how to fix spotifyd

[sidthedid357]

rAudio 20260216
6.1.63-3-rpi-ARCH armv7l

Hi all,

Apologies if this has been covered before but I could not find it in any recent posts.

I had the problem with rAudio running on a pi2 model B, where the slider would not stay on, and spotify would not activate, having previously followed the steps given to log in spotify developer mode and create app etc.
I looked through the forums and none of the fixes were applicable, as either the files do not exist in my rAudio build, did not contain the things suggested to comment out, or changing (pihole/vpn) did not work.

My solution - as I was trying to delete the saved details, but there was no "cog" next to spotify switch, i tried from an ssh terminal:

spotifyd authenticate

and got the error:

/usr/lib/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.39' not found (required by spotifyd)`

which i fixed somewhat obviously with:

pacman -S glibc followed by running spotifyd authenticate again, at which point i noticed in the web front end settings page, the spotify switch slid to on automatically, the cog symbol is now visible with the option to delete ID/secret (i didn't need to do this).
I could then change the device on spotify app on my phone, and the selected music streams perfectly - the only issue is the web front end does not display track info (although the "player" icon at bottom has changed to spotify icon), however I can live with this for now.

hoping the above solves the problem for someone else as I spent a few hours today trying to find this solution which turned out to be very simple.