Other Spotify Downloads for Legacy / Intel Macs

[sdfox7]

Thanks to the Internet Archive, I've located old versions of Spotify. Hope this may be handy for you.

Spotify for Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200417014110/https://www.spotify.com/us/download/other/

Spotify for OS X 10.7 to 10.10, click here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210417212227/https://www.spotify.com/us/download/other/

Spotify for OS X 10.11 to current, click here: https://www.spotify.com/de-en/download/other/

 

[Wowfunhappy]

Super neat—but do they still work with the current Spotify?

 

[sdfox7]

@Wowfunhappy yes, but the 10.5 - 10.10 versions require an email ID and password login, they don't have the Facebook, Google, etc login options.

Here's Spotify on my 10.11 MacBook Air:

 

[Wowfunhappy]

Hmm... people in a github discussion can't seem to get the pre-10.11 clients working. If there's anything about your setup that might be unique @sdfox7, please share!

 

[doctor_dog]

Spotify has been DOA for us 10.5 PowerPC folks for several years at this point. If you have some secret sauce to get these old clients to connect, you are indeed a legend (and we'd love to know your secrets) =)

 

[sdfox7]

Spotify has been DOA for us 10.5 PowerPC folks for several years at this point. If you have some secret sauce to get these old clients to connect, you are indeed a legend (and we'd love to know your secrets) =)

Spotify requires the WideVine plugin, which hasn't been supported on PowerPC in years. Update WideVine, and you should be good to go. When I have a chance I'll test 10.7-10.10.

 

[PowerHarryG4]

Thanks to the Internet Archive, I've located old versions of Spotify. Hope this may be handy for you.

Spotify for Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200417014110/https://www.spotify.com/us/download/other/

Spotify for OS X 10.7 to 10.10, click here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210417212227/https://www.spotify.com/us/download/other/

Spotify for OS X 10.11 to current, click here: https://www.spotify.com/de-en/download/other/

Unfortunately they've shut down any Spotify version released before 2021: https://community.spotify.com/t5/De...ode-22-Version-1-0-89-313/td-p/5581705/page/5

So I think that's any version before 10.11.

 

[sdfox7]

On 10.6.8 I downloaded the Spotify-10.11-12.dmg file (https://www.spotify.com/de-en/download/other/) and modified the info.plist file, to minimum OS 10.6.8. When I launch the program I get an error report. I believe this MAY be an artificial limitation and that there's a way to get this program to run. Any ideas?

 

[Wowfunhappy]

On 10.6.8 I downloaded the Spotify-10.11-12.dmg file (https://www.spotify.com/de-en/download/other/) and modified the info.plist file, to minimum OS 10.6.8. When I launch the program I get an error report. I believe this MAY be an artificial limitation and that there's a way to get this program to run. Any ideas?

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That... does not look to me like an artificial limitation. The artificial limitation was the minimum version in the info.plist. You removed that and ran into the real limitation.

It's not even crashing on a missing symbol or something which could potentially be polyfilled.

I'm sorry!

 

[doctor_dog]

I'm sure this has been mentioned elsewhere, but for anyone encountering this thread, I've had success using third-party open source options like ncspot with success on all manner of platforms, even on an old Pentium 4. The general limiting factor seems to be whether or not a platform can build librespot and run or any of its alternate language derivatives (I believe it's available for Rust, C, and even Java). You should be able to get one of those clients running on 10.6.8, it just won't be "pretty" and official.

 

[originaldotexe]

That... does not look to me like an artificial limitation. The artificial limitation was the minimum version in the info.plist. You removed that and ran into the real limitation.

It's not even crashing on a missing symbol or something which could potentially be polyfilled.

I'm sorry!

It is crashing because it's trying to access an address in 64-bit kernel memory, but Snow Leopard boots into 32-bit mode by default. They need to configure their system to boot into a 64-bit kernel and then it may get farther.
This is an issue for all applications that are not universal binaries (i.e, only compiled for x86_64 and not supporting i386 as well)

 

[Jazzzny]

Spotify internally uses CEF - even if you get the binary on its feet, it'll be pretty much impossible to shim everything required to get Chromium 80ish running on Snow Leopard.