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Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 14:16

Spotify - A new world of free music is just a click away, Discover and share it all with your friends. 

Spotify is peer-to-peer music streaming service that gives registered user access to millions of songs from major and independent record labels such us Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal which free to listen. Spotify is support Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, iOS (iPod/iPhone), Android, BlackBerry and now it comes to Linux.

We can install Spotify trough a two way, download the following source (*.deb) other way install spotify trough official repository. 

Download Spotify for Ubuntu (*.deb)
Spotify for Linux for now only available in debian package, download spotify client for linux/ubuntu trough following link, then install spotify manualy using command 'dpkg -i' in terminal.
Install Spotify in Ubuntu trough Repository
Besides of using the way above, you  can also install spotify via official spotify repository, do as follows
  • sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
  • deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
before updating repository, add following public-key to your system then spotify is ready to install.
  • sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 4E9CFF4E
  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install spotify-client-qt
Spotify on a Unity Dash
Unfortunately spotify service is limited to my country, I just tried up to login page only.

Spotifiy-Client in Ubuntu


Have you tried this, is it running smoothly ?, please give us a feedback.