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Every time my desktop app starts up another window appears for https://xpui.app.spotify.com/index.html with the error:DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN The app works fine but it's incredibly annoying to have this random window appear every single time. Mac...
Visitor
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited States Of AmericaDeviceMacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)Operating SystemMac OS Catalina 10.15.7 My Question or IssueWhen I try to install Spotify the installer says "Unsupported PlatformSorry, this version of Spotify is for mac...
Visitor
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How do I clear the recently played items that appear on the home screen upon launching the desktop app? If I go into the Recently Played section and remove them there, they still show up on the home screen.
Visitor
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The web player link brings me to a white page that says upstream request timeout. The website said it was fixed in October but it is a new issue for me.
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Premium/ UK/ Mac -iMac Ventura 14.4.1 When I am listening to Spotify and typing, the songs will randomly restart/skip. There is no correlation to the key pressed and the song restarting. For example, when typing this, it skipped once on the key 'm' a...
Premium/ UK/ Mac -iMac Ventura 14.4.1 When I am listening to Spotify and typing, the songs will randomly restart/skip. There is no correlation to the key pressed and the song restarting. For...
Visitor
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I am a premium member but spotify wont open on my mac. It keeps telling me I dont have premium. Works great on my phone. I really am starting to hate spotify.
I am a premium member but spotify wont open on my mac. It keeps telling me I dont have premium. Works great on my phone. I really am starting to hate spotify.
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Hi, This question has been asked before but the answers were not really answering the question:What Is the Difference Between "Make public"/"Public Playlist" and "Add to profile"/Profile Playlist?What private playlists are is clear enough. What I and...
Hi, This question has been asked before but the answers were not really answering the question: What Is the Difference Between "Make public"/"Public Playlist" and "Add to profile"/Profile...
Spotify Star
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PlanPremiumCountry: US DeviceMacBook Pro 14" M1 2022Operating System: MacOS Ventura 13.4 My Question or Issue: Note: Recently coming from a Windows, so might not be exact with the terminology.So I have the spotify icon on the taskbar down below, and ...
Plan Premium Country: US Device MacBook Pro 14" M1 2022 Operating System: MacOS Ventura 13.4 My Question or Issue: Note: Recently coming from a Windows, so might not be...
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PlanPremiumCountryAustriaDevice13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 PortsOperating SystemmacOS Ventura 13.4 (22F66) My Question or Issue Hey guys,I migrated my backup from a M1 laptop to an Intel one. My Spotify app was gone and I wanted to reinstall it...
Plan Premium Country Austria Device 13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports Operating System macOS Ventura 13.4 (22F66) My Question or Issue Hey guys, I migrate...
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PlanPremiumCountryItalyDevice(MacBook Air 2020 intel)Operating System(Macos ventura 13.4.) My Question or IssueI would like to clean all my recently listened, but I'm not able to do it and I don't know if it is possible, once it was possible but with...
Plan Premium Country Italy Device (MacBook Air 2020 intel) Operating System (Macos ventura 13.4.) My Question or Issue I would like to clean all my recently listened, but I'm...
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Device:Macbook Apple M1 Pro 2021Operating System:Mac Os Ventura 13.4Spotify version:Spotify for macOS (Apple Silicon)1.2.14.1149.ga3ae422d I am actually enjoying the new design for the desktop version, but there is one very annoying and bad bug in th...
Device: Macbook Apple M1 Pro 2021 Operating System: Mac Os Ventura 13.4 Spotify version: Spotify for macOS (Apple Silicon) 1.2.14.1149.ga3ae422d I am actually enjoying the new design f...
Spotify Star
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Latest Spotify App on Mac OS 11.7.7 always crash while quitting the app, and it's mandatory to do a forced quit. I've already re-installed the app cleaning every cache before a new installation but the problem is still there and quite annoying. Thank...
Latest Spotify App on Mac OS 11.7.7 always crash while quitting the app, and it's mandatory to do a forced quit. I've already re-installed the app cleaning every cache before a new installation but t...
Regular
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Spotify PremiumMacOS (and IOS) Hello, I have been using the Local Files feature to let me listen to music not on Spotify. However, I have come across an issue with naming the tracks. For example, if I upload a track and I put the title in all lowerca...
Spotify Premium MacOS (and IOS) Hello, I have been using the Local Files feature to let me listen to music not on Spotify. However, I have come across an issue with naming the tracks. For e...
