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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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local files can't be played or queued; no error message displayed

Plan: PremiumCountry: USADevice MacBook Pro 2009Operating System: MacOSX 10.10.5 My Question or Issue:Just installed Spotify's Desktop app, added a folder to the local files list, and while all the mp3 files there are displayed, largely with the corr...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: USA Device MacBook Pro 2009 Operating System: MacOSX 10.10.5   My Question or Issue: Just installed Spotify's Desktop app, added a folder to the local files lis...
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Solved!! Go Back To Original (Spotify) Location for Downloaded/Offline files, Mac

I'm new and quite ignorant here but -- because I'm a reluctant Spotify user in the first place and I dislike streaming in general, I decided to try some downloading music files and using them offline (On my MacBook). Then after I had downloaded sever...

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  • I'm new and quite ignorant here but -- because I'm a reluctant Spotify user in the first place and I dislike streaming in general, I decided to try some downloading music files and using them offline...
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Music stops after viewing mp4 files, anyone got a fix?

So, whenever Im playing some smooth tunes in the background and groovin out and all, while going through video footage everything is good. Except it aint cos the music just stops when the videos stop, so im sitting here flicking dicks and clips and b...

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  •     So, whenever Im playing some smooth tunes in the background and groovin out and all, while going through video footage everything is good.   Except it aint cos the music just s...
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Macbook Spotify Not Syncing?

I use last.fm and have my spotify synced to my discord account and when i'm using spotify on my phone both discord and last.fm show me listening to the songs but when i'm listening on my macbook pro none of the data syncs even though i'm logged into ...

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  •       I use last.fm and have my spotify synced to my discord account and when i'm using spotify on my phone both discord and last.fm show me listening to the songs but when i'm li...
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Music-Jumps-skips-likes-it-is-a-scratched-CD-Every-10secs-or-so

PremiumCountryAustralia DeviceWin 10 PC My Question or IssueI Notice the thread with the same title has been closed as 'solved'.It isnt solved at all. and has started happening to mine as well. A skip every 10-20 seconds. I have tried the 'solutions'...

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  •   Premium Country Australia   Device Win 10 PC     My Question or Issue I Notice the thread with the same title has been closed as 'solved'. It isnt solved at all. and ...
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[Desktop] [BUG] -- Not seeing the (►) symbol when viewing full album as the track is playing

[Mac Sierra] My Question or IssueI clicked on a track within my "Discover Weekly". I liked the track so I clicked over to the Album containing the track. I can see the track but the UI isn't showing it as currently playing which is an error.

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  • [Mac Sierra]   My Question or Issue I clicked on a track within my "Discover Weekly". I liked the track so I clicked over to the Album containing the track. I can see the track but the UI isn...
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[Desktop] Songs being added to playlist automatically to my own playlist without my consent

PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceMacbook Pro late 2012Operating SystemMacOS Mojave My Question or IssueI just recently degraded from premium but this has happened whether on premium or free. Spotify is adding music to my playlist multiple times for some reaso...

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  • Plan Free Country USA Device Macbook Pro late 2012 Operating System MacOS Mojave   My Question or Issue I just recently degraded from premium but this has happened whether on premium o...
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Release Radar Playlist not Updating

Looks like my Release Radar Playlist is not updating today...dang. Force-quit and restarted the app didn't resolve the issue either.

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  •     Looks like my Release Radar Playlist is not updating today...dang. Force-quit and restarted the app didn't resolve the issue either. 
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"Follow Friends" stuck on loading

Premium/USAmacOS High Sierra I've been trying to follow Facebook friends on Spotify, but it the page is just stuck on the loading screen (see screenshot). I've tried restarting, logging in and out of spotify, but nothing seems to work.

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  •   Premium/USA macOS High Sierra   I've been trying to follow Facebook friends on Spotify, but it the page is just stuck on the loading screen (see screenshot). I've tried restarting, lo...
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Playlist reverse order on iMac desktop

Plan PremiumCountry Denmark Device iMac 2007Operating System iOS X I can not reverse playlists on my iMac desktop, so I can play newest first (can do it on my iPhone)My Question or Issue

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  • Plan  Premium Country Denmark   Device  iMac 2007 Operating System  iOS X    I can not reverse playlists on my iMac desktop, so I can play newest first (ca...
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am I being hacked or is this a bug?

