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New Feature To Try On Desktop: Quick Search Shortcuts

Hey folks, The Spotify team is always working to make the software as simple as possible for everyone to use, and for those of you who like to save a bit of time by using keyboard shortcuts, there's a very convenient trick that you may not have notic...

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New Home Feed Interface?

Sorry but this new "tiktok-like" interface is so ugly. Spotify needs to realise that a familiar design on one app absolutely doesn't work for others. It doesn't "promote discovery" and honestly just makes me feel less inclined to scroll through hundr...

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Does a live stream include live video?

PlanPremiumCountryNetherlandsDevice(Huawei Mate 20 Pro, Philips TV with AndroidTV)Operating System(EMUI 11, AndroidTV 5) My Question or IssueNext Thursday, Spotify offers a Black Keys live stream for 15€. Does this include live video or is this audio...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device (Huawei Mate 20 Pro, Philips TV with AndroidTV) Operating System (EMUI 11, AndroidTV 5)   My Question or Issue Next Thursday, Spotify offers a B...
  • SuHo1981
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Superuser Contribution Spotify archive playlists

PlanPremiumCountry us Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) mabook air 2013 and android phone both updated Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueIt is very hard to find focus music. Even the B...

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  • Plan Premium Country us   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) mabook air 2013 and android phone both updated  Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Wind...
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Superuser Contribution Autoplay issue in Spotify

PlanPremiumCountryIndia My Question or IssueHello, I rejoined Spotify premium after a few months because of YouTube Music's metadata problem. The one thing I can not tolerate is Spotify's autoplay. No matter how many times I remove a track/song from ...

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  • Plan Premium Country India   My Question or Issue Hello, I rejoined Spotify premium after a few months because of YouTube Music's metadata problem. The one thing I can not tolerate is Spot...
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Superuser Contribution discovering music- Any tips?

Free/Premium: PremiumCountry: USA Device: Macbook ProOperating System: Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina) My Question or IssueI am using the Spotify app on Mac. I am trying to discover classical music. I search for classical music radio, or classical music. I...

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  • Free/Premium: Premium Country: USA   Device: Macbook Pro Operating System: Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina)     My Question or Issue I am using the Spotify app on Mac. I am tryin...
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Solved!! Will Hifi Quality bring support of FLAC/ALAC/Hi res file formats for local files?

It's great new to see Spotify announce Hi Fi quality, however, in order to make it really interesting to have a hi fi library with Spotify, it's necessary to have local files support for FLAC, ALAC or other hi res local file formats. What is Spotify ...

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  • It's great new to see Spotify announce Hi Fi quality, however, in order to make it really interesting to have a hi fi library with Spotify, it's necessary to have local files support for FLAC, ALAC o...
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[Desktop][Browse] Show dates on Albums as a tooltip when hovering over the year

I miss seeing when an album was released! this seems to be only a feature on mobile (near the bottom of the album listing). On desktop, it'd be nice to be able to see the album release date either near the year or as a tooltip when hovering over the ...

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  • I miss seeing when an album was released! this seems to be only a feature on mobile (near the bottom of the album listing). On desktop, it'd be nice to be able to see the album release date either ne...
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Artist, album, and song names are all a mess!

Something I have noticed quite a bit over my use of Spotify is the crazy irregularity of names, namings, and credit given to folks on music, especially within certain genres. This is basically a non-issue for any music within the contemporary genres ...

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  • Something I have noticed quite a bit over my use of Spotify is the crazy irregularity of names, namings, and credit given to folks on music, especially within certain genres. This is basically a non-...
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Adverts on Premium version

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI want to remove adverts on Spotify. I have the Premium version and adverts have just started...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue I want ...
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Superuser Contribution Audiobooks don't belong in radio

PlanPremiumCountryUSADevicePixel 3aOperating SystemAndroid 11 My Question or Issue I'm getting audiobook chapters in my song radio, and it's really killing the mood. Seriously, audiobooks are not music and should not be in radio.

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device Pixel 3a Operating System Android 11   My Question or Issue   I'm getting audiobook chapters in my song radio, and it's really killing the mood. S...
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[Community][Radio] Thrilling Experience: Ancient acoustics for Spotify users

Dear Spotify Community, For a few years in my research as one of topics, I worked on reconstruction of acoustics in the ancient theatres designed for musical performances. I had it in mind that it should have impact on the modern music. The result is...

