{"id":6192,"date":"2016-09-03T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6192"},"modified":"2016-09-03T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T15:00:44","slug":"install-spotify-light-theme-ubuntu-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/install-spotify-light-theme-ubuntu-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Spotify with Light Theme &#8216;Spotio&#8217; in Ubuntu 16.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/spotify_icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/spotify_icon.png\" alt=\"Spotify light theme\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5309\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those who prefer light skins in desktop applications, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/devinhalladay\/spotio\" target=\"_blank\">spotio<\/a>&#8216; is open-source project offers a proof-of-concept Rdio-inspired skin for Spotify desktop app.<\/p>\n<p>The project provides a setup script that automatically downloads the latest Spotify client binary from its official repository, extracts it, and rebuilds the package with Spotio theme so your Spotify app looks like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/spotify-light-thme.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/spotify-light-thme-600x344.jpg\" alt=\"spotify light theme\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/spotify-light-thme-600x344.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/spotify-light-thme-450x258.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/spotify-light-thme.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>To get started:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1. Download Spotio from the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/github.com\/devinhalladay\/spotio\/archive\/master.zip' class='arconix-button arconix-button-medium arconix-button-gray'>Download Spotio master (.zip)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Extract the package, and go to the result directory in terminal by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>either right-clicking on the folder and choosing &#8220;Open in terminal&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>or launching terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and running <code>cd ~\/Downloads\/spotio*<\/code> command <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/spotio-folder.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/spotio-folder-600x368.jpg\" alt=\"spotio folder\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/spotio-folder-600x368.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/spotio-folder-450x276.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/spotio-folder.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Now run the setup script to download Spotify for its official repository and repack it with spotio theme:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">.\/setup-linux.sh<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/run-spotio-setup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/run-spotio-setup-600x89.jpg\" alt=\"run-spotio-setup\" width=\"600\" height=\"89\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/run-spotio-setup-600x89.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/run-spotio-setup-450x67.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/run-spotio-setup.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. The new package will be generated in dist\/ folder and named <b>spotio.deb<\/b>, install it when done:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">cd dist\/ && sudo dpkg -i spotio.deb<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/install-spotio-package.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/install-spotio-package-600x96.jpg\" alt=\"install-spotio-package\" width=\"600\" height=\"96\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/install-spotio-package-600x96.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/install-spotio-package-450x72.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/install-spotio-package.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will replace previous Spotify version you installed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Restore Spotify with Dark UI:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>So far the easiest way to restore changes is to download and re-install the <a href=\"http:\/\/repository.spotify.com\/pool\/non-free\/s\/spotify-client\/\" target=\"_blank\">official package<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who prefer light skins in desktop applications, &#8216;spotio&#8216; is open-source project offers a proof-of-concept Rdio-inspired skin for Spotify desktop app. The project provides a setup script that automatically downloads the latest Spotify client binary from its official repository, extracts it, and rebuilds the package with Spotio theme so your Spotify app looks like: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1374,1373],"class_list":["post-6192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-spotify-light-skin","tag-spotify-light-theme"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}