Install Spotify
First install the spotify package from negativo17 ’s repository.
Enable negativo17 repo:
dnf config-manager --add-repo=https://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-spotify.repo
Then install:
dnf install spotify-client
Build Adblock
Install the dependencies:
dnf install rust cargo
Clone and build:
git clone https://github.com/abba23/spotify-adblock.git
cd spotify-adblock
make
Install to system path:
sudo make install
Usage - Important Last Step
Normally on other GNU/Linux distribution users add the LD_PRELOAD value to the desktop file, but this method didn’t work on Fedora 34 (I really don’t know why). So we will add LD_PRELOAD to spotify’s executable: /usr/bin/spotify.
Add LD_PRELOAD value to /usr/bin/spotify:
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/spotify-adblock.so
Look like this:
#!/usr/bin/sh
# Wrapper script for Spotify.
# The spotify binary has a RUNPATH of its origin folder. It requires a few
# librares compiled with minimum options (no external dependencies).
# The FFMpeg library is loaded ONLY on the system path libraries, ignoring the
# RUNPATH.
# So remove the RUNPATH from the binary, put all the libraries in its private
# folder and make sure that only the spotify binary can access them.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib64/spotify-client${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
export SCALE_FACTOR="$(/usr/lib64/spotify-client/get-scale-factor.py)"
#HERE
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/spotify-adblock.so
exec /usr/lib64/spotify-client/spotify --force-device-scale-factor=$SCALE_FACTOR "$@" &
exec /usr/lib64/spotify-client/set-dark-theme-variant.py &
That’s all! Run it.
