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Solved!! Spotify begins playing random music

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...

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Jemi

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Pop-up for xpui appears on app startup

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...

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Alcyon

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Solved!! Cant download Spotify on Mac OS 10.15.7

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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Solved!! Clear recently played on home screen?

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.

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Solved!! iPhone app has a Home selection. Where is this on Mac Desktop?

Premium Device(iPhone 5)Operating System(iOS 10) My iPhone app has a Home menu button on the left side next to Browse, Search, Radio, Your library. This Home menu button is very handy but cannot find on my MacBook Pro Spotify app. It has all the butt...

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  Premium  Device (iPhone 5) Operating System (iOS 10)   My iPhone app has a Home menu button on the left side next to Browse, Search, Radio, Your library. This Home menu button...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Sort deleted tracks within playlist

Does anyone know a way of sorting/ordering deleted tracks within a playlist? I can view them fine, but I have a playlist of 10,000 songs with 1 deleted song somewhere inside it! I'm just trying to find a way of viewing it quickly before I spend time ...

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  Does anyone know a way of sorting/ordering deleted tracks within a playlist? I can view them fine, but I have a playlist of 10,000 songs with 1 deleted song somewhere inside it! I'm just tryi...

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Solved!! Why can't I edit my tracklist in one of my playlists?

I never had a problem with dragging songs up and down the playlist to edit my tracklist. But for some reason, one of my newer playlists won't allow me to drag songs. I can do it on my iPhone Spotify app but it isn't working on my Macbook Pro. I was t...

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I never had a problem with dragging songs up and down the playlist to edit my tracklist. But for some reason, one of my newer playlists won't allow me to drag songs. I can do it on my iPhone Spotify ...

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Solved!! How to prevent Spotify from using the Microphone?

PlanPremiumCountryDenmarkDeviceMacOperating SystemMacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 My Question or IssueWhen I start playing a song using the Desktop App my antivirus software warns me that my microphone is being used by the app. How can I prevent the app fr...

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Plan Premium Country Denmark Device Mac Operating System MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6   My Question or Issue When I start playing a song using the Desktop App my antivirus software warns ...

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Solved!! Importing mp3s on Mac files greyed out

PlanPremiumCountryUnited States DeviceiMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011)Operating SystemOS X El Capitan My Question or Issue I downloaded some mp3s onto my computer. I clicked the top-right arrow and went to settings. I clicked add a source, but all the mp3s...

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Plan Premium Country United States  Device iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011) Operating System OS X El Capitan   My Question or Issue  I downloaded some mp3s onto my computer.  ...

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Solved!! Playlist in alphabetical order.

Is it possible to arrangere the artists I have in my play lists alphabetically. Because of streaming music from Spotify pausing all the time, I have to play off line. The play list is getting extremely long, and it is difficult to find a particular a...

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Is it possible to arrangere the artists I have in my play lists alphabetically. Because of streaming music from Spotify pausing all the time, I have to play off line. The play list is getting extreme...

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Solved!! Can't view my songs

Hi,I can't view my songs it says go to browse. I deleted spotify and reinstalled twice but the same issue happened again. Can you help me please?can't view my songs?!PremiumTurkeyMacBook ProiOS 10

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Hi, I can't view my songs it says go to browse. I deleted spotify and reinstalled twice but the same issue happened again. Can you help me please? can't view my songs?! Premium Turkey MacBook Pr...

Loxer

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Solved!! Macbook Not Connecting to Iphone

So, once day the Spotify web player couldn't play songs anymore. Everything works fine except for playing songs. Whenever I click the play button, nothing happens. I did some research in the Spotify community and found that the most common cause for ...

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    So, once day the Spotify web player couldn't play songs anymore. Everything works fine except for playing songs. Whenever I click the play button, nothing happens. I did some research...

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Solved!! Not able to manually rearrange songs in playlist Mac Desktop

PlanPremiumCountry CanadaDeviceMacbook 2012Operating SystemiOS 10 My Question or Issue I cannot manually rearrange the order of my tracks in a playlist. I can drag it to a new location, but it will not stay there.

