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Desktop: Jam now available

Spotify is bringing Jam to the desktop app! 拾 ️ Now you can start or join a listening party with your friends, family, colleagues, and classmates, with the Spotify desktop app in addition to the mobile app. Although you can listen on your own, Jam in...

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Desktop: New "Now Playing View" sidebar

Spotify is introducing a new "Now Playing View" sidebar in the desktop app and Web Player to go along with the recently released "Your Library" sidebar. Together, the individually customizable design of these new views provides a richer experience, m...

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New Your Library sidebar

Spotify is introducing a new Your Library sidebar in the desktop app and Web Player. The new Your Library sidebar is rolling out to all desktop users now, so you will be seeing it soon if you haven't already. The new Your Library sidebar improves nav...

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[Troubleshooting] Windows

Having trouble with the Spotify desktop app? Here’s a step-by-step guide to help get things working again. What to try first Perform a soft reset (generally rebooting the device will suffice). If that doesn’t help, try a clean reinstall. Be sure to l...

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Superuser Contribution Lost ALL saved songs library

PlanPremiumCountry SpainDeviceDell XPS 15 / HTC One M8Operating SystemWindows 10 / Android Marshmallow My Question or Issue So surprise to me this morning, my +2000 songs library got erased or lost, call it whatever you want. Instead, a lot of albums...

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  • Plan Premium Country  Spain Device Dell XPS 15 / HTC One M8 Operating System Windows 10 / Android Marshmallow   My Question or Issue  So surprise to me this morning, my +2000...
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Superuser Contribution Unable to connect with Facebook

PlanPremiumCountryCANADADeviceWINDOWS PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue When I click "connect to facebook" Nothing appears until I press "ALT-TAB" on my keyboard. I can then see the facebook login prompt but cannot click on it. I also...

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  •   Plan Premium Country CANADA Device WINDOWS PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  When I click "connect to facebook" Nothing appears until I press "ALT-TAB...
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Superuser Contribution Windows startup opens browser with weird spotify link that does not open

When windows 10 starts up, my browser starts up with this link: https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize/?client_id=&response_type=code&redirect_uri=http://127.0.0.1:7476&state=XSS&scope=user-read-playback-state%20user-modify-playback-state&show_dialog...

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  •   When windows 10 starts up, my browser starts up with this link:   https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize/?client_id=<blahblahblah>&response_type=code&redirect_uri=http://...
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Superuser Contribution Available songs giving "This track is not available in your country" message on chrome

PlanPremiumCountryFinlandDevicePCOperating SystemWin7 My Question or Issue For around a month now everytime I click on songs or playlists on other websites it keeps saying it's not available in my country, but when I click on the track and open it in...

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  • Plan Premium Country Finland Device PC Operating System Win7   My Question or Issue   For around a month now everytime I click on songs or playlists on other websites i...
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Windows 10 Store App, toggle settings not working

PlanPremiumCountryPortugalDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 - App store Application.Previous information:Already did a clean install of the Windows app, relogged, did a log out from all devices from the web page (since I also use the android app). M...

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  • Plan Premium Country Portugal Device PC Operating System Windows 10 - App store Application. Previous information: Already did a clean install of the Windows app, relogged, did a log out f...
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Solved!! Suggestion: Searching shows column with your own playlists

How about when you search in the desktop application, for songs or artists, you also get a column showing where you can find them in your own playlists? And by columns I of course mean like the already existing columns like: Artists, songs, albums......

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  • How about when you search in the desktop application, for songs or artists, you also get a column showing where you can find them in your own playlists?   And by columns I of course mean like ...
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Solved!! HELP problem with Spotify PC

Hello everyone ... I'm having a problem with Spotify for PC ... So I turn to some help from someone who has already had this problem, or who has an idea of how to solve it. ..It marks me this error, as on the screenshot, on my laptop Acer of 2018 on ...

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  • Hello everyone ... I'm having a problem with Spotify for PC ... So I turn to some help from someone who has already had this problem, or who has an idea of how to solve it. .. It marks me this err...
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[Windows] Friend Activity pane bug

Using Win7.1, Spotify 1.0.85.257.g0f8531bd. The rightmost "Friend Activity" pane extends horizontally without resizing the other parts when zooming out (Ctrl+-) three or more times. When trying to resize (<-II->) that pane nothing happens. Screenshot...

