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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...
Hello. There are two different "Burial" artists on Spotify even though the two have tracks from the same author. Specifically on the artist that has hardcore in it, there are five albums "Kindred", "Street Halo", "Ghost Hardware", "Distant Lights", "...
When running Spotify installed from the Arch AUR, the center web panel is always on top, even when a window is maximized or the Spotify window is minimized. System information: Linux archie 3.17.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 7 23:43:32 UTC 2014 x86...
Using Ubuntu 15.04 I'm experiencing crashes when dragging and dropping songs to playlists from search.Doing this makes the client hang and eventually crash. When opening a playlist (worked fine yesterday..) it crashes my desktop environment. Some inf...
I have this weird issue, where my spotify client on Linux won't let me play anything. It happened after my premium expired and im back with free account.Im not trying to play anything offline or anything, and i can play the music i tried with web bas...
I have come across this issue consistently for about two weeks now.When moving both walking or on a train spotify will stop playing and reset shuffle and repeat to off.However when stationary i.e. at work or home spotify mobile will continually play ...
the tittle is my problem and my english. my artist? my songs? my albums? i dont see... Ubuntu 14.04
I keep saving albums and making them available offline on my Desktop, then expect to pick up my phone, leave the house and have that album saved. That's not how it works. I wish there were an option in settings to "sync offline albums across devices"...
When rearranging songs in a playlist, if I accidentally drag the song above the top song (over the banner area) the application scrolls upward continusouly, making it impossible to scroll down in any other view in the app. Closing the app does not he...
Hey there! I have a problem regarding upgrading to version 1.0.xxxx from 0.9.xxxx on linux. Neither Synaptic PM UI or my bash shell seem to be able to upgrade higher than 0.9. What can you suggest I do? I'm running:3.11-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.11.8-1...
Hi!This new updates is seriously getting worse and worse.Now my notification bar isn't loading for several days. And when it does, it's old notifications and I can only see 20 notifications, when I have many more. This is so annoying. How would they ...
I am running spotify on Ubuntu 15.04 using the installation method given by equaint in this thread (I had the same problem as the person creating the thread):https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/spotify-error-while-loading-...
Hello, I've just installed Spotify on my laptop Kali-Linux (Debian) by following the instructions on the Spotify website. The installation went well but Spotify doesn't launch... I don't know if it's a problem linked to missing dependencies or someth...
I just installed the Linux Spotify client for the first time a while and the Facebook login window keeps opening up after I dismiss it. I ended up just hooking up up to a dev account that is essentially a blackhole, but i really hope this isn't an in...
Hi, I am a premium spotify member. I use it on my Linux mainly. My machine runs Ubuntu 14.04. I also tried purging and re-installing spotify. The problem remains. I also removed the "hardware acceleration" in settings. My problem is that after 20-30 ...
Issue: Opening a spotify playlist url will open the app, but not the playlist. Any fixes for this? I'm running Ubuntu 15.10Linux localhost 4.2.0-16-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 8 15:35:06 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Hello, Just as the title says, doesn't even show anything, this only happened after I upgraded from 14.10 to 15.04, I tried to reinstall but it still doesn't work.
I'm getting an error while trying to update apt-get after adding the repo to /etc/apt/sources . Here's the console output: W: Failed to fetch http://repository.spotify.com/dists/stable/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'non-free/binary-armhf/Pa...
Hi: I am using spotify1.0.17.75.g8f111100 on Arch Linux. Whenever I try to play an album via DBus, for instance dbus-send --print-reply --session --type=method_call --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2....
Hi everyone, since today I've got some perhaps unusual trouble with Spotify: When I opened the program there was an additional window opened with the terms and conditions (see picture). I haven't find a way to close it yet, and while it's open, I can...
Hi there, Just notice that the current spotify app version is not compatible with libgcrypt20.In http://askubuntu.com/questions/613081/spotify-has-stopped-working-on-the-latest-ubuntu-today-15-04 you find a quick solution, but I think that a new spot...