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  • Dear Spotify Community,   For a few years in my research as one of topics, I worked on reconstruction of acoustics in the ancient theatres designed for musical performances. I had it in m...
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Superuser Contribution Suggestions repeat recently played songs

PlanPremiumI will choose to listen to an album. Like Air Mason Creatures. When the album is over spotify will start auto-playing suggested songs. Why would it suggest a song it just played off the album?I.e. Like the followingSelected tracks off albu...

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  • Plan Premium I will choose to listen to an album. Like Air Mason Creatures. When the album is over spotify will start auto-playing suggested songs. Why would it suggest a song it just played off ...
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Superuser Contribution Removing Michael Jackson Portfolio

Considering the allegations made from the Finding Netherland documentary, that victims should be believed, and the actions being taken from other platforms - I feel there's a moral case for Spotify to remove Michael Jackson's portfolio of music from ...

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  • Considering the allegations made from the Finding Netherland documentary, that victims should be believed, and the actions being taken from other platforms - I feel there's a moral case for Spot...
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Offline listening on wearable

Plan Premium Country USA Device Garmin Forerunner 245 Music My Question or Issue I have been using my watches music download feature to listen to music and podcasts on my runs. However, I really like tracking my music listens, and I'm wondering if li...

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  • Plan   Premium   Country   USA   Device   Garmin Forerunner 245 Music   My Question or Issue   I have been using my watches music download feature to ...
  • Billy-J
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Blend playlists update

PlanPremiumCountryBelgiumDeviceOnePlus6Operating SystemAndroid 10 My Question or IssueHi,I'm so glad of this new blend feature !! I was waiting for it for so long !!I was just wondering if the playlist is being updated once created and if it is, ever...

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  •   Plan Premium Country Belgium Device OnePlus6 Operating System Android 10   My Question or Issue Hi, I'm so glad of this new blend feature !! I was waiting for it for so long...
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Forced by Anti-Competitive Apple to move to Apple Music

Apple definitely exploits their dominance to kill innovative companies. I was a Spotify premium user for a long time. Then I got an Apple Watch to run with, but needed to download music to listen offline. Not surprisingly, I discovered that Apple doe...

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  • Apple definitely exploits their dominance to kill innovative companies.  I was a Spotify premium user for a long time.  Then I got an Apple Watch to run with, but needed to download music t...
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Fake Spotify Playlist

Hello, I've been apart of this list called "Lofi trap" by Artister.io and at first I thought the list was real and great because the streams were really good, but then realized they seemed really fake and was contacted by some of the other artists in...

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  • Hello, I've been apart of this list called "Lofi trap" by Artister.io and at first I thought the list was real and great because the streams were really good, but then realized they seemed really fak...
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Superuser Contribution Release Radar repeatedly includes artists I mark as "I don't like"

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceN/AOperating SystemWindows 10 / Android 10 My Question or IssueI follow a lot of music. Some artists have names that are ripped off by smaller artists and the artist pages get mixed up. I understand this is an ongoing issue...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device N/A Operating System Windows 10 / Android 10   My Question or Issue I follow a lot of music. Some artists have names that are ripped off by smaller arti...
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[Community][Discover] Better Representation in Discover Weekly

I'm just your friendly, neighborhood Spotify listener here to share what happened, why I have a concern, and how Spotify can improve. Rock is my personal favorite genre and I wanted to expand my listening horizons! I was looking for better representa...

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  • I'm just your friendly, neighborhood Spotify listener here to share what happened, why I have a concern, and how Spotify can improve. Rock is my personal favorite genre and I wanted to expand my list...
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Superuser Contribution Clear recently played history

With the new update is there anyway that we can remove/clear the recently played songs or artist or playlists?

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  • With the new update is there anyway that we can remove/clear the recently played songs or artist or playlists?
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Superuser Contribution [Mobile][Browse] Song addition suggestion/request

Please add the song "Magnet" cover by Ono Kesho and Toriumi Kosuke to the song library. I'm new to this "share ideas" thing on Spotify so if there is a better place to ask for songs to be added, please redirect me. Thanks!

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  • Please add the song "Magnet" cover by Ono Kesho and Toriumi Kosuke to the song library. I'm new to this "share ideas" thing on Spotify so if there is a better place to ask for songs to be added, plea...
  • Alex
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