Comment 83 for bug 579300

6. Spotify under Wine - works but no audio, so essentially useless due to this major oversight.

It's a shame that they people at Spotify have gone through the trouble to assist Linux users in using their product http://www.spotify.com/uk/help/faq/wine/ only for the community to break it by making an uninformed decision on dropping OSS support!

Yota's idea of a separate package sounds like a good way forward, although not sure how non-technical Linux users are going to manage unless the installing of this package was somehow automated i.e. loaded when required.