PlanPremium (student plan i think)Country AustraliaDeviceLatest MacBook Air (2018)Operating System- My Question or Issue everytime i open up my laptop it says someone is trying to log into my spotify account and then it says their IP Address.it asks ...

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  •   Plan Premium (student plan i think) Country  Australia Device Latest MacBook Air (2018) Operating System -   My Question or Issue  everytime i open up my laptop it sa...
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Old saved music doesn't appears

PlanPremiumCountryFrance DeviceMacbook Pro (+ Windows + iPhone) My Question or IssueI tried to install Spotify on my Macbook Pro after a factory reset. But in my saved titles, I can't see my old songs, those saved before I setup Spotify on the comput...

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  • Plan Premium Country France   Device Macbook Pro (+ Windows + iPhone)     My Question or Issue I tried to install Spotify on my Macbook Pro after a factory reset. But in my s...
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Buttons in polish version are unreachable

Plan PremiumCountry PolandDeviceMacbook Pro Mid 2012Operating SystemmacOS Mojave My Question or IssueButtons in playlist view are unreachable, becouse of polish version text showing number of subscribers.I hope that helps you out.

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  • Plan   Premium Country  Poland Device Macbook Pro Mid 2012 Operating System macOS Mojave   My Question or Issue Buttons in playlist view are unreachable, becouse of...
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Where is the Shuffle button on MacOs ?!?!>

Hi there,I'm using using Spotify version 1.0.96.181.gf6bc1b6b, opn MacOS 10.14.2 Mojave. My queue is empty, but when I pull up a playlist, it will only play the list in sequence. No shuffle goodness available. Screenshot below. Where's that confounde...

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  •     Hi there, I'm using using Spotify version 1.0.96.181.gf6bc1b6b, opn MacOS 10.14.2 Mojave.   My queue is empty, but when I pull up a playlist, it will only play the list i...
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Favorite songs gone

PlanFreeCountry candaDeviceMacbook Pro late 2017Operating SystemMacOS 10When i go to my favourite songs it just tell me that anything i favourite will appear here and shows a go to browse button, instead of showing me my favourited songs despite havi...

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  • Plan Free Country  canda Device Macbook Pro late 2017 Operating System MacOS 10 When i go to my favourite songs it just tell me that anything i favourite will appear here and shows a go ...
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Can not access Spotify web pages on iMac with any browser

PlanFree/PremiumCountry AustraliaDeviceiMacOperating SystemIOS10:14:2 My Question or Issue I am not able to access any Spotify web sites on my home iMac using any web browser other than this community and my home page (https://open.spotify.com/settin...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country  Australia Device iMac Operating System IOS10:14:2   My Question or Issue  I am not able to access any Spotify web sites on my home iMac using any w...
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No ability to start radio from a playlist

Plan: PremiumCountry: United StatesDevice: Macbook Pro late 2016Operating System: MacOS MojaveMy Question or IssueI'm not able to start a radio station from a playlist. It doesn't appear as an option when clicking on the three dots next to "Play." Pl...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: United States Device: Macbook Pro late 2016 Operating System: MacOS Mojave My Question or Issue I'm not able to start a radio station from a playlist. ...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify begins playing random music

When listening to one of my own playlists, Spotify begins to play random (usually top hits or hip hop) music instead. I may be mid song and it will change to something completely random, or if I have the music paused it will begin playing again later...

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  • When listening to one of my own playlists, Spotify begins to play random (usually top hits or hip hop) music instead. I may be mid song and it will change to something completely random, or if I have...
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Solved!! Adding a song from one playlist to another playlist

PlanPremiumUSA Device Iphone and macbook My Question or Issue When I am playing one of my playlists and I want to add a song on that playlist to another playlist, when I click to add to playlist - only 4 playlists pop up to choose from, but I have so...

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  •   Plan Premium USA   Device  Iphone and macbook    My Question or Issue   When I am playing one of my playlists and I want to add a song on that playlist to an...
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[All Platforms][Playlists] Your recomendation system is kind of broken

Hello Spotify Team and fellow Music Streamers, So to explain what i think should be changed i have toto expla first what i did. To simplify things i will call the genres A and B I made a playlist with songs of two different genres (A and B) and after...

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  • Hello Spotify Team and fellow Music Streamers,   So to explain what i think should be changed i have toto expla first what i did. To simplify things i will call the genres A and B   I m...
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