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Even though Spotify shows up in the indicator-sound just fine (Controlling it works from there) using multimedia keys on your keyboard does nothing.

When I open up Rhythmbox they're able to control the music there, so the keyboard settings seem ok.

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Try out Spotify Gnome

Spotify-Gnome is a program that provides Gnome media key support for the Spotify Linux client. It supports the play/pause, stop, next, and previous signals, and is compatible with both Gnome 2 and Gnome 3.

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Works fine in 12.10. This is the workaround I didn't know in my answer :-) – stonedsquirrel Oct 19 '12 at 13:49
Working in 13.04 as of 4/23/2013 - also supports notify osd quite well, and setup was much easier than spotify-notify (mentioned below as an answer) – nyne Apr 23 at 15:08
It seems that a side effective is that the underlying library that is required for this serves ads. I'm currently sitting in Spotify's screen with it telling me that it can't load "onboarding-popup" once I installed this. If I had to take a guess it's a part of the gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12 library that I had to install to get this working. – Mark Tomlin Apr 25 at 8:12
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You can use spotify-notify. Not only does it provide notify-osd notifications, but it also has support for media keys.

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fyi the page says the author is no longer maintaining this package, and the answer above for Spotify-Gnome works just fine, is easier to install, and does everything this recommendation does - still a good find though! – nyne Apr 23 at 15:10
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The mulitmedia keys have nothing to do with the sound indicator. Reactions to those keys have to be implemented in spotify itself. I don't think there is a workaround. After all the spotify linux client is still beta so there is hope that this feature will be added in a foreseeable time :-)

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It worked for me just fine when I was using 12.10, when I updated to 13.04 Beta, it no longer worked. I wonder what changed to break this, or if it was a beta update that I got from Spotify that broke it. – Mark Tomlin Apr 25 at 7:52

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