Yup, and it hasn’t been for over a year now. The Spotify client for Linux is no longer in active development. The Linux client is described as follows on Spotify’s website: “This version is unsupported.” So what has happened is that the Linux client was developed in the spare time of some interested developers, and it has relied on the goodwill of these developers to provide, support, and update the Linux desktop client. The official Spotify client is available but there are few issues that you must know before you install it. Update, the free version of Spotify is also available and HitmanDreams provided the following instructions.Command line option – snap install spotify Still, if you are running Ubuntu Spotify also claims you can run the Windows version of Spotify on WINE which should work for you just fine. They also don’t have a way to implement ads so only premium members can use the Linux build. The Spotify preview build for Linux does not support some features yet including decoding of local music so you can only use the online Spotify catalog. Sudo apt-get install spotify-client-qt spotify-client-gnome-support Spotify Linux Limitations: Sudo apt-key adv –keyserver –recv-keys 4E9CFF4E If you want to verify the downloaded packages, Add this line to your list of repositories by On their website the provided the instructions for getting and installing the package via Debian but similar instructions apply to Ubuntu as well. Spotify has packaged the service for the following Linux Platforms: Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 10.04 package and for Fedora 13, i386 and x86_64. Yes, it’s true that officially there really isn’t support for Debian or Ubuntu Linux for Spotify, but the Spotify team do actually have beta clients you can download for those Linux OS environments and experiment with if you are a member of the Spotify Premium service.
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