When I try to login with facebook inside the linux (Ubuntu 16.04) desktop app I'm redirected after a few seconds to a page saying. Couldn't log in to Spotify. What's going on. There's a temporary issue with logging in to Spotify. Sorry about that! Two days ago for once it worked, but today I'm stuck again. Hi, it's been two weeks since I first experienced login issues. When I try to login with facebook inside the linux (Ubuntu 16.04) desktop app I'm redirected after a few seconds to a page saying Couldn't log in to Spotify What's going on There's a temporary issue with logging in to Spotify.
How to get Spotify for Linux. Download and install Spotify client on Ubuntu Systems. Here’s how to install Spotify in Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 Systems. Spotify is a popular streaming music app. It is a great way to listen to music by streaming it on your device.
Install Spotify in Ubuntu 15.04
Open a terminal and use the following commands:
Once you have installed the Soptify desktop client, open it from Unity Dash. For many users, Spotify client does not starts in Ubuntu. Don’t worry, here is how to easily fix it.
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free'
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install spotify-client
Once you have installed the Soptify desktop client, open it from Unity Dash. For many users, Spotify client does not starts in Ubuntu. Don’t worry, here is how to easily fix it.
Troubleshoot – Spotify Doesn’t Start
If Spotify won’t start in Ubuntu and you see a message similar to:
spotify: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
In such case, Spotify doesn’t start because libgcrypt 11 is missing. So to fix this error with Spotify, manually install libgcrypt11. To install it, download the package and manually install it:
Simply double click on the downloaded .deb file to install libgcrypt 11 on your system. Remove spotify from samsung music app. Once installed, try to start Spotify again. You may need to reboot the system.
If you’re a Spotify Premium subscriber — get you, fancy pants — did you know you easily stream music from the command line?
Like, music from the actual Spotify library?
Well, you can! And it’s all thanks to an
ncurses
Spotify written in Rust called (obviously) ncspot
. Now I know what you’re thinking: there is an official, sanctified, and (somewhat regularly) updated Spotify for Linux client for the desktop. It’s even available as a Snap.
Command line? Pah! Who needs it. We should use what Spotify gives us, for free, and say thanks, right?
And you’re right.
Well, half right.
Well, maybe not even half right because the official Spotify desktop app is aab outright, absolute, never ending garbage fire.
It works (sometimes) but it runs poorly. And while it might integrate with Linux DEs to the point I can smush a keyboard media key to skip a track, that’s only really useful if the thing plays some music to skip in the first place!
Maybe I’m being mean. But it has just taken me nigh on 6 minutes to go from launching the Spotify for Linux apps to it actually loading, let alone doing what I want (which is play New Found Glory’s cover of Eye of the Tiger in honour of the new Ubuntu 20.04 wallpaper) so whatever ??♂️.
ncspot is a CLI Spotify Player
Back to
ncspot
, source code for which you’ll find up on Github. Keep in mind that as this is a geekishly (new word, learn it) cool tool and superbly designed (for a terminal app) it isn’t what a man more patronising than me would describe as ‘grandpa-friendly’.
— tl;dr: this is not the “easiest” way to listen to Spotify on Linux.
But it works well, which is all I really care about as I like to listen to music, not stare at it.
Helpfully the app even boasts support for MPRIS, i.e. media player controls:
And it can be configured with keybindings too — neat!
Oh, I haven’t even mentioned that it’s super resource efficient yet, either!
That’s what I call a table.
But best of all
ncspot
is very easy to install on virtually any Linux distro out there because it’s available as a Snap app on the Snapcraft store.To install ncspot on Ubuntu run:
Boom — done!
The first time you run
ncspot
in a new terminal window you’ll be prompted to login with your Spotify Premium account. This is all “on screen” and easy to do. The app even saves your credentials after login so that you don’t have to login each time you use it.Music login. And that’s pretty much all there is to it!
Be sure to take a few minutes out to glance over the litany of keyboard shortcuts needed to navigate the UI, manage tracks, queues and playlists, and so on.
Bad news: there are a lot of shortcuts to learn.
Good news: they are very logical and easy to remember.
Better yet, if you forget which key does what just press the
?
key with the CLI tool in focus to call up a handy cheat sheet.Install Spotify On Ubuntu
In summary, if you’re not put off by the idea of streaming music from a command line app and you happen to be a Spotify Premium subscriber there’s no better client out there than
ncspot
.P.S., in case you missed the memo in the copy above, this client does not work with free Spotify accounts. I checked. So, for something similar, try Tizonia instead.
Try it out and let me know what you think of it in the comments — and if you fancy hand crafting a Yaru-themed colour scheme for it, do share it below!
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H/t Popey