Questions tagged [spotify]
Spotify is a popular subscription-based media-streaming service.
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Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can Error Message Kubuntu 23.04
Has anyone gotten error message from Spotify Client App:
Error Message says:
"Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it"
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how to download MP3 files from Spotify platform?
I would like to know how to download MP3 files from Spotify platform? Because I am a free Spotify user, I cannot download some of my favorite songs. Is there any way to download MP3 files from the ...
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How can I download songs from a spotify playlist to my desired folder all Tuesdays at 00:00 with spotdl?
How can I download songs from a spotify playlist to my desired folder all Tuesdays at 00:00 with spotdl?
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All browsers and Spotify stopped working today on Ubuntu 22.04
As in the title, all browsers and Spotify stopped working, that gets me thinking that possibly something is wrong with all of my "windowed" apps, and it looks like it.
Reinstalling, running ...
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How to make Spotify Snap Open Shared Song URLs?
Expectation:
With the Spotify snap on Ubuntu, I would like Spotify to open a specific song when clicking on a link shared.
What happens:
My browser opens with the popup: Allow this site to open the ...
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Can't log in to spotify app
login screen doesn't appear.
I am using snap version of spotify,ubuntu 23.04.
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Spotify client gives error "not connected to the gnome-3-28-1804 content interface"
I have two separate machines, both running Ubuntu 22.04. On both, when I try to open the Spotify client for Linux, it returns only the error "not connected to the gnome-3-28-1804 content ...
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Blurry, distored, unreadable snap apps
I've just run into issues with some of the applications on Ubuntu. The two that I've first noticed were Firefox and later Spotify. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling, no change. As the title says, ...
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System keeps freezes when spotify is open on 22.10
When I open spotify after a few minutes using it my entire system freezes. How can I fix this problem?
amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: [mmhub0] retry page fault (src_id:0 ring:0 vmid:1 pasid:32776, for ...
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Snap problem with spotify
I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 from a fresh iso, and when I installed Spotify from the snap hub I got this error message.
Someone on IRC had redirected me to this post, but it gives me this error ...
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Spotify language settings
i installed Spotify from the Ubuntu Snap Store but it was only installed in English and i cannot change the language to German. The settings point is shown greyed. I also tried to install it from the ...
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Listening to Spotify from the Rhytmbox music player
I recently discovered the Rhythmbox music player by the GNOME project. Before that, I listened to music through the Spotify snap package. I love Rhythmbox but converting spotify songs to audio files ...
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Spotify needs a lot of restarts to start properly
I am on an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, I noticed that upon starting Spotify, it does not start immediately. Also I have to force close it at most 5 times before the next start up works. Also, by that time, it ...
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missing notification popups from Spotify in Ubuntu 22.04
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04. Before the upgrade, Spotify would send a notification whenever it started playing a track, causing a notification popup to appear just under the clock. ...
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Upon opening spotify the entire system freezes
On Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS 64-bit if I open Spotify, installed from the store, the entire system freezes. REISUB doesn't work and I don't know at all what's happening. I don't know what's happening, so I ...
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Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring [duplicate]
I added the Spotify Debian Repository to apt and got the following Warning:
W: http://repository.spotify.com/dists/stable/InRelease: Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), ...
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Detect when the current song changes on Spotify
I'm working on a small personal project that involves getting the current Spotify song data.
The getting the metadata part is all figured out but I just need a way to detect when a song changes, like ...
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Spotify not working in ubuntu 22.04
when I try to launch Spotify it doesn't work nothing happens no errors nothing it's like i never even tried to launch it
I tried installing using apt but that didn't work so I installed using snap
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How to build Spot (native Spotify client) on Ubuntu 22.04?
Please help me compile and install Spot, a native Spotify client for GNOME, on Ubuntu 22.04.
Instructions
Here are the instructions from the application's GitHub page:
Requires Rust (stable), GTK4, ...
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How do I fix the Malformed Line in Source List? [duplicate]
I am getting the following error when running apt update after installing Spotify. I am new to Linux and I ran into this problem.
E: Malformed line 2 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify....
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Spotify Zoomed Out WIndow
I'm using ubuntu 21.10 and I downloaded the SPotify from the software store. The window is really zoomed out, making it hard to read. Is there a way to adjust this or to zoom in more to make it easier ...
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play/pause of spotify disappeared from sound menu on menu bar
Up to later last year, I could control play/pause/skip and see now playing from the volume menu on the right side of the menu bar.
It suddenly disappeared after updating spotify to
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Spotify snap package can't open "error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2"
error:
/snap/spotify/57/usr/bin/spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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Getting org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied error only in VScode integrated terminal - connecting ZSH with spotify
I've edited powerlevel10k ZSH theme to show songs currently played by Spotify in terminal window - works perfectly, except of VS code integrated terminal. Both Spotify and VS code are installed via ...
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Error while running Spotify, libva error; init failed [closed]
I'm getting this error while running Spotify:
libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed
How to fix it?
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I cannot listen to both Spotify and Zoom at the same time
My OS is Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS and it is fully updated via
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
I have a very strange issue, I have both Spotify and Zoom installed. Yet I can only listen to one ...
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sudo apt update error: "E: Type 'sudo' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list" [duplicate]
$ sudo apt-get update
N: Ignoring file 'some-ppa.list.save.2' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
N: Ignoring file 'some-ppa.list.save....
