Spotify under Wine in Linux - Can't open spotify links in Firefox

Sun, 11/22/2009 - 23:12 — sham

Fix for: 'Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (spotify) isn't associated with any program.' In the Spotify instructions (here) it says:

Opening spotify URIs from browsers
 
This has been tested and works with Firefox (Iceweasel), Epiphany and Opera 9.5.
 
To be abe to open spotify URIs you first need a simple script:
 
echo '#!/bin/sh' > ~/.browser2spotify
echo 'exec wine "C:\Program Files\Spotify\spotify.exe" /uri "$@"' >> ~/.browser2spotify
chmod 755 ~/.browser2spotify
 
(Change the path to the spotify executable if necessary)
Firefox/Epiphany
 
In Epiphany enter the following in the URI field:
 
about:config
 
Right click and select New > Boolean and name it network.protocol-handler.external.spotify and set it to True
 
Right click and select New > String and name it network.protocol-handler.app.spotify and set the name to ~/.browser2spotify