Redistribute Spotify on Linux Distributions

[NicoHood]

Dear Spotify Team,

my name is NicoHood and I am an official ArchLinux Trusted User. This means I maintain some packages in the official [community] repository [1]. I am also able to move packages from the ArchLinux User Repository (AUR)[2] into [community] if the packages are popular enough (>10 votes).

As you can imagine spotify is really popular on ArchLinux with more than 1100 votes on AUR[3]. Me and the community would love to have spotify in our official repositories to provide our users a simpler channel of installing Spotify on ArchLinux.

The problem we face is that the Terms of Use forbid us to redistribute Spotify. We'd require an official statement that ArchLinux is allowed to package Spotify in its repositories.

I've already contacted Brendan Marsh (Product Owner, Desktop) about this topic via email without any further response. It would be nice if you can give the linux community a better channel for installing Spotify on non-debian systems.

Furthermore we then can cooperate and optimize spotify for ArchLinux (e.g. using more shared libraries, providing gpg signed tarballs and https downloads etc).

Me and the community hope to get some positive feedback. Thanks for taking the time. Please upvote this post if you also with to natively install Spotify on ArchLinux and other Linux Systems.

[1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?maintainer=NicoHood

[2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/

[3]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify/

Edit 28.08.2019: This request has been marked as idea by the spotify staff. Please upvote it here: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Linux-Add-Spotify-to-the-official-Linux-repositories/idi...

[NettoHikari]

As a Spotify premium user (my entire family uses Spotify thanks to me), I second this. Have my vote!

[raphaelfacredyn]

Hello Spotify,

I (one hundred forty) second this.

I made an account just for this because I don't understand why this hasn't already happened a long time ago.

Best,

Raphael

[gillouche]

As a Arch and spotify user, +1

AUR is great but we need something official.

[TaZeR4]

I'm surprised it's not been made available for all linux distributions a long time ago in the form of official repo access. The responce and action the Spotify team comes up with to this will say everything about who Spotify is. That is to say I highly support Spotify on Archlinux.

[samishilenna]

Show us some love, please! ❤️

[teohhanhui]

Has anyone tried opening an "Idea"?

There was a previous Idea here: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/suport-more-linux-distributions/idi-p/120032

[alejo444]

Seria genial, porfavor

[tsdh]

Let's try!

[nvision]

JUST DO IT!

[Stephen304]

Spotify, you need to have your software available through official channels for various distros. It's a bit ridiculous for such a large company to be relying on community maintained packages, and relying on end users to apply patches when the package build breaks.