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Windows Spotify not showing any songs, nor playing online

Plan

Free

Country

 USA

Device

Windows 10 Desktop

Operating System

Windows 10

 

My Question or Issue

 My spotify app on my computer doesn't show any songs. It loads the playlists, but they're blank and shows "0 songs". On open.spotify.com, however, it shows everything loaded correctly but I still can't play any songs. It only shows what's in my playlist

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Hey @b777l

 

unfourtunalty this is a known issue for some users and is beeing investigated.

Here you can see the open Issue and can vote for it to hopfully be fixed sooner!

 

For a quick workaround try these steps by @Mantisentil

  1. Open Notepad as an administrator (right-click - Open as Administrator)
  2. go to File - Open and navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
  3. Choose "All Files" instead of "Text Documents" next to the File Name box. You'll see a handful of files. Pick hosts and click on Open
  4. When the file is open, you will see a block of text with # in front of each line and might see entries like 0.0.0.0 website.com127.0.0.1 website2.com
  5. Check for any entries with Spotify in the address. Examples may look like: 0.0.0.0 weblb-wg.gslb.spotify.com0.0.0.0
  6. If you do find any lines with Spotify, please remove them.
  7. Save your changes and restart Spotify. 

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Hey @b777l

 

unfourtunalty this is a known issue for some users and is beeing investigated.

Here you can see the open Issue and can vote for it to hopfully be fixed sooner!

 

For a quick workaround try these steps by @Mantisentil

  1. Open Notepad as an administrator (right-click - Open as Administrator)
  2. go to File - Open and navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
  3. Choose "All Files" instead of "Text Documents" next to the File Name box. You'll see a handful of files. Pick hosts and click on Open
  4. When the file is open, you will see a block of text with # in front of each line and might see entries like 0.0.0.0 website.com127.0.0.1 website2.com
  5. Check for any entries with Spotify in the address. Examples may look like: 0.0.0.0 weblb-wg.gslb.spotify.com0.0.0.0
  6. If you do find any lines with Spotify, please remove them.
  7. Save your changes and restart Spotify. 

Jesus christ thank you, I had this problem for the past 3 months

Awesome! Happy listening 🙂

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