Comments on: Spotify – How to get Spotify links to work in Linux

By: Spotify for Linux | Jordan Hall

Spotify for Linux | Jordan Hall — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:48:48 +0000

[...] written about Spotify on Linux before, however this focused on how to get Spotify links working in Linux, when utilising the the Windows version of Spotify via Wine (a Windows compatibility layer for [...]

By: Tomas

Tomas — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:01:18 +0000

Thanks for this advice, got it working in Lucid lynx after addding “network.protocol-handler.expose.spotify, and setting to true.

By: Jose

Jose — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:59:40 +0000

with the spotify native for whatever reason if I clicked on a playlist on firefox it asked me which application I wanted the link to run on, but if I selected spotify nothing happened.

BUT I found out how to make it work.I had to put these command lines on a terminal. Im using ubuntu 10.04

gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/command “/usr/bin/spotify -uri %s”

gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/needs_terminal false

gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome

By: maedox

maedox — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:12:21 +0000

What exactly are you asking?

If you install the native Linux version in Gnome you don’t need to do anything. Support for that should be posted in Spotify’s GetSatisfaction portal.

By: Jose

Jose — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:11:18 +0000

Hi. There is native version for inux already. Could you tell me how make the script work with the browsers? I guess the modification of the script is simple but I am just a dumb end user

By: teerik

teerik — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:51:47 +0000

Actually maedox had already posted a resolution to this and now I got it working nicely. I just missed it at first:

“PS to the anyone having problems on Karmic; You may have to add a boolean “false” named “network.protocol-handler.expose.spotify” in about:config to get things going.”

By: maedox

maedox — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:38:56 +0000

I came across this:
http://neo22s.com/spotify-links/

I know it says for Chrome, but because this is a Gnome config change, it should work for all browsers (via xdg-open). Confirmed working for Firefox 3.6.4 and Chromium 6.0.614.0 (48240).

By: teerik

teerik — Thu, 27 May 2010 07:49:18 +0000

I have this same situation. I tried both about:config and gconftool but the Firefox doesn’t recognize links.

By: Terje

Terje — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:04:53 +0000

Thank you.

> You may have to add a boolean “false” named “network.protocol-handler.expose.spotify” in about:config to get things going.

That did the trick for me.(the other lines and gconftool-2 didn’t)

By: Ricco

Ricco — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:20:26 +0000

Hey, thanks! That worked for me. I couldn’t get the about:config to work either, but gconftool-2 does the trick.

By: Raphael

Raphael — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:35:05 +0000

It seems that in gnome at least with firefox 3.0.17 the about:config method doesn’t work at all. I had to do

gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/command ‘dir_to/spotify.sh %s’ –type String

gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/spotify/enabled –type Boolean true

and then choose the spotify.sh app in any case the first time I used a spotify link.

By: Jordan Hall

Jordan Hall — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:58:24 +0000

@maedox

If you wish, you can probably report this as a bug at http://bugs.winehq.org/

More information about reporting bugs in Wine is available here: http://wiki.winehq.org/Bugs

By: maedox

maedox — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:25:39 +0000

Spotify does not get focus in Windows either, but the taskbar indicates it wants attention, which is not the case in Ubuntu.

It is not really a big deal, I just thought I would mention it.

Wine output from a terminal window:
—————————————————
$ wine “$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Spotify/spotify.exe” /uri “spotify:artist:2yzxX2DI9LFK8VFTyW2zZ8″
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA ATI HDMI, disabling mixer
fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0×745513) using GetSystemInfo()
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:imagehlp:CheckSumMappedFile (0x26d0000, 2154492, 0x78e5d4, 0x78e5d8): stub
fixme:debugstr:CheckRemoteDebuggerPresent (0xffffffff)->(0x7929f0): Stub!
—————————————————

I have no idea what to make of it, but it seems you may be right.

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 with wine version 1.1.31 btw.

PS to the anyone having problems on Karmic; You may have to add a boolean “false” named “network.protocol-handler.expose.spotify” in about:config to get things going.

By: Jordan Hall

Jordan Hall — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:07:55 +0000

@maedox

Glad it all works for you!

Regarding the focusing, does this behaviour differ from how it performs in Windows? If so, I would assume this is a bug in Wine. You can try different versions of Wine. Alternatively, run Spotify (via Wine) in a terminal, attempt what you are describing, and see if you notice any ‘stub’ or ‘todo’ output appear. If so, this would suggest the code to handle this refocusing is not yet implemented and may be in the works.

Tell me how it goes!

By: maedox

maedox — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:21:17 +0000

Great work dude, it works!

Only one question; Do you know if there is a way to focus the Spotify window when one clicks a link in firefox? When I click on a link Spotify does what it is supposed to, but the window does not pop to the front unless it is already minimized to the tray. If it only minimized or behind another window it does not get focus.

By: Jordan Hall

Jordan Hall — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:50:15 +0000

I have this working with Ubuntu Karmic, Firefox 3.5.5, Spotify 0.3.22 and Wine 1.0.1. The Wine version being the only obvious difference here may be the cause.

I’ll take a look into this further.

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:36:11 +0000

No luck I’m afraid. I do have the spotify.sh file marked as executable, checked via Nautilus.

I’ve been through all the steps again, double checking the path for Spotify, that I’ve replaced username with my log in name, and entered the correct names and values in Firefox about:config

I’m using Ubuntu Karmic, Firefox 3.5.5 and Spotify 0.3.22 via Wine 1.1.31, but all I get when I try to open a Spotify playlist link is “Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address, because the protocol (spotify) isn’t associated with any program.”

By: Jordan Hall

Jordan Hall — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:20:33 +0000

@Stu

Hi Stu. You’re very right. For step three, you can open a new terminal, which should open to your home folder by default. Enter the command ‘chmod +x spotify.sh’ into the terminal to make the script executable.

If you wish, you can change the permissions of the script by right-clicking the ‘spotify.sh’ file in Nautilus, going to Properties -> Permissions and checking the ‘Allow executing file as program’ checkbox.

Hope this helps. Feel free to ask any more questions if you are still having issues.

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:54:55 +0000

Can you expand on step 3 please? Where do you type that code? In the terminal window?