Newbie
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I'm an artist and I'm trying to switch to Spotify from Apple Music for staging my music for my own personal listening before actually publishing it. However, it's very frustrating that the album artwork isn't showing up even though I've made sure it'...
I'm an artist and I'm trying to switch to Spotify from Apple Music for staging my music for my own personal listening before actually publishing it. However, it's very frustrating that the album artw...
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On the Mac application, when the header becomes smaller after scrolling, it does not span the whole width of the window and the playlist items background is visible behind it.
On the Mac application, when the header becomes smaller after scrolling, it does not span the whole width of the window and the playlist items background is visible behind it.
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PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceMacbook Air M1, 2020Operating SystemmacOS Ventura 13.1 Hi, Whenever trying to shift a location of a track in the queue on my the desktop app (Mac), it selects another track as well, thus removing said other track from th...
Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Macbook Air M1, 2020 Operating System macOS Ventura 13.1 Hi, Whenever trying to shift a location of a track in the queue on my the ...
Music Fan
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Hello, I'm now using Spotify for macOS 1.2.11.916.geb595a67 and when dragging a song over the left playlist column that's highlighted green and accidentally dropping it before I get to a playlist, Spotify still re-adds it to my Liked Songs, even thou...
Hello, I'm now using Spotify for macOS 1.2.11.916.geb595a67 and when dragging a song over the left playlist column that's highlighted green and accidentally dropping it before...
Newbie
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PlanPremiumCountryVietnamDeviceMacBook Air 2017Operating SystemmacOS MontereyMy Question or IssueI can't remember when this started, maybe a few weeks ago, but whenever I play music from my Mac it will stop just before the end of a song (1-3 seconds ...
Plan Premium Country Vietnam Device MacBook Air 2017 Operating System macOS Monterey My Question or Issue I can't remember when this started, maybe a few weeks ago, but whenever I play music...
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PlanPremium CountryUSA DeviceMacbook Air (Mid 2013) Operating SystemOS X Yosemite, Version 10.10.5 Over the weekend, I had to do a series of shutting down and restarting my Macbook Air due to several tabs refusing to force quit. Today, I opened up th...
Plan Premium Country USA Device Macbook Air (Mid 2013) Operating System OS X Yosemite, Version 10.10.5 Over the weekend, I had to do a series of shutting down ...
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Hi all, I'm on macOS Ventura 13.4 (M2 Pro). I can't get rid of this background item. Uninstalling Spotify didn't help either. Is there any solution to this? Thanks in advance. Hakan PS: Screenshot attached below
Hi all, I'm on macOS Ventura 13.4 (M2 Pro). I can't get rid of this background item. Uninstalling Spotify didn't help either. Is there any solution to this? Thanks in advance. Hakan...
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Running on OS X Mavericks. I went to go do something and I came back to my computer and my spotify was logged out and I can't seem to log back in. Is there any sort of backend update that happened recently that would cause this? I would switch to the...
Running on OS X Mavericks. I went to go do something and I came back to my computer and my spotify was logged out and I can't seem to log back in. Is there any sort of backend update that happened re...
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PlanPremiumCountry England Device MacBook Pro 2020 Apple M1Operating SystemmacOS Ventura 13.3.1(a) My Question or Issue I have just recently upgraded to the latest version of Spotify on macOS (Spotify for macOS (Apple Silicon) 1.2.11.916.geb595a67) a...
Plan Premium Country England Device MacBook Pro 2020 Apple M1 Operating System macOS Ventura 13.3.1(a) My Question or Issue I have just recently upgraded to th...
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Unfortunately I found the interface and navigation in Spotify to be quite annoying and cumbersome often... there does not seem to be organisation featues I would like and some things are missing that I find very basic... Anyway...One thing I would li...
Unfortunately I found the interface and navigation in Spotify to be quite annoying and cumbersome often... there does not seem to be organisation featues I would like and some things are mis...
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In the new re-design (both Mac app and Web app) it is missing the "Custom Order" option when viewing playlists and it will not allow me to rearrange playlists and playlist folders. It shows a "Creator" option, which seems redundant, I am the creator ...
In the new re-design (both Mac app and Web app) it is missing the "Custom Order" option when viewing playlists and it will not allow me to rearrange playlists and playlist folders. It ...
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