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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, When I play random song through Spotify all other programs which require internet connection stop working (e.g. internet Browser, Steam client, etc.). As soon as I close Spotify internet connection is restored on other apps. What could be t...
Hi, now while the Desktop client works really well - a lot better than the Android version at least - there's a little something disturbing the experience: When on a touchscreen and giving a Playlist a nice flick to scroll down or up fast and far, it...
Using version 1:1.0.32.96.g3c8a06e6-37 from the repo (http://repository.spotify.com testing non-free). The crash was triggered by clicking the back button at the top left. The current song was mid-song, so this is not the crash that happens when tryi...
Hello,I'm a premium member. It allows me to transfer my music from my PC (or my cell phone) to my receiver Onkyo TX-NR535. However, I always lose the connection after only 3-4 minutes of listening. So, I need to reset my receiver every time. What is ...
For some reason I'm having a hard time with the DBus OpenUri command. It was working great and then I updated Spotify (I hadn't in a while) and it seems to play the appropriate song at first, and then when I issue the command to play a different song...
I was listening music on my linux desktop, suddenly, Spotify is saying I am offline and the music stopped.The problem is that my internet is working fine.I tried to restart spotify and quit session and log-in again, but still not working Any idea ?
Is there any chromecast 2 support for the Linux client?Thanks!
jean3601 recommended I post this over here in the Linux section. I'm not going to beret you guys about Linux support because I realize we're a smaller group of users (probably still profitable), but let me just say that by having a GNU/Linux client, ...
Hi everyone, I really need Spotify in my smart tv and I can´t find the way to connect both of them. My LG is LF585 and I also have an Iphone 5. Maybe you have some ideas of how to connect those devices.Thank you so much for your help. Josefina from A...
When searching for songs in Spotify for Linux (version 1.0.31.56, running on Arch Linux) sometimes the entire screen fades out and resets to the "browse" screen, emptying the search bar. This is without submitting the search bar by pressing return or...
Spotify on Linux. The client crashes (or at least the embedded web content refreshes and re-initialises) when searching for specific three-letter terms. Have encountered the issue with "spo" and "cat" so far. Here's a video: https://vid.me/2AC3
When I run the command at the terminal I got the following error message; [0614/124911:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(203)] Running without the SUID sandbox! See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxSUIDSandboxDevelopment for more information on ...
Hi, I am unable to use Spotify on Arch Linux because when I log in a segmentation fault appears in the console and spotify gets terminated. 1. Device and OS 2. Type of accountI have a premium account 3. App version of Spotifyspotify 1.0.26.125-1 on A...
Is there anyway to start playing from a playlist the same way you would play from an album using DBUS? I can't find anything using the documentation on the DBUS. I'm using Kubuntu and KDE.
Hi,I'm using Linux Mint 17.3 on my Lenovo Thinkpad E540. Few days ago my Spotify started closing suddenly after about 15 minutes of playing. I've started it in terminal to see the logs waiting for the crash. These are the logs:09:19:41.441 I [cdn_chu...
Hi, Debian 8 jessie - last version of spotyfy. After one song I get every time crash of programm. Any ideas? Regards, sbagger
Windows client is controlling the linux client. Windows ver. 1.0.27.75.gdc223232Linux ver. 1.0.27.71.g0a26e3b2 Shuffle only uses ~100 songs around currently playing when shuffling. Not sure if it's this broken between two windows client as well and f...
For those of you who wished to run Spotify Client on non Debian distributions,docker may be an alternative solution. See:https://hub.docker.com/r/yammelvin/spotify-client/
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys BBEBDCB318AD50EC6865090613B00F1FD2C19886returns: gpgkeys: key BBEBDCB318AD50EC6865090613B00F1FD2C19886 can't be retrieved spotify-client could be downloaded and installed but logg...
➜ ~ ldd /usr/bin/spotify | grep ssl libssl.so.1.0.0 => not found libssl.so.1.0.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.0.2 (0x00007f45d7d60000)libssl 1.0.0 isn't available anymore in Debian testing, any particular reason to be dependent on both 1....