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Discuss Spotify for Mac
I just purchased a m4 macbook running 26.2 Tahoe. I tried downloading spotify from Safari and Chrome. Every time I try to open the zip file it says Unable to expand "SpotifyInstaller.zip" into "Desktop". (Error 79 - Inappropriate file type or format....
Visitor
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hi! this is the same question as this one but because it’s marked as solved and the solution doesn’t work for me, I’m posting it again. I’ve double checked:1) I have no “login items” for my user in the Users & Groups pref pane2) when I right click th...
Casual Listener
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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...
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Plan: PremiumCountry: SpainDevice: MacBook High Sierra When I try to download Spotify client for Mac from the official page https://www.spotify.com/int/download/mac/ I get 404 error:
Plan: Premium Country: Spain Device: MacBook High Sierra When I try to download Spotify client for Mac from the official page https://www.spotify.com/int/download/mac/ I get 404 ...
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Hi team, i am a French user of your services.On the Mac Desktop App (1.1.21.1654.g282a2807), once on my profile page, the French labels used for the "Following" and "Followers" sections are misleading and not aligned to the ones (that are correct to ...
Hi team, i am a French user of your services. On the Mac Desktop App (1.1.21.1654.g282a2807), once on my profile page, the French labels used for the "Following" and "Followers" sections are mislead...
Spotify Legend
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Plan: PremiumCountry: UKDevice: MacOS I've only just noticed the the jump-to-now-playing where you click the song title and it looks like it's supposed to jump to and highlight that track in the playlist, except that it jumps to the wrong track most ...
Plan: Premium Country: UK Device: MacOS I've only just noticed the the jump-to-now-playing where you click the song title and it looks like it's supposed to jump to and highlight that...
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PlanPremiumCountryNorwayDeviceMacbook Air Early 2014Operating SystemmacOS MOJAVE 10.14.6 My Question or IssueI have changed the Setting for "Offline Storage Location" in the Spotify settings to my external sd Card.When I stream songs or download anyt...
Plan Premium Country Norway Device Macbook Air Early 2014 Operating System macOS MOJAVE 10.14.6 My Question or Issue I have changed the Setting for "Offline Storage Location" in...
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PlanPremiumCountry USA DeviceMacbook Pro 2019Operating System(iOS 10.14.3 My Question or IssueI recently removed my current profile in order to change it. Now when I add a new photo after clicking the change button, it's not there. It shows up but on...
Plan Premium Country USA Device Macbook Pro 2019 Operating System (iOS 10.14.3 My Question or Issue I recently removed my current profile in order to change it. Now when I add...
Newbie
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Premium planCountry: New Zealand DeviceMacbook Pro late 2016Operating SystemMac OS Mojave My Question or IssueI've been listening to the Magnus Archives podcast and I'm getting this problem where it'll play ads before the episode even though I have p...
Premium plan Country: New Zealand Device Macbook Pro late 2016 Operating System Mac OS Mojave My Question or Issue I've been listening to the Magnus Archives podcast and I'm ge...
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Plan: Premium StudentCountry: USA Device: Macbook ProOperating System: High SierraMy Question or Issue: I used to be able to use the media keys (F7 for previous, F8 for play/pause, and F9 for next) to control spotify on my macbook pro. These no longe...
Plan: Premium Student Country: USA Device: Macbook Pro Operating System: High Sierra My Question or Issue: I used to be able to use the media keys (F7 for previous, F8 for play/p...
Visitor
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Plan PremiumBulgaria DeviceMacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)Operating SystemMojave 10.14.6 My Question or IssueEverytime I try to start Spotify it just crashes (does not start). Tried adding in privacy settings accessibility, no luck.Tried uninstalling the...
Plan Premium Bulgaria Device MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) Operating System Mojave 10.14.6 My Question or Issue Everytime I try to start Spotify it just crashes (does not st...
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Hi there, I have this technical issue, I tried to make a post in the Playlist Exchange community but the system keeps on rejecting my post, saying that I must enter a valid Spotify URI, and that's what I'm doing but I can't fix the problem.Already tr...
Hi there, I have this technical issue, I tried to make a post in the Playlist Exchange community but the system keeps on rejecting my post, saying that I must enter a valid Spotify URI, and that's wh...
