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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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  • bfteach
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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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Embed Spotify Porblem Always plays the same song

Hi there,I have this problem the embed spotify on my website only plays one song of the record. Even if I chosee a different song on the list always play the first one.Here is a link of one of the records embed.http://hueso-records.com/product/el-mun...

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  • Hi there, I have this problem the embed spotify on my website only plays one song of the record. Even if I chosee a different song on the list always play the first one. Here is a link of one of th...
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Songs I listen to don't show up on followers' Friend Activities

Nobody that follows me can see what I'm listening to/have listened to in the sidebar. I've enabled "Publish my activity on Spotify," I'm not in a private session, I just can't figure it out! Any help would be appreciated!(also i've scoured this forum...

  • Casual Listener
  • Nobody that follows me can see what I'm listening to/have listened to in the sidebar. I've enabled "Publish my activity on Spotify," I'm not in a private session, I just can't figure it out! Any help...
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Not showing up in friend activity or search

I haven't been showing up on anybody's friend activity bar for a while now. I even made a new account, followed myself, and had nothing show up in the friend activity bar. Even more confusing still, I do not show up in the search at all, even in the ...

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  • I haven't been showing up on anybody's friend activity bar for a while now. I even made a new account, followed myself, and had nothing show up in the friend activity bar. Even more confusing still, ...
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Discover Weekly not updated

Hi, I recently came back to Spotify from a break. However, my DW playlist was last updated 1 month ago. Is there any way to fix this? Here's the my url:https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZEVXcXGpfoU1KRVZ Appreciate all the help.

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  • Hi, I recently came back to Spotify from a break. However, my DW playlist was last updated 1 month ago. Is there any way to fix this? Here's the my url: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlis...
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Superuser Contribution Shows I'm still following people that I unfollowed

My followers list still shows I'm following 4 people that I unfollowed months ago. It also shows up when looking at my profile from other accounts. I'll inclue a screenshot. They are on my followers list even though I am not following them.

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  • My followers list still shows I'm following 4 people that I unfollowed months ago. It also shows up when looking at my profile from other accounts. I'll inclue a screenshot. They are on my followers ...
  • Lee
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Solved!! Spotify plays ALL songs from an artist, not just the one I select

After searching for an album by an artist, I click the big PLAY button next to the album. It starts playing, but looking at the Play Queue, it's filled with songs from other albums by this artist, not just the one I wanted to play. This *can't* be th...

  • Casual Listener
  • After searching for an album by an artist, I click the big PLAY button next to the album. It starts playing, but looking at the Play Queue, it's filled with songs from other albums by this artist, no...
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Shuffle only shuffling artists that begin with the same alphabetical letter

I've been having an issue with the shuffle on my account. The shuffle will only shuffle the artists that begin with a certain letter. Most of the time it's only 2 or 3 artists that begin with the letter "A" like Air and Alabama Shakes. It will repeat...

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  • I've been having an issue with the shuffle on my account. The shuffle will only shuffle the artists that begin with a certain letter. Most of the time it's only 2 or 3 artists that begin wi...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify does not update iTunes

Hi,I tried to import my Apple Music playlist, but it's not showing in Spotify. I see a folder with the name iTunes, but there are no files.I don't have my iTunes library with local files, 'cause I used Apple Music everything is in the cloud.Please te...

  • Visitor
  • Hi, I tried to import my Apple Music playlist, but it's not showing in Spotify. I see a folder with the name iTunes, but there are no files. I don't have my iTunes library with local files, 'cause ...
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Help with strange playlist??!!

Hi I've had a weird playlist appear in my Spotify (am subscribed) I did NOT create this playlist - but the program says I did. Should I be concerned that someone is somehow using my account?? The songs are in African or Middle Eastern language - not ...

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  • Hi   I've had a weird playlist appear in my Spotify (am subscribed)   I did NOT create this playlist - but the program says I did. Should I be concerned that someone is somehow using my...
  • Hubo
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No Offline Switch on top of playlist

Hey Community! I have been using Spotify for a while and have had a premium account for all of my subscription time. Recently, I noticed that my play offline button has disappeared and I have no way of making selected playlists available offline. I d...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hey Community! I have been using Spotify for a while and have had a premium account for all of my subscription time. Recently, I noticed that my play offline button has disappeared and I have no way ...
  • Roseribbon
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(Non-Existing) Notifications

I remember in the past there were notifications even for when a new song was added to a playlist I followed, now there are no notifications at all, not even e-mail notifications. Don't know when my friend created a new playlist, don't know when a new...

