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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!! Impossible to make offline a playlist or an album via desktop

Hello everyone, I don't what is happened, but in few versions earlier I have the possibilite to save an album or a playlist under "Your Songs" menu then an option to make these selection offline. But now, this option gone! It really not pleasent to m...

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  • Hello everyone,   I don't what is happened, but in few versions earlier I have the possibilite to save an album or a playlist under "Your Songs" menu then an option to make these selection off...
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Any non-manual ways to arrange the 'default' order of playlists?

Hi!So as we all know, it is quite easy to arrange your playlists by artist, album, date added, etc. This presents a temporary arrangement of the playlist and is quite a useful feature. However, this does not change the 'default' order of the playlist...

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  • Hi! So as we all know, it is quite easy to arrange your playlists by artist, album, date added, etc. This presents a temporary arrangement of the playlist and is quite a useful feature.   H...
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"Log in with Facebook" fails due to weak Diffie-Hellman key on login.spotilocal.com

I haven't done any extensive replication on this issue as the only computer I have immediately available is running Arch Linux, but I see no reason Windows users won't be equally affected. As far as I can tell, this issue is present in the latest (Li...

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  • I haven't done any extensive replication on this issue as the only computer I have immediately available is running Arch Linux, but I see no reason Windows users won't be equally affected.   A...
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Linux Regular Spotify Crash

Running Elementary OS 0.3, I regularly (every 2-3 days) get a "spotify crashed with SIGABRT in pa_stream_get_timing_info()" message. Package is spotify-client 1:0.9.17.1 I found 3 threads in the forums about previous versions with similar error messa...

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  • Running Elementary OS 0.3, I regularly (every 2-3 days) get a "spotify crashed with SIGABRT in pa_stream_get_timing_info()" message.   Package is spotify-client 1:0.9.17.1   I found 3 t...
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Getting Started with Linux

I ran the instructions in terminal exactly, everything exectued fine. But where do I go from here? I searched over every location and kicked back nothing but an empty Spotify file somewhere in system files and some .pgn icons. I re-ran the instructio...

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  • I ran the instructions in terminal exactly, everything exectued fine.  But where do I go from here?  I searched over every location and kicked back nothing but an empty Spotify file somewhe...
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No audio on Arch Linux with KDE, VLC / phonon backend

I'm running Arch Linux with KDE and using VLC / phonon as my audio backend, and getting no audio. Though my "system settings" specify my USB headset as the default output, I believe Spotify may be sending the audio to the analog hardware output. I ca...

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  • I'm running Arch Linux with KDE and using VLC / phonon as my audio backend, and getting no audio. Though my "system settings" specify my USB headset as the default output, I believe Spotify may be se...
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Debian Linux glibc error (any ideas)?

I just tried starting Spotify about 4 times. I am running stable Debian with Gnome 3. Then when I ran it from the command line I got this error: spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by spotify)spotify: /l...

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  • I just tried starting Spotify about 4 times. I am running stable Debian with Gnome 3. Then when I ran it from the command line I got this error:   spotify: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: v...
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[Bugreport] [Linux] "invalid option -session"

Hey, KDE is automatically restarting applicatios on login, that were running in the last session and thus, spotify is also restarted. Applications are started with a -sesstion argument, for example: spotify -session 1020b17c18416500013860243230000002...

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  • Hey,   KDE is automatically restarting applicatios on login, that were running in the last session and thus, spotify is also restarted. Applications are started with a -sesstion argument, fo...
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How To: Get Quickly To Music Services without Third Party Apps!

Apologizes everyone I tried to provide quick links to Spotify music service profile pages, but the coding on the board has dramatically changed now. You will have to copy and paste the profile URI's and paste them into the search box in the desktop a...

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  • Apologizes everyone I tried to provide quick links to Spotify music service profile pages, but the coding on the board has dramatically changed now. You will have to copy and paste the profile URI's ...
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Segfault - error 6 in libcef.so

Last few days, system has frozen 3 times. /var/log/sys.log reports kernel: [] Watchdog[]: segfault at 0 ip 00007faf6 sp 00007f650 error 6 in libcef.so[7f000+3cc7000]I'm not totally sure this is a Spotify problem, but it was the only application lau...

