Spotify for Linux

PermaBanned · 1 Sep 2010 at 14:10

Finally!

http://www.spotify.com/uk/blog/archives/2010/07/12/linux/

One of the few things i was actually using Wine for...

zinc · 1 Sep 2010 at 14:49

Been using it since it came out that day. I'm very impressed so far. First thing you notice is that it's identical to the windows version looks wise but you have the nice fonts. I'm surprised at the effort spotify have made updating it. They are telling the truth when they mean they are updating it at the same speed as the windows and mac counterparts. Just the other week when folders came out, all platforms got it. Only problem they need to overcome now is getting a free version and also local storage.

Spotify was all I used wine for too, no need for it now so I uninstalled it

GeForce · 1 Sep 2010 at 15:11

\o/

Though I want the free version. But this is a good start.

Spooter · 1 Sep 2010 at 15:24

Seems to work well. I have a premium account and use it on Ubuntu.

Solaris · 1 Sep 2010 at 15:24

Been using it for weeks.... if not months... Catch up people

zinc · 1 Sep 2010 at 18:37

Solaris said:
Been using it for weeks.... if not months... Catch up people

Yea it was out on the 12th of July according to the blog. Quite a while ago lol.

The Mad Rapper · 1 Sep 2010 at 19:50

Just read about it in the new Linux Format - Meh!

Apopcalyptic · 2 Sep 2010 at 14:11

I bet they're x86 packages only. My only Linux install at the moment is on PPC. I'll try it when I get home, but I reckon I'll be sticking with despotify-simple for a while yet

Dunks · 2 Sep 2010 at 14:40

As we haven’t found a reliable way to display ads yet, this version is only available to Spotify Premium subscribers.

Oh well, it runs fine in Wine for me anyway.

Apopcalyptic · 3 Sep 2010 at 17:56

Well, I finally got the chance to attempt this today. As I mentioned before, no ppc package exists. Boo hiss.

Roland0 · 3 Sep 2010 at 17:59

Good to see more Linux app development!

Apopcalyptic · 3 Sep 2010 at 20:15

Stoned_SpaZZZ said:
Good to see more Linux app development!

It is, but I wish that these developers would consider multiple architecture support. Y'know, I can't even watch a bloody flash movie, or youtube, because my CPU is a powerpc and the open source equivalents are pretty poor.

However, as far as spotify is concerned, I *am* pretty happy with despotify.

edit / - All of this applies doubly when you consider that for OSX, there are release for x86, x86_64 and powerpc.