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PSA: Spotify Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com)
BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: Speaking of Spotify, the most popular streaming music service in the world has long supported Linux-based operating systems. Installing the official app was not an easy affair, however. Today this changes, as installation gets much simpler. You see, Spotify is now officially available as a Snap for easy installation on any Snap-supporting operating systems such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Canonical, the creator of both Ubuntu and Snaps, explains, "Snaps are containerized software packages designed to work perfectly and securely in any Linux environment. As well as supporting all major Linux systems from a single build, snaps can be also updated or rolled back automatically to ensure that users are always benefiting from the latest version of the application. Since their launch last year, close to 2,500 snaps have been released by developers as they adopt the format for its reliability and security."
Jamie Bennett, VP of Engineering, Devices & IoT, Canonical says, "In launching their own snap, Spotify has ensured that their users in the Linux ecosystem are now able to enjoy the latest version of their leading music streaming application as soon as it's released regardless of which distribution they are using. We're glad to welcome Spotify to the snaps ecosystem and look forward to unveiling more leading snaps in 2018."
Jamie Bennett, VP of Engineering, Devices & IoT, Canonical says, "In launching their own snap, Spotify has ensured that their users in the Linux ecosystem are now able to enjoy the latest version of their leading music streaming application as soon as it's released regardless of which distribution they are using. We're glad to welcome Spotify to the snaps ecosystem and look forward to unveiling more leading snaps in 2018."
Now when a vulnerability is discovered in widely used code I can wait for all of the maintainers of all of the snaps to update instead of just updating the library myself. Yep, WAY more secure.
Guess it's pretty hot :p
Fuck you and fuck spotify
Stop calling stories PSAs. It wastes headline space and looks silly. Just use the normal headline.
It's getting harder to avoid these people and their marketing wank.
If you can't package for my distribution I don't think your my kind of people.
If you could just put systemd in a snap where it belongs I might think it had a use (snap not systemd).
Nice troll.
and why, did you not
report the sad announcement
in a haiku form
Congratulations, guys, you've re-invented static binaries. I'm glad you're happy. I look forward to what we have in the smartphone ecosystem now, with vulnerabilities out the yin-yang, and 25 apps getting updated when some weird library has a flaw in it, and your other 75 not getting updated at all and remaining vulnerable even though you don't realize it.
Everything old is new again. Woot.
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
This reads like an ad for whatever the fuck a "snap" is and whoever is behind that.
If you can't give us a source tarball, then we don't want it.
...so what exactly is a "snap"?
sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
I have been using Spotify with just their web-based stuff, under Linux (Mageia) and Firefox for a very long time now (years) and it works great. Maybe there are some advanced things it can't do, but it does everything I need and I have been impressed. Pretty easy to use, excellent sound quality, and has never crapped out on me.
I copied the snabb to /c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Snapname but it doesn't work. Help?
CLI paste? paste.pr0.tips!
What's a Spotify?
Installing the official app was not an easy affair, however. Today this changes, as installation gets much simpler.
So I tried this. I followed the link which took me to some place that explained what "snaps" are. That contained a link that told me to click on it to grab the snap.
But that only took me to another page (form Canonical) which, again, explained what a "snap" was and told me to click another link to download the snap.
But no! That just took me to another link on snapcraft with (yet another) link to install it. When I clicked on that link Firefox croaked up an error message to say it didn't understand and that I might have to install some other software.
So I went back to a terminal and typed apt install spotify-client, created an account (disposable, of course) logged in and now I have music playing.
Can someone please explain how snaps make the installation process "simpler"?
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
It can provided you have the right attachment.
Also u r ghey
I'm waiting for all snaps to support Up in Z Formation.
What's a Spotify?
RTFS. A Spotify is a Snap.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Just because this was the apps troll guy doesn't mean ALL his posts need -1.
Seriously, "apps, snaps" come on, you know you chuckled at least a little.
It's nice to see Linux getting some new support, but...music streaming? Take the legal route and hit flea markets and second hand music stores and score all the good music you want. Or hoist the Jolly Roger and scoop up anything that catches your eye. That way, the music sits on my hard drive, and I can listen to it how I want (optional goal, educate all the neighbors about the joys of my taste in music.)
"Installing the official app was not an easy affair, however" Really? This is not way easier?: https://www.spotify.com/nl/dow... Any and all updates are automatic...
I don't get modern apps like the Spotify client. They have a simple task to do, they always look the same, yet they update practically every time you want to run them. It might as well say "downloading bloat and feature creep" for all it's worth.