Spotify can't load present ayatana libs

[dborel]

I want to use Spotify Lossless on my RPI5 with latest Raspbian. Grabbed the latest AMD64 deb from https://repository.spotify.com/pool/non-free/s/spotify-client and ran spotify with latest box64, but it failed to load and libayatana-indicator3.so.7 and libayatana-ido3-0.4.so.0, which are present on the system already, in the same location as the successfully-loaded libayatana-appindicator3.so.1.

[BOX64] Box64 arm64 v0.4.1 0eb0f9d with Dynarec built on Jan 25 2026 06:28:33
[BOX64] Dynarec for ARM64, with extension: ASIMD AES CRC32 PMULL ATOMICS SHA1 SHA2
[BOX64] Running on Cortex-A76 with 4 cores, pagesize: 4096
[BOX64] Will use hardware counter measured at 54.0 MHz emulating 3.4 GHz
[BOX64] Didn't detect 48bits of address space, considering it's 39bits
[BOX64] Counted 55 Env var
[BOX64] Library search path:
[BOX64] Binary search path: ./:bin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr/local/bin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/bin/:/sbin/:/bin/:/usr/local/games/:/usr/games/
[BOX64] Looking for ./spotify
[BOX64] Dynarec for ARM64, with extension: ASIMD AES CRC32 PMULL ATOMICS SHA1 SHA2
[BOX64] Running on Cortex-A76 with 4 cores, pagesize: 4096
[BOX64] Will use hardware counter measured at 54.0 MHz emulating 3.4 GHz
[BOX64] BOX64ENV: Variables overridden:
BOX64_DYNAREC_BIGBLOCK=0
BOX64_DYNAREC_STRONGMEM=1
BOX64_INPROCESSGPU=1
BOX64_MALLOC_HACK=2
BOX64_NOSANDBOX=1
[BOX64] Inserting "--no-sandbox" to the argument 1
[BOX64] Inserting "--in-process-gpu" to the argument 2
[BOX64] Rename process to "spotify"
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libm.so.6
[BOX64] Using emulated libcef.so
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libayatana-appindicator3.so.1
[BOX64] Error loading needed lib libayatana-indicator3.so.7
[BOX64] Error loading needed lib libayatana-ido3-0.4.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libdbusmenu-glib.so.4
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libgtk-3.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libgdk-3.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libgobject-2.0.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libglib-2.0.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libgio-2.0.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libgmodule-2.0.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libpango-1.0.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libcairo.so.2
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libz.so.1
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libharfbuzz.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libatk-1.0.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libcairo-gobject.so.2
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libasound.so.2
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libatomic.so.1
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libX11.so.6
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libxcb.so.1
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libXau.so.6
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libXdmcp.so.6
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libc.so.6
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libpthread.so.0
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libdl.so.2
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libutil.so.1
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libresolv.so.2
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) librt.so.1
[BOX64] Using native(wrapped) libbsd.so.0
[BOX64] Error loading one of needed lib
[BOX64] Error: Loading needed libs in elf ./spotify

[runlevel5]

I've done a bit of grep, I think Spotify fails to load because box64 can't find wrappers for two ayatana libraries:

• libayatana-indicator3.so.7 — no wrapper exists
• libayatana-ido3-0.4.so.0 — no wrapper exists

Why don't you give it a go by wrap those 2 libs? one ayatana wrapper exists: wrappedayatanaappindicator3.c for libayatana-appindicator3.so.1 and you could learn and adapt it