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While re-installing Spotify on my Desktop I came across this error while trying to run the .exe through wine (shown above) and here’s a really simple way of fixing it:
Right click the .exe
Properties
Under the Permssions tab make sure “Allow executing file as program” is checked
Click Close and you should be able to now run it through wine..
At University I am running Spotify through a proxy (and wine) which seems to result in lost of connections with 4 different error codes (shown below). What’s strange is I can usually get around 15/20 tracks at the start of the day without loosing connection and then it becomes gradually more frequent until I can’t even play an entire song.
If anyone else is experiencing these issues and have any ideas on how to workaround it or fix it please leave a comment and I’ll make sure to update this post if I get anywhere with the issue.
If you have subscribed to my feed (I have no idea if anyone actually has, and I’m not entirely sure why you would want to but anyway..) I have switched to RSS powered by FeedBurner, it was a really simple process and the reason for doing so is that I like to see which of my posts are well received in order to write better ones in the future. Once the FeedBurner feed has been made it will also give you a guide into replacing all the links to your old RSS feed in order that any new readers will be using it. With page views, traffic sources, returning visitors etc. stats covered by Google Analytics and Wordpress have no feedback on who is following your feeds I figured it might be a worth it.
Point of this post being, if you are using my RSS feed it’d be nice if you could change over however the old feed should still get updated so its not a requirement.
Quite a few times I have encountered this problem, which I think is caused when the soundcard was recently used by another program and might still be busy but it means Spotify can’t play music, so a quick fix for this is to load winecfg and test your sound card which seems to force wine into tacking control of the it.
Close Spotify
In terminal type winecfg
Click on the Audio tab (should be in the top middle)
Click “Test Audio” and if you hear a sound this should work..
Re-open Spotify and check a track, if it’s playing it’s worked otherwise you may have a different issue..
At work I can’t afford to have my Ubuntu system update and possibly wipe out some important libraries I need, and I get pretty tired of closing the Update Manager every time it decides I need to update so here’s how to stop it:
After updating my Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) to Lucid (10.04) I was browsing the new features, one of which I couldn’t seem to find. The “Me Menu” which has been talked about quite a lot recently and referred to on the feature page of Lucid: “New in 10.04. Read and update your social networks instantly. Ubuntu’s new Me Menu lets you access your Facebook and Twitter accounts (and more) straight away. Connect to your chat channels and make updates through a single window. Being sociable has never been so easy.”
After a little searching on the applets under add to panel (right click on a panel and it should be the top option) I found it, it’s not called the “Me Menu” at all in fact it’s called the “Indicator Applet” and “Indicator Applet Session”. So if you happen to be asking yourself “Where is the me menu in ubuntu 10.04″” or “what is the ubuntu me menu called?” and find yourself to my site, there is your answer. Why they didn’t actually call it the Me Menu and save me a bunch of hassle I have no idea.
I’m not an OSX person and personally prefer my minimise, maximise and close buttons to be in that order on the right, which they are not as default on the new Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) so here’s how you can swap them back to their rightful place (pun intended).
This can be done either of two ways: Use the following one line command to edit gconf (for more info type man gconftool):
As far as I am aware everything is still working fine and it might just be something left in from Karmic which isn’t needed any longer but just to make sure comment out these lines rarther than removing them.
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