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If you just want it to auto-start at login, you could create a symlink from the .desktop file to
~/.config/autostart
.Something like
ln ~/.local/applications/spotify.desktop ~/.config/autostart
(orln /usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop ~/.config/autostart
if that's where it installed to).I believe most DE's will pick this up automatically.
Spotifyd is a Spotify daemon, not an user application. It makes perfect sense to run as a service. Though personally I would run it as a user service instead of a system service.
Ahh I thought they were just making a service for the normal spotify application, yeah in that case it makes sense to use a service. Didn't know spotifyd is something else
KDE also has an easy GUI to configure this. It's called autostart in the settings app.