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Discuss Spotify for Linux
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...
MattSuda
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...
MattSuda
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...
Sebasty
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...
PlanFreeCountryGermanyDeviceComputerRyzen 7 Operating SystemGaruda Arch Linuxkernel: 5.17.4-zen1-1-zen My Question or IssueEverything on my PC uses the configured device in my settings as its playback device (my headphones).Except for Spotify. Spotif...
MPRIS support in the Linux desktop client is very limited up to and including not reporting a couple important mandatory properties and a signal. In an effort to be respectful and fair, I acknowledge that the Linux client gets very little dev time an...
PlanPremium CountrySweden Operating SystemPop!_OS 20.04 (Linux, seems to happen on all distributions) My Question or IssueSo, it seems downloading the client with no update from https://www.spotify.com/se/download/linux/b/ and using the Debian / Ubun...
Spotify appears to be using an old version of NSS (Network Security Services) that clutters $HOME with a .pki folder. That happens because up until version 3.42 (see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=818686) NSS did not respect XDG base d...
The 'spotify-client' .deb package specifies 'libssl1.1' as one of its dependencies. Ubuntu 22.04 (currently in beta and due for stable release in 10 days from today) has dropped libssl1.1 in favour of libssl3 (see OpenSSL 3.0 transition plans for ref...
StudentPremium Macbook Pro retina 2012 15"Linux Mint 20.3 The Spotify app's GUI is not scaled correctly on retina displays. Because of the huge display resolution on retina 15", the Spotify app's GUI is way too small making it a pain to read text and...
PlanFreeCountryUSOperating SystemPop!_OS 20.04 LTS 64 bit My Question or IssueAs of yesterday, I'm getting this error when I look for updates: W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous inde...
A Blank board appears over the player when I open a playlist on the Spotify desktop app sometimes it shows an advertisement mostly it remains blank is their anyway to remove that
If I try to use Spotify on a browser(tried on multiple), it *does* work, but I can't see playlists, lyrics. Unless I use a VPN, and then it works properlyI tried using the Desktop App (for linux) Kubuntu 21.04 x86_64 Spotify version 1.1.72.439.gc2530...
Spotify's snap client on Ubuntu 22.04 (currently in beta close to its release) is experiencing instability. When closing and trying to open again the Spotify client is crashing and closing the window.This problem also occurs on several other Linux di...
PlanPremiumCountryGermany DevicePC (custom)Operating SystemLinux (nixOS) / Gnome 40 My Question or IssueThe main menu button (three dots) does not show up. I can still access the settings page from the username dropdown. Playback and everything works...
I posted this in the main forums earlier and have since found many other examples of people asking for this feature. I wanted to put it here to add my voice, just in case the developers actually read these. Would it be possible for the devs to implem...
PlanPremiumDeviceDesktop computerOperating SystemOperating System: Manjaro LinuxKDE Plasma Version: 5.24.3KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0Qt Version: 5.15.3Kernel Version: 5.15.28-1-MANJARO (64-bit)Graphics Platform: X11Processors: 4 × AMD Ryzen 3 2200...
HiOur produce SMC-1030 have binding with Spotify eSDK 3.15 successfully, but when we upgrade to v3.19 eSDK, we found that Spotify was default using ogg compress music with cpu decoding, therefore we can't perform the music smoothly, the cpu is up to ...
PlanPremiumCountryBrazil DevicePCOperating SystemManjaro Linux My Question or IssueI reinstalled Manjaro recently and started having this problem where I can't play songs on Spotify's desktop client (at least not for more than 1-2 seconds). I tried r...
PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceModern Dell LaptopOperating SystemLinux (Ubuntu) My Question or IssueWhen browsing podcasts, after selecting 'see all' on the categories, for most of the categories selecting it just moves the user to the top of the page - n...
Hi, im having trouble log in from a desktop client in arch linux. Im at work where is a proxy, how ever in windows i have no problem. I setup the proxy in the enviroment and also in the .config of spotify. When i try to login, after login in facebook...
PlanFreeCountryGreeceDeviceLinux Desktop - Lenovo Ideapad330Operating SystemxUbuntu 20.04 My Question or IssueAs the title suggests, Spotify has stopped randomizing my playlists. Whether they are made by me or someone else, and whether the playlist o...
Sometimes when pressing ctrl+v to paste an en dash (–) the client will crash (segfault or other kind of hard process kill). The cursor doesn't need to be on a text input field for this to happen: it can also happen if you press ctrl+v without having ...
I'm trying to change writable properties like 'Shuffle' with DBus signals like this: dbus-send --print-reply --session --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set string:org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Pla...