Installing GStreamer Spotify plugin

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To play Spotify songs you need the GStreamer Spotify plugin from the gst-plugins-rs package, if you do not have it, you can build it from source this way.

Get the source

   git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs.git
   cd gst-plugins-rs

Build and install:

   meson setup --buildtype=release --default-library=shared --wrap-mode=nodownload --auto-features=disabled -Dspotify=enabled build
   cd build
   ninja
   sudo cp libgstspotify.so /usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/