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Discuss Spotify for Mac
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...
Spotify Legend
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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...
Music Fan
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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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Hi, y'all So I don't know exactly where to put this topic in 'cause it can be various topics. I don't know if it is me but it has been happening for more than 1 month now. I just cannot seem to put up an idea on the Spotify community. I don't know wh...
Hi, y'all So I don't know exactly where to put this topic in 'cause it can be various topics. I don't know if it is me but it has been happening for more than 1 month now. I just ca...
Composer
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PlanPremium DeviceMacOS Catalina 10.15.5 My Question or IssueTrying to access my daily mix and they're just stuck on the loading screen.This has been happening for the last few days. Can anyone please help?
Plan Premium Device MacOS Catalina 10.15.5 My Question or Issue Trying to access my daily mix and they're just stuck on the loading screen. This has been happening for t...
Spotify Legend
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PlanPremiumCountryIndonesiaDevice(iPhone 6, iPad 9.7, Macbook Pro 2018)Operating System(iOS 10) My Question or IssueCan a spotify user select one particular song, and the song after that would be a random song but similar to that one particular song ...
Plan Premium Country Indonesia Device (iPhone 6, iPad 9.7, Macbook Pro 2018) Operating System (iOS 10) My Question or Issue Can a spotify user select one particular song, and the son...
Casual Listener
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There are songs that are not on Spotify due to agreement with the label. I want to add them to my Spotify but I’d like to know if there’s a way to do it without premium.PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceMacBook Air 2019Operating SystemMacOS My Question or Issu...
There are songs that are not on Spotify due to agreement with the label. I want to add them to my Spotify but I’d like to know if there’s a way to do it without premium. Plan Free Country USA De...
Spotify Star
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Hi! Just got my Mac and Spotify was the very first thing I set up—as I was playing around with the Touch Bar in the app, I realized the scrubbing bar indicated exactly where I was in the music in real-time—however, I can't control my music with it. I...
Hi! Just got my Mac and Spotify was the very first thing I set up—as I was playing around with the Touch Bar in the app, I realized the scrubbing bar indicated exactly where I was in the music in rea...
Spotify Star
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PlanPremiumCountryArgentina DeviceMacBook Pro 2017 RetinaOperating SystemHigh Sierra My Question or Issue AppleScript is not returning current song correctly. The last build from Apr 23th Broke it. The script in question is the following: if applicat...
Plan Premium Country Argentina Device MacBook Pro 2017 Retina Operating System High Sierra My Question or Issue AppleScript is not returning current song corr...
Casual Listener
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Plan PremiumCountry Germany Device iMacOperating System macOS Catalina My Question or IssueSpotify crashes immediatly on startup, output of command./Spotify --show-console: 18:07:33.091 I [network_controller.cpp:77 ] Connectivity policy is initially ...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device iMac Operating System macOS Catalina My Question or Issue Spotify crashes immediatly on startup, output of command ./Spotify --show-console...
Spotify Legend
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PremiumUSAMacbook Pro late 2018macOS Catalina 10.15.4 Hi!For months now, whenever a sound plays from my chrome (doesn't matter which site), Spotify will break. What I mean by this is that when I click play again on spotify, the bar will continue to m...
Premium USA Macbook Pro late 2018 macOS Catalina 10.15.4 Hi! For months now, whenever a sound plays from my chrome (doesn't matter which site), Spotify will break. What I mean by this is...
Moderator
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PlanPremiumCountryUS DeviceMacbook Pro 2018Operating SystemMacOS Catalina 10.15.5 My Question or IssueI just downloaded spotify on my mac and when i opened it, none of my friends' activity showed up and all the playlists in my library were empty, eve...
Plan Premium Country US Device Macbook Pro 2018 Operating System MacOS Catalina 10.15.5 My Question or Issue I just downloaded spotify on my mac and when i opened it, none of...
Casual Listener
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Open Finder In the Menu Bar select Go and then 'Go to Folder' Enter: /private/etc/hosts Locate the file called 'host' and drag to desktop Open the file and replace the text with: ### Host Database## localhost is used to configure the loopback interfa...
