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javidcf

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Registered: 2013-12-05

Posts: 3

Spotify won't play local files in newer version (w/o ffmpeg-spotify)

Hi,

I have recently updated Spotify from AUR to version 0.9.4.183-1 (updated 2013-10-10) and I'm not able to play local files anymore (I was before). Package maintainer says that the major changes in the last version is that ffmpeg-spotify is not needed anymore to play local files (and so it has been marked as outdated), so I guess it has something to do with this fact. Actually, having or not having installed ffmpeg-spotify does not make any difference.

Just for the record, I am using PulseAudio, and when I try to play a local file, I can see in the log the following message:

19:03:25.415 I [audio_driver_linux.cpp:18       ] Using PulseAudio

Yep, that's all.

Is this happening to anyone else? Does anybody knows how is Spotify supposed to play local files without ffmpeg?

Thanks a lot.

javidcf

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Registered: 2013-12-05

Posts: 3

Re: Spotify won't play local files in newer version (w/o ffmpeg-spotify)

Well, funny enough, I've found the solution the minute after I posted the question. To play local files, the necessary package is ffmpeg-compat (in official repo). So I guess this should be added as a dependency of the spotify AUR package?
Hope this helps someone.

d4n3sh

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Registered: 2014-03-10

Posts: 2

Re: Spotify won't play local files in newer version (w/o ffmpeg-spotify)

Thanks dude. Worked.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sp … ocal_files

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