spicetify auto and spicetify apply commands wrongfully (re)start Spotify into login screen

[MariusAlbrecht]

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ℹ Environment / Computer Info

- Spotify version: 1.2.50.335.g5e2860a8 (installed via flatpak)
- Spicetify version: 2.38.7
- OS: Ubuntu 24.10

📝 Description

the spicetify auto and spicetify apply commands (re)start Spotify into the login screen even though I am logged in when manually starting Spotify. The spotify_path config is set to reflect flatpak's directory structure

To reproduce:

either

1. close spotify
2. do spicetify auto
3. see error

or

1. start spotify
2. do spicetify apply
3. see error

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[rxri]

It cannot "restart" to login screen. This is because the prefs file or the spotify data is gone between the kill and start. Spicetify only launches Spotify binary.
src: https://github.com/spicetify/cli/blob/main/src/cmd/restart.go

[rxri]

It's probably flatpak related when you launch the binary directly instead of flatpak run .... Though I haven't seen this issue in the wild, and we did not change the behavior of restart for a long time...