Having recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 I experienced some problems with playback on Spotify. And for those of you who didn’t know, Spotify does work on Ubuntu if you run it using Wine.
I found that there are quite few people that are having the same problem on getsatisfaction.com on this thread.
The problem I was experiencing was that every now and then play back would just stop and then if I tried to play another song it would be really poor quality and it would eventually just stop completely.
To fix this I did the following:
- Uninstalled wine
- Added the latest WineHQ APT Repository to software sources, by following this tutorial
- Re-installed wine v1.2
- Re-installed spotify by running the command
sudo aptitude remove wine
sudo apt-get install wine1.2
sudo wine "Spotify Installer.exe"
Hope that helps, if not then please let me know
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Brilliant – thanks. I had spotify installed before starting the process and I found I didn’t have to re-install it at all, it just worked under the new wine version. I also didn’t have to add the winehq repo because wine1.2 is in unbuntu 9.10
Excellent – glad I could help someone!
Thanks, you just saved me
Why run wine as root though? `wine “Spotify Installer.exe”‘ worked perfectly for me…
@Henrik – awesome, glad I could help you too
You’re quite right…no need to run wine as “sudo” – wine “Spotify Installer.exe” works fine
worked great for me!
thanks muchos
hey hey cheers bud works a treat!!!!!
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Seems like this was an issue for quite a few people, so I’m glad I was able to help you guys out