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GerätMacBook ProBetriebssystemCatalina Hi!I can't play local mp3 Files on my Desktop APP. I added my local Folder, but Music is shown like this (1 second): The Files are free,- no protection.....Any ideas?Kind regards from GermanyBernd
Gerät MacBook Pro Betriebssystem Catalina Hi! I can't play local mp3 Files on my Desktop APP. I added my local Folder, but Music is shown like this (1 second): &nb...
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Plan: Premium (Canada) Device: iMac (OS Mojave) My spotify app is extremely slow. I have looked through previous posts dealing with the same issue, and have found a guide for fixing this problem (linked below). However, the spotify cache folder that ...
Plan: Premium (Canada) Device: iMac (OS Mojave) My spotify app is extremely slow. I have looked through previous posts dealing with the same issue, and have found a guide for f...
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PlanPremiumCountryTurkeyDeviceMacbook Air My Question or IssueNormally you can change the arrangement of songs in a playlist by dragging one but it doesn't work in just one of my playlists, in other playlists I don't have a problem with it and can ch...
Plan Premium Country Turkey Device Macbook Air My Question or Issue Normally you can change the arrangement of songs in a playlist by dragging one but it doesn't work in just one of my...
Music Fan
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Hi all, Have just upgraded to Mojave, and I use an external monitor alongside my Retina MacBook Pro (early 2015). However, the fonts look terrible on Spotify when using my non-Retina display. There's been plenty of chat online about Apple disabling s...
Hi all, Have just upgraded to Mojave, and I use an external monitor alongside my Retina MacBook Pro (early 2015). However, the fonts look terrible on Spotify when using my non-Retina display...
Newbie
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Why is this feature gone?
Why is this feature gone?
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PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceMacbook Air Early 2015Operating SystemMacOS Mojave My Question or IssueSpotify just doesn't work at all. After opening the app, none of my friends appear. I click on my playlist and none of my songs are present. I try to pla...
Plan Premium Country UK Device Macbook Air Early 2015 Operating System MacOS Mojave My Question or Issue Spotify just doesn't work at all. After opening the app, none of my friends a...
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Plan - PremiumCountry - UK Device - Macbook Pro 13 inch, 2017Operating System - MacOS Mojave 10.14.16 My Question or Issue I've tried multiple ways to connect my Spotify and Facebook over the last few weeks but have been unsuccessful. When I click on...
Plan - Premium Country - UK Device - Macbook Pro 13 inch, 2017 Operating System - MacOS Mojave 10.14.16 My Question or Issue I've tried multiple ways to connect my S...
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Trying to set up a queue from my playlists (which I do regularly), but nothing is loading int he queue. I am in Mohave 10.14.6 and Spotirfy just ran an update yesterday. Now this. Please fix before my morning session at 8:45 am EST.
Trying to set up a queue from my playlists (which I do regularly), but nothing is loading int he queue. I am in Mohave 10.14.6 and Spotirfy just ran an update yesterday. Now this. Please fix before m...
Roadie
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I may be posting this on the Mac forum but this is happening on all of my devices including my MacBook Pro Retina. My other devices that I have Spotify Premium are my iPad Pro 2018, my iPhone 8 Plus and my iPhone 6S Plus. So today I was browsing my S...
I may be posting this on the Mac forum but this is happening on all of my devices including my MacBook Pro Retina. My other devices that I have Spotify Premium are my iPad Pro 2018, my iPhone 8 Plus ...
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My Issue:When a song title has a time in it, a base date of 1899-12-31 is added with the time displayed in 24-hour format. Please see the attached screenshot of Elliot Smith's song "2:45 AM" as an example. The title displays properly in the album tra...
My Issue: When a song title has a time in it, a base date of 1899-12-31 is added with the time displayed in 24-hour format. Please see the attached screenshot of Elliot Smith's song "2:45 AM" as an ...
Composer
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Hello,since months Spotify on my Mac El Capitan (10.11.6) gets slower and slower. It needs maybe up to ten minutes to see not a black screen only.But also when playlists are loaded after such long time, normally it is not possible to start any list o...
Hello, since months Spotify on my Mac El Capitan (10.11.6) gets slower and slower. It needs maybe up to ten minutes to see not a black screen only. But also when playlists are loaded after such lon...
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