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  • Using Win7.1, Spotify 1.0.85.257.g0f8531bd.   The rightmost "Friend Activity" pane extends horizontally without resizing the other parts when zooming out (Ctrl+-) three or more times...
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Solved!! Spotify web don't load

I had tried to connect to the spotify web, but it gives me an error.I can't connect with my computer or my smartphone.Sorry for my bad english.

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  • I had tried to connect to the spotify web, but it gives me an error. I can't connect with my computer or my smartphone. Sorry for my bad english.
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Solved!! Image Problem

 How do I put the image on the left back ?

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  •   How do I put the image on the left back ?
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Superuser Contribution Volume keys not working - Spotify Connect on WiFi - Windows 10

Hi,I have a new Lenovo ThinkPad and the volume keys (incl mute) don't change the volume on my stereo when using Spotify Connect on Wifi. When I toggle volume keys up/down the Windows volume appears to be changing (ie the W10 pop-up slides up/down) bu...

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  • Hi, I have a new Lenovo ThinkPad and the volume keys (incl mute) don't change the volume on my stereo when using Spotify Connect on Wifi.  When I toggle volume keys up/down the Windows volume a...
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Artwork large box

I used to have a large bottom left corner artwork in spotify desktop app now it's not the case and I cant find how to make it bigger?

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  • I used to have a large bottom left corner artwork in spotify desktop app now it's not the case and I cant find how to make it bigger?
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[Desktop] Unable to start playback after recent desktop app update

PlanFreeCountry USDeviceDell Inspiron laptop from 2016(?)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue The latest update for the non-Windows Store version of Spotify Desktop is causing all tracks to display the "unplayable" error message and skip u...

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  • Plan Free Country  US Device Dell Inspiron laptop from 2016(?) Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  The latest update for the non-Windows Store version of Spot...
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Cannot play songs after I heared a bit

Hi! I can hear like 10 songs on Spotify, but after that 10 songs the music stops and I cant hear anything until I restart Spotify. It is really uncomfortable to do this every 30 minutes.Can anybody help me to fix this problem?

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  •   Hi!   I can hear like 10 songs on Spotify, but after that 10 songs the music stops and I cant hear anything until I restart Spotify. It is really uncomfortable to do this every 30 minu...
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So tired of Webplayer chrome

PlanPremiumCountryFinlandDeviceW10 pro build 17134 desktop, Nokia 8 android 8.1.0 My Question or Issue Why the **** does spotify app on my desktop pc want to listen music on web player Chrome thats on my nokia 8? I don't have chrome installed pc. Als...

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  • Plan Premium Country Finland Device W10 pro build 17134 desktop, Nokia 8 android 8.1.0   My Question or Issue  Why the **** does spotify app on my desktop pc want to listen music on...
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Spotify won't start and uninstall

PlanPremiumCountryEstoniaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I haven't done anything to my computer, but for some reasond Spotify won't start. Every time I try to launch it it just pops for a second (without anything on it, just g...

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  • Plan Premium Country Estonia Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I haven't done anything to my computer, but for some reasond Spotify won't start. Every ...
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Solved!! The "Follow" option has disappeared!!!

PlanFreeCountryArgentina DeviceNoneOperating SystemWindows My Question or IssueI can't follow artists or lists or people. The "Follow" option has disappeared in desktop version and web version. I dont use Spotify mobile version.

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  • Plan Free Country Argentina   Device None Operating System Windows    My Question or Issue I can't follow artists or lists or people. The "Follow" option has disappeare...
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[Desktop] Music playback in Modern Standby

With windows 8, Microsoft introduced a feature called 'Connected Standby', renamed to Modern Standby in Windows 10. Modern standby replaces the traditional Sleep power states (S1, S2 and S3) with a low-power Active power state (S0 low-power). Modern ...

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  • With windows 8, Microsoft introduced a feature called 'Connected Standby', renamed to Modern Standby in Windows 10. Modern standby replaces the traditional Sleep power states (S1, S2 and S3) with a l...
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daily mix

hello, in the beginning, I Added daily mix after a 6 once it stops and I listening to Spotify every day what is the reason that is stopped?e of the below information is required. However, the more you provide the easier it will be for us to try and h...

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  • hello, in the beginning, I Added daily mix after a 6 once it stops and I listening to Spotify every day what is the reason that is stopped?e of the below information is required. However, the more yo...
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