How to Install Spotify on Ubuntu 13.04 / 13.10

Spotify is very popular among Music lovers. It may be their favorite application. In India , Spotify is not available yet , but we hope that it will reach soon in India. Spotify considered as the largest online streaming site for Music. Spotify provides millions of songs with DRM protections. They are selling original contents and not pirated songs. Spotify has two types of accounts , Premium and Free accounts. Like the other free services , it also provides contents with limited options. Free accounts can access songs 10 hours in a month and maximum 2.5 hours in a week. It may be 20 hours. Anyway this limited account is enough for an average user. Premium accounts have all features , users can download unlimited streaming with higher bit rate. It also have support for other devices like Mobile Phone , Tablets and Home entertainment system.

This post is about to Install Spotify on Ubuntu Operating System. Ubuntu is  the widely used Linux Operating System. Developers are coming to Ubuntu because of the largest user base of Ubuntu. Spotify can installs with the Ubuntu software center. Before that you need to do some modifications.


Open Software & Updates
Ubuntu Software & Updates
Click on  Other Software


Then click on Add on the left- bottom.



Add this APT line :


deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free


Add source , Enter your password and click OK.


Open Terminal and Enter these commands

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 94558F59


Terminal
Now you can install Spotify on your Ubuntu Operating System.  Enter these commands in Terminal.


sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install spotify-client
First Enter first line of code , give the password and enter. Once the first line executed , enter second line of code. It will ask , whether you want to download and install. Enter Y and press Enter . Wait until it finish.


Once it complete , you can open Spotify from Unity dash.

Spotify
Spotify on Ubuntu 13.04

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