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A big thanks to Charlie Callow who has posted the correct procedure for adding an icon on the AA1 desktop for Spotify:

“Here is what you have to do:
1. press alt+f2 to bring up a run program window
2. type: sudo mouspad and press run or hit enter/return. This will then open new mousepad document with root priviallges
3. type: “#!/bin/sh” (without quotes) then press enter
4. leave this window open and launch the file manager
5. open the desktop folder and right click on the spotify shorcut.
6. choose properties and go to the launcher tab
7. copy the contents of the “Command:” field and past it into the new line (that you will already be on – the second line) of the mousepad document you left open/
8. now choose file then save as.
9. in the name feild type: /usr/bin/spotify and press save
10. now you need to open a terminal window and type: sudo thunar /usr/bin
11. find the file called spotify, right click on it and press properties
12. go to the permissions tab and tick the “Allow this file to be run as a program box”
13. change “Others:” to read and write and press close
14. close the usr/bin window and return to the terminal
15. type: sudo thunar /usr/share/applications
16. minimise this window and open the desktop folder again and copy the spotify shortcut.
17. go back to the file window we opened with the terminal (usr/share/applications) and paste it.
18. now right click on it choose properites and go to the launch tab.
19. put “Spotify” as the description (without quotes) and “spotify” as the command (also without quotes) Then in the comment right the description of spotify you want to appear in the ballon when u hover over it (something like “Listen to any music, legal and free!”)
20. now press close and open the Spotify file in mousepad (by right click then open with then open with mousepad)
21. On the line with “ion=” remove all the text on that line after icon= and type: “Spotify” (without the quotes) after the “=” instead of the old icon location.
22. then save the changes (ctrl+s) and close the window then the file window to and return to the terminal. Now type: wget http://rocketdock.com/images/screenshots/Spotify-3.png and hit enter.
23. when it is done type: cp Spotify-3.png /usr/share/pixmaps/Spotify and hit enter.
24.now type: dca add 12 “file=’/usr/share/applications/Spotify.desktop’” (including all quotes) and press enter.
25. YOUR DONE! go to your desktop press the more button on the Fun catorgory (the bottom left one if u hav renamed it like me) and you should find a spotify shortcut with an improved icon! you can now drag this to a position of your choice and if you love spotify as much as me you’ll want it in your top 3!”

Thanks Charlie
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Spotify is a popular application which streams music legally from a massive online catalog to your desktop.

At the moment there is no Linux Spotify Application, however it runs very well under Wine.

To install Wine:

1. Open a Terminal window
2. type sudo install wine
3. Accept the install

To configure Wine:

1. Type Winecfg
2. In the graphics tab turn off emulate virtual desktop.
3. In the Audio Tab turn on the OSS Driver, set the hardware acceleration to full, set the default sample rate to 44100, set the default bits per sample to 16 & turn off driver emulations.
4. Click on apply and ok.

To Install Spotify

1. Got to http://www.spotify.com/en/download/windows/ and download the windows version of the Spotify installer.
2. When the installer has finished downloading run it.

When the installer has finished you will be able to run Spotify from the Other section on the advanced menu.

To use Spotify you will need to register for a free Spotify account at Spotify.com
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