Friday, May 7th, 2010
I bought Serengeti's album Standing Steady on MP3 from Bengans and wanted to play it in Spotify as "Local Files". It worked perfectly in MS Windows, but on Ubuntu I got "File is an unsupported format". WTF?
Spotify acknowledges this:
Spotify uses the system-supplied MP3 decoder on all platforms, and during our ...
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
For various reasons (see bottom of WinePulse – PulseAudio for Wine) the main branch of Wine does not support PulseAudio. This makes Spotify under Wine misbehave a bit, but fortunately there is a solution! A person called Neil Wilson has been kind enough to provide PPA packages of Wine with ...
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Spotify opens its doors to developers and releases libspotify. Nice!
The C API and examples look very clean. It's even possible to play songs through the API and I guess that's much more than anyone expected. Some might complain that the library is binary-only for Linux on IA-32 but I won't...
If ...
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