Fix to get play Spotify local files on Debian Testing (Jessie)

Updated fix for current Debian testing aka Stretch can be found here.

Spotify needs older versions of libavcodec, libavformat and libavutil to play local files. I found this fix for Ubuntu and I checked the steps that are needed for Debian. Those older files in this blog are extracted by compiling a minimal FFmpeg 0.10.12 from source. This way, we don't have to install an entire FFmpeg + libx264 built for an older version of the library that potentially can disrupt other applications.

To get local files playing, simply follow the steps and run the commands below in a terminal.

• Select your version of Debian, 32 or 64 bit. If you don't know run this command: uname -r
• Launch each command row by row (do not copy paste the whole thing and try to run in terminal)
• NOTE: This does not overwrite any files on Debian
• Don't forget the ldconfig -command
  
  (ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache to the most recent shared libraries found in the directories specified on the command line, in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and in the trusted directories (/lib and /usr/lib). The cache is used by the run-time linker, ld.so or ld-linux.so. ldconfig checks the header and filenames of the libraries it encounters when determining which versions should have their links updated.) 

32-bit

sudo wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8593574/spotify/ffmpeg/32-bit/libavcodec.so.53 -O /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libavcodec.so.53

sudo wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8593574/spotify/ffmpeg/32-bit/libavformat.so.53 -O /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libavformat.so.53

sudo wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8593574/spotify/ffmpeg/32-bit/libavutil.so.51 -O /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libavutil.so.51

sudo ldconfig

64-bit

sudo wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8593574/Spotify/ffmpeg/libavcodec.so.53 -O /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavcodec.so.53

sudo wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8593574/Spotify/ffmpeg/libavformat.so.53 -O /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavformat.so.53

sudo wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8593574/Spotify/ffmpeg/libavutil.so.51 -O /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavutil.so.51

sudo ldconfig

That's all! Following repository can be used to install Spotify on Debian.

Debian

# 1. Add this line to your list of repositories by
#    editing your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free

# 2. If you want to verify the downloaded packages,
#    you will need to add our public key
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 94558F59

# 3. Run apt-get update
sudo apt-get update

# 4. Install spotify!
sudo apt-get install spotify-client