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.
Yes, I’ve joined the Cult of Spotify. The annoying ads finally wore me down. Well played sirs 
Me, and many with me, have reported problems with getting Spotify to run under Wine in Fedora 11. The support pages at the Spotify-website describe how to install and run it if you’re using Ubuntu, but - surprise, surprise - not every Linux-user uses Ubuntu. Well, I think I solved it and it wasn’t all that complicated either.
More and more computers are running a 64-bit OS and especially Linux-users have very widely adopted the x64-platform. However, the problem with running Spotify in Wine in Fedora 11 seem to be specific to the 64-bit version of Wine. So what I did was simply remove every trace of 64-bit Wine and installed the 32-bit version instead along with ALSA-support for Wine (I read somewhere that the Pulseaudio-drivers for Wine don’t play along with Spotify), like this:
$ sudo yum install wine.i586 wine-alsa.i586
Then I ran winecfg and selected the ALSA-driver for the audio and ran the Spotify-installer for 32-bit Windows.
$ winecfg (configure audio...)
$ wine ~/Download/Spotify\ Installer.exe
That’s it! Now I’m rocking the latest Slayer-album in Spotify on my Fedora-laptop. Very nice!
I finally started transferring my vinyl collection to FLAC (concentrating mainly on 7″ EPs and Mini-LPs). It’s gonna be a looong time before I’m finished though.
Thus far I’m basically transferring the music into Audacity via USB and then manually chopping the capture into songs. I know there’s probably a better and faster way to do it, but I’ve just started and I’m sure the proper tools will reveal themselves to me soon enough once I start looking for them 
Meanwhile, here’s a picture of a classic piece of vinyl in the process of going digital:
The music of 1989 meets the tech of 2009