  • Casual Listener
  • I remember in the past there were notifications even for when a new song was added to a playlist I followed, now there are no notifications at all, not even e-mail notifications. Don't know when my f...
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Certain local files will not play

I know that there are already many threads regarding this topic, but none of them seemed to work for me. I have some local files but a couple of them will not play. All of them play on my computer, but only some of them play on my phone. They show gr...

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  • I know that there are already many threads regarding this topic, but none of them seemed to work for me. I have some local files but a couple of them will not play. All of them play on my computer, b...
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Can't log in at all with Spotify info on my PC.

Had an account through Facebook but got sick of Facebook and deleted my account. Signed up for an account through Spotify with my email address but cannot log in to the program with that info. It says it's incorrect but I can log in on the site with ...

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  • Had an account through Facebook but got sick of Facebook and deleted my account.  Signed up for an account through Spotify with my email address but cannot log in to the program with that info.&...
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Spotify and Plug n Play external USB sound card

Hi everyone, I can't use my headphone jack on my laptop because it is broken. I have to use and external USB sound card like this one : https://www.amazon.com/TROND-Aluminum-Headphone-Microphone-Compatible/dp/B014ANW4VU. When I plug it, everything wo...

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  • Hi everyone,   I can't use my headphone jack on my laptop because it is broken. I have to use and external USB sound card like this one : https://www.amazon.com/TROND-Aluminum-Headphone-M...
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Spotify & Slack

We use slack at work and have a music channel where we post cool songs.Since a couple of weeks when I want to play a song from slack he does not use my paid Spotify player (as usual) but he plays a snippet of the song in slack. This is very annoying ...

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  • We use slack at work and have a music channel where we post cool songs. Since a couple of weeks when I want to play a song from slack he does not use my paid Spotify player (as usual) but ...
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Solved!! Clearing Play Queue

I'm sure this topic has been covered dozens of times by now but it seems like there's new behavior now. It was annoying as hell that you couldn't remove songs from the queue if you hadn't technically "queued" them to begin with. Now, even when you fi...

  • Gig Goer
  • I'm sure this topic has been covered dozens of times by now but it seems like there's new behavior now.  It was annoying as hell that you couldn't remove songs from the queue if you hadn't techn...
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Why suddenly more adds ?

Now I get 2 adds every 2 to 3 songs. Why? It use to be way less. I get that you need to pay for the music but why the incres. It is annoying af. It doesn't make me want to get prenimum. I'm acualy debating uninstalling spotify and just going on youtu...

  • Casual Listener
  • Now I get 2 adds every 2 to 3 songs. Why? It use to be way less. I get that you need to pay for the music but why the incres.    It is annoying af. It doesn't make me want to get pre...
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Local Files replacing existing content

Is there a way to sync local files without linking them to existing tracks already in Spotify's library? For example, I have Beyonce's Lemonade in my local files but it automatically linked one of the songs to a girl who did a cover of this song. Now...

  • Casual Listener
  • Is there a way to sync local files without linking them to existing tracks already in Spotify's library?   For example, I have Beyonce's Lemonade in my local files but it automatically linked ...
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Solved!! Can't hide "Recently played artists"

I unchecked the "show the top artists I've been listening to" option because they're not even close to accurate, but I can still see them in my profile. I checked it from my roommates account and he can see it too.

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  • I unchecked the "show the top artists I've been listening to" option because they're not even close to accurate, but I can still see them in my profile. I checked it from my roommates account and he ...
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My Spotify lists playlists by my region/continent

I've been using Spotify Premium for 5 months and this is the first time this happened. The playlists or songs that used to be featured in my "browse" option were American or worldwide songs (which I prefer) but starting yesterday, SEA playlists (Kpop...

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  • I've been using Spotify Premium for 5 months and this is the first time this happened. The playlists or songs that used to be featured in my "browse" option were American or worldwide songs (which I ...
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