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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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Code 11/126 Macbook

PlanPremiumCountry UKDeviceMacBook Pro 2019Operating SystemMacOS Mojave 10.14My Question or IssueHi there,I have been operating Spotify comfortably on my MacBook Pro for 4 months with a premium account, however, soon I will be working in areas withou...

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  • Plan Premium Country  UK Device MacBook Pro 2019 Operating System MacOS Mojave 10.14 My Question or Issue Hi there, I have been operating Spotify comfortably on my MacBook Pro for 4 mo...
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Spotify App Won't Launch (Mac)

Plan: PremiumCountry: USA DeviceMacbook Pro 13" - 2017Operating SystemiOS 10.12.5 My Question or IssueThe spotify app won't launch. Here's what I was doing when I found the problem:1. navigate to the applications folder in Finder2. Double click on th...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: USA   Device Macbook Pro 13" - 2017 Operating System iOS 10.12.5   My Question or Issue The spotify app won't launch. Here's what I was doing when I found th...
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Spotify keeps jumping to random songs after a minute of playback

PlanPremiumCountry DeviceMacbook ProOperating SystemOS X (latest update) My Question or IssueIf I select a song to play, after ~45s - 1m, it goes to another song in the playlist. I can't listen to a single song without it jumping to another song. I'v...

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  •   Plan Premium Country   Device Macbook Pro Operating System OS X (latest update)   My Question or Issue If I select a song to play, after ~45s - 1m, it goes to another song...
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Playlists from iTunes not playing properly in Spotify

PlanPremiumCountry Canada DeviceiMac and iPhoneOperating SystemMacOS My Question or Issue On my iMac, all my iTunes playlists show up in Spotify in the iTunes section, so I dragged one from the iTunes section and into the Spotify playlist section so ...

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  • Plan Premium Country Canada   Device iMac and iPhone Operating System MacOS   My Question or Issue  On my iMac, all my iTunes playlists show up in Spotify in the iTunes secti...
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Playlist ordering

PlanPremiumCountry CanadaDevice Macbook Pro late 2016Operating SystemOSXMy Question or Issue So I already know that for some bizarre reason, you cannot order your playlists alphabetially. This is beyond baffling as to why, but I want to ask how peopl...

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  • Plan Premium Country  Canada Device  Macbook Pro late 2016 Operating System OSX My Question or Issue  So I already know that for some bizarre reason, you cannot order you...
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Solved!! Did spotify get rid of local files

All the music I added from my computer are grayed out wont play anymore, local files is also gone? (i have a macbook)

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  •   All the music I added from my computer are grayed out wont play anymore, local files is also gone? (i have a macbook)
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Download location

Spotify Premium [build 1.0.96.181.gf6bc1b6b]DeviceMac Pro desktopOperating SystemmacOS Mojave 10.14.2My Question or IssueHi. I've just joined Spotify, so please forgive the simple request, but where are song downloads stored in macOS Mojave?

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  • Spotify Premium [build 1.0.96.181.gf6bc1b6b] Device Mac Pro desktop Operating System macOS Mojave 10.14.2 My Question or Issue Hi. I've just joined Spotify, so please forgive the simple re...
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Equaliser still missing from Macs/PCs

PlanPremiumUK Device(Mac)Operating System(OSX Yosemite) My Question or IssueI'm using Premium Spotify more and more on my Mac, and it is so important to have EQ. This was 'Case Closed' previously despite over 5 thousand votes, because not enough peop...

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  • Plan Premium UK   Device (Mac) Operating System (OSX Yosemite)   My Question or Issue I'm using Premium Spotify more and more on my Mac, and it is so important to have EQ.  T...
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High memomory usage persists

DeviceiMac Mid 2011, 2,7 GHz Intel Core i5, 20GB RAMOperating SystemOSX 10.13.6 My Question or Issue Occasionally Spotify App on our home Mac would unexpectedly crash or freeze on us before, and still does lately. This made me keep an eye open for po...

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  • Device iMac Mid 2011, 2,7 GHz Intel Core i5, 20GB RAM Operating System OSX 10.13.6   My Question or Issue  Occasionally Spotify App on our home Mac would unexpectedly crash or freeze ...
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Mac macOS extreme hard drive activity when running Spotify

PlanFreeCountryDenmarkDeviceiMac (late 2009)Operating SystemmacOS 10.12.6Spotify Desktop App 1.0.88.353.g15c26ea1 My Question or IssueAs soon as I log in to the desktop app the hard disk starts going bananas with activity. It's killing the perfomance...

