[GRLUG] Spotify

[Roger Roelofs]

Patrick,

I used to run Spotify, but it got unstable for me and I didn't care enough
to troubleshoot it.  Many of the 'apps' inside spotify run poorly or cause
the spotify app to crash.  It seems like they worked on it for a while and
then shelved it.


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Patrick Goupell
<patrick at upmerchants.com>wrote:

> Anyone running spotify on linux?
>
> I had an xp vm so I registered for a free spotify account to see what it
> was like.  Liked the song selections so I did a search for "spotify linux
> client" and found this page http://news.spotify.com/us/2010/07/12/linux/that led me to this page
> https://www.spotify.com/us/download/previews/.
>
> The first page says a linux client is available to premium and unlimited
> subscribers but I read on some blog post (cannot find it right now) that
> the linux client also runs on a free account.
>
> The spotify client is for debian squeeze.  I am running debian wheezy but
> I added the spotify repository to my apt sources list and did an update and
> then install spotify-client.
>
> Failed to install on a missing libssl0.9.8.
>
> So I temporarily added the debian squeeze repository to my ap sources list
> and installed libssl0.9.8.  the spotify client then configured.
>
> Found the spotify player client in the multimedia section and gave it a
> click.  The program started and I logged into my free account created under
> windows.  Everything showed up and I can now listen to spotify ad free
> without having to run a windows vm for spotify.
>
> --
> Patrick Goupell
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Roger

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