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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 File Not Recognized

I had many local files and decided to wipe my iTunes library, since I can no longer search local files through Spotify. In doing so, when I redownloaded tracks that were in some of my Spotify playlists, they were not recognized when opening Spotify. ...

  • Casual Listener
  • I had many local files and decided to wipe my iTunes library, since I can no longer search local files through Spotify. In doing so, when I redownloaded tracks that were in some of my Spotify playlis...
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Spotify freaks out when exchanging soundcards

Unfortunatelly i can't describe bug over GitHub (i spend more time on GitHub rather than checking emails :cof: )But here we go... I'm a premium user of Spotify service, and it totally worthed, inspite i have some problems since a long ago. I could st...

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  • Unfortunatelly i can't describe bug over GitHub (i spend more time on GitHub rather than checking emails :cof: ) But here we go...    I'm a premium user of Spotify service, and it t...
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Spotify interrupts to pause mode while using "connect"

Hello,I (premium user) have a very anoying problem. After every a few seconds my Spotify stops (pause mode) playing "connect" via my Denon X5200 Receiver. If I then press play again, the song starts from its beginng and interrupts after a few seconds...

  • Newbie
  • Hello, I (premium user) have a very anoying problem. After every a few seconds my Spotify stops (pause mode) playing "connect" via my Denon X5200 Receiver. If I then press play again, the song start...
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SPOTIFY QUITTING ON MAC

Every time I open Spotify and click on a song to play it immediately quits the app. I've tried it several times with many different songs. I have also uninstalled and reinstalled the application. HELP please!!

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  • Every time I open Spotify and click on a song to play it immediately quits the app. I've tried it several times with many different songs. I have also uninstalled and reinstalled the application. HEL...
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PLEASE ADD THE ABILITY TO SEARCH WITHIN PLAYLISTS BACK TO SPOTIFY!!!

Spotify, PLEASE add the ability to search within playlists back to Spotify. This should never have been removed. It is a core feature, and it needs to be present. PLEASE ADD IT BACK. It it unacceptable that you all decided to refactor your UI and the...

  • Gig Goer
  • Spotify, PLEASE add the ability to search within playlists back to Spotify. This should never have been removed. It is a core feature, and it needs to be present.   PLEASE ADD IT BACK.  ...
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Lost my genre radio

I recently had a bugged out radio that would say it was playing something different than was actually playing. I deleted the station with the intent of remaking it. But now I can't figure out how I made it. It was a black metal genre radio. But now w...

  • Casual Listener
  • I recently had a bugged out radio that would say it was playing something different than was actually playing. I deleted the station with the intent of remaking it. But now I can't figure out how I m...
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Missing sidebar that shows what your friends are listening to

In the new update 1.0.1.988.g8f17a348 the sidebar on the right is no longer there. Any way to get it back?

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  • In the new update 1.0.1.988.g8f17a348 the sidebar on the right is no longer there. Any way to get it back?  
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Shared Songs Do Not Appear in Inbox

Morning, yall. Hoping someone here can help, as this is terribly frustrating. I tried searching for this issue alreadya nd couldn't find anything—possibly I missed the target keywords, so if anyone knows of a previous thread, I'd be grateful for a nu...

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  • Morning, yall. 🙂 Hoping someone here can help, as this is terribly frustrating. I tried searching for this issue alreadya nd couldn't find anything—possibly I missed the target keywords, so if anyon...
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Solved!! My Music has gone

DescriptionOn my macbook my songs under "Your Music" has disappeared and instead shows the page where it says "this is where you will find songs you have saved". My music still exists on my iphone and on my ps4. A more detailed description, using num...

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  • Description On my macbook my songs under "Your Music" has disappeared and instead shows the page where it says "this is where you will find songs you have saved". My music still exists on my iphone ...
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Add playlist to playque

Hi! I don't know how far back this was changed, I just noticed it a couple of months ago, that I can no longer add an entire playlist to the playque.I use this a lot, when I want to listen to a specific song, and then I want to go back to listening t...

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  • Hi!   I don't know how far back this was changed, I just noticed it a couple of months ago, that I can no longer add an entire playlist to the playque. I use this a lot, when I want to listen...
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Spotify keeps auto-starting when "no" is selected.

