Spotify disregards disabling notlification for it on PopOS 20.10

[John15321]

I'm on PopOS 20.10 and I have Spotify installed from flatpack. I have general notifications enabled so that I can for example see when someone is texting me, but for things like Spotify, I like to disable it.

I disabled all notification for Spotify in my system settings:

But it doesn't care at all and each time it changes to the next song it pops up a notification anyway:

my inxi if it helps:

inxi -Fxxx                                                                                                                                                                              ─╯
System:    Host: pop-os Kernel: 5.8.0-7630-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 Desktop: N/A wm: gnome-shell 
           dm: GDM3 3.38.1 Distro: Pop!_OS 20.10 base: Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy 
Machine:   Type: Convertible System: HP product: HP ENVY x360 Convertible 13-ay0xxx v: Type1ProductConfigId 
           serial: <superuser/root required> Chassis: type: 31 serial: <superuser/root required> 
           Mobo: HP model: 876E v: 12.38 serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI: Insyde v: F.13 date: 09/09/2020 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 29.5 Wh condition: 47.1/51.0 Wh (92%) volts: 12.4/11.6 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 
           type: Li-ion serial: 41167 status: Charging 
           Device-1: hid-0018:04F3:2AF4.0001-battery model: ELAN2514:00 04F3:2AF4 serial: N/A charge: N/A status: N/A 
CPU:       Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Zen rev: 1 L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 31939 
           Speed: 1397 MHz min/max: 1400/2000 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1370 2: 1381 3: 1364 4: 1478 5: 1582 
           6: 1287 7: 1321 8: 1239 
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.0 
           chip ID: 1002:1636 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: gnome-shell driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz s-dpi: 96 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.38.0 5.8.0-7630-generic LLVM 11.0.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.1 
           chip ID: 1002:1637 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
           driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel bus ID: 04:00.5 chip ID: 1022:15e2 
           Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 04:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-7630-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822ce 
           v: N/A port: 2000 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:c822 
           IF: wlo1 state: up mac: d8:c0:a6:31:4a:c7 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 255.19 GiB (53.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN520 SDAPNUW-512G-1006 size: 476.94 GiB speed: 15.8 Gb/s 
           lanes: 2 serial: 20084C803847 rev: 20120006 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 460.08 GiB used: 252.76 GiB (54.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4.00 GiB used: 6.8 MiB (0.2%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C mobo: 20.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 49.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 345 Uptime: 2h 11m Memory: 15.09 GiB used: 5.34 GiB (35.4%) Init: systemd v: 246 runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 10.2.0 alt: 10 Packages: 2766 apt: 2727 flatpak: 39 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.1.07 

[Erick555]

Do you have idea if it works for non-flatpak spotify? As a workaround you may disable notifications in spotify own settings.

[John15321]

Hi, @Erick555 well the whole reason I'm using flatpak is that the .deb package is currently broken 😅. Also sorry but I am unaware of any setting in the Spotify app itself that would have anything to do with notifications 🤔

[Erick555]

Menu -> Settings -> Display options -> Show desktop notifications when the song changes

[John15321]

Menu -> Settings -> Display options -> Show desktop notifications when the song changes

That helped. Thanks <3

[janxkoci]

I have this issue on elementary OS 5 too. In my notification indicator I can see that the notifications actually come from "Other" source, instead of from Spotify itself. I believe the Spotify client doesn't register itself properly with the notification server, or something like that.