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Spotify Adblock Fedora 34

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.