Spotify

What works

• Music playback (play/pause, previous, next, shuffle, repeat)
• Basic keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Left/Right, Space) for music playback
• Facebook Connect (except features listed in "what does not work") and Spotify Social
• Playlists (and other lists), play queing, history, starring songs and albums and radio
  
• Local library (see below)
• Browing artists and albums, search and filter
  

Note: Local library does not directly work with Spotify because the Spotify developers blocked the Wine MP3 codecs because «the mp3 decoder in Wine makes Spotify excessively unstable on quite a few mp3 files.» But using the following method and downloading Windows' native MP3 codecs, you can enable MP3 support in Spotify (use at your own risk):

1. Download the Windows Media Player 10 installer from here
2. Extract the files from the installer using 7zip
   
   • $ mkdir WMP10
     $ 7z x MP10Setup.exe -oWMP10
3. Copy the l3codecp.acm file to winemp3.acm in Wine's system32 directory
   
   • $ cp WMP10/l3codecp.acm ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/winemp3.acm
     
4. Open Wine's configuration options, and under "Libraries" add winemp3.acm to the list of DLL overrides. If you get a warning, just ignore it and press "yes".
   

Although I haven't had any problems myself (yet...), people have reported that some MP3s would crash Spotify, and you should use this with caution.

What does not

• Sharing music with Facebook or Twitter
• Music shared manually by pasting the HTTP link into a Facebook post will still show up in the Spotify feed, though.
• Local library does not work right out-of-the-box
• Spotify sometimes have problems when requesting authorization to use Facebook Connect. This is because of the embeded browser not always working (may be the source of the sharing music problem too), but this can also be done from the account page on Spotify.com. (I have not had this problem myself, though)
  
• Spotify links does not work with web browers right out-of-the-box, but these can easily be set up with Firefox, Chrome and Opera using these instructions.
• Global shortcuts keys (media keys on keyboard, when available)
  

Workarounds

What was not tested

• Premium functions, like offline mode and "premium-only content"
• Buying music
• Last.fm support
• Proxies

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

If Spotify freezes using the default ASLA audio driver, it would become totally unusable (won't play any songs) and had to be restarted to work again. This can be worked around by switching to the OSS audio driver. Spotify also has a Wine FAQ from where I got some of the information on this page: http://www.spotify.com/int/help/faq/wine/