"Your Spotify desktop app is out of date" (when I have 1.2.8.923.g4f94bf0d)

[jfraga]

Plan

Free/Premium

Device

PC

Operating System

Ubuntu 22.10

I received an email from Spotify saying:

Starting from May 12, 2023, this version will no longer be supported, meaning that you won’t be able to login and use Spotify. This will affect the version you are using along with any other version of Spotify for desktop released before April 2021.

But I'm using the latest version available for Linux (1.2.8.923.g4f94bf0d). Is Spotify discontinuing its Linux desktop version?

[FawnDasher]

I'm running Mint (no clue what flavor.)  Finally worked when I installed the latest version via flatpak command line.  It's a new install not an upgrade, so you'll have 2 versions.  It's also the new and downgraded UI, but it works.

https://flathub.org/apps/com.spotify.Client

[ManMachine]

Still broken...

[ManMachine]

I got really tired of the limited webplayer so I took the plunge and let it upgrade to the latest repo version.   However in doing so it exposed a login bug where starting spotify once works, but when restarting it later you will get a completely black window.   See here (with workraound): https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/spotify-not-starting/td-p/5603801