Opening song share link results in "Something went wrong" which persists across reload and restart

[mgsloan]

Debian + Spotify 1.1.84.716.gc5f8b819

Any share link I open results in chrome asking if I want to use xdg-open, which results in a new spotify window opening with the "Something went wrong; try reloading the page" dialog.  Reloading doesn't help

This persists even if I restart the client.  If I start it in the console I get:

[libprotobuf ERROR ../core/vendor/protobuf3/src/google/protobuf/wire_format_lite.cc:577] String field 'spotify.event_sender.proto.DroppedEvents.DroppedEventsBySequenceIdEntry.key' contains invalid UTF-8 data when parsing a protocol buffer. Use the 'bytes' type if you intend to send raw bytes.

So, somehow an invalid protobuf is getting persisted.  Blowing away the cache fixes the issue:

rm -r ~/.cache/spotify

So, opening songs from share links is broken for me.  There may also be a systematic issue here with error handling, IMHO this shouldn't break the whole client.

Example share link that reproduces this issue: https://open.spotify.com/track/6gZhmhlrI2fBKWzcEgCIOw?si=44d27687df9d489d&nd=1

[mgsloan]

This just happened to me on a different computer.  However, in that case spotify was installed via snapcraft on ubuntu and so the path to the cache is different.  Fixed via:

> rm -r ~/snap/spotify/common/.cache

Beyond the specific protobuf deserialization issue there is a systemic problem here - it should be resilient to all errors involved in reading the cache (if blowing it away fixes the problem, then this should be done automatically)

[Anutrix]

Same issue on latest Spotify version installed on Debian via apt after adding source.list.

[mgsloan]

Looks like this is fixed in more recent versions.  For me the stable version of the spotify snap on ubuntu was quite old, though.  From running "snap info spotify":

channels:
latest/stable: 1.1.84.716.gc5f8b819 2022-04-27 (60) 177MB -
latest/candidate: 1.2.8.923.g4f94bf0d 2023-03-30 (63) 164MB -
latest/beta: ↑
latest/edge: 1.2.8.923.g4f94bf0d 2023-03-30 (63) 164MB -
installed: 1.1.84.716.gc5f8b819 (60) 177MB -

So, running "sudo snap install spotify --channel=latest/candidate" installed a much newer version which no longer has this bug.  Opening things from chrome via xdg-open still doesn't work, but hey.