From from your account profile to вЂradioвЂ™ and the pointless вЂfollowвЂ™, you can choose which bits show up and which stay hidden. See thoseВ linksВ in the sidebar? You can get rid of вЂ™em if you want. The interface tweaks alone are well done, and the included light theme is a nice touch: Set app to open on startup (including start hidden)Д-Bus/MPRIS controlВ was recently added (though this doesnвЂ™t currently work on 64-bit builds but worksВ just dandy for 32-bit users) to offer desktop notifications, music player controls, and the like.ДЄ chorus of configuration options allow you to cater the experience to suit your needs, including granular control over when you see desktop notifications, and what for how the app should behave when set to open at login (hidden or on show), and you can also disable the system tray if you donвЂ™t like the clutter.Close To Tray (Minimize To Tray without the Tray Icon).Settings to hide parts of the main interface.Indicator applet with Play, Previous, Next, etc.

D-Bus/MPRIS support (i.e., Ubuntu Sound Menu).Sure,В you can just loadВ Spotify web player in a new browser tab and use it there. Yet itВ throws enough percussive bells and whistles into the mix toВ be so much more than that. Yes, itвЂ™s an Electron app wrapping the official Spotify for Web player, which launched back in 2012, into a neat and tidy desktop box. Spotify Web Player for Linux is built by Matthew James and is currently in alpha. OurВ article on SpotiWeb last week was originally intendedВ to be about this app, but the lack of aВ 64-bit version put paid to that.ДЇast forward one week, and a whole heapВ of commits later, and not only isВ the app rocking a 64-bit installer, but itвЂ™s also gained aВ chorus of newВ features.ДЄnd some of them are really worth checking out. If youвЂ™re in any way allergic toВ apps built using these open-source tools/platforms youВ still have time to run for the hills. ItвЂ™s called Spotify Web Player for Linux and, yup, itвЂ™s a Node.js/Electron application. I know it already: youвЂ™re sick of hearing about Spotify on this site.Д«ut be a champ and suck it up, cos IвЂ™m back with another app, one that letsВ the worldвЂ™s most popular (citation needed)В music streaming service play nice on Ubuntu.

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