Spotify when ran using wine will not play local files (mp3's, wma's). When i open the Containing folder the files are present but when selected from the wine explorer it gives the error message: "there is no windows program configured to open this type of file"
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As @Matteo noted in the comments, there is a native Linux binary which works much better than the (unsupported) Wine version. Local files work just fine with this client.