You don’t need to tell me. I know it already: you’re sick of hearing about Spotify on this site.
But be a champ and suck it up, cos I’m back with another app, one that lets the world’s most popular (citation needed) music streaming service play nice on Ubuntu.
Spotify App For Ubuntu Desktop
It’s called Spotify Web Player for Linux and, yup, it’s a Node.js/Electron application. If you’re in any way allergic to apps built using these open-source tools/platforms you still have time to run for the hills.
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More Than a ‘Web Wrapper’
Our article on SpotiWeb last week was originally intended to be about this app, but the lack of a 64-bit version put paid to that.
Fast forward one week, and a whole heap of commits later, and not only is the app rocking a 64-bit installer, but it’s also gained a chorus of new features.
And some of them are really worth checking out.
Set Phasers to Stun
Spotify Web Player for Linux is built by Matthew James and is currently in alpha.
Yes, it’s an Electron app wrapping the official Spotify for Web player, which launched back in 2012, into a neat and tidy desktop box.
Yet it throws enough percussive bells and whistles into the mix to be so much more than that.
Sure, you can just load Spotify web player in a new browser tab and use it there.
But you wouldn’t get all this:
- Desktop notifications
- D-Bus/MPRIS support (i.e., Ubuntu Sound Menu)
- Indicator applet with Play, Previous, Next, etc. controls
- Unity quicklist controls
- Settings to hide parts of the main interface
- Lyrics integration
- Optional light theme
- Search shortcut
Ctrl+S
- Close To Tray (Minimize To Tray without the Tray Icon)
- Set app to open on startup (including start hidden)
D-Bus/MPRIS control was recently added (though this doesn’t currently work on 64-bit builds but works just dandy for 32-bit users) to offer desktop notifications, music player controls, and the like.
A chorus of configuration options allow you to cater the experience to suit your needs, including granular control over when you see desktop notifications, and what for; how the app should behave when set to open at login (hidden or on show), and you can also disable the system tray if you don’t like the clutter.
Free spotify premium apk. The interface tweaks alone are well done, and the included light theme is a nice touch:
![App App](/uploads/1/3/4/1/134145242/504996867.jpg)
See those links in the sidebar? You can get rid of ’em if you want. From from your account profile to ‘radio’ and the pointless ‘follow’, you can choose which bits show up and which stay hidden. Just dive into the Preferences to go tailor it to your tastes.
Lyrics
A few months back the official Spotify desktop app lost its built-in lyrics feature, as Spotify’s deal with MusixMatch came to an end.
‘Spotify Web Player for Linux’ brings lyrics back to Spotify. When listening to a track you want to croon along to just hit the ‘Sing!’ button in the sidebar. Lyrics are also cached to save bandwidth. Should you need ’em, you’ll can find ’em in
~/.spotifywebplayer/LyricsCache
).Install Spotify Web Player for Linux on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
If you want to try it out (if you’re a Spotify fan, you really ought to) download the latest alpha release from the GitHub project page.
Spotify App For Ubuntu Computer
Developer Matthew James cautions that “this isn’t production-ready but since most people who have looked at my application are helpful and quite techy, I have been able to make significant progress – partly why I love Open Source. Some bugs are present at this stage but this is always the case.” Can i link spotify to imovie app. How to get free spotify premium 2017 working.
If you think you could zone in on and help fix the broken dbus issues on 64-bit Ubuntu, or any other bugs you encounter, do get involved via the project’s GitHub page.
Thanks to Neil J. on Twitter!
David Planella, the Ubuntu Community Team Manager, published recently a summary report of the work done by the Ubuntu community during the last two weeks.
In the report, Mr. Planella talks about some very interesting upcoming projects, as well as events that happened in the Ubuntu world, such as MWC 2016, where Canonical won multiple awards, including 'Best of MWC' for the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet.
On the Ubuntu Touch side of things, the Fairphone 2 port continues with support for booting into Unity 8 Snappy, Canonical made an appeal to developers to contribute to its Ubuntu convergence design, especially a redesign of the Calendar app, and it looks like the Music app will get a new UI design with support for Spotify streaming.
'Music app developers Andrew & Victor worked with Michał Karnicki and Michael Sheldon to deliver a prototype build of their app for MWC, demonstrating (Spotify) streaming as a new feature. In tandem they worked on a converged build of Music to demo on tablets at MWC,' said David Planella, Ubuntu Community Team Manager at Canonical.
Ubuntu Online Summit event takes place May 2-5, 2016
Moreover, the Ubuntu team is now preparing for the upcoming UOS (Ubuntu Online Summit) event in May, they managed to complete and submit the Google Summer of Code application, and they're still hosting the Scope Showdown event for developers, which has a deadline of February 29, 2016.
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Lastly, there was a lot of work involved in improving the developer website, the team managed to publish the code needed for automatic generation of Snapcraft references, the devs behind the Ubuntu Touch Clock app are currently working on a redesigned user interface. In the meantime, it appears that the Ubuntu team spent some time 'Ubuntu Spotting', for your viewing pleasure, of course.