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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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Is there any way to reverse marking a podcast as played?

PlanPremiumCountry United StatesDeviceMacbook Pro late 2016Operating SystemMacOS High Sierra My Question or Issue I accidentally marked an entire podcast playlist as played. I can no longer view the entire podcast and I cannot listen to it at all. Is...

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  • Plan Premium Country  United States Device Macbook Pro late 2016 Operating System MacOS High Sierra   My Question or Issue  I accidentally marked an entire podcast playlist a...
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Can't view followers

I can't view my followers on the desktop app for mac. Someone else's similar question was answered with this image:But my app only looks like this:Is this intentional or a glitch? How else can I view my followers?Thanks!

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  • I can't view my followers on the desktop app for mac. Someone else's similar question was answered with this image: But my app only looks like this: Is this intentional or a glitch? How else can I ...
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Saved Songs Sync/Update Issue

Plan: PremiumCountry: USA Device: Macbook Pro early 2015Operating System macOS High SierraSpotify Version: 1.0.86.337.ga8d5cef9 I've been recently experiencing saved songs disappearing. For instance, I would save a song and then a few hours later it ...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: USA  Device: Macbook Pro early 2015 Operating System macOS High Sierra Spotify Version: 1.0.86.337.ga8d5cef9   I've been recently&...
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Solved!! Discover weekly disliked songs

PlanPremiumCountryUSA Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue My Discover Weekly was created with a song I had previously disliked. I thought that was the whole point of the dislike button. What gives?

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  • Plan Premium Country USA   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  My Discover Weekly was created with a song I had previously disliked.  I thought that was t...
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Superuser Contribution Saved music doesn't show up on artist page

PlanPremiumCountryPhilippinesDevice iPhone/MacBook On artist pages, it doesn't seem that I have the albums saved, but they appear on my library as saved.

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  • Plan Premium Country Philippines Device   iPhone/MacBook   On artist pages, it doesn't seem that I have the albums saved, but they appear on my library as saved.
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backward, pause/play and forward key problem on macOS

Plan: PremiumCountry: Czech republic Device: MacBook-Pro (13-inch, 2016)Operating System: macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)Spotify Desktop App: 1.0.86.337.ga8d5cef9 The music-controling keys (backward, pause/play and forward) on my keyboard seem to be igno...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: Czech republic   Device: MacBook-Pro (13-inch, 2016) Operating System: macOS High Sierra (10.13.6) Spotify Desktop App: 1.0.86.337.ga8d5cef9   The mu...
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Superuser Contribution Can't Download Spotify

PremiumAustralia Macbook Air 10.13.3 My Spotify always appeared offline and I could change this so I decided to reinstall the app but after I download the file from the Internet when I try open this file it come up with an Error, "download failed, tr...

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  • Premium Australia     Macbook Air   10.13.3  My Spotify always appeared offline and I could change this so I decided to reinstall the app but after I download the file from...
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Radio and friend feed broken despite reinstall Mac OS

PlanFreeCountry USADeviceiMac 2014Operating SystemMac OSX High Sierra I've completely uninstalled Spotify several times trying to fix my issue, and had no luck. Every radio station I try to make shows "This radio station cannot be started" and trying...

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  • Plan Free Country  USA Device iMac 2014 Operating System Mac OSX High Sierra   I've completely uninstalled Spotify several times trying to fix my issue, and had no luck.  Ever...
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Solved!! Spotify non si apre più.

Buongiorno! Spotify non si apre più, mostra solo lo schermo completamente nero. Ho utilizzato Onyx per pulire il Mac. HO disinstallato e reinstallato Spotify ma il problema non si risolve.

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  •    Buongiorno! Spotify non si apre più, mostra solo lo schermo completamente nero. Ho utilizzato Onyx per pulire il Mac. HO disinstallato e reinstallato Spotify ma il problema non si risol...
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Solved!! Friend Feed not updating correctly

Hey, I try to check what my friends hearing every single day. But i can't do it, because it's say "Hmm, friend feed failed to load", are there someone who also have this problem? Or some good guys there wanna help me. I have had this problem in 3 mon...

