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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...
Hi all, My friend activity list has been missing for about 6 months now. That whole sidebar is simply missing. I have Spotify on Windows, Mac, and a linux machine. On all three versions, the friend's activity list is missing. I'm following ~70 facebo...
Hello, I enjoy Spotify Preview on my Ubuntu machine for a while and I have noticed a bug which is not annoying but still... Under popup menu - where I get notification - is shadow bug which - i guess - you could easly fix. You can see what I am talki...
Spotify Console output: Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath) Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QDBusObjectPath)00:35:06.665 E [watchdog.cpp:173 ] Deadlock detecte...
Hello, I have a ui rendering problem in Linux. so it's hard to choose music. I use Linux Mint 17 with Cinnamon,in the previous version of the Spotify Preview it was working without render fails. System informations Spotify 0.9.10.17 Linux Mint 17 wit...
Hello, I am really pleased to use Spotify Linux Preview. The application has been really well designed but suffers from a huge memory leakage. Indeed, I am currently using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with GNOME 3 Session Fallback (Classic). Hence, when I launch...
Hi, I remember that the multimedia keys can work before (not sure on which version), but it can't work now, any sugesstions? Thanks!
Sometimes I forget to mount my music library while playing music using Spotify. It will play all Spotify streamed music, but when it goes to a song in playlist which is in my own music library it will fail to play it and skip to the next song, which ...
spotify play queue broken? i think this comes down to licensing and royalties paid to the music recording industry which spotify makes a % of for bringing business to these companies. making the queue nearly impossible to work with has spotify end us...
It is usual in linux to have multiple terminal sessions (tty) running. When running spotify desktop client in one session and switching to another, playback pauses immediately, so it is impossible to run spotify in 'background' tty session. Can you p...
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Hey! I am running Spotify 0.9.11.27 on Ubuntu 14.04. When I launch the app, all of the media keys (play/pause, forward, back) work. Then after around 30 seconds after switching to another app, it stops working.
Hi all, I'm looking at the linux install instructions here: https://www.spotify.com/uk/download/previews/ I have a suggestion for the first step. Instead of: # 1. Add this line to your list of repositories by # editing your /etc/apt/sources.list deb ...
I installed Spotify to Debian Jessie without any problem, but when i try to start spotify a get error for missing library, the missing library is libgcrypt11. I searched for this package on debian jessie repository but there isn't candidate package a...
Hi,My Spotify client for Linux always used to work fine, but a couple of days ago it all of a sudden started to claim 100% CPU capacity, while I was dragging some songs from one playlist to another. That resulted in overheating the processsor of my n...
So I am very new to Ubuntu and Linux for that matter. I installed Spotfiy and got everything working correctly, but I could not get it to sync my playlist for offline use. Spotify kept telling me to check disk space and I have ample room since this i...
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Hi there, I'm using the Linux spotify preview client with KDE and a dark colour scheme. Since Spotify's default colour scheme is dark gray, it fits perfectly. However, my desktop's dark theme implies white/bright font colours that get implemented in ...
spotify desktop client won't play anything. When I hit play, it says there is something wrong with network. backtrace from logs: Oct 02 13:58:58 quahog slim[444]: 11:58:58.080 I [head_file_streamer.cpp:106 ] Requesting head file from CDN url: http://...
I've noticed Spotify fails to start properly if my system's inotify watch limit has been exhausted. It just sits there, presumably trying to get a notifier, maxing out a single core and printing this to stdout: ... 13:17:04.214 A [file_system_monitor...