Spotify package is broken

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I recently set up my system but I cant get spotify working. it throws errors whenever i rebuild with it included. my configuration.nix:

nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
vim
wget
alacritty
git
xclip
wl-clipboard
yazi
fzf
zsh
bash
spotify
];

It takes a long time to rebuild, retries several times and then throws these errors as the end result:

building the system configuration...
error: Cannot build '/nix/store/z277f91lra3n4wx15xv5schlb9hk7ga7-spotify-1.2.74.477.g3be53afe-89.snap.drv'.
       Reason: builder failed with exit code 1.
       Output paths:
         /nix/store/y678qd67dlir3k1x1vwd0343cwzwbs2c-spotify-1.2.74.477.g3be53afe-89.snap
       Last 17 log lines:
       >
       > trying https://api.snapcraft.io/api/v1/snaps/download/pOBIoZ2LrCB3rDohMxoYGnbN14EHOgD7_89.snap
       >   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed  Time    Time    Time   Current
       >                                  Dload  Upload  Total   Spent   Left   Speed
       >   0      0   0      0   0      0      0      0           05:00              0
       > curl: (28) Connection timed out after 300686 milliseconds
       > Warning: Problem : timeout. Will retry in 1 second. 3 retries left.
       >   0      0   0      0   0      0      0      0           00:23              0
       > curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
       > Warning: Problem (retrying all errors). Will retry in 2 seconds. 2 retries
       > Warning: left.
       >   0      0   0      0   0      0      0      0           00:20              0
       > curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
       > Warning: Problem (retrying all errors). Will retry in 4 seconds. 1 retry left.
       >   0      0   0      0   0      0      0      0           00:17              0
       > curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
       > error: cannot download spotify-1.2.74.477.g3be53afe-89.snap from any mirror
       For full logs, run:
         nix log /nix/store/z277f91lra3n4wx15xv5schlb9hk7ga7-spotify-1.2.74.477.g3be53afe-89.snap.drv
error: Cannot build '/nix/store/p7k3hg9qlnlx00payajws3xhgxz0zrwi-spotify-1.2.74.477.g3be53afe.drv'.
       Reason: 1 dependency failed.
       Output paths:
         /nix/store/fd2p16x9h6g68xan1kp8lzgi06c3w8z2-spotify-1.2.74.477.g3be53afe
error: Cannot build '/nix/store/3qfd298p6vznyvh5m8qpn0gjaqrf3hfv-system-path.drv'.
       Reason: 1 dependency failed.
       Output paths:
         /nix/store/bha75xxcmqj44w1rj9hksk1ip16knmyc-system-path
error: Cannot build '/nix/store/v11ws6hacc85k68kdkv66s5dynsv1i2z-nixos-system-nixos-btw-25.11.20260429.755f5aa.drv'.
       Reason: 1 dependency failed.
       Output paths:
         /nix/store/h0b0l0qhrxxanbhybv04ilsaqgjds63r-nixos-system-nixos-btw-25.11.20260429.755f5aa
Command 'nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' build --print-out-paths '/home/vxb/nixos-dots#nixosConfigurations."nixos-btw".config.system.build.toplevel' --no-link' returned non-zero exit status 1.

I’m on the current stable version 25.11, and fetching it from the unstable repo and home manager seems no different. All of the other packages have built and installed just fine.

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Can you download that tarball manually?

Unlike other packages this package appears to be non-redistributable, so you’re not downloading the built artifact from hydra. You’re hence subject to the upstream server potentially blocking your IP, or simply being nonfunctional at the moment. This is unlikely to be something that can be fixed in nixpkgs.

3

Thanks for the observation. I’ve tried accessing the url through wget and curl now and gotten timeouts on both counts, so i think it’s likely a problem on my side. I’ll try alternatives to access it and I’ll probably edit this message when I find something.

4

https://snapcraft.io seems to be down, so we’ll just have to wait.