Spotify on Fedora 12 – Sound Fix

Jun-7th-2009

Hi folks, below is the fix necessary for your Fedora 11 PC  to allow Spotify to play your favourite tracks for free.  If you’re having issues where Spotify loads just fine, but no music will begin playback, then here’s your fix!

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The fix is simple.. The misbehaviour is with the pulseaudio plugin for wine. And for this reason, this fix could also apply to any Linux distro that runs pulseaudio by default. We simply have to turn off the wine pulseaudio plugin! (Keeping pulseaudio though – don’t kill it, pulseaudio rocks!)

Step 1 – Let’s see the problem…

So I click the “Play” button, but no luck, the music does not begin playback. Oddly, the application does not crash however…

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Step 2 – Let’s check out the wine audio settings…

Just open a terminal window and run: “winecfg”. These were my settings, which caused the problem…

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Step 3 – Change those settings!!

So instead, lets deselect pulseaudio and select Alsa. See the screenshot for all settings…

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Step 4 – Let’s see the result….

… and it works! Check out the playback bar, I’m 2 minutes into the track already….

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And we’re done!

Any comments, leave them below! Problems, leave comments, and I’ll get back to you.

Thanks !

Comments

  1. oGre Said,

    Thank you for this! I stumbled upon this site when i realized spotify didn’t work on my F11 laptop. Works like a charm now.

  2. Paul Heather Said,

    Hey, result! I have been messing around with all kinds of potential fixes – mostly thinking that I needed to install an additional plugin for the streaming audio type that Spotify uses.

    Spotify is such a great idea – and, for me, leads to buying downloads from 7digital via spotify. The business model ought to work but I understand that they are a long way from making money yet.

    Many thanks

  3. Paddy Said,

    Spot on! Works on F11 very well.

    Thanks!!!

  4. mikel Said,

    Thanks a lot,me new Fedora12 is now perfect!!!!

  5. Ben Said,

    Hey, thanks for the guide. My fedora (12), however, has as its *only* option pulseaudio. Should I dl alsa?

  6. Rob Said,

    Hi Ben,

    Only download the wine-alsa pasckage if your sound is not currently working. If it all works, just leave it. Otherwise,
    “yum install wine-alsa” and then follow the turorial instructions.

    Cheers

  7. Ben Said,

    Hey Rob, thanks a lot that worked great and I now have alsa and it worked for at least a bit. Then I started getting really stuttery jerky playback. At first this was fixed by restarting but now nothing is fixing it. Any idea what might be wrong?
    Thanks.

  8. Paul Said,

    Thanks! Now works on Fedora 12!

  9. Willjam Said,

    Thank you really much!!!!

  10. Simon Said,

    Took me installing a later version of Wine and actuially killing pulseaudio from System Monitor but now working a treat.

    Thanks.

  11. Andy Said,

    Worked Great! Thanks!

  12. Psyris Said,

    Works like a charm. Thanks a lot!

  13. Martin Said,

    This acctually helped me! Thanks alot!

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