Native Linux-Support would be great!

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  vegardmeng replied on April 27, 2010 17:16

  Have been paying since spotify was released. And all I see is new features making spotify in wine more and more unstable.

   

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  churbain replied on April 27, 2010 13:02

  Maybe if no native support, making spotify works flawlessly in wine rather than deactivating not working stuff...

   

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  Michael Gomes replied on April 27, 2010 12:04

  Come on spotify! I've been following this for a year now and I'm sick of not getting ANY response from the company. Andreas (The rep "helping") has only responded once in this thread and that was to comment on xtestify.
  
  SPOTIFY: At least do us the decency of telling us why you are so unwilling to build a native Linux app.
  
  I can't see that its not a question of demand (see above).
  
  Or a question of not recognising the market (You give WINE instructions on your main site).
  
  If its a case of not having any Linux savy developers then employ Simon Kilvington who built the above mentioned xtestify.
  
  If its a case of money being too tight to employ a Linux developer then give us APIs which work with the free accounts and the Linux community will build an app.
  
  And if it is a case of having closed source secrets in the free account APIs then how about a custom WINE wrapper which has none of the bugs that we are experiencing with normal WINE.
  
  There are so many solutions to this problem that I find it astonishing and very disheartening that Spotify is completely ignoring the Linux community.

   

  I’m disheartened and angered by the lack of official response
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  danielssj replied on December 03, 2009 14:45

  As some people have pointed out I would by a premium account IF (and most probably ONLY IF) there is an official native linux spotify client.
  
  I love spotify idea and I would really like them to be more open and support all the linux community.

   

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  elianel replied on October 06, 2009 15:17

  Everyone has a native Spotify application: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone, Android but Linux users don't have it !! Why ?? I use Spotify with Wine, it's not the same as a native client, my multimedia button (play, pause, next, previous) doesn't work :/ . We, Linux user, buy premium accounts like the others so why couldn't we have a native client ?? A closed source client will not be a problem. It's your business, your source, but let us listen the music !!

   

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  Ganske replied on January 25, 2009 08:56

  A streaming service like Spotify is the perfect match for the ever-more-popular "netbooks", which typically run Linux and have too little storage for a local music library.

   

  
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  hardcoder replied on December 23, 2008 10:26

  A Windows app with wine works, but it always feels like there are some things missing. It's always better with a native application. It's more streamlined with the OS and gives the application more "life". Someone mentioned D-bus support, that would be a great feature! And the sound would be much easier for the newbie to fix. There would be nothing to fix ;) Also wine adds an extra layer of complexity, even though the developers of wine has done a great job integrating it into the Desktop Environment. Using Spotify and getting access to it should be easy. I think thats one major thing with a service like Spotify.
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  zooounds replied on December 23, 2008 08:23

  Both 32 bit and 64 bit.
  
  Ubuntu deb would be perfect :)

   

  
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  arno replied on December 10, 2008 18:15

  A native 64-bit version :)

   

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  anthelios77 replied on December 09, 2008 00:03

  And let it communicate with D-bus so we can make cool apps for spotify.

   

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