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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...
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When I press any song on Spotify, it will always show the words “Spotify can’t play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." and switch to a series of other songs to a song, but only hear the first 10 seconds and lose...
PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue
PlanPremiumCountryEUDeviceAMD Framework 13Operating SystemDebian 12 My Question or IssueWhen i try to log into the app it should open in a browser but does not. so it is impossible for me to log in.
DevicePC Operating SystemLinux General My Question or IssueCurrently Spotifys distribution options are: Snap and general Debian apt-repository.If you do not run Ubuntu or Debian you have to do a lot of, sometimes strange, actions to make spotify work...
Operating SystemArch Linux, Gnome 46 Solutionspotify will display an appropriate icon if its `.desktop` file, as well as the `name=`, `icon=` fields of said file, all have the exact same name (e.g. `spotify`). Some distro's ship a `.desktop` file wer...
Operating SystemArch Linux on the latest kernal (6.6.1) My Question or IssueHi,I’ve started to switch starting with Spotify but I can’t seem to login due to fact it wont open a tab on my browser. flatpak run --command=xdg-open com.spotify.Client http...
PlanPremiumCountryTunisiaDevicePCOperating SystemLinux Ubuntu 22.04.4 JammyVersion Of Spotify ubuntu App1.2.31.1205Hello,I contacted spotify via chat conversation, and they confirmed that version 1.2.33.1042 contains the fix for this issue but lastes...
Plan: PremiumCountry: NorwayDevice: Laptop PCOperating System: LinuxMy Question or Issue Whenever I start Spotify, it creates a directory /home/USER/Downloads (if it does not exist). There is no apparent way to disable this.The issue is confirmed wit...
PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceLenovo Thinkpad 480sOperating SystemLinux Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS My Question or Issue The Spotify Desktop app does not adapt to my screen and the text is very hard to read.
PlanPremiumCountryPortugalDevicePCOperating SystemUbuntu My Question or IssueWhen miniplayer will be available for linux users?
I found some error in my logs:```Mar 19 22:34:14 * kded6[1724]: kde.dataengine.mpris: mpris:trackid from "Spotify" does not conform to the MPRIS2 standard. Please report the issue to the developer.Mar 19 22:34:14 * plasmashell[1761]: kde.dataengine.m...
Idle linux spotify-client version 1.2.31.1205.g4d59ad7c is _again_ using a lot of CPU (ofter >100%) (ubuntu 22.04)Clearing the cache did not help.strace fills the screen with futex, epoll_wait and getrandom but gives no clue.It makes my machine unusa...
Once every few days, the spotify web player will skip all songs i'm trying to play saying "spotify can't play this right now". Nothing on my pc or browser has changed between times when it does and does not work. Restarting the browser does not help....
PlanFreeCountryIndia DeviceDell InspironOperating SystemUbuntu 18.04.2 LTS My Question or Issue I'm getting this error when I play some songs on my Spotify desktop app on Ubuntu. The same songs play without any errors on my phone. I have tried deleti...
PlanFreeCountryPolandDeviceLinux DesktopOperating SystemUbuntu 22.04 My Question or IssueAny indicators for liked songs are gone for some time. When I play a song I don't see whether it is already liked or not on the current playing bottom bar. There...
Problem 1:API Get Playlist contains a field 'public' which is always set to False.Test case:Endpoint https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/{playlist_id}HTTP Method: GETfields = "id,name,collaborative,public,description,owner.display_name,tracks.total"...
PlanPremiumDeviceAny Browser/Spotify ClientOperating SystemArch Linux I've been experiencing an issue with Spotify's lyrics synchronization on the desktop apps. It appears that the lyrics go out of sync when crossfade or smooth transitions between so...
DevicePC Operating SystemArch Linux, KDE Plasma 6Issue:MPRIS SetPosition doesn't work, can't set play position
Operating SystemDebian Trixie (testing) with KDE Plasma 5.27.10 My Issue and SuggestionsFirst of all, thanks to the developers who have made it possible to enjoy the Spotify service via the Linux desktop client app, which is generally working very we...
DeviceDell XPS 13Operating SystemArch Linux - kernel 6.7.0-arch3-1Version1.2.31.1205.g4d59ad7c My Question or IssueI just updated the spotify desktop application and I am no longer able to reduce the window size below 800x600. This is annoying, as I ...