[solved] spotify-launcher not synchronizing all the songs

[supple narwhal]

when i open it it synchronizes all playlists except made by me, i tried opening it on the web and i can see changes i did on my phone there so its an issue with desktop client

[harsh siren]

never face that issue, but did you try spotify from aur ?

it works fine for me

[supple narwhal]

i havent tried it

whats the difference between the two?

just installed it and tried running it its looks the same, i didnt even need to log in it was logged in already

[harsh siren]

did you uninstall spotify-laucher?

[supple narwhal]

nope

[harsh siren]

yup thats why

[supple narwhal]

ok, im trying it rn

[harsh siren]

or do a clean reinstall, remove all the spotify cache in your system

[supple narwhal]

nothing changed after i did, except my keyboard shortcut broke (it was spotify-launcher dependant)

[harsh siren]

idk where spotify-laucher stored

[supple narwhal]

how?

[harsh siren]

can you show me the output of sudo find / -type d -iname '*spotify*' 2>/dev/null

because idk where spotify laucher stored :/

[supple narwhal]

/home/user/.cache/yay/spotify
/home/user/.cache/spotify
/home/user/.cache/spotify/Default/IndexedDB/https_xpui.app.spotify.com_0.indexeddb.leveldb
/home/user/.cache/spotify/Default/IndexedDB/https_xpui.app.spotify.com_0.indexeddb.blob
/home/user/.cache/spotify/Browser/IndexedDB/https_xpui.app.spotify.com_0.indexeddb.leveldb
/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/xe291p9z.default-release/storage/default/https+++www.spotify.com
/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/xe291p9z.default-release/storage/default/https+++open.spotify.com
/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/xe291p9z.default-release/storage/default/https+++accounts.spotify.com
/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/xe291p9z.default-release/storage/default/https+++embed.spotify.com
/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/xe291p9z.default-release/storage/default/https+++community.spotify.com
/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/xe291p9z.default-release/storage/default/https+++www.google.com^partitionKey=%28https%2Cspotify.com%29
/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/xe291p9z.default-release/storage/default/https+++www.recaptcha.net^partitionKey=%28https%2Cspotify.com%29
/home/user/.local/share/spotify-launcher
/home/user/.local/share/spotify-launcher/install/usr/share/spotify
/home/user/.config/spotify

[harsh siren]

yay -Runs spotify
sudo rm -r ~/.config/spotify
sudo rm -r /usr/bin/spotify
sudo rm -r ~/.local/share/spotify-launcher
sudo rm -r /opt/spotify
sudo rm -r ~/.cache/spotify```

then reinstall spotify with yay -S spotify

[supple narwhal]

thanks, it helped

[long iris]

axend.wav received a thank you cookie!

[supple narwhal]

now i just need to download 2500 songs again

[harsh siren]

wel

[supple narwhal]

would be nice to figure out which one of the files need to be actually deleted to resync

[harsh siren]

my fault, idk you have songs downloaded

so sorry

btw

... solved

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[supple narwhal]

no problem

[solved] spotify-launcher not synchronizing all the songs

[supple narwhal]

i just had the same issue again

sudo rm -r ~/.cache/spotify

fixes it but it also deleted all of my downloads

at least i managed to single out the exact line

[harsh siren]

because the downloaded songs is store in /.cache/spotify/Storage by default, you have to change the location
and as far as i know, even when you backup your downloads storage, reinstall and move them back wont work because spotify encrypts downloaded songs and ties them to your specific installation and login session. when you reinstall, the encryption keys get reset so you cant use any old files
also, the metadata and authentication tokens are lost when you reinstall

[supple narwhal]

Makes sense

[supple narwhal]

@harsh siren so i found a way to sync it without deleting all my downloads

[harsh siren]

woah, can you tell?

[supple narwhal]

i just deleted all the files in that directory (but not directories), one of the files is probably responsible for synchronization mismatching

nut sure which one yet

one of these

[supple narwhal]

few more desyncs and i'll figure out the exact file

[supple narwhal]

its one of the files with no file extentions (but not any of "Singleton*" files, they only apear in runtime)

i tried to narrow it down by file extention and started with no extention

@harsh siren some porgress

[harsh siren]

wo didnt realize thats it

hows it now?

[supple narwhal]

I know its one of these files:

dbrts
First Run
Local State
Variations

[supple narwhal]

its narrowed down to 4 posible files