I have fedora 34 and spotify client installed from unitedRPMs, compiled from source adblock and when i run LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/spotify-adblock.so spotify i get /usr/bin/bash: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/spotify-adblock.so: undefined symbol: cef_string_userfree_utf16_free

edit: I also tried the release and it is giving the same error

After installing spotify-adblock, my spotify stopped working. Not sure if spotify is trying to stop it or what. I'm using Spotify version 1.1.72.439.gc253025e on Arch Linux.

[sahafselim@sahafselim ~]$ spotify spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by spotify) /opt/spotify/spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify) /opt/spotify/spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify) /proc/self/exe: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by /proc/self/exe) [libprotobuf ERROR ../core/vendor/protobuf3/src/google/protobuf/wire_format_lite.cc:577] String field 'spotify.event_sender.proto.DroppedEvents.DroppedEventsBySequenceIdEntry.key' contains invalid UTF-8 data when parsing a protocol buffer. Use the 'bytes' type if you intend to send raw bytes. [sahafselim@sahafselim ~]$

i can launch the app and works flawlessly i love it, until i decide to exit out of it and relaunch it. if i use the .desktop it pops up then immediately crashes, and with the LD_PRELOAD command it does the same thing but with this error [0827/004841.028258:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(447)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye. Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

the only way that i can re open it is after rebooting my system im running xubuntu 22.04. i have literally only about a single weeks worth of linux knowledge, so message me some commands to run if you need more info.

your wish is my CMD

when attempting to preload the library with LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/spotify-adblock.so spotify, an error is returned and Spotify does not open.

The error says: /bin/sh: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/spotify-adblock.so: undefined symbol: cef_string_userfree_utf16_free

This happens regardless of whether I point LD_PRELOAD at the .so created from compiling, or the .so downloaded from the GitHub release page.

This happens regardless of which shell I run the command from (I have tried fish, bash, and sh), though fish reports an exit code of [127] and when using bash the error instead begins with "/bin/bash".

When using a spotify-adblock.desktop file as described in the README and attempting to launch with wofi, Spotify simply does not open. I assume that the same error is occurring invisibly when wofi runs the command.

I am running glibc Void Linux, with xbps updates run this morning, and the Spotify that is available via xbps-src - 1.1.68 as of this writing.

I am lost as to what I could be doing differently and have been unable to find a solution from searching online. I'm happy to provide any other info that might be helpful.

Dear developers.

As the tittle says, if I press the "next song" button, the next song is not played. However, the play button says that is playing. After that, the behavior remains when clicking on playlists or other songs. Workarounds are to let the playlist keep playing, or restart Spotify. I have tried to reinstall, with no success.

OS: Arch-Linux Version: Spotify-adblock installed from source and AUR.

Running spotify:

But running LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/spotify-adblock.so spotify, songs are being greyed out.

It's not like no internet as I can still explore songs and all, plus it can even play playlists by clicking the big play icon.

But cannot play individual songs because play icons don't show up.

Edit: When the item is double-clicked, this toast is shown,

Spotify installed by pacman. spotify-adblock installed from source

Thank You for this project, beautiful idea to wrap the spotfy library!!! :)

A few days ago I had some problems with the app and looking at the project I realized that the definitions of config.toml are updated. I thought: "it wouldn't be nice if you could update them automatically every time you open spotify!"

A small start bash script before starting the program could check if the definition config.toml is the same on git. In case it is different it could overwrite it.

I'm not familiar with pull request, so I leave you here a small example of code that could do this (with a litle problem of write permission in etc file... and so I think it is more appropriate to give priority to the definition in home and then to the definition in /etc/ ...)

# start.sh

# generate sha of local def
LOCAL_DEF_SHA=$(cat /etc/spotify-adblock/config.toml | openssl dgst -sha256)

# generate sha of local def
REMOTE_DEF_SHA=$(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abba23/spotify-adblock/main/config.toml | openssl dgst -sha256)

# if they are different, download from git ..
if [ "$LOCAL_DEF_SHA" != "$REMOTE_DEF_SHA" ]; then
    echo "LOCAL != REMOTE, UPDATE definitions ..."
    curl -o /etc/spotify-adblock/config.toml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abba23/spotify-adblock/main/config.toml 
else
    echo "LOCAL == REMOTE, OKK"
fi

#run spotify
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/spotify-adblock.so spotify

Whenever I run spotify in the terminal, I get this output:

spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by spotify)
/opt/spotify/spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify)
/opt/spotify/spotify: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify)
/proc/self/exe: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by /proc/self/exe)

I use Arch Linux and I installed spotify-dev using the AUR package. I get no banner ads because I use another AUR package spotify-remove-ad-banner. Am I doing something wrong? What should I do to remove ads?

Here is an image of the ad: https://imgur.com/a/xaBVahR

I haven't used spotify in a while and suddenly i just could not play anything, every song is greyed out now. I upgraded to the latest so but this didn't fix the issue unfortunately. If any logs can help you out, let me know how i could take them... Thank you for creating this

Hello, and first of all, thanks for the great idea! This seems very promising. I'm testing the library, but in my case (running linux binary in Brazil), Ads are playing normally, even with the library preloaded. Is there anything I can do in order to help debug that? Maybe collecting the URLs spotify is acessing while playing the Ads...

Let me know, I'd be glad to help! Cheers

I have installed spotify using the lpf-client method and spotify-adblock is also installed, but I don't know how to use it. Using this command line: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/spotify-adblock.so spotify was no good for me and the desktop file method is for debian package only.

On a new debian install, I installed spotify and spotify-adblock straight out of the blocks.

I ran spotify-adblock first, and used it to log in. This led to the songs only playing 10 seconds before stopping.

I found that you have to run and login with spotify official at least once before running spotify-adblock

I recommend that you add this to the notes

The actual spotify binary is in a different folder, so people may need to run spotify flatpak with something like this:

flatpak run --command=/app/extra/share/spotify/spotify --env="LD_PRELOAD=/home/user/.spotify-adblock/spotify-adblock.so" com.spotify.Client