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I recently upgraded to Fedora 12 and now find that my own recipe for making Spotify run under Wine doesn’t work anymore. The fix is not that hard though.

First, download the Spotify-installer for Windows from the Spotify-website. Then you install 32-bit Wine with ALSA-support like this:

$ sudo yum -y install wine.i686 wine-alsa.i686

Then make sure you have pulseaudio-utils installed, like this:

$ sudo yum -y install pulseaudio-utils

Then when running winecfg and set wine to use ALSA-drivers you pass it through padsp (which is in the package you just installed) in order to make the sound play nice:

$ padsp winecfg

Now you run the Spotify-installer with wine passed through padsp like so:

$ padsp wine ~/Downloads/Spotify\ Installer.exe

After this you should have Spotify installed. However, when you run it with wine you still need to pass it through padsp in order for it to work, so I suggest making a little script to start Spotify with and putting it somewhere nice like /usr/bin for example. The script would look something like this:

#!/bin/bash
padsp wine “C:\Program Files\Spotify\spotify.exe”

And there you have, 64-bit Fedora 12 running Spotify.