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Jam now available on Desktop

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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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. The Now Playing View in the right sidebar shows the album art and info of the current song or pod...

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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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Solved!! Spotify free: Music stops on MAC

Edited: Thank you very much everyone for helping! Finally I managed to correct the error and the steps are those that DerpyNerd offered and highlighted as a solution. Hi! I have a MacBook Pro, and for a week now I have a problem with the desktop app....

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[Mac] Troubleshooting Spotify

Having trouble with Spotify on your Desktop app? Here’s what to try first. Search the Community Someone might have asked your question on the Community before. So type your issue into the search box and have a look. Tip: Don't forget to check our Spo...

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Superuser Contribution Songs won't play

My Question or IssueWhen I press any of the buttons to play, skip, shuffle (etc.) on a playlist or individual song, nothing happens. I'm using Spotify in my browser.

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  • My Question or Issue When I press any of the buttons to play, skip, shuffle (etc.) on a playlist or individual song, nothing happens.   I'm using Spotify in my browser.
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Superuser Contribution Only playing downloaded songs but can't download any more songs

PlanFree/Premium-PremiumCountry-United States Device- Macbook pro(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System-newest iOS software(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue

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  • Plan Free/Premium-Premium Country-United States   Device- Macbook pro (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System-newest iOS software (iOS 10, Android Oreo, ...
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Logging into Spotify on Mac with Fb

PlanPremiumCountryUS DeviceMacbook Pro Operating SystemMacOS High Sierra v10.13.6 My Question or IssueI am trying to log into my Spotify that is installed on my mac and I keep getting an error message: Access to login.spotify.com was deniedYou don't ...

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  • Plan Premium Country US   Device Macbook Pro  Operating System MacOS High Sierra v10.13.6   My Question or Issue I am trying to log into my Spotify that is installed on...
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Superuser Contribution I can't change my profil picture

PlanPremiumCountryFranceDeviceMac OS X v.10.7.5Operating SystemMac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)My Question or IssueHello, when I hover my mouse cursor over my profile picture I can't edit it, no message appears while I'm still on the computer application...

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  • Plan Premium Country France Device Mac OS X v.10.7.5 Operating System Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) My Question or Issue Hello, when I hover my mouse cursor over my profile picture I can't ed...
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I'm not showing up on the Friend Feed

Plan: PremiumCountry: Hong KongDevice: Macbook Air Early 2015Operating System: 10.11.6 (OS X El Capitan) My Friend Feed is updating, but I'm not showing up on anyone else's. I've made sure that I'm not on Private Session, but it still doesn't show up...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: Hong Kong Device: Macbook Air Early 2015 Operating System: 10.11.6 (OS X El Capitan)   My Friend Feed is updating, but I'm not showing up on anyone els...
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Superuser Contribution Friend feed not working properly

I can't see some of my freinds feeds. I've checked with them and it's not because they turned it off. Also, the recently played tab doesn't update even though it's swithed on. Anybody have a fix or is this just a bug that pops up from time to time?Pl...

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  • I can't see some of my freinds feeds. I've checked with them and it's not because they turned it off.    Also, the recently played tab doesn't update even though it's swithed on. Anybody ...
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Superuser Contribution Links open in web player, can't figure out how to get them to open the app

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceMacbook Pro late 2016Operating SystemiOS 10+ My Question or IssueWhenever someone sends me a spotify link it automatically opens in the web player, even though I'm usually already listening on the app. I have agonized tryi...

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  •   Plan Premium Country USA   Device Macbook Pro late 2016 Operating System iOS 10+   My Question or Issue Whenever someone sends me a spotify link it automatically opens in...
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Selecting songs in playlists links to wrong part of playlist

Premium, Family plan, UKMacbook Air - Desktop Spotify For several months now I have been experiencing the following bug:My main playlist is ordered by date in descending order - i.e., most recently added songs at the top. If a song is playing from th...

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  • Premium, Family plan, UK Macbook Air - Desktop Spotify   For several months now I have been experiencing the following bug: My main playlist is ordered by date in descending order - i.e., mo...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Many of the songs on Spotify are blank and have no content for me. How do I fix this?

PremiumUnited States Macbook Air Mac OS Mojave 10.14.5 Many of the songs on Spotify are blank and have no content for me. How do I fix this?