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Plan Premium Country  Canada Device Macbook 2012 Operating System iOS 10   My Question or Issue  I cannot manually rearrange the order of my tracks in a playlist. I can drag ...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify Connect randomly pauses

Spotify Connect randomly pauses since last app update with Yamaha RN402D and MacBook Pro. Not having issues with iphone & chromecast...Anyone else?

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Spotify Connect randomly pauses since last app update with Yamaha RN402D and MacBook Pro. Not having issues with iphone & chromecast... Anyone else?  

SergioDavid

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Two Songs Playing At Once

I (regretfully) updated to the new version of Spotify for mac and it seems buggy, noteably because it keeps playing two songs at once. If I'm clicking through a playlist to different songs, it ends up having 2 songs going. I can pause/control one of ...

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I (regretfully) updated to the new version of Spotify for mac and it seems buggy, noteably because it keeps playing two songs at once.   If I'm clicking through a playlist to different songs, ...

Loxer

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History on desktop... more than 50 tracks possible?

Plan:Premium Family Country:USA Device27” iMac (current second to bottom build w/32GB RAM added post purchase) Operating SystemmacOS current build and current OS My Question or Issue I'm looking to find larger ‘listory’© (by me;)) ... Listen history,...

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    Plan: Premium Family    Country: USA   Device 27” iMac (current second to bottom build w/32GB RAM added post purchase)   Operating System macOS current b...

Loxer

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Solved!! Sorting a playlist back to the Author's Default

I found some playlists I want to follow that have the beatport top 100 tracks for certain genres. When i was looking at the playlist to see how recently it had been updated I changed the sort to date. I realized later that the author had the playlist...

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I found some playlists I want to follow that have the beatport top 100 tracks for certain genres. When i was looking at the playlist to see how recently it had been updated I changed the sort to date...

Keanu_C

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Why the cache Spotify app on OSX takes up 10G of space?

Whenever I restart my computer the ~Library/Caches/com.spotify.client takes up a small amount of space. By the end of my working day the said folder takes up 10GB of space! Why is this happening? Some smart garbage collection for this cache would hel...

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Whenever I restart my computer the ~Library/Caches/com.spotify.client takes up a small amount of space. By the end of my working day the said folder takes up 10GB of space! Why is this happening...

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Solved!! Discover weekly disliked songs

PlanPremiumCountryUSA Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue My Discover Weekly was created with a song I had previously disliked. I thought that was the whole point of the dislike button. What gives?

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Plan Premium Country USA   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  My Discover Weekly was created with a song I had previously disliked.  I thought that was t...

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Solved!! Spotify non si apre più.

Buongiorno! Spotify non si apre più, mostra solo lo schermo completamente nero. Ho utilizzato Onyx per pulire il Mac. HO disinstallato e reinstallato Spotify ma il problema non si risolve.

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   Buongiorno! Spotify non si apre più, mostra solo lo schermo completamente nero. Ho utilizzato Onyx per pulire il Mac. HO disinstallato e reinstallato Spotify ma il problema non si risol...

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Solved!! Friend Feed not updating correctly

Hey, I try to check what my friends hearing every single day. But i can't do it, because it's say "Hmm, friend feed failed to load", are there someone who also have this problem? Or some good guys there wanna help me. I have had this problem in 3 mon...

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Hey, I try to check what my friends hearing every single day. But i can't do it, because it's say "Hmm, friend feed failed to load", are there someone who also have this problem? Or some good guys th...

Loxer

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution "Your Top Songs 2017" still being updated daily

This might be a bit silly but I was wondering why my Top 2017 playlist keeps being updated. The 2016's was last updated when it was created - which makes sense -whereas my 2017's looks very different now considering that I've listened to different th...

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This might be a bit silly but I was wondering why my Top 2017 playlist keeps being updated. The 2016's was last updated when it was created - which makes sense -whereas my 2017's looks very different...

Chris

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Solved!! Can't find Follow Button

PlanFree DeviceMacBook Air Mid 2012Operating SystemmacOS High Sierra Ver 10.13.5 My Question or Issue I am terribly sorry and I pray that I'm not wasting time.. but is it just me, or I can't find the follow button anywhere? I just opened spotify one ...

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Plan Free   Device MacBook Air Mid 2012 Operating System macOS High Sierra Ver 10.13.5   My Question or Issue  I am terribly sorry and I pray that I'm not wasting time.. but i...

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