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Can't Find Or Run Spotify After `snap Install Spotify`

Answer : Check your $PATH variable by executing in a Terminal: echo $PATH The output should be very similar to this: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/share/rvm/bin You have to verify if /snap/bin is included in this $PATH , otherwise you have to add it manually, here is how to do it: How do I modify my PATH so that the changes are available in every Terminal session. If this doesn't work, try deleting and installing again the snap, the required commands are: Execute sudo snap list to verify if Spotify is installed. Use sudo snap remove spotify to delete it. Use sudo snap install spotify to re-install it again. After installing it you can run the command which spotify to see if it is recognized now. Hope it helps, good luck! The solution is simple. Log out and log back in again. Same thing happened to me. It was the first time I had installed a snap app, and I expect that the $PATH...

Clearing Spotify Cache To Recover Disk Space?

Answer : Found on Lifehacker: When you play a song on Spotify, it uses some of your hard drive space to cache that file for faster playing later. Here's how to clear that cache if you need some extra disk space. By default, Spotify limits its cache to 10% of your free space, which means the default setting should be okay—but if you've changed it, you could run into disk space problems. All you need to do is delete the files in the following folder (for your platform): Windows: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Spotify\Storage OS X: /Users/USERNAME/Library/Caches/com.spotify.client/Storage/ Linux: ~/.cache/spotify/Storage/ You can adjust the maximum size of the cache so it doesn't grow so big, and the next time you start spotify it will shrink the cache down to the size you specify. Close spotify, then open for editing the prefs file which is at: Windows 1 : %APPDATA%\Roaming\Spotify\prefs Linux: $HOME/.config/spotify/prefs Add or modify the line starting with...