For anyone who would like an invitation for
Spotify in the U.S.,
The Joy Formidable has kindly publicized a blank open invite; just go fill out the form at the Joy Formidable link. Spotify runs real well under Wine in Linux, for most. They give you the instructions to configure Wine, and to install Spotify both. I am using the Pulseaudio driver in Wine, but it looks like I will have to change it. It says it can't decode music on the Pulseaudio driver. The instructions say to use the OSS driver, but I didn't have it as a choice. See
here.
It's pretty nifty overall, once you get it going. It will import your music library, allow you to hear new stuff from other places, whatever. It also stays running if you minimize it or click the X at the upper right. It just minimizes to the tray.
That's a feature I like in any program.
If you do decide to give this a try, please post back with results. Thanks.
