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John
Asked: 2014-04-18 18:18:58 +0800 CST

How to fix fuzzy spotify icon in the icon tray?

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I installed a Spotify client today on my recent Ubuntu 14.04 installation and I realized that the icon in the tray is very distorted:

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Is there any way to fix this in Ubuntu 14.04? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Serious props to asymptotically for this one! His solution was amazing:

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Now Spotify actually looks like it belongs on my icon tray. Awesome job.

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3 Answers

  1. Based on asymptotically's answer I have created a simple shell script to fix the Spotify icon.

    To install the script run:

    $ sh -c "$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/faviouz/fix-spotify-icon/master/install.sh -O -)"

    To fix the icon run:

    $ fix-spotify-icon
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  2. Best Answer

    I found this, and it's actually excellent. Download, extract, copy resources.zip to /opt/spotify/spotify-client/Data (overwriting the existing file), and restart Spotify.

    UPDATE: Spotify released a new update, and allowing the update rewrites the resources.zip file. The theme has considerably changed, so the same zip won't work - however, you just need to copy over resources.zip, extract, and in the _linux subdirectory, delete all files and copy over _linux/spotify_icon.ico from the one that you downloaded, zip it back up and copy the zip file back

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  3. Thank you very much asymptotically.

    Regarding the failed to load skin error, you don't need to extract Spotify's resources.zip file in order to edit it - you can just enter the directory and then copy the new file across:

    1. Open nautilus as root (i.e., in a terminal, enter gksu nautilus and then enter your password);
    2. Navigate to /opt/spotify/spotify-client/Data/resources.zip/_linux;
    3. Download ubuntu-ambience-theme-for-0.9.4.183.zip and then extract it. Extract resources.zip and then enter the _linux directory;
    4. Replace the spotify_icon.ico file in /opt/spotify/spotify-client/Data/resources.zip/_linux with the one in ubuntu-ambience-theme-for-0.9.4.183.zip;
    5. Start Spotify.
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