This part of the message is directed at the folks who work at Spotify -- Please turn off the auto-update madness for customers using Mac OS X 10.5. All you are doing is breaking their already running Spotify installations. Frankly, it's just gratuitous cruelty to force a version of the Spotify client on their computers when you know it won't run. You should make a version of Mac Spotify that runs on Mac OS X 10.5 and has auto-update disabled. It is a hassle for customers to download the old Mac client and manually disable the update. Let the Mac OS X 10.5 users download this special no-update Spotify for OS X 10.5 and enjoy your music service.
By following steps above, you are close to uninstalling Spotify for Mac. Now empty Trash and restart your computer to finish the removal of Spotify on Mac. Part 2: The Common Problems of Uninstalling Spotify on Mac Manually. The manual removal of Spotify on Mac may take 5-10 minutes.
-- If you are Mac OS X 10.5 user and neet to get Spotify working again -- As of the v0.8.8 client, Spotify no longer supports Mac OS X 10.5. So you will have to go back to an older version of the client and disable Spotify's auto-update mechanism.
This process is tricky. Evelinder and fgmart and Peter all have contributed to getting Mac OS X users running on an older client version. Kudos to them. As some of the links to the Mac instructions no longer work, try these (I've copied them below in case the link gets deleted like some previous ones I posted). Re: Spotify crashes as soon as it opens OK everyone, here's the deal. You have to prevent Spotify from auto-updating.
The way you're going to do this is by sticking two files in the place where it will try to download its auto-update. You're going to configure these files as read-only and locked, so that when Spotify tries to auto-update it will fail. Then you will download and install an old version of Spotify that works. Because you've previously put these two blocking files in the right place, the newly-installed, old-working version of Spotify will silently try and fail its auto-update, and you'll be happy.
Create the two special files. Using TextEdit, create a blank file.
Then, go into the Format menu, and choose 'Make Plain Text'. Outlook for mac view messages in other folders. Choose File:Save, and uncheck the box that says 'If no extension is provided, use '.txt'. Enter filename as 'Spotify_new.archive', and save it in:Library:Application Support:Spotify.
Make sure to uncheck the box that adds an extension. The file cannot have a.txt or.rtf extension! Now, choose File:Save As, and save it again, in the same folder, but with filename 'Spotify_new.archive.sig'.
Yes, you are indeed saving blank files -- that is correct! Make the files read-only and locked. Remember, the point of this is to prevent Spotify from replacing them with an actual update. Using the Finder, locate the Spotify_new.archive and Spotify_new.archive.sig files. They should be in:Library:Application Support:Spotify. One at a time, do a Get Info on them (Command-I), and then: 2a. In the Sharing & Permissions tab, change access privileges to Read only.