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Spotify for Linux
A lot of our developers are using Linux, obviously they want to listen to music while they’re coding away and looking at the feedback we get it appears that they’re not the only ones. So today we’re pretty happy to present a preview version of Spotify for Linux.
Built by our brilliant developers during hack days and late nights, it shares most of the same features as our Windows and Mac OS X desktop applications. Unfortunately, there are issues regarding decoding of local music on the Linux platform so we haven’t included support for local files in this version.
As a preview release this version is still unsupported, but we’re running it ourselves and will try to make sure it keeps pace with its Mac and Windows siblings. As we haven’t found a reliable way to display ads yet, this version is only available to Spotify Premium subscribers.
So how do you get it? Head over to our preview page where we’ve packaged the first release as Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 10.04 package.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we do, and please keep the feedback coming!
UPDATE: Spotify for Linux is now also available for Spotify Unlimited subscribers.
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That is some nice news.
OMG YES HOLY SHIT!
Oh yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, i can't believe it! What a great news!
Your awesomeness never seems to end. Keep up the amazing work!
AWESOME! You guys just made my day! Could you please compile it for ARM? I would love to use it on my N900!
¡OH! Great news. Thanks for this :)
On ubuntu 10.04 I get this error: spotify-client-gnome-support: Depends: gconf2 (>= 2.28.1-2) but 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
I get the same problem as reemco Please provide a solution :)
First, thank you so much for spending the time and effort to create a native Linux client. However, you say that it's only available to Spotify Premium because of the lack of Ad support. If this is the case, can the requirement be dropped to your Spotify Unlimited? As this is also Ad free.
Fantastic news!
Ohhhh i love you :)
You don't NEED the gnome-support package for it to work. Just get the other package, and run spotify from the command line. Works great, though the taskbar shows weird characters for song titles because it doesn't render the dash properly. Thanks muchly :)
Where do you report bugs? Is there a separate category in the forums? Haven't checked yet.
=] Muchly needed.
Brilliant, well done Spotify!
this is a beautiful thing...
Great news! Thank you!
On ubuntu 10.04 I get this error: spotify-client-gnome-support: Depends: gconf2 (>= 2.28.1-2) but 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Oh happy day!
Really cool, and definitely worth renewing my Premium subscription for. Thanks!!
No need to install spotify-client-gnome-support! Just run spotify in terminal $ spotify
*nerdgasm* OK, will not put off getting premium now. So effing right. Been waiting for this.
Oh, cool! You are gonna have +1 premium user :)
There is now a category on getsatisfaction where you can post feedback: http://www.getsatisfaction.com/spotify/products/spotify_spotify_linux
Thank you!!!
Wow, I'm so going to try this out today!
Sweet! :D
I've been running it under wine successfully for a few months now. (Mandriva)
Great news! BTW, your cert is currently invalid!
I have also been running it under wine. Nice to see you guys actually working on it for linux. Shame about the gconf2 2.28.1-2 requirement considering 10.04 doesn't actually ship with that version, makes me wonder wtf you guys are running.
Wonderfulllll !!!!
The spotify-client-gnome-support package installs binding that allows you to click on Spotify links in your webbrowser. It seems the dependency is incorrect for ubuntu. You should be able to ignore it for now, but we looking to update the packages as soon as possible.
I was just about to cancel my subscription, then I saw this :) (Not that it works yet, but I'll hang around for another month in hope... I get an "Illegal instruction" error with no other output; using Ubuntu 10.04 on a 32-bit Pentium M, CPU flags are "fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe up bts est tm2". As a random guess, are you using SSE3/4 instructions?)
Fantastic news!
This. Is. Awesome.
Is there any support for multimedia keys? That's the one feature I was missing from the wine version, but great work on a native linux version!
i want free premium!!
Oh sweet.
ooooooo it's awesome!
Jess!!! Thanx!!! :D
Can't you please release it in a regular compressed format instead of a distribution-specific package? I've been wanting this for ages but I don't run Debian and I sure as heck won't run Ubuntu. Of course it's possible to get and use the .deb-file on other distributions in various ways, but it's not very convenient.
\o/
great news, but can't you add a tarball as well? for all the non-debian/ubuntu users? not that the .deb can't be extracted, but still..
Hi, thanks for linux support. btw, it segfault on my ubuntu jaunty. here the backtrace: http://pastebin.com/uzQYGXHH
This is great news! I was thinking about getting a premium, now I'll definitly do it!
Ohh joy! I'm so happy! I've waited this so much! And it doesn't matter at all that it's only for premium, cos I'm on premium anyway! You guys rock!
Great news! Upgrading my to premium asap!
Shitloads of awesome! God, I've been waiting for this.
ruskie@ruskie-desktop:~$ spotify Illegal instruction
Thanks guys, much nicer than running it under Wine.