Questions tagged [spotify]
Spotify is a streaming music service focused on music discovery through social interaction. It is not web based; streaming via Windows, OS X, iOS, and Android operating systems but has a one-click method for initiating playback via web links.
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Is there a way to make the X button exit Spotify?
I've been trying out Spotify for the past few days, and have been annoyed that clicking the X button in the top right of the window just minimizes it instead of closing it. In fact, even right-...
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Any Spotify tweaks with keyboard shortcut to 'star' tracks?
I'm a premium subscriber of Spotify and an obsessive productivity geek.
One thing that really annoys me is that there isn't a keyboard shortcut to 'star' a track (I.e add a track to favourites). I ...
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Creating Spotify keyboard shortcuts
I'm on Windows 10 64 bit, Using spotify desktop free version. Is there a way to create keyboard Spotify shortcuts to pause/play and skip tracks, while outside Spotify? I don't want to keep opening it. ...
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Failed to fetch Spotify repository while updating ubuntu
Given I have spotify installed on my ubuntu system
When i upgrade using:
sudo apt-get update
Then I get this error:
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not ...
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Clearing Spotify cache to recover disk space?
When you play a song in Spotify, some hard drive space is used to cache the file, so that it plays faster the next time it is selected.
Is it possible to clear the cache (without the use of third ...
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Hide Spotify from Windows 7 Task Bar
When Spotify is running, it shows a little icon in the activity field. On most operative systems, closing the Spotify window minimizes the player to the activity window, freeing up space in the task ...
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Pausing Spotify while YouTube is playing and starting it when YouTube stops
Kind of a random request, but something that would be cool nonetheless; would there be anyway I could make Spotify (and possibly iTunes etc.) pause when I start playing a YouTube video, and then start ...
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How do I get my Logitech media buttons to control Spotify
I have a Logitech diNovo keyboard which includes media buttons for play/pause, stop, next, previous. I would like to let those buttons control Spotify. I've tried to add Spotify to the players.ini ...
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Is there a way to disable Spotify playlist notifications?
There is an annoying red thing going on on the top right corner, top of the megaphone symbol, every time someone changes something on any playlist I've subscribed to.
The problem is that I haven't ...
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Dynamic Spotify Playlist of my Top Tracks on Last.fm?
Is there anyway to create a dynamic Spotify Playlist which automatically updates with the Top 100 tracks from my Last.fm account?
I know it's possible to create a playlist of my Last.fm loved tracks ...
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Remap "next song" key in ubuntu to work with spotify and wine
I want to change song in spotify with a global key in ubuntu. This is possible on windows with a special key on keyboard, the "next song key"(?)
How can I remap a key in ubuntu(no "next song" ...
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Ubuntu: how to get audio to work in both Spotify (under Wine) and Flash (in Firefox)?
I'm running Spotify on Linux using Wine.
Sound worked great (even though the sound test in winecfg failed!), until I installed alsa-oss package yesterday to get Flash sound working in Firefox.
Now ...
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Spotify stopped scrobbling to libre.fm - unable to login
I've set Spotify up to scrobble to libre.fm using the hosts file hack, as specified on the wiki, adding these two entries to my hosts file.
149.20.54.250 post.audioscrobbler.com
149.20.54.250 ws....
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Prioritize Spotify when pressing media keys
I have media keys on my laptop's numpad (play/pause, stop, previous, next) and so far, even if the Spotify app was not focused, those keys would trigger an action in it. But for some reason, now they'...
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Why is the Spotify cache so large?
On my Mac, I have noticed that Spotify uses quite a large cache (/Library/Caches/com.spotify.client). In my case, it is roughly 4GB.
However, that's really puzzling because while it's true that I ...
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