Open Finder In the Menu Bar select Go and then 'Go to Folder' Enter: /private/etc/hosts Locate the file called 'host' and drag to desktop Open the file and replace ...
Gig Goer
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PlanPremiumCountry Germany DeviceMacbook Pro Retina Early 2013Operating SystemmacOS 10.14.5 My Question or IssueSpotify on my mac unfortunately recently started crashing randomly (once per 1 minute), which makes the app completely unuseable. I've tri...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device Macbook Pro Retina Early 2013 Operating System macOS 10.14.5 My Question or Issue Spotify on my mac unfortunately recently st...
Visitor
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PlanPremiumCountryItalyDevicemacbook pro 13" 2017Operating SystemmacOs 10.15.5 My Question or IssueSince today app crashes on start.So far I tried: - reboot: no effect- uninstall and reinstall: no effect- clean cache: no effect- clean cache and reins...
Plan Premium Country Italy Device macbook pro 13" 2017 Operating System macOs 10.15.5 My Question or Issue Since today app crashes on start. So far I tried: - reboot: no ef...
Casual Listener
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I want to start fresh with my playlist, and my first step was to delete all the playlists i didnt need. I went to delete a playlist and clicked the delete button on the macbook app but it didnt work. Anyone have some answers?
I want to start fresh with my playlist, and my first step was to delete all the playlists i didnt need. I went to delete a playlist and clicked the delete button on the macbook app but it didnt work....
Spotify Star
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Plan: PremiumCountry: USADevice: Macbook Pro mid 2015Operating System: MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 My Question or IssueI just purchased some speakers (Polk Magnifi Mini) that has wifi capability (and Bluetooth). Important to me is to be able to play mu...
Plan: Premium Country: USA Device: Macbook Pro mid 2015 Operating System: MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 My Question or Issue I just purchased some speakers (Polk Magnifi Mini) that...
Spotify Star
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Plan: Premium, in the UKDevices: Android phone, iPad Pro, Mac computer (Mojave) My Chromecast Audio appears on my iPad's spotify app and on my Android phone as a streaming choice, but never on my Mac desktop. I have to start playing a song via mobile...
Plan: Premium, in the UK Devices: Android phone, iPad Pro, Mac computer (Mojave) My Chromecast Audio appears on my iPad's spotify app and on my Android phone as a streaming choice, but neve...
Spotify Star
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I just thought it was strange that ONLY one song from Logic's Album, 'Bobby Tarantino 2' won't play. The song is called 'Overnight' and it's my favorite one. For some reason it's showing as unavailable. I tried removing and reinstalling Spotify, but ...
I just thought it was strange that ONLY one song from Logic's Album, 'Bobby Tarantino 2' won't play. The song is called 'Overnight' and it's my favorite one. For some reason it's showing as unavailab...
Casual Listener
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PlanStudent PaidCountryUSADeviceMacBook AirOperating SystemMojave 10.14 My Question or IssueI recently downloaded a few albums and use them on Spotify through local files. The day after I did that, I tried opening Spotify on my laptop and whenever I ...
Plan Student Paid Country USA Device MacBook Air Operating System Mojave 10.14 My Question or Issue I recently downloaded a few albums and use them on Spotify through local file...
Spotify Star
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Hi, I'm on a family plan, using Spotify Desktop on macOS Mojave in the UK. For the past week or so, the filter function has suddenly stopped working for me. (I have a lot of saved albums and I often use filter as a way to quickly find my way to a par...
Hi, I'm on a family plan, using Spotify Desktop on macOS Mojave in the UK. For the past week or so, the filter function has suddenly stopped working for me. (I have a lot of saved albums and...
Casual Listener
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I remember there used to be a feature for this, but it doesn't seem to be there anymore.
I remember there used to be a feature for this, but it doesn't seem to be there anymore.
Visitor
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceMacBook Pro 2019Operating SystemmacOS Catalina My Question or IssueWhen I goto install the Spotify app on a beta version of macOS Catalina I get an alert that says the application can not be installed becuase Apple can not ...
Plan Premium Country USA Device MacBook Pro 2019 Operating System macOS Catalina My Question or Issue When I goto install the Spotify app on a beta version of macOS Catalina ...
Visitor
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