Arch Linux User Repository

@Lenovsky There you go. Please upvote this topic if you wish to have spotify in the official ArchLinux [community] repository.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web-Player/Redistribute-Spotify-on-Linux-Distributions/m-p/1695334#M188735

Can confirm, Spotify crashes when attempting to play local files.

Currently, spotify crashes when trying to play local mp3 files. I already rebuilt ffmpeg-compat-54, did not fix the issue.

Spotify itself outputs:

[mp3 @ 0x7fe11529ae20] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5015510 microseconds
[mp3 @ 0x7fe115279540] Header missing

Analyzing the core dump does not reveal anything useful, as there are just countless threads, all polling or waiting for some event, except the following:

Stack trace of thread 16458:
    #0  0x00007fe0c6911cf1 av_buffer_unref (libavutil.so.52)
    #1  0x00007fe0c691932d av_frame_unref (libavutil.so.52)
    #2  0x00007fe0c691949a av_frame_free (libavutil.so.52)
    #3  0x0000000001bffda3 n/a (spotify)
    ...

A suggestion/request for the /usr/bin/spotify launcher scripts: please use 'exec' when launching /usr/share/spotify/spotify so that there's not a lingering shell process running.

Even better, how about only replace the /usr/bin/spotify launcher script for i686 builds and leave the symlink in place for x86_64.

Updated PKGBUILD for spotify-client_1.0.94.262.g3d5c231c-9_amd64.deb: https://pastebin.com/eadt8HAc

I tried to install today and got this error:

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading http://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify-client/spotify-client_1.0.92.390.g2ce5ec7d-18_amd64.deb Aborting...

Looking in the spotify repository, available versions are: spotify-client_1.0.72.117.g6bd7cc73-35_i386.deb, spotify-client_1.0.80.480.g51b03ac3-13_amd64.deb and spotify-client_1.0.94.262.g3d5c231c-9_amd64.deb.

Please update version 1.0.92.x to 1.0.94.x.

Change the PKGBUILD pkgver=1.0.92.390 _anotherpkgver=.g2ce5ec7d _amd64_pkgrel=18 sha256sums_x86_64=('039443c918f44f853ef293b5804481b503ae5a5ec63e2bc670e7aecfb6c84f80')

to

pkgver=1.0.94.262 _anotherpkgver=.g3d5c231c _amd64_pkgrel=9 sha256sums_x86_64=('92803D614DA2FD4802F801D85DA9CF786F34216BBFA6085D5791C3E8350B4F44')

@arquero You could be right, tbh I haven't used AWhetter's package. I used the stable as a base and manually changed the build to 1.0.92.390 (but had to ignore the pgp key as it's only supposed for the old version).

I don't really want to create an AUR package (too much first setup stuff). Maybe AWhetter is willing to update, if I send the changed stuff?

I have noticed an error that Spotify connect does not work if two linux PCs have the same home directory. If you are also annoyed by this bug or just want to help spotify take more care of the linux bugs, please comment and rate the following post in the spotify forum: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux/spotify-connect-not-working-properly-on-linux/m-p/4596685#

@eq891 I've tried your solution but it didn't work for me : I got the same errors @Desdic describes. I've solved replacing "libcurl.so.3" with "libcurl-gnutls.so.4" and updating the sha256sum for the "spotify" file as seen in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify-stable/

@Desdic

Change...

!/bin/sh

export LD_PRELOAD=libcurl.so.3 /usr/share/spotify/spotify "$@"

into libcurl.so.4 in "spotify" file and manually update the sha256sums for this file in the PKGBUILD

Maybe I'll make an AUR-Package soon.