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  • Plan Free Country Denmark Device iMac (late 2009) Operating System macOS 10.12.6 Spotify Desktop App  1.0.88.353.g15c26ea1    My Question or Issue As soon as I log in to th...
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Spotify memory leak

PlanPremiumCountry DeviceMacbook Pro Touchbar late 2016Operating SystemMac Mojave My Question or IssueMassive memory leak on Spotify. It has done this a few times.

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  • Plan Premium Country   Device Macbook Pro Touchbar late 2016 Operating System Mac Mojave   My Question or Issue Massive memory leak on Spotify. It has done this a few times. &nbs...
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Finding Accounts On Mac Desktop

Plan: Free Country: United States Device: Mac Desktop Operating System: OS X Version 10.6.8 My Question or Issue: I can't find my account/username from my desktop's cache. The instructions said to open FINDER then click GO > LIBRARY > APPLICATION SUP...

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  • Plan: Free   Country: United States   Device: Mac Desktop  Operating System: OS X Version 10.6.8     My Question or Issue:   I can't find my account/username f...
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Superuser Contribution Playlist followers

Despite all the claims for a more 'Community Feeling', Spotify still has not added the most important feature of checking the profiles/names/accounts of the amount of followers each playlist has. Why is Spotify not listining to this extremely valuabl...

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  • Despite all the claims for a more 'Community Feeling', Spotify still has not added the most important feature of checking the profiles/names/accounts of the amount of followers each playlist has.&nbs...
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Superuser Contribution Music being removed from Playlist??!!

Well, this problem has actually been going on for a while. Music that I add to my playlist gets removed from it after maybe around a week, even though it's still available on spotify. For example, I added the song "Blasphemy" to my playlist a while b...

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  • Well, this problem has actually been going on for a while. Music that I add to my playlist gets removed from it after maybe around a week, even though it's still available on spotify. For example, I ...
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Superuser Contribution Friend Activity Feed Not Updating Correctly

PlanPremiumCountryUnited States DeviceMacbook Pro 2017Operating SystemMacOS Mojave 10.14 My Question or Issue Just deleted and reinstalled the newest version of Spotify for Desktop and it still isn't updating my Friends' activity correctly. Have test...

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  • Plan Premium Country United States  Device Macbook Pro 2017 Operating System MacOS Mojave 10.14   My Question or Issue  Just deleted and reinstalled the newest version of Spo...
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Friend Feed not updating correctly

PlanPremiumCountry New ZealandDevice(Macbook Pro Early 2015)Operating System(Mac OS Mojave) Hey,My friends list has just started to not update correctly, I have reinstalled spotify and the issue does not seem to resolve itself. I also have restarted ...

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  •   Plan Premium Country  New Zealand Device (Macbook Pro Early 2015) Operating System (Mac OS Mojave)      Hey, My friends list has just started to not update corr...
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Friend feed showing, but not updating correctly

PlanPremiumCountry NetherlandsDeviceMacbook Air 2015Operating SystemMac OS 10.14 My Question or Issue My friend feed is showing my friend's activity, for those that allowed their activity to be followed. But the friend feed won't actually update, usu...

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  • Plan Premium Country  Netherlands Device Macbook Air 2015 Operating System Mac OS 10.14   My Question or Issue  My friend feed is showing my friend's activity, for those that...
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Superuser Contribution Automatic song change

Since yesterday I can't listen to any song in Spotify, neither in mobile Android app nor Mac desktop app. I have a premium account. Every song change automatically to other in the playlist or the album. Sometimes after few seconds, sometimes without ...

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  • Since yesterday I can't listen to any song in Spotify, neither in mobile Android app nor Mac desktop app. I have a premium account.   Every song change automatically to other in the playlist o...
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Playlist on Sarafi

PlanFree/PremiumCountryThe Netherlands DeviceIMAC/ SafariOperating System(Mac OS Mojave 10.14.1 Safari 12.0.1 My Question or IssueCan not open the Spotify playlist anymore in Safari.

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country The Netherlands   Device IMAC/ Safari Operating System (Mac OS Mojave 10.14.1 Safari 12.0.1   My Question or Issue Can not open the Spotify playlist any...
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Solved!! Keyboard media keys (play/pause) not working

macOS High Sierra v10.13.6 Spotify v1.0.90.268.ga8a0ceb4 Play/pause/skip track buttons on keyboard no longer working. - Tried re-starting machine already.- Tried re-starting app.- Tried plugging/unplugging keyboard.- Media keys function with other ap...

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  • macOS High Sierra v10.13.6   Spotify v1.0.90.268.ga8a0ceb4   Play/pause/skip track buttons on keyboard no longer working.   - Tried re-starting machine already. - Tried re-start...
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