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Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Roni Laukkarinen — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:15:14 -0000

Does not work, also winhttp trick does not work. The latest wine (1.4), latest opensuse (12.1), latest spotify... :( any help?

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Mikalea 89 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:49:40 -0000

Does not work at all for me, don't understand what i'm doing wrong..

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Kk — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:41:53 -0000

Tested all solutions here and after testing this one (and disconnecting facebook) it finally works. (After crashing a few times) (Using Ubuntu 11.04). But it might've been a combination of all solutions that did the trick, who knows...

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Felix — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:55:35 -0000

Thanks! Works for me!

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Michael Hudson — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:47:17 -0000

Thanks, Shivkumar Shivaji. That was a great solution.

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Jay — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:26:01 -0000

This worked for me after I logged into windows, opened Spotify preferences, Disconnected from Facebook and then copied the Spotify folders.

Thanks for the tip.

Using Spotify 0.6 btw.

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

HarrisHawk — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:42:32 -0000

Windows version of Spotify working fine under Wine 1.3.28 on Ubuntu 11.10 (64bit). Steps followed were:

1) Installed and configured Wine as recommended by Spotify (http://www.spotify.com/us/h... . Note that my system uses Pulse audio so I did not have the option to select Sound Drivers in Wine Audio config. I set Hardware Acceleration to Emulation, Default Sample Rate to 44100 and Default Bits Per Sample to 16.

2) Downloaded Windows version of Spotify installer (http://www.spotify.com/us/d....
When it was downloaded, I right clicked on Spotify Installer.exe and selected Open with Wine Windows Program Loader.

3) Once installed I found that running Spotify from the Applications menu under Wine / Programs just resulted in it crashing consistently. The solution for me was as outlined in post 9) above, namely to replace Wine's WINHTTP.DLL with the copy from Windows XP.

4) Obtain WINHTTP.DLL . I got mine from my copy of Windows XP (in Windows\system32 folder) but I guess you can Google for it too.

5) On Ubuntu rename the current WINHTTP.DLL in $HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 ( I named it WINHTTP.OLD) then copy the new WINHTTP.DLL to that folder.

6) In Wine Configuration click on the Libraries tab , in the New Override for Library dropdown select WINHTTP.DLL and then click the Add button. You should now see winhttp listed in the existing overrides as "winhttp(native, builtin)" . If it is not set to this then just select it, click Edit button and choose the Native then Builtin option. Click OK to save your settings.

7) Start Spotify on Ubuntu from Wine Programs menu. For me it crashed the first start but on the second start I logged in with my Facebook id and all has been ok ever since.

Best of luck all !

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Jmg — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:50:43 -0000

Finally a solution that works and doesn't involve paying subscription or owning a copy of windows, no functioning windows PCs in this house and I didn't feel the need to get one just for spotify :)

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Shivkumar Shivaji — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:11:34 -0000

Much easier way to make it work for those without a windows installation available. The crash is on winhttp.dll. Download this dll using google. Then copy it to your system32 folder under wine. Make a backup of the existing dll just in case. Then go to wine configuration and set it to try native and then builtin for the winhttp library. Spotify then works.

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

oj88 — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:33:41 -0000

BTW, it's a shame that we have do hack to make Spotify work. Spotify has always worked very well in WINE (local playback can easily be fixed), and it seemed to me that they always made sure that Spotify was working in WINE. But no we have to hack around. Well, as long as they develop the Linux version I'm good. Spotify Premium FTW.

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Keith Patterson — Tue, 24 May 2011 23:58:14 -0000

You are a genius! Spotify up and running again :-)

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

oj88 — Sat, 21 May 2011 15:07:27 -0000

Works! (Ubuntu 9.10)

Actually, when Spotify updated itself I could agree to the new EULA and everything without WINE crashing, but when I uninstalled Spotify and reinstalled, it crashed every time. Copying files from Windows works fine. The path where you find the Spotify folders in Windows XP is a bit different (C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data and C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data).

The Linux preview version of Spotify works excellent and everyone should try it. My problem is that on Ubuntu 9.10 (my sevrer) it crashes when playing local files. Works fine on my laptop running 10.04. Ubuntu 9.10 is not supported anymore so I should update the server anyway.

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Viggo — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:25:36 -0000

I just had the same problem, and decided it was time to switch to the Linux version of Spotify.
See here on how to do it for Ubuntu:
http://linuxhub.net/2010/07...
If the keyserver fails, try to use another one. keyserver.ubuntu.com worked for me.

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Xenonn — Wed, 18 May 2011 06:07:24 -0000

Nice one, but it crashes on random with a
"fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module"
error.

Any clues?

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Sander — Sat, 14 May 2011 20:33:24 -0000

Actually got the debian linux version to work. :)

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Espen Fjellvær Olsen — Sat, 14 May 2011 19:55:15 -0000

That sucks, and I do not think I can help you there. You should test the Linux client (also from spotify.com) if that one suits your needs. If not you might have to find the previous version somewhere.

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Sander — Sat, 14 May 2011 19:35:01 -0000

Hey, thanks for your reply. Ok, that was a rookie mistake not to show hidden files X) But since i installed Ubuntu this week i guess that's ok. Now stuck at step 5. I've copied the files, and Spotify doesn't hang anymore. Instead, it terminates itself a second after starting up without error info. Time after time.

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Sander — Sat, 14 May 2011 19:29:33 -0000

Hey, thanks for your reply. Ok, that was a rookie mistake not to show hidden files. But I installed Ubuntu this week so i guess that's ok. So now i've copied the files into Application Data/Spotify and Spotify doesn't hang anymore. Instead, it terminates itself right away without error info.

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Espen Fjellvær Olsen — Sat, 14 May 2011 18:13:32 -0000

I am sorry, I have never seen a wine installation without a ~/.wine/, that is /home//.wine/

Re: How I made Spotify 0.5 work under wine 1.3

Sander — Sat, 14 May 2011 13:00:03 -0000

Hi, I have the same problem and have followed the first 3 steps of the suggested solution, but now stuck. How do i get the files from my usb stick into my Wine environment? There's no .wine folder under home/user and winefile from terminal won't copy or move them... Plz advise

Re: How i made Spotify 0.4 play local mp3 files on Linux with Wine

billythekid — Sun, 08 May 2011 15:46:24 -0000

Thanks so much for this... was beginning to be a right PITA this!

Any idea how to stop the linux client from just crashing out on local play?(or am I the only person experiencing this)

Re: How i made Spotify 0.4 play local mp3 files on Linux with Wine

Vitor — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:03:42 -0000

Just worked on a 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10! Thanks, man!

Re: How i made Spotify 0.4 play local mp3 files on Linux with Wine

Ben — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:17:58 -0000

Maverick 10.10 working, respect!

Re: How i made Spotify 0.4 play local mp3 files on Linux with Wine

sjommi — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:56:35 -0000

Copied your file to /usr/lib/wine/winemp3.acm.so. Works great on OpenSuse 11.3

Re: How i made Spotify 0.4 play local mp3 files on Linux with Wine

AndrĂŠ Laszlo — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:34:48 -0000

Great! Works like a charm!