I don't know why, but it just keeps to auto-start every time I restart my mac. Even though I select "no" in preferences and press the minus button in setting on my mac. It just keeps adding it self back to the list when you close it and open it up ag...

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  • I don't know why, but it just keeps to auto-start every time I restart my mac. Even though I select "no" in preferences and press the minus button in setting on my mac. It just keeps adding it s...
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Public playlist not visible in search

I have two accounts, one for my work machine and one at home. I created a playlist and set it to public so that I could find it at home, but when I try to search for it it doesn't show up. It also doesn't show up when I search for it on my PS4. How d...

  • Casual Listener
  • I have two accounts, one for my work machine and one at home.   I created a playlist and set it to public so that I could find it at home, but when I try to search for it it d...
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Some of the songs are not playing

Recently, evertime I play my playlist, I found that it stopped randomly after a few songs, and I realized that some of the songs are not playing and it just stopped there. I have no idea why and I have to click next song to continue lisening to the m...

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  • Recently, evertime I play my playlist, I found that it stopped randomly after a few songs, and I realized that some of the songs are not playing and it just stopped there. I have no idea wh...
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Spotify for Mac playing the wrong song.

Hi all,I have had a song saved in the 'Songs' section for a while now. Recently when the song plays a different song plays instead. This only happens on my Mac, spotify on my phone and the Web player both play the correct song. I have reinstalled spo...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi all, I have had a song saved in the 'Songs' section for a while now. Recently when the song plays a different song plays instead. This only happens on my Mac, spotify on my phone and the Web play...
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Private session doesn't toggle the Publish my activity button

Hi guys, In earlier versions, when you enabled private session, you activity was never published in the feed. In the 1.0.3.101 version, private session doesn't set your publish to off automatically (if you had it on) and activity is shown in the feed...

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  • Hi guys,    In earlier versions, when you enabled private session, you activity was never published in the feed.   In the 1.0.3.101 version, private session doesn't set your p...
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Redundant Local Files

Over the years I have built up a big library of local files. Importing these into Spotify is slow and probably in most cases unnecessary: is there an easy way to cull out those songs which are available for streaming in Spotify? I have some music tha...

  • Visitor
  • Over the years I have built up a big library of local files.  Importing these into Spotify is slow and probably in most cases unnecessary:  is there an easy way to cull out those songs whic...
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Spotify Premium: Announcments are ADVERTS please remove.

Please remove the announcments on the browse page that keep popping up and interferring with the UI. Clicking on the hide announcements buttons have no impact and they keep reoccurring. These are advertisments; they are not announcements as I do not ...

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  • Please remove the announcments on the browse page that keep popping up and interferring with the UI. Clicking on the hide announcements buttons have no impact and they keep reoccurring.   Thes...
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Solved!! Can`t open spotify!!! :(

Hi, I have Macbook air and when I`m trying open spotify nothing happens just black screen with loading cyrcle and then nothing one minute, 5,10... when I close this window spotify freezes and ofer me to send this problem to apple....... the text of t...

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  • Hi, I have Macbook air and when I`m trying open spotify nothing happens just black screen with loading cyrcle and then nothing one minute, 5,10...    when I close this window spotify free...
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Solved!! [OS X] Spotify Connect suddenly stopped working. No longer sees phone or PS4

Until a few days ago*, I had been using Connect between my laptop, android phone, and PS4. It works fine between my phone and PS4, but my laptop doesn't see either device anymore. When I click on the Connect button beside the volume slider, nothing h...

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  • Until a few days ago*, I had been using Connect between my laptop, android phone, and PS4. It works fine between my phone and PS4, but my laptop doesn't see either device anymore.    ...
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Can't delete songs from Starred folder in Spotify Web Player

I'm not sure if this is a problem on my end or a bug, but I can't delete songs from my Starred folder when I'm using the web player. I go into the folder, right click on a song and click delete but the song remains in my folder. I've noticed at the t...

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  • I'm not sure if this is a problem on my end or a bug, but I can't delete songs from my Starred folder when I'm using the web player.   I go into the folder, right click on a song and click&nbs...
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