Divide and Conquer » Spotify http://www.divideandconquer.se David's Software Development Blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:28:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Spotify 0.4 in WINE: “File is an unsupported format” http://www.divideandconquer.se/2010/05/07/spotify-0-4-in-wine-file-is-an-unsupported-format/ http://www.divideandconquer.se/2010/05/07/spotify-0-4-in-wine-file-is-an-unsupported-format/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 18:08:44 +0000 David http://www.divideandconquer.se/?p=661 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 limited testing we found the Wine decoder to be excessively unstable on quite a few MP3 files, including some from our purchase partners. We are therefore blocking codecs with the identifier “WINE-MPEG3″ until the Wine system works satisfactorily.

One workaround I found involved recompiling or binary-patching WINE. Not so fun.

The official support forum contained a solution based around installing Windows Media Player 10. I have downloaded and installed it now according to the instructions, but already the playback froze once. Well, Spotify isn’t perfectly reliable in WINE anyway, so this is probably Good Enough.

]]> http://www.divideandconquer.se/2010/05/07/spotify-0-4-in-wine-file-is-an-unsupported-format/feed/ 0 PulseAudio support in Wine makes Spotify work better! http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/12/07/pulseaudio-support-in-wine-makes-spotify-work-better/ http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/12/07/pulseaudio-support-in-wine-makes-spotify-work-better/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:55:12 +0000 David http://www.divideandconquer.se/?p=588 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 the WinePulse patch. I’m installning this PPA on all my Ubuntu machines where me of my wife use Spotify.

]]> http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/12/07/pulseaudio-support-in-wine-makes-spotify-work-better/feed/ 0 libspotify – the official Spotify library! http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/04/07/libspotify-the-official-spotify-library/ http://www.divideandconquer.se/2009/04/07/libspotify-the-official-spotify-library/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:39:35 +0000 David http://www.divideandconquer.se/?p=322 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 I had a premium account I would probably spend a lot of time toying with their API the next few days!

It would be perfect for the never-gonna-happen project with a car computer connecting to AUX or CD changer input on the car stereo. The car computer could be based on an ALIX board, run Linux from Compact Flash and use an USB-based mobile broadband to download songs.

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