| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/spotify.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | spotify |
| Description: | A proprietary music streaming service |
| Upstream URL: | https://www.spotify.com |
| Licenses: | custom |
| Submitter: | Foxboron |
| Maintainer: | gromit (Antiz) |
| Last Packager: | gromit |
| Votes: | 266 |
| Popularity: | 12.39 |
| First Submitted: | 2023-02-09 22:51 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2026-05-18 14:53 (UTC) |
Downgrade fixed "Cannot Play Current Song"
146M Mar 22 21:09 spotify-1:1.2.84.476-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
146M Apr 15 16:54 spotify-1:1.2.86.502-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
u@m /opt/AUR/spotify (git)-[master] % sudo pacman -U spotify-1:1.2.84.476-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
Hello, my use case (got premium account) is listening via usb dac. The pc, usb dac is attached is configured with just alsa and default device the usb dac (tried to achieve as close to lossless as feasible).
Recently (after almost 2 years) updated the system, including the aur spotify client and my setup broke (spotify was requiring pipewire, which i'd like to avoid). So in tl/dr was able to achieve working alsa usb dac setup (as before) like this: spotify-alsa-1.2.84.476/spotify --audio-api=alsa --show-console
the crucial was --audio-api=alsa (seen on these comments here), as without it playback was not possible (complaining setting hw params, apulse etc...)
Further to yogh-io's post - yes the downgrade works. However. if you want updates not to reinstate the current (defective) version, you may need to ensure that any helper program ignores spotify. In my case, I have a script that includes the line "yay -Syu --ignore spotify". (Because spotify is in the aur, the amendment to pacman.conf may not work).
Confirming sadslavboy's report on the latest 1.2.86.502-1 - same "can't play" toast, no entry in pactl list sink-inputs while playing. Downgrading to spotify-1:1.2.77.358-1 fully restores playback for me:
sudo pacman -U ~/.cache/yay/spotify/spotify-1:1.2.77.358-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
(or wherever your AUR helper caches builds). Then IgnorePkg = spotify in /etc/pacman.conf to hold it. Investigated with Claude / Claude Code.
With the newest updates of ALL spotify variants available through both AUR and repositories, Spotify is simply not showing the "Applications" part of the sound menu. It repeatedly pops up with "Cannot Play Current Song" when trying to play music.
@privatefound This stops the audio from fading in / fading out when paused / unpaused. Any idea how to fix that issue as well?
@privatefound thank you so much you're a savior :D
Temporary fix for audio issue on Spotify package.
echo "--audio-api=pulseaudio" >> ~/.config/spotify-flags.conf
After the latest update, I've noticed that spotify no longer controls the application volume, but rather just has what seems like an internal volume setting now. This has significantly limited the range of volume that spotify's own volume slider can control and has made the volume control on my streamdeck less useful, as it utilises spotify's own slider and not application sound. Is this on purpose or because of a bug somewhere? Everything should be up to date on my system
Pinned Comments
Antiz commented on 2025-11-23 18:37 (UTC) (edited on 2025-11-23 18:41 (UTC) by Antiz)
Please make sure to import the correct OpenPGP key first:
And always build in a clean chroot. It is as easy as:
It is expected that the package will break now and then, as spotify continuously changes download binaries, OpenPGP keys, etc (which is not appropriate, but we cannot change this). Please be patient if an update does not occur the next day, you can still use an existing spotify install or update the version yourself.
Antiz commented on 2023-09-13 13:21 (UTC)
@lightofpast Just pushed
v1:1.2.20.1210-2that now allows you to set custom launch flags in aspotify-flags.conffile under$XDG_CONFIG_HOMEor~/.config:)