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Hello,

Today i tried to install a spotify client and no one works.

I tryed Yaspot, despotify and Qtify.

Yaspot and Qtify crashed with a Segmentation fault after the logging.

Despotify said me "search failed".

I use a free account. Is it a problem ?

I'm really looking a a way yo enjoy spotify on my N900.

I think that it is the problem that you dont have premium account..
Would be fantastic if they could be used with free accounts.

thanks for you answer

is anybody can confirm that the problem is due to my free account ?

in this case' i'll take a premium account.

i saw that spotify was blocking some open sources clients. is that true ?

i mean if i take a premiuem account, can i have the warranty of beeing able to have a working client on the N900 ?

thanks

Despotify does not work with free accounts. So all clients based on despotify will fail unless you have a premium account.

But remember that getting a premium Spotify account will not help you if the client based on despotify is buggy...

Follow my logic:
Spotify = free on computer
N900 = computer
∴ Spotify = free on N900

Can Spotify for windows be run under Wine?
What about the Max client under a Mac emulator on Easy Debian?

I have spotify working very very well on my openSUSE installation under wine.

Proabably won't work under ARM because wine emulates the s/w calls/environment not the h/w

I also have spotify on my Ubuntu working with wine.

But i would like to be able to run spotify on my N900.

How do you handle this with you N900 ?

Despotify has been compiled for the N900 (and I almost started tinkering with it myself just a few days ago) so you always have the option to use the simpler clients based on ncurses.

If you want to have a graphical UI that lets you point and click, you need to look at the projects that are around (or write your own).

Thanks,

So it's normal if despotify doesn't work with a free account.

I think i'll upgrade my account to premium just for testing

Spotify for windows can be run under Wine, but not on armel processors like on the N900, only on x86 and x86_64 processors like your desktop computer

Mac on Linux is a virtual machine and will only run on PPC based processors, not on armel processors.

The authors of Despotify is not interested in a cat and mouse game where they enable use of free accounts by hacks and the Spotify creators blocks it in the next release. Their just glad to have a opensource Spotify client running at all. Some one (not me, and this is not a request, i dont really care for spotify at all) would need to fork the Despotify source code and make a hack that would trick the spotify server to let you loggon with a Despotify client, but cat and mouse.

AFAIK Despotify is the only opensource Spotify library or application, and its the only one for armel(except official spotify clients for platforms like iPhone and Android).


Anyway a plausible but not at all usable solution is to run an emulator like bosch or something on the N900 with Windows/Linux with wine or OS x, then run Spotify there. But this is not at all battery friendly, and say hello to half an hour to get it started, and im not sure if audio is supported on any x86 or PPC emulator for the N900