Archive: spotify

Spotify have brought out a native Linux client (finally!) and I can report that it works great. However, the installation instructions are a little sparse - here are some easier ones: First you need to add the spotify repository. Here are some proper instructions on how to add repositories: http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Lucid#Add_Extra_Repositories Basically though, you need to [...]

Just browsing the Spotify site and are now instructions for installing a proper native Linux version, rather than running the windows version under Wine. That's great - cheers guys! http://www.spotify.com/uk/download/previews/ More Reading:Spotify Links Working in LinuxNetbeans Disable Transparent Undocked WindowsStart windows on a specified workspaceHow To Extract Files from Plesk BackupsNetbeans Error Wavy Line – [...]

Update: if you have installed the native Linux client, just run these three commands in the terminal: PLAIN TEXT CODE: gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/command "/usr/bin/spotify -uri %s" gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/needs_terminal false gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/enabled true -------- To get spotify links (eg playlist links etc) to work in Linux, I found [...]

If you use Spotify (its awesome I'm a big fan) but don't use one of their chosen operating systems (win/mac) and use Linux instead then you might think its unavailable to you. In fact its fairly trivial to get it working. First - follow the instructions on the spotify website to install Wine and install [...]

I've been using spotify a lot recently. For coding work you can't beat a nice classical playlist, however I have found the classical collection of music on Spotify to be really quite hit and miss, with an unfortunate bias towards those tragic classical music meets 90's electronica abominations... :S So I have started filtering out [...]

Currently using Spotify on the Mac to keep me musically entertained. However I can't be bothered to choose my own music. The radio station is a nice idea in principle but the selection of tunes can be a bit random at best. What I really need is someone else to put together some nice playlists [...]