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lactua

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Registered: 2024-05-15

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] Spotify can't play this right now

When I try to play a song in spotify, it tells me "Spotify can't play this right now" and I've this error
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1000:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

Note that the spotify package from AUR doesn't work for me see here
I've encounter the same problem for both spotify-launcher and spotify-snapstore packages.

I'm using pipewire.

Last edited by lactua (2024-05-16 17:09:23)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,897

Re: [SOLVED] Spotify can't play this right now

just purely from this message, albeit spotify shouldn't default to that and just use pulse API instead, make sure pipewire-alsa is installed.

Other than that, post

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
pactl list sinks
pactl list sink-inputs
systemctl --user status pipewire{,-pulse} wireplumber

lactua

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Registered: 2024-05-15

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] Spotify can't play this right now

Fixed it by installing pipewire-alsa