Fix Spotify 0.4.3 To Work With Ubuntu (Facebook And Local Files Not Playing)

As most of you probably know, Spotify released a new version of its client – 0.4.3 (more info, here) which now includes Facebook and local files support (among other things). But using the Windows Spotify client under Ubuntu using Wine, you won’t be able to take advantage of these 2 new features out of the box. Both the Facebook connect and local files won’t work.

Here is a work-around for both of these issues.

1. Connect Spotify with Facebook under Ubuntu (using WINE)
2. Navigate to http://www.spotify.com/ and log in.
3. Go to: https://www.spotify.com/en/account/social/facebook/. Click the “Allow access” button and that is it!

1. Play local mp3 files with Spotify Windows client under Ubuntu (using WINE)
2. Run the following command within a terminal:

32bit:

$ sudo wget http://blog.mrfjo.org/winemp3.acm.so -O /usr/lib32/wine/winemp3.acm.so

64bit:

$ sudo wget http://blog.mrfjo.org/winemp3.acm.so -O /usr/lib/wine/winemp3.acm.so

Then configure Wine to emulate Windows XP: Applications > Wine > Configure Wine, on the Applications tab, under “Windows version” select “Windows XP”. I had “Windows Vista” set and for some reason it didn’t work (Spotify probably knows it’s bad =)).

If for some reason this method doesn’t work for you, see THIS.

Many thanks to Tobal @ Linuxmusica for the second tip. Credits for the winemp3.acm.so file: blog.mrfjo.org

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