Spotify

Spotify is a commercial music streaming service providing digital rights management-restricted content from record labels including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group and Universal. Launched in October 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB, the service had approximately 10 million users as of 15 September 2010, about 2.5 million of whom were paying users. Total users reached 20 million by December 2012, 5 million of whom pay a monthly subscription fee that varies based on locale.

The system is currently available using Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, S60 (Symbian), webOS, Samsung Smart TV, Squeezebox, Boxee, Sonos, WD TV, Roku, MeeGo, Telia Digital-tv, Openpandora and TiVo. As of December 2013 Spotify is not available in the Windows Store for Windows 8.

Music can be browsed by artist, album, record label, genre or playlist as well as by direct searches. On computers, a link allows the listener to purchase selected material via partner retailers.

A six-month free trial period is activated upon account registration or first login with a Facebook account, allowing the user to listen to an unlimited amount of music supported by visual and radio-style advertising. After the trial, Spotify has a listening limit of 10 hours per month, divided into 2.5-hour weekly portions (unused hours carry over). The only locations exempt from this rule are the United States, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand where ad-supported unlimited streaming continues on Spotify Free. An "Unlimited" subscription removes advertisements and time limits and a "Premium" subscription introduces extra features such as higher bitrate streaming, offline access to music and mobile app access. Users can try Spotify Premium for 48 hours by logging into Spotify Mobile for the first time, or get a 30-day trial for their first month.[25] An active Facebook account is required to use Spotify if the user has signed up using Facebook, but as of 30 August 2012 the option to make a Spotify username was again offered. Subscriptions are restricted to people with credit/debit cards or PayPal accounts registered in certain countries. [1]

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You can install Spotify native application as Spotify Linux Preview or in Wine environment as Spotify client for Windows.

Installing Spotify Linux Preview

NEW installation guide

Install libgcrypt15 from AUR repositories, the official version in manjaro (update 2014-01-26) is 1.6, not compatible with spotify. We will need also some openssl package.

yaourt -S openssl098
yaourt -S libgcrypt15

Then install spotify from AUR and ffmpeg-compat (recommended dependency, needed for playing local files)

yaourt -S spotify
sudo pacman -S ffmpeg-compat

Now we need to link some libraries

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libnss3.so /usr/lib/libnss3.so.1d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so.1d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libsmime3.so /usr/lib/libsmime3.so.1d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libssl3.so /usr/lib/libssl3.so.1d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libplds4.so /usr/lib/libplds4.so.0d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libplc4.so /usr/lib/libplc4.so.0d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libnspr4.so /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libudev.so /usr/lib/libudev.so.0

And that's it! If you are using Xfce (it should work for other environments also), the way to configure media keys is via xfce shortcuts, using dbus commands (in order: play/pause, stop, next, previous)

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If your system does not detect the media keys, their names are (in order) XF86AudioPlay, XF86AudioStop, XF86AudioNext, XF86AudioPrevious

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Stop
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous

Old installation guide

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Alternative install, is deprecated due to last manjaro update of libgcrypt. If your version of libgcrypt is bellow 1.6 you should use this guide

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if your version of libgcrypt is 1.6 or superior, DON'T USE this guide, instead read the NEW one

In a terminal, run the following command:

yaourt -S openssl098

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Before build spotify package manual edit PKGBUILD file and in line depends remove "libgcrypt15".

yaourt -S spotify

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KDE desktop does not require spotify-gnome-git package.

yaourt -S spotify-gnome-git

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libnss3.so /usr/lib/libnss3.so.1d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so.1d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libsmime3.so /usr/lib/libsmime3.so.1d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libssl3.so /usr/lib/libssl3.so.1d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libplds4.so /usr/lib/libplds4.so.0d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libplc4.so /usr/lib/libplc4.so.0d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libnspr4.so /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libudev.so /usr/lib/libudev.so.0

Known Issues in Spotify Linux Preview

• Sometimes the Discover page does not show content. This is a known bug. The probable cause errors with open ssl.

Installing lastest version Spotify Client for Windows in Wine

Execute the actions in this order. DO NOT close the terminal window before doing all action.

• Installing dependences and Wine application:

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yaourt -Sy wine q4wine wine-mono wine_gecko winetricks giflib libpng libldap gnutls lcms libxml2 mpg123 openal v4l-utils libpulse alsa-plugins alsa-lib libjpeg-turbo libxcomposite libxinerama ncurses lib32-ncurses libcl cups samba dosbox lib32-{giflib,libpng,libldap,gnutls,lcms,libxml2,mpg123,openal,v4l-utils,libpulse,alsa-plugins,alsa-lib,libjpeg-turbo,libxcomposite,libxinerama,ncurses,libcl} openssl098

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• Configure Spotify installation directory.

export WINEPREFIX="${HOME}/.spotify"
export WINEARCH="win32"
winecfg

• Click the Libraries tab, select riched20 and click Add. The default entry should read riched20 (native, builtin).
• Click Apply, then click OK.
• Manually close a Wine Configuration Window.
• Configure Wine environment with commands.

winetricks msxml6 corefonts
winetricks settings fontsmooth=rgb

• Download the lastest SpotifySetup.exe file

cd ~ && wget http://download.spotify.com/SpotifySetup.exe

• Install Spotify Client Application in Wine

wine SpotifySetup.exe

• Close a terminal window.
• Launch Spotify from Launcher Menu. Wait some time to load the application.

Support

Official forum topic: [2]

See Also

AUR:spotify

AUR:openssl098

AUR:spotify-gnome-git

The Spotify Community