Spotify Announces It Has Come To Linux
 

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/mapping...city-10017974/

Above link

Does this mean we can get this ported for Maemo now :D

Good to see Spotify now including Linux in the game ! :cool::cool:

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No. The release is an X86 build, not an armel build.

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It's written in QT though isnt it ?

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The situation is similar as to before.. but you could always install the Maemo Groveshark client. "apt-get install groove". It is currently in extras-dev.

And to me honest the Wine soulution for desktop linux have been working good. But always nice to have it native.

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Spotify already works on Maemo. Though you need a premium account to use it.

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Sure, it's written in Qt, but presumably compiled for Intel processors, not ARM processors. That suggests that it wouldn't take too much effort to re-target for ARM processors, but the binary format on this release is entirely incorrect for the N900.

An officially supported client would be great, though. (As would access for Unlimited subscribers, too. I suggested recently to Spotify that they might like to consider that as an option.)

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...and you need a premium account to use this new client from Spotify too....

/oxpo

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Only for now... as they can't figure out a good way of getting adds on the Client.
If this could be ported for maemo and chop the GUI up a little that would be awesome. I want to be able to create play-lists on the fly from my N900 and currently we can't with any of the Spotify offerings.

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Yep, just to confirm this is pay-subscribers only still for the N900.

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Not all paying subscribers, only Premium subscribers. Unlimited subscribers can't access the service via third-party libs, via officially supported mobile clients, or via the new X86 Linux client.

This release from Spotify is good news, but it has nothing to do with the N900, unless I've missed something major about a code drop.

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I had hopes something more could come of this - If they are embracing the Linux platform it surely wouldn't take much more for them to start embracing the Maemo platform and i guess they will have to eventually when MeeGo is around.

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...and miss offline playlists and similar premium features

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we do have spotify client for N900 already. and i already understood that sometimes community releases are much better than official releases. i'm for «made by people for people» software =)

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Correct but currently all the offerings by the community miss out on a number of features which are available in official clients.


Please can we link the two spotify has come to Linux threads useful info going on in each of the threads.

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all we would need is offical spotify lib instead of reverse engineered ones available plus tiny modifications to apps and we would have good enough spotify (or many, at least 3 clients are available to n900 atm)

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Spotify supplies libspotify for anyone to download. At the moment I only know of X86 compiled versions, though.

But, to use it, you need an application key that you need to apply for. I'd say this is the big stumbling block.

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It is true that the major problem with Spotify on the N900 is the underlying libraries. However, if the official library was made available for the armel architecture, only minor modifications would be required to client apps (at least in case of QSpot, as the openspotify library is API-compatible with the official one). It should be noted though that even the official Spotify library does not currently support offline mode.

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In an optimal situation Spotify would just appear as another Music source for the Maemo Media Player, not its own app. Integration, a bit like we have with Skype in Conversations. That'd really showcase the power of the platform vs. "App Phones" :D