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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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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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Spotify Connect Broken: Randomly Pausing (Yamaha AVR, Gramofon, Panasonic, Samsung and others...)

Edited 8 May 2018 (original post below). On ~3rd May Spotify Connect started randomly pausing (in my case on Yamaha hardware) on a range of devices - rendering their Spotify capbility unusuable. We've since established that this is a problem affectin...

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Edited 8 May 2018 (original post below).   On ~3rd May Spotify Connect started randomly pausing (in my case on Yamaha hardware) on a range of devices - rendering their Spotify capbility unusua...

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Solved!! Unavailable songs not greyed-out in my playlist

Premium plan, Canada, Macbook Pro 15" Mid 2014, macOS 10.12.6 I created a playlist using the desktop app, selecting songs that are available (not greyed-out). However, several songs are not playable. When I view the playlist via a web browser, they a...

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Premium plan, Canada, Macbook Pro 15" Mid 2014, macOS 10.12.6   I created a playlist using the desktop app, selecting songs that are available (not greyed-out). However, several song...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution How to display all songs on Artist's Page

Plan : PremiumCountry : Japan Device : Macbook and iPhone My Question or Issue : Are there any methods to display all songs on Artist's page? There are "Popular" and "Album & EP" sections but I can't find the way to display all songs at once.Thank yo...

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Plan : Premium Country : Japan   Device : Macbook and iPhone   My Question or Issue :   Are there any methods to display all songs on Artist's page? There are "Popular" and...

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Superuser Contribution Unfollowing artists against my will

Hello. Constantly artists become unfollowed from my profile, without me taking any action. I am 200% sure I did follow some artists several times, and still become unfollowed after some time. Plan PremiumCountry RomaniaDevice iPhone 8Operating System...

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Hello. Constantly artists become unfollowed from my profile, without me taking any action. I am 200% sure I did follow some artists several times, and still become unfollowed after some time. &...

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Solved!! [bug][macOs][Playlists] Lost addition date on songs added prior to the 1st of February 2019

Device(Macbook Pro)Operating System(macOs) IssueIt looks like the database has pruned on the 1st of February 2019 the song added date information on all the songs on all the playlists created by my account. This is very annoying as now I'm not able t...

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Device (Macbook Pro) Operating System (macOs)   Issue It looks like the database has pruned on the 1st of February 2019 the song added date information on all the songs on all the pla...

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Solved!! All songs stop playing after a few seconds in MacOs

I've been using spotify for Windows and Android for a while and everything worked almost perfectly, but recently i got a new Mac computer and one of the first things i did was to download spotify app, and since day one its one problem after the other...

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I've been using spotify for Windows and Android for a while and everything worked almost perfectly, but recently i got a new Mac computer and one of the first things i did was to download spotify app...

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Solved!! Desktop App (Mac) loads but no music is available

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceMacbook Pro 2018)Operating System10.13.6 High Sierra My Question or IssueI use spotify at work and prefer to use the desktop app over the web client. I did not have the ability to use the mac app until I realized I could a...

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Plan Premium Country USA   Device Macbook Pro 2018) Operating System 10.13.6 High Sierra   My Question or Issue I use spotify at work and prefer to use the desktop app over the w...

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Solved!! I add a song to my Playlist but it does not show up in it , when i add it again it says already in

PlanFreeIndia DeviceMacBook Air 2017Operating SystemMacOS Mojave 10.14.2I have been trying to add songs to my Playlist, I've set show Unavailable songs to turned On, But still, I can't see certain songs being added. Also if I try to play those songs ...

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  Plan Free India    Device MacBook Air 2017 Operating System MacOS Mojave 10.14.2 I have been trying to add songs to my Playlist, I've set show Unavailable songs to turned On...

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Solved!! songs won't play, all saved playlists are empty

so since about a week now, specific songs wont play in my desktop app on my mac. songs play on my ipod and ipad but on my mac, when i click on a song nothing happens. this used to happen to random songs, not all. however from yesterday, no song plays...

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so since about a week now, specific songs wont play in my desktop app on my mac. songs play on my ipod and ipad but on my mac, when i click on a song nothing happens. this used to happen to random so...

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Solved!! Browse=>Discover Tab not being updated

Premium United States Mac Mojave latest version 3/9/19 When I click on the Browse tab on my Mac desktop and then the Discover tab, every week I would see brand new albums and artists that are based on my listening history. About a month ago, this sto...

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Premium United States Mac Mojave latest version 3/9/19   When I click on the Browse tab on my Mac desktop and then the Discover tab, every week I would see brand new albums and artists that ar...