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  • Premium United States   Macbook Air  Mac OS Mojave 10.14.5   Many of the songs on Spotify are blank and have no content for me. How do I fix this?  
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Superuser Contribution Shuffling to songs not in the playlist

When I play any song within a playlist, Spotify goes to a random song that's not in the designated playlist as the next song. Help! I've reinstalled three times.

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  • When I play any song within a playlist, Spotify goes to a random song that's not in the designated playlist as the next song. Help! I've reinstalled three times.
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Superuser Contribution Songs skipping after 2 seconds/can't find the song to play, have tried all fixes

PremiumCountry - Australia DeviceMacbook Air, latest OS, 10.14.5 Like many people on this forum, I cannot use the desktop app without a song playing for just two seconds then skipping, or it giving me the message that the song cannot be found (the sa...

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  • Premium Country - Australia   Device Macbook Air, latest OS, 10.14.5   Like many people on this forum,  I cannot use the desktop app without a song playing for just two seconds t...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify randomly started playing songs at 6am

PremiumAustralia MacbookiOS 10 So basically, I always sleep with white noise in the background, most of the time I use youtube to play it because Spotify ones aren't that good, besides the point, anyways so I was peacefully sleeping and suddenly soun...

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  •   Premium Australia   Macbook iOS 10   So basically, I always sleep with white noise in the background, most of the time I use youtube to play it because Spotify ones aren't tha...
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15 second rewind/forward function for podcast not working on mac

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceMacbook Pro retina mid 2012Operating SystemmacOS 10.14.5 My Question or IssueThe 15 second rewind/forward function for podcast does not work when using bluetooth headphones or when using the rewind/forward buttons on the...

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  • Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Macbook Pro retina mid 2012 Operating System macOS 10.14.5   My Question or Issue The 15 second rewind/forward function for podcast does not work whe...
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Can't connect to Google home speakers (Macbook)

PlanPremiumCountrySwitzerlandDeviceMacbook AirOperating SystemmacOS Sierra 10.12.6 My Question or IssueI am using an iPhone, iMac and Macbook at home and listen via Google home. I can easily switch to Google speakers from iPhone and iMac. But with my...

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  • Plan Premium Country Switzerland Device Macbook Air Operating System macOS Sierra 10.12.6   My Question or Issue I am using an iPhone, iMac and Macbook at home and listen via Google ho...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify Desktop (Mac) displaying different track to one playing

Premium PlanCountry UKMacBook Pro Mid 2014Operating System iOS 10.14.3 My Question or Issue Since last Spotify Update my main playlist (which is also often offline) - is on shuffle but the song displaying on the desktop app is not the same as the one...

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  •     Premium Plan Country UK MacBook Pro Mid 2014 Operating System iOS 10.14.3   My Question or Issue   Since last Spotify Update my main playlist (which is also often off...
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Artist name appears to be an serialized array

When I search for "**bleep** noll två" I get some artis suggestions where some names seems to be an serialzied array.

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  • When I search for "**bleep** noll två" I get some artis suggestions where some names seems to be an serialzied array.
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Superuser Contribution Spotify playing local version of song instead of real version?

I noticed that a song on my Spotify is being replaced by my local version of it (saved on iTunes) that has someone else's voice over it. My local version has a song name, album, year etc. identical to the real version. I can even search for the artis...

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  • I noticed that a song on my Spotify is being replaced by my local version of it (saved on iTunes) that has someone else's voice over it. My local version has a song name, album, year etc. identical t...
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[Mac/Win10] Song cannot be play through a HTTP Proxy

When using HTTP proxy in the advanced settings, the app is working fine including searching, browsing any albums/artists and also loading album arts when play button is hit, however, the songs won't play, it stucked at 0.00. Only songs that previousl...

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  • When using HTTP proxy in the advanced settings, the app is working fine including searching, browsing any albums/artists and also loading album arts when play button is hit, however, the songs won't ...
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Spotify Treats Apostrophes Differently

I encountered this issue when searching for a song in my saved songs that was shown as "liked" but I could not find. I realized that Spotify treats the two apostrophes as different characters. Granted they are, but it makes it unreasonably difficult ...

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  • I encountered this issue when searching for a song in my saved songs that was shown as "liked" but I could not find.    I realized that Spotify treats the two apostrophes as different cha...
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Solved!! Don't have all the songs in a playlist

Hi,I have a MacBook, and since April my playlists don't get updated, but I can see that on my phone they do get updated.What can I do?

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  • Hi, I have a MacBook, and since April my playlists don't get updated, but I can see that on my phone they do get updated. What can I do?   
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