Spotify not working for 25 seconds | Gentoo Linux Community | Page 1

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:08 PM

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I have just emerged spotify without any special use flags and whenever I try to play some music it works but its kinda strange

if its already playing when the next music comes the spotify player freezes for first 24 seconds of every song despite it still playing
if i just start playing right after spotify open it will again bug for 24 seconds
its 24 seconds for every song which is oddly specific but idk it is what it is please help

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yes i tried restalling already

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:14 PM

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do you have a notification daemon

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:15 PM

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severe maple do you have a notification daemon

this?

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:15 PM

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and is running

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no, but i assume kde already has one running

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:15 PM

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how to check

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:16 PM

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could you run spotify in the terminal and see if anything shows

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:17 PM

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yea sure

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john@gentoo-user ~ $ spotify
Neither gnome-integration-spotify nor spotify-tray are installed.
Launching spotify without systray integration.

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:17 PM

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try skipping a song

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:18 PM

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its stuck like this for 23 s econds

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and if i just start spotify again and try its stuck where it left

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but the music is playing (without skipping to the next one)

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it skips after 23 seconds

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:19 PM

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cause electron apps usually have this weird quirk where they freeze for a bit if they can't reach a notification daemon

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:20 PM

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severe maple cause electron apps usually have this weird quirk where they freeze for a bit if...

how to check if my kde notifiation daemon is started

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:20 PM

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could you check if spotify has the libnotify useflag enabled?

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:20 PM

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[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[        : I - package is installed with flag     ]
[ Colors : set, unset                             ]
 * Found these USE flags for media-sound/spotify-1.2.63:
 U I
 + + libnotify      : Enable desktop notification support
 - - local-playback : Allows playing local files with the Spotify client
 - - pax-kernel     : Triggers a paxmarking of the main Spotify binary
 + + pulseaudio     : Controls the dependency on pulseaudio or apulse

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it is

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should i try compiling again with it disabled maybe?

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:22 PM

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no, keep it enabled

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:22 PM

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alr

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:22 PM

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can you run spotify with spotify --debug-level=8 --show-console

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:23 PM

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i pressed on play and this is all i have

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Neither gnome-integration-spotify nor spotify-tray are installed.
Launching spotify without systray integration.

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oh wait

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im seeing something

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17:23:58.179 I [f:686                           ] tryStartPlayback failed, not final + not enough buffered (20 tries)
17:23:59.137 I [f:971                           ] Enumerated files in cache. Permanent: keep 0 files, 0 bytes; remove 0 files, 0 bytes. Volatile: keep 61 files, 38050994 bytes; remove 0 files, 0 bytes. Missing: 0 files, 0 bytes
17:24:00.179 I [f:686                           ] tryStartPlayback failed, not final + not enough buffered (30 tries)
17:24:02.178 I [f:686                           ] tryStartPlayback failed, not final + not enough buffered (40 tries)
17:24:04.179 I [f:686                           ] tryStartPlayback failed, not final + not enough buffered (50 tries)
17:24:06.179 I [f:686                           ] tryStartPlayback failed, not final + not enough buffered (60 tries)
17:24:08.179 I [f:686                           ] tryStartPlayback failed, not final + not enough buffered (70 tries)
17:24:10.178 I [f:686                           ] tryStartPlayback failed, not final + not enough buffered (80 tries)
17:24:12.178 I [f:686                           ] tryStartPlayback failed, not final + not enough buffered (90 tries)

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after i clicked on play

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:24 PM

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is spotify frozen?

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:24 PM

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yes it was frozen

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:24 PM

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can you send the full console log

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:25 PM

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lemme see if it has anything sensitive 2 sec

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how do i output to a file all console

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i tried >> and it showed only 2 lines

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:28 PM

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ok whatever, lemme try something else first

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start spotify, but don't play a song

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go into settings, scroll down into display and turn off notifications

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:28 PM

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ok ok lemme try

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:28 PM

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sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:29 PM

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disabled

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do i play now

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:29 PM

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yes

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:29 PM

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it worked

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wowlinux

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:29 PM

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ok something was up with notifications

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:29 PM

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wait you said something with electron apps freezing if notification dont work

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right

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:29 PM

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yea

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:29 PM

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i think it makes sense now cause whatsapp also crashing when new message

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how can i fix this notification issue do you know

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:30 PM

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what profile are you on?

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like when you do eselect profile list

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:30 PM

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default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop/plasma (stable)

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:31 PM

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interesting

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does it show the star (*) next to it

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:31 PM

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ye

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i didnt get it in the message

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:31 PM

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ok, strange

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:31 PM

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i think i had notifications pop up in the bottom right corner once

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when i installed kde plasma

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:33 PM

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could you send over your make.conf, btw its recommended you use wgetpaste for this

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you'll have to install it through emerge

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:33 PM

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severe maple could you send over your make.conf, btw its recommended you use wgetpaste for th...

where is it located

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:34 PM

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/etc/portage/make.conf

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:34 PM

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its small

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# built this stage.
# Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more
# detailed example.
COMMON_FLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FCFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"

# NOTE: This stage was built with the bindist USE flag enabled

# This sets the language of build output to English.
# Please keep this setting intact when reporting bugs.
LC_MESSAGES=C.utf8
USE="-gtk -gnome qt5 kde plasma alsa"

VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:37 PM

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yea, i don't know how to resolve this cause i don't use kde

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maybe its a kde setting but your setup should be fine

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:38 PM

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well

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xd

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maybe this is the issue

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ill open another thread thanks for the help with spotify

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:40 PM

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can you check if kde-plasma/kdeplasma-addons is installed

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:40 PM

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lemme see

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 * Searching for kdeplasma-addons in kde-plasma ...
[IP-] [  ] kde-plasma/kdeplasma-addons-6.4.5:6

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installed

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:45 PM

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maybe its something with kwrited with background services but idk

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maybe smth with the system tray too?

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idk i'm uninformed about this

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 5:46 PM

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Thanks for helping as much as you could again

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 5:46 PM

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no problem

dull magnet Oct 26, 2025, 6:04 PM

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sage vigil i tried >> and it showed only 2 lines

command > file 2>&1 will redirect all output

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> file tells stdout to go to the file called file
2>&1 tells stderr to go to stdout

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order matters though: ```sh
$ {
echo asdf
echo abcd >&2
} 2>&1 > /dev/null
abcd
$ {
echo asdf
echo abcd >&2
} > /dev/null 2>&1

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 6:08 PM

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Thanks

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Btw do you know what I could do to fix my kde plasma notifications @dull magnet

dull magnet Oct 26, 2025, 6:08 PM

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nope

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 6:08 PM

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Alr

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 6:33 PM

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ok i found the fix i think its pretty stupid but i had to enable system tray

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 6:40 PM

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lmao

sage vigil Oct 26, 2025, 6:44 PM

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severe maple lmao

yea...

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apparently notifications dont work if i dont have system tray in my task bar???

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idk why

severe maple Oct 26, 2025, 6:44 PM

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strange

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