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Solved!! Sharing playlist to Spotify user directly no longer possible?

I haven't tried this for probably a couple of years but I used to be able to go into one of my playlists, click share and there was an option to send directly to another Spotify user, and it would go to their Spotify inbox. The only options I see now...

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I haven't tried this for probably a couple of years but I used to be able to go into one of my playlists, click share and there was an option to send directly to another Spotify user, and it would go...

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Solved!! Discover does not update anymore

PlanPremiumCountryFranceDeviceMacBookPro11,5Operating SystemmacOS Mojave My Question or IssueSince a few weeks, the discover board does not update anymore in spite of a recurrent usage of Spotify. All the discover page is stuck in time. For example, ...

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Plan Premium Country France Device MacBookPro11,5 Operating System macOS Mojave  My Question or Issue Since a few weeks, the discover board does not update anymore in spite of a recurre...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Some song can't playing on my Desktop but playable on my Mobile

PlanPremiumCountry ThailandDevice(iPhone 7)Operating System(iOS 12.1.3 and macOS 10.14.2) Spotify on both is updated My Question or Issue Song: No Fun - Golden Features Remixcan't be play on my desktopbut playable on my iPhone - i am using this two d...

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Plan Premium Country  Thailand Device (iPhone 7) Operating System (iOS 12.1.3 and macOS 10.14.2)  Spotify on both is updated   My Question or Issue  Song: No Fun - Gold...

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Solved!! playlist not in sync

PlanPremiumCountry: Netherlands DeviceIphone 7Operating System: iOS 12.1.4 My Question or IssueSo I put my playlist in 'recently added' but it isn't in sync with the same playlist on my mac

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  Plan Premium Country: Netherlands   Device Iphone 7 Operating System: iOS 12.1.4     My Question or Issue So I put my playlist in 'recently added' but it isn't in syn...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Can't find a bunch of music

Hey guys, today I created a Spotify Free account with the intention to upgrade to Premium very soon, but before that, I wanted to move all of my music from Apple Music, so I started looking up each individual album. Over HALF the songs (about 30-ish)...

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    Hey guys, today I created a Spotify Free account with the intention to upgrade to Premium very soon, but before that, I wanted to move all of my music from Apple Music, so I started l...

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Solved!! Username Numbers

PlanPremium My Question or IssueMy username is displayed in numbers as I de-activated my facebook account. I recently re-activated my facebook account but the username is still being displayed as numbers. Any idea how to revert it back to my name?

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  Plan Premium   My Question or Issue My username is displayed in numbers as I de-activated my facebook account. I recently re-activated my facebook account but the username is st...

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Solved!! Daily Mixes, Friend Feed, Radio not working on desktop (mac)

None of these three things work, they're still visable but clicking them just brings me to an error page. I've tried clearing my cache and restarting my computer multiple times but neither works!

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None of these three things work, they're still visable but clicking them just brings me to an error page. I've tried clearing my cache and restarting my computer multiple times but neither works!&nbs...

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Solved!! Spotify and spotify web wont play music.

PlanPremiumCountry BucharestDeviceOnePlus 6TOperating SystemWindows 10/ android My Question or IssueSo a couple of days ago my spotify app on windows just stopped playing music. I tried to find a solution (reinstalling spotify, deleting some files, i...

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Plan Premium Country  Bucharest Device OnePlus 6T Operating System Windows 10/ android   My Question or Issue So a couple of days ago my spotify app on windows just stopped playin...

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Solved!! After subscribing to premium, Spotify on my Mac(desktop) became unusable

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceMacbook pro 15 inch (late 2016) and Iphone SEOperating SystemMac Os Mojave 10.14.3 My Question or Issue Hi, I got a problem on Spotify desktop on my mac and it doesn't apply on my iphone. I just upgraded to premium for t...

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Plan Premium Country Canada Device Macbook pro 15 inch (late 2016) and Iphone SE Operating System Mac Os Mojave 10.14.3   My Question or Issue  Hi, I got a problem on Spotify desk...

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Solved!! Songs only playing on Chrome (not on macbook) and playlist only showing on Chrome (not macbook)

HelloStarting from the album 'Guero' by Beck second song .. None of the songs are playable on 'My computer' when I select that as output device;On 'Web Player' it does play. So on Web player I can play the songs and I can add them to a playlist, but ...

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Hello Starting from the album 'Guero' by Beck second song .. None of the songs are playable on 'My computer' when I select that as output device; On 'Web Player' it does play.  S...

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