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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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Solved!! Whiteout in Ubuntu with Spotify Preview

Hoping I'm not alone with this but I'm getting a whited-out screen when running the desktop client. I recently tweaked my theme but it appears that Spotify is not resetting back. Intel® Core™ i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz × 4 PC (8GB RAM using the inbuilt In...

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  • Hoping I'm not alone with this but I'm getting a whited-out screen when running the desktop client. I recently tweaked my theme but it appears that Spotify is not resetting back.   Intel® Core...
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Saved songs not showing in desktop app

Recently installed spotify desktop app on my linux desktop and logged into my premium account but only like 15 of the songs I have "saved" on either my phone or mac have come up? I have tried logging out and back in and also clearing the cache but no...

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  • Recently installed spotify desktop app on my linux desktop and logged into my premium account but only like 15 of the songs I have "saved" on either my phone or mac have come up?   I have trie...
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Control Phone Client through Linux Desktop Client

I noticed that we can use spotify windows client to control the music while the music is still playing on the phone. However, linux client doesnt seem to be able to do that. Let me know if I am wrong or if there is anyway to work around in linux. Tha...

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  • I noticed that we can use spotify windows client to control the music while the music is still playing on the phone. However, linux client doesnt seem to be able to do that. Let me know if I am wrong...
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Spotify connect button gone in linux

Hi, I've got Spotify premium, I use the linux desktop app and the android app. I used to be able to control the music playing on my android phone using the linux desktop app (pause, play, select song, ...).But the button to select a device (laptop or...

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  • Hi, I've got Spotify premium, I use the linux desktop app and the android app.   I used to be able to control the music playing on my android phone using the linux desktop app (pause, play, se...
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Discover dont work in Spotify in Linux

Hello community!I have a problem. I could not fix on my linux. The discover does not. Does anyone know how to fix this?I was in trouble on the radio function, but I managed fix gathering information here on the forum. But really discover still can no...

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  • Hello community! I have a problem. I could not fix on my linux. The discover does not. Does anyone know how to fix this? I was in trouble on the radio function, but I managed fix gathering info...
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Solved!! Spotify Crashing on Andriod S5

Can someone please help me. I am a premium user and my spotify has not been working for about 8/9 weeks. As soon as I open the app I get a black screen with Spoitfy on top left and it just crashes. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, done a factory rese...

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  • Can someone please help me.   I am a premium user and my spotify has not been working for about 8/9 weeks. As soon as I open the app I get a black screen with Spoitfy on top left and it j...
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Small bug with right click in linux client

I have found an issue in spotify for linux, using Ubuntu 14.04 that if I right click twice it opens two menus, if I do it three times it opens three and so forth. And the thing is they don't disappear and stay above everything in the program and the ...

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  • I have found an issue in spotify for linux, using Ubuntu 14.04 that if I right click twice it opens two menus, if I do it three times it opens three and so forth. And the thing is they don't disappea...
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Pulse Audio

Does Spotify require pulse audio? Especially of recent updates? Using the debian package repo a recent update broke audio. The error log seemed to indicate an issue with connecting to a service, and after installing PulseAudio it worked fine. My gues...

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  • Does Spotify require pulse audio? Especially of recent updates?   Using the debian package repo a recent update broke audio. The error log seemed to indicate an issue with connecting to a serv...
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Solved!! Client erratic behavior on ubuntu Wily

Hello, This is mostly for reference only in case someone hit the problem I am seeing. I haven't had time to test it on the latest stable release (Ubuntu Vivid Vervet 15.04) but I see the problem on the current development release (Wily 15.10) : on so...

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  • Hello,   This is mostly for reference only in case someone hit the problem I am seeing.   I haven't had time to test it on the latest stable release (Ubuntu Vivid Vervet 15.04) but I se...
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New Linux User Trying to Install Spotify

Hi there, I'm a New Linux User Trying to Install Spotify

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  • Hi there,   I'm a New Linux User Trying to Install Spotify
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STARRED:: never got converted to ordinary playlist at changeover Lost. Help!

I understand that our starred playlists were converted rrecently to ordinary ones, way down in the list of playlists.Hate it, but I understand it. My problem is, I was following a friends "starred" playlist, and that is now the only "starred" I hsve....

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  • I understand that our starred playlists were converted rrecently to ordinary ones, way down in the list of playlists. Hate it, but I understand it.   My problem is, I was following  a fr...
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Spotify on mixed Linux (Ubuntu)/Windows network

Hello, all. Have encountered an extremely strange problem in recent weeks.. I built a silent Linux/Ubuntu nettop with a good DAC, to playback Spotify on my home network. It works *perfectly* - I use my iPhone and iPad as remote controls (or the other...

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  • Hello, all.   Have encountered an extremely strange problem in recent weeks..   I built a silent Linux/Ubuntu nettop with a good DAC, to playback Spotify on my home network. It works *p...
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linux and spotify

in linux spotify has problems like a buggy play of some songs, i mean spotify is closed some times, and it isn't the only thing that it does, it very used to lose the queue with some closes or to view only the first 50 titles of music you put in the ...

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  • in linux spotify has problems like a buggy play of some songs, i mean spotify is closed some times, and it isn't the only thing that it does, it very used to lose the queue with some closes or to vie...
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Local files ubuntu 15.04

Hi, i recently upgraded my ubuntu 14.04 to 15.04. I used to listen to my local files at 14.04 fine, but since i upgraded i can't listen anymore. I press the play button and doesn't play. Could anyone help me? Thanks.

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  • Hi, i recently upgraded my ubuntu 14.04 to 15.04. I used to listen to my local files at 14.04 fine, but since i upgraded i can't listen anymore. I press the play button and doesn't play. Could anyone...
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Latest Linux Version

Unless I'm blind, I can't find anywhere that actually lists the latest Linux Desktop version. I'm currently running 0.9.17.1.g9b85d43. No packages are being marked for an update but I just want to make sure that I'm not having any trouble with my rep...

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  • Unless I'm blind, I can't find anywhere that actually lists the latest Linux Desktop version. I'm currently running 0.9.17.1.g9b85d43. No packages are being marked for an update but I just want ...
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[Linux] Bug report: Spotify refuses to play when laptop charger is plugged out or in.

Brief description of the issue:When I plug out/in my laptop charger spotify will automatically stop the music. When I click play again it shows to me that it's playing but there's no music coming out of my speakers. (Sound of other applications will ...

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  • Brief description of the issue: When I plug out/in my laptop charger spotify will automatically stop the music. When I click play again it shows to me that it's playing but there's no music coming o...
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Can not play music

Dear Users, My Spotify Client has an big problem. If i want to play a Titel comes a erro Massage Current Titel can not be played.I have following try. sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade. Is this problem know.

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  • Dear Users,       My Spotify Client has an big problem. If i want to play a Titel comes a erro Massage Current Titel can not be played. I have following try. sudo apt-get update a...
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Same artist with 2 pages: East and E^st

HiI realised when I was looking for music from the artist E^st that there are two pages with her music. One under the name East and the other E^st. Different albums on each page - made by the same artist (I hope that makes sense). Was wondering if th...

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  • Hi I realised when I was looking for music from the artist E^st that there are two pages with her music. One under the name East and the other E^st. Different albums on each page - made by the same ...
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can login via web but not on ubuntu 15.04 app

I can login via web normally and listen songs but I cannot on ubuntu 15.04 app.Any suggestion?I have the lastest version installed.

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  • I can login via web normally and listen songs but I cannot on ubuntu 15.04 app. Any suggestion? I have the lastest version installed.
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