Spotify finally comes to Linux

Spotify the free music application for Windows and Mac has finally been officially ported to Linux, while this is only a preview build and currently unsupported it’s at least a step in the right direction and no more running the Windows version through Wine and all the trouble I had with that.

The main differences in this version is the lack of local music and that it’s only available to Premium subscribers while they are looking in to ways of “reliably” displaying ads for Free and Open users of it’s services.

With simple installation instructions for Ubuntu 10.04 and Debian Squeeze other Linux distribution users may be out in the cold for a while but I’m sure hacks and development with come quickly. Below are the instrutions given on Spotifys secret labs page:

# 1. Add this line to your list of repositories by editing your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

# 2. Run apt-get update
# 3. (optional) If you want to verify the downloaded packages, you will need to add our public key

gpg –keyserver wwwkeys.de.pgp.net –recv-keys 4E9CFF4E
gpg –export 4E9CFF4E |sudo apt-key add -

# 4. Run apt-get install spotify-client-qt spotify-client-gnome-support

More information can be found on their blog and secret labs pages.