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Issues the spotify widget for Conky
Hey guys so I've been trying to adapt the REGULUS conky theme by Khiky-Merveilles (u/Khiky73) for my High Res display (it's originally meant for a HD display) and also to make it work with Madh93's ...
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Upgrading to 21.04 from 20.10? Not sure if I should?
I'm kind of new to Ubuntu and running 20.10. I see there is a 21.04 out now. Not sure if I should upgrade or not. Is that a true upgrade?
I feel like everything is running smooth and Spotify is ...
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Spotify dosen't open Ubuntu 20.10
I've had spotify working on 20.04 but it doesn't start after upgrade to 20.10.
The terminal shows :
(base) dark@Asassin:~$ spotify
/snap/spotify/43/bin/desktop-launch: line 51: /home/dark/.config/user-...
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Cache music streaming (Spotify) Location
I am characterizing traffic from streaming services, specifically Spotify. I notice that a song is streamed once, and then, if the song is replayed, only few traffic is generated. Hence, that song is ...
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My electron Apps show "NORMAL" in top right [duplicate]
I use some electron apps, like every body, and i have a pixel "NORMAL" on top right corner of some of Apps, and inside menu of menubar.
Screens of apps with NORMAL:
Ferdi
Visual Studio Code
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Mutlimedia Keys on Ubuntu 20.04 with Spotify
So I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04, and wanted to get my Spotify set up. My problem is that the Pause/Play, Next and Previous keys are not being picked up when I try to bind them in the Keyboard ...
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Can't start spotify snap
I have the problem that my spotify doesn usually not start. When I do spotify in the terminal, I get the following errors:
Gtk-Message: 17:35:09.563: Failed to load module "gail"
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Spotify Gtk Wayland [Ubuntu 20.10]
I had Spotify working on 20.04, but it doesn't start after the system upgrade to 20.10.
The error message says
(base) pawel@lenovo:~$ spotify
Warning: GTK2 does not support Wayland!
Gtk-Message: 10:...
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How to scale up the UI of Spotify for 4K displays
The Spotify client installed from the snap store is barely usable on HiDPI displays and there seem to be no built-in options to scale the UI. Is there a workaround to scale it?
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How to setup Spotify local files from secondary partition or external drive?
I have a linux/windows dualboot, and I have all my personal files in a separate partition, but when I tried to setup spotify local files the media folder doesn't appear. The same happens with ...
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Play/stop media from locked screen
I set keyboard shortcut to play/pause music (Keyboard Shortcuts -> Sound and Media -> Play (or play/pause)). I was able to use this shortcut also when screen was locked on Ubuntu 18.04. I have ...
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Spotify crashes opening Ubuntu 20.04
I just installed Spotify two days ago and it worked perfectly. After one day, when I started my computer and opened Spotify, it worked ok, but after closing it and opening it again it crashes. A blank ...
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Spotify on Ubuntu 20.04 Local files crashes
When I try to add a source on Spotify in the local files section the whole program just crashes. It did the same on Pop!_OS and I remember on Manjaro it opened a really old UI with broken fonts of a ...
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Customized Audio Visualizer for Ubuntu 20.04
I'm look for an audio visualizer for ubuntu, mainly for spotify.
The only thing I could find was Glava -
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/11/embed-audio-visualizer-on-your-linux.html
Which is great ...
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Sound on spotify not heard when entering a call
so I've been using ubuntu 20.04 and when I'm listening to spotify and I join a call in Microsoft Teams as example, it automatically turns off spotify volume and I have to open config to turn on the ...
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Getting error messages but can still run application
I installed Spotify thru snap and when I run it the application comes up but I get these error messages
Gtk-Message: 13:12:30.917: Failed to load module "gail"
Gtk-Message: 13:12:30.917: ...
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Spotify music is not heard when I start a Skype call
When I start a Skype call and I am listening to music in Spotify, I stop hearing the music. How can I solve this?
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The ability to control Spotify specific notifications from the Ubuntu 20.04 desktop's notifications settings are missing
Is there a fix for the notification controls missing from the setting for Spotify? Need to stop just pop-ups, not all the notifications.
OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Spotify version: 1.1.26.501.gbe11e53b-15 (...
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Spotify dislike commands with keyboard shurtcuts on Ubuntu 20
I am looking for a way to call the dislike action from the command line so to have it mapped to a custom keyboard shortcut.
I read a lot about dbus but using d-feet there is no commands associated to ...
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Missing spotify album image from top bar pop up menu
I'm not seeing the album image in the top bar's pop out menu (I'm unsure what the actual name of this is...).
I recall it was there previously but can't remember when it disappeared.
Missing ablum ...
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Pause on Lock for Spotify?
Does anyone knows how to get "Pause on Lock" to work for Ubuntu 20.04 ? Terminal says, "sudo install pause-on-lock /usr/local/bin/"
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/08/ubuntu-pause-music-screen-lock-...
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I keep getting Spotify "can't play this" error in Ubuntu 20.04
So after the first time installing and actually trying Ubuntu. I love it, especially everything is now as how i want it to be. But there's just one thing that bothers me: Spotify keeps showing error "...
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How to launch Spotify using a command through the dock
I recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop, and Spotify's fonts were too small to be legible. I was able to fix it by launching it though the terminal using this command
spotify --force-device-scale-...
