Spotify & Snap vs Web

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Would anyone happen to know why the tracks in the snap version of Spotify (Premium) grey out on my laptop after I successfully start any track and any subsequently selected track produces the error message: “This content is not available”? The Spotify web player has no problems playing any track, but Spotify settings are not available via the web player.

Laptop Make: Model → Clevo: N141CU
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS x86_64
Kernel: Linux 5.11.0-25-generic
Shell: bash 5.0.17
DE: GNOME 3.36.9
CPU: Intel i7-10510U (8) @ 4.9GHz [102.2°F]
CPU Usage: 7%
Disk (/): 17G / 223G (8%)
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics
GPU Driver: i915
Memory: 4487MiB / 15702MiB (28%)
Resolution: 1920x1080 @ 60.00Hz
Packages: 2167 (dpkg), 11 (snap)

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So far the only one track I found greyed is “Never change” from the soundtrack of The Thomas Crown Affair by Bill Conti.
But I have it greyed in both the web player and the dedicated player.
BTW, I have a huge disgust in snaps and flatpaks, so I installed Spotify via the .deb package:

curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey_0D811D58.gpg | sudo apt-key add - 
echo "deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install spotify-client

What if you give it a try?

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Yaa
This should work
Also,
Can u try Flatpak Version

I use it,
It works just fine…

Thank you!

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After reloading Ubuntu several times I no longer have this problem, so I am pretty sure it had little to do with Spotify. Thank you for your suggestions and I apologize for my tardy response.