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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...
I've installed my distro yesterday and then spotify-client. But no icon appeared, this can be a workaround if you have a similar issue. 1. Your device and operating system: Desktop PC (AMD FX-6300) - OS: Debian 9.5 (4.9.0-7-amd64)2. Type of Spotify a...
I've turned an iOTA laptop into an Ubuntu system (works fine for Chinese product released with Windows 10 - W10 too bloated for iOTA with only 32 Gb!BUT - the Spotify app on Cosmic Cuttlefish doesn't work. It doesn't run/launch or do anything?Haven't...
PlanPremiumCountryBrazil DeviceNotebookOperating SystemUbuntu 16.04LTS My Question or Issue Hi there. From last week to now I've experiencing something very annoying in Spotify client. Randomly, volume goes up and down when playing a track. I've trie...
Hello, On most distribution (except Ubuntu and Fedora) pulseaudio is using by default "flat volume". That means that by default any client setting its volume to 100% will set the master volume also to 100%. The linux spotify client is doing that from...
PlanPremiumCountryUk DevicePCOperating SystemLinux Mint 18 My Question or Issue When choosing a podcast and hitting play, it either freezes my machine or closes Spotify - playing music works though? UPDATE Performing command: $ top During trying to p...
PlanPremiumOperating SystemUbuntu 18.04 My Question or IssueI know this is kinda silly and understandably not a huge priority on the Spotify team, but my playlists look kinda bland with white squares instead of colorful emojis, so if you could integr...
PlanN/ACountry United StatesDeviceRaspberry PI 3Operating SystemRaspbian Stretch My Question or IssueIs Spotify available for Raspbian? Since Raspbian is a flavor of Debian, I have tried to install Spotify using the Terminal commands for Debian, but ...
PlanPremiumCountryPhilippinesDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSpotify just acted crazy today consuming 100% CPU. Did a couple of reboots and even re-installed the application, still it consumes 100% CPU. What should I do...
Hello, could anyone help me?Initially, he began by presenting the error: /snap/spotify/21/bin/desktop-launch: line 181: de: command not foundGtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"I have reinstalled the canberra packages and now it h...
PlanPremiumCountryGuatemala DeviceHp Chromebook 14 G4 (KIP)Operating SystemGallium OS (Xubuntu Based Linux Distribution) My Question or Issue I am trying to save all my music to my SD CARD for Offline Music Streaming because my main hard drive is onl...
PlanPremiumCountryFrance Operating SystemUbuntu 18.04 My Question or Issue Bonjour,Apres avoir installé l'application à partir de snap, lorsque j'essaye d'ouvrir l'application (en mode administrateur) je recoit le message d'erreur suivant :cannot sna...
PlanPremiumCountryCanada DeviceAcer R7Operating SystemLinux Mint My Question or Issue Alright gang. I've had this insanely obnoxious issue for ages now. For a long time I gave up and used the web player, but the web player isn't great so I'm trying t...
I run Spotify on the linux platform, and it works just fine - for a while, I was able to play my local files, then that capability suddenly went away; the files are still in the list, but not playable. I followed both sets of instructions, and it did...
I know this isn't super important right now but my playlists look kinda boring with grey squares insted of emojis. If you guys could add emoji support to the snap version of Spotify, it'd be pretty cool. Thanks for the hard work, btw. EDIT: Japanese ...
PlanPremiumCountryAustralia DeviceHP Pavilion 14Operating SystemKubuntu Linux 18.04 My Question or Issue Hi, Im fairly new to linux. Spotify was working for a while however all of a sudden I get this error: "spotify can't play this right now. if you ...
PlanPremiumCountrythe Netherlands DeviceCustom machine (https://ken.is-into.men/c0ba8d.png)Operating SystemArch Linux 4.17.6-1 My Question or IssueI've been playing around with Spotify's dbus integration, and I've noticed the Position and Volume valu...
I love that you guys are building and supporting the Spotify Linux app. I'm using Ubuntu with Gnome and a laptop with a 4K display. The support for 4K/HiDPI screens is getting better and better on Linux. Now a some apps even rescale automatically whe...
PlanPremiumCountrySpainOperating SystemUbuntu 16.10My Question or Issue Hi, my friends haven't been able to see my activity for the last two weeks aprox.This is only happening from the Linux client, since they can see my activity when I use the andro...
PlanPremium (Family)CountryAustraliaDeviceLaptopOperating SystemLinux Mint 19 (Tara)Releasespotify-client/tara,stable,now 1:1.0.80.480.g51b03ac3-13 amd64 [installed] My Question or IssueOpening Spotify has a seemingly random chance to completely igno...
Plan: FreeCountry: BrazilDevice: Inspiron 14R 5437OS: Fedora 28Issue: When I click in the button to log with Facebook I get the message: "A firewall may be blocking Spotify. Please update your firewall to allow Spotify. Additionally you could try cha...