Spotify

Name: Spotify
Author: Spotify AB

by Spotify AB · Proprietary

Spotify is all the music you’ll ever need.

Record

These URLs are the ones Spotify AB declares in its own manifest. We do not proxy or shorten them, and we do not host a copy.

exeuser scopedownload.scdn.co · publisher-owned

exeuser scopedownload.scdn.co · publisher-owned

Run this against the file on disk. If the output does not match the hash below, the file is not what Spotify AB published. Delete it.

Windows · PowerShell

Get-FileHash "SpotifyFullSetupX64.exe" -Algorithm SHA256

macOS · Linux

shasum -a 256 "SpotifyFullSetupX64.exe"

Expected output

e56ce1c2ee43ff5ccbec9a2373d394993a53e493101f7982f9f2ddc1e126dd97

Signal	Finding	Points
SHA-256 hash published	2 of 2 installers ship a SHA-256 hashWithout a published hash there is no way to prove the file you downloaded is the file the publisher built.	30 / 30
Binary provenance	2 on a domain owned by the publisherThe strongest signal against a repackaged installer: the file should come from the publisher, not from a mirror nobody vouches for.	35 / 35
Served over HTTPS	2 of 2 over HTTPSAn installer fetched over plain HTTP can be modified in transit.	15 / 15
Licence declared	ProprietaryA declared licence tells you what you are actually allowed to do with the software.	5 / 5

Every version with a published manifest, newest first. Useful when you need an older build for compatibility.

Windows manifest: github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/s/Spotify/Spotify/1.2.94.583.g60394bd5
macOS cask: formulae.brew.sh/cask/spotify