Tag Archives: spotify

Spotify finally comes to Linux

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Alex

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 … Continue reading →

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Spotify (wine+proxy)- Connection lost. Reconnecting

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Alex

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 … Continue reading →

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HowTo Fix: “There is a problem with your sound card. Spotify can’t play music.” (Wine)

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Alex

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 … Continue reading →

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HowTo: Fix Jumping/Skipping Sound in Spotify under Wine – Ubuntu Karmic (9.10)

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Alex

The sound in Spotify was jumping or skipping much like a scratched disk would. After a little investigation I found a couple of ways to fix it with people saying one worked but the other didn’t for them. (Solution 2 … Continue reading →