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  • Hey, I try to check what my friends hearing every single day. But i can't do it, because it's say "Hmm, friend feed failed to load", are there someone who also have this problem? Or some good guys th...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution "Your Top Songs 2017" still being updated daily

This might be a bit silly but I was wondering why my Top 2017 playlist keeps being updated. The 2016's was last updated when it was created - which makes sense -whereas my 2017's looks very different now considering that I've listened to different th...

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  • This might be a bit silly but I was wondering why my Top 2017 playlist keeps being updated. The 2016's was last updated when it was created - which makes sense -whereas my 2017's looks very different...
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Crossfade isn't working the way it should be

Hey,I have this one problem with the crossfading. The crossfade works only when the song, that is being listened, ends and the next song starts, but when I'm trying to switch the songs manually using the ''next song'' button, there's no crossfade. I ...

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  • Hey, I have this one problem with the crossfading. The crossfade works only when the song, that is being listened, ends and the next song starts, but when I'm trying to switch the songs manuall...
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Connect play now premium only?

So I use my mac to control the music on my playstation, now I update spoitfy on my computer this morning and now I have to pay to use the feature I've been using for free for years????? uhm, this needs some explaining because this is BULLPlanFreeUSA ...

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  • So I use my mac to control the music on my playstation, now I update spoitfy on my computer this morning and now I have to pay to use the feature I've been using for free for years????? uhm, this nee...
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Discover Weekly not updating

Discover Weekly is one of my favorite features of Spotify. Most of the great music I find is through this feature. Unfortunately it has not been updating for about the last 3 weeks. Is there any way I can force it to update? Here is a link to the pla...

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  • Discover Weekly is one of my favorite features of Spotify. Most of the great music I find is through this feature.   Unfortunately it has not been updating for about the last 3 weeks. Is there...
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[Playlists] View all Playlist Followers

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue okay so basically i accidentally made a playlist public, and i keep making it secret but it still shows up...? ive deleted and recovered it mu...

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  • ...laylist public, and i keep making it secret but it still shows up...? ive deleted and recovered it multiple times, ive deleted all the tracks, changed the name, logged in and out, resarted the app, e...
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App always offline, even with correct proxy settings

Plan: PremiumCountry: NLDevice: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)Operating System: macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Update / Workaround:Downloading an older version of Spotify (1.0.82.447 from here), and preventing the automatic update (instructions here) ...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: NL Device: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) Operating System: macOS Sierra 10.12.6   Update / Workaround: Downloading an older version of Spotify (1...
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Spotify overrides Song Title Incorrectly and Can't Find Song in Database

Plan: PremiumCountry: US DeviceMacbook ProOperating SystemOS X 10.13.6 My Question or IssueA Reddit user gives a very nice summary here (https://www.reddit.com/r/ToolBand/comments/6axe1s/added_tool_in_my_local_spotify_songs_replaced_by/) but my issue...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: US   Device Macbook Pro Operating System OS X 10.13.6   My Question or Issue A Reddit user gives a very nice summary here (https://www.reddit.com/r/Tool...
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Music automatically playing when not prompted

Plan:PremiumCountry:United StatesDevice:MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)Operating System:macOS 10.13.6 (17G65) This morning my music started playing through my computer speakers when I was away from it this morning. I don't want it to do that. Is th...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: United States Device: MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) Operating System: macOS 10.13.6 (17G65)   This morning my music started playing through my computer s...
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Cover Art not showing up on desktop. (Mac)

So, when I opened spotify i was trying to get a better look at the songs cover art so I clicked the "Expand" function and Instead of expanding the picture (Bottom left corner next to title of song) It deleted it. I've tried restarting spotify and eve...

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  •     So, when I opened spotify i was trying to get a better look at the songs cover art so I clicked the "Expand" function and Instead of expanding the picture (Bottom left corner next to ...
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Issue with Applescript

Hi, I played around to control Spotify on my Macbook Pro 2018 with AppleScript. I experienced that "sound volume" will not be updated when the volume will be changed in the UI: if application "Spotify" is running then tell application "Spotify" retur...

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  •   Hi,   I played around to control Spotify on my Macbook Pro 2018 with AppleScript. I experienced that "sound volume" will not be updated when the volume will be changed in the UI: &nbs...
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