This is ver...
Hi all!. I am a network admin from Argentina who want to block the Windows / Linux Client because is killing our bandwidth. I have a firewall Linux-distro (IPCOP) and i did make a rule to drop all trafic from the next IP's range: - 78.31.8.0/21- 193....
Hi, fellow penguin fans! Today we've pushed version 0.9.11.26 of the Linux desktop client to our public repo. Just update your system! General release notes: http://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/Release-Notes-Spotify-for-Desktop...
The package that is on spotify repository is not working in Debian Jessie, this is happening because Debian Jessie has libssl1.0.0 and spotify works with libssl0.9.8. I removed the dependency for ssl from the package and i add to data folder the comp...
When trying to play files from my local library, I get the message: "This song is not avaliable. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." I'm running on Ubuntu 17.04 with Spotify version: 1.0.49.125.g72ee7853 Everyone online seems to...
importing huge playlist files is a pain on spotify, it's nearly impossible (I have all the tracks on a hard drive)i tried various options, but they are all suboptimal now I was trying to work trough local filesit would be wonderful if, instead of pla...
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04, my premium ended a couple of days ago. The window is covered by a blue overlay that says "Your last payment didn't work. Continue listening by adding a new payment method. It only takes a moment", followed by a button labeled "Up...
Hi, I'm using Spotify version 1.0.49.125.g72ee7853 on Linux Mint 18 with kernel 4.4.0-21-generic. I tried to open a track by clicking on a Spotify-URI in Slack (attached image below). Expected behaviour:Spotify should open and the track should be sel...
As you may know, you can see lyrics with build-in plugin (I belive) MusixMatch at Windows, and at Android you can also download MusixMatch and see the lyrics while listening a song. My question is that, any chance that Spotify Linux can get lyrics su...
First off, thank you for maintaining the Linux desktop app. I run it in Gnome over Ubuntu Studio and it works a dream. It works, in fact, better than Gnome is designed to work. Your app is written in such a way that it remembers its window position b...
Hello, i`m using Spotify 0.9.17.8 for awhile on openSUSE 13.2 without problems. But now want to try to use spotify 1.0.xx (beta) but have some problems. For older version (0.9.17.8) I could easily set kwin window rules (maximized, open in desktop X, ...
hi, the windows & mac clients were updated to support spotify connect... wondering when the linux client will follow? cheers, chris
I am a contributor to https://github.com/eonpatapon/gnome-shell-extensions-mediaplayer Which is an MPRIS extension for the GNOME desktop.Your MPRIS Implementation is severely broken in the Linux client. It returns unchanging static values for many of...
I can't play music on Linux Spotify Desktop now, it just says unable to play this song, and it is the same which song it is.. Web player is working but not the desktop application.
When I type sudo spotify in a terminal, it comes up just fine and works. When I just type spotify, I get an error code:6 message and the followin output:spotify[0411/220925:ERROR:nss_util.cc(94)] Failed to create /home/rvand516/.pki/nssdb directory.[...
Hi, The search hasn't been working for a while now. I'm using version 0.9.4.183 on Linux. It's quite old, but the dark user interface on later versions is terrible.
After double-clicking on any song from the album 'The King of Limbs' from Radiohead, my Spotify player crashes. I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS running Spotify version 1.0.28.89.gf959d4ce Anyone experiencing the same behavior? Anyone with a solution? I tried...