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  • Last few days, system has frozen 3 times.    /var/log/sys.log reports  <date/time> <hostname> kernel: [<Unix time>] Watchdog[<short number, differs>]: segfau...
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Wrong metadata shown for some local files

As shown in the first attachment, I have some mp3s for a japanese artist, and one of the tracks spotify wrongly associates it with a completely different track. the title of the track isn't even the same (it is "Please Please", all other details are ...

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  •  As shown in the first attachment, I have some mp3s for a japanese artist, and one of the tracks spotify wrongly associates it with a completely different track. the title of the track isn't eve...
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Makes no sense

Makes absolutely no sense to have two songs by the same artist, that are different The second one played, is the actual song by Big Sean. The first is not, it is another song, "I'm So Blessed" by DJ Khaled and others

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  •   Makes absolutely no sense to have two songs by the same artist, that are different   The second one played, is the actual song by Big Sean.   The first is not, it is another son...
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Spotify is playing incorrect audio for songs

^^^^^^^ not for every song, but there are multiple that i enjoy the actual version of that are incorrect it is playing another song, in place of the one chose

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  •   ^^^^^^^   not for every song, but there are multiple that i enjoy the actual version of that are incorrect   it is playing another song, in place of the one chose
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I can't install in Linux Mint

"sudo apt install spotify-client" returns this:E: Impossible to find the package spotify-client

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  • "sudo apt install spotify-client" returns this: E: Impossible to find the package spotify-client  
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A simple thank you from an avid Linux user

I realize this is not necessarily the place to post this but I just want to send a simple thanks to the Spotify team for offering a nicely packaged Linux client. As an avid, not recreational, Linux user I am always impressed and pleased to find organ...

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  • I realize this is not necessarily the place to post this but I just want to send a simple thanks to the Spotify team for offering a nicely packaged Linux client.  As an avid, not recreational, L...
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Importing Music from a Playlist into the 'Your Music' Section

So a friend has sent me a playlist with a few albums on it and I was wondering whether it is possible or not to import that playlist into the 'Your Music' section on Spotify. This would be so that I can listen to each album individually without havin...

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  • So a friend has sent me a playlist with a few albums on it and I was wondering whether it is possible or not to import that playlist into the 'Your Music' section on Spotify. This would be so that I ...
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Solved!! W [audio_file_decompressor_ffmpeg.cpp:731] Failed to open stream: -2

some files could not be played on linux client, for example Beardfish: Voluntary Slavery; another song from the same album (Ludvig & Sverker) plays just fine; there are many more songs affected; same with spotify & spotify-beta (arch linux packages) ...

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  • some files could not be played on linux client, for example Beardfish: Voluntary Slavery; another song from the same album (Ludvig & Sverker) plays just fine; there are many more songs affected; ...
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Linux Client: media keys don't work anymore

Hi, I am a paying customer using Linux desktop client. Somewhere in the update chain controlling spotify on Linux using media keys on my keyboard stopped working. Spotify also used to have integration with linux standard media player controls using d...

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  • Hi,   I am a paying customer using Linux desktop client. Somewhere in the update chain controlling spotify on Linux using media keys on my keyboard stopped working. Spotify also used to have i...
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Not playing the song chose correctly

For many hip hop/rap songs, it now is not playing the correct song when a song is selected, I don't know if any other types of music are having this issue. example --pic recording wrong track song: http://prntscr.com/7ta1sospotiify's edition's audio:...

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  • For many hip hop/rap songs, it now is not playing the correct song when a song is selected, I don't know if any other types of music are having this issue.   example -- pic recording wrong tr...
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Streaming on embedded linux device

We are developing a product where our users will use their Spotify account to stream music to a device. The device will be running on a small linux distribution and will need to be able to make calls to Spotify and stream music directly on the device...

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  • We are developing a product where our users will use their Spotify account to stream music to a device. The device will be running on a small linux distribution and will need to be able to make calls...
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