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Spotify is a popular subscription-based media-streaming service.

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Remove Spotify pop-up notification when a song starts

I would like to remove the bubble notifications of Spotify that are shown when a new song is being played. This is quite distracting while you are working. I still like the integration within the volume menu. Ubuntu Version: 14.04 Spotify Version:…
Israel Varea
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Spotify keyboard controls not working

I am on Ubuntu 16.04, I cannot play, pause, go to the next or the previous song in spotify. There are many answers but most are complicated, is there a simple solution that doesn't require a command line? I have a Logitech bluetooth keyboard.
Lynob
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Cannot exit fullscreen on Spotify

I had Spotify running in fullscreen mode on a second monitor when I closed it and unplugged my laptop. Now Spotify starts in fullscreen mode and I am unable to exit it. Using F11 just skips the current song.
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How to get the native version of Spotify running?

A while ago Spotify (the streaming music service) came out with a preview for Linux of their client. So what should I do?
Dante Ashton
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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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Ubuntu fails to complete package install using Snap

When I try to install an application I can not and it tells me: Cannot install "spotify": snap "spotify" has "install-snap" change in progress.
Elena Déniz González
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No sound output from Spotify on 18.04

This is a similar problem to this post but I was unable to add to the comments since I am new to StackExchange. I tried the answer posted by Vishesh but it didn't solve the issue for me; when I run start-pulseaudio-x11 command it still says…
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How to make Spotify the default music player?

"Spotify for linux" doesn't show up in default applications menu for Music (system info section in system settings). Therefore, it also doesn't come in Dash and music media keys don't work as well. How to make it the default application for playing…
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Multimedia keys do not work with Spotify

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.
Jelle De Loecker
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Can't find or run spotify after `snap install spotify`

I am using Ubuntu 16.04, running this command succeeded: sudo snap install spotify And running it again indicates Spotify is installed. However, running: spotify Gives command not found! Searching in Unity for "spotify" yields no results. What can…
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libudev.so.1 not found when trying to run spotify

I am trying to run Spotify on Ubuntu 12.04. It used to work some time ago, when I tried to start it today, I got the following error: spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or…
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Missing tray icon indicator in recent Spotify versions?

I installed the latest Spotify version 1.0.14.124.g4dfabc51. I noticed that version => 1.0 no longer seem to show a tray icon indicator, and thus their windows cannot be minimised. Is there a way to bring back the tray icon indicator in these…
orschiro
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Are there commands to control the Spotify for Linux preview? (e.g. Pause)?

I am trying to be able to play, pause, chose next track or previous track from command line, but unfortunately no one seems to know how to do this (I have goggled repeatedly). I need it to be a command so that I can use it with blue proximity, so…
Tim
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How to install Rhythmbox Spotify plugin?

Is there an easy way to install the Spotify plugin for Rhythmbox in Ubuntu 12.04? I can only find links to recompile Rhythmbox completely and the instructions aren't very clear.
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Installing Spotify

Hi everyone I'm attempting to install spotify, I've been running linux for less than 24 hours so please cut me some slack if this seems trivial. Here is a link to the webpage https://www.spotify.com/us/download/previews/ and the example script.…
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