Type in your question below and we'll check to see what answers we can find...
Loading article...
Submitting...
If you couldn't find any answers in the previous step then we need to post your question in the community and wait for someone to respond. You'll be notified when that happens.
Simply add some detail to your question and refine the title if needed, choose the relevant category, then post.
Before we can post your question we need you to quickly make an account (or sign in if you already have one).
Don't worry - it's quick and painless! Just click below, and once you're logged in we'll bring you right back here and post your question. We'll remember what you've already typed in so you won't have to do it again.
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
16850 Views
79 replies
9 likes
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
40546 Views
8 replies
1 likes
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...
Casual Listener
39260 Views
7 replies
0 likes
hey everyone. I'm really struggling with loggin in my account. It says that there is a firewall blocking spotif, and to change the proxy settings, and there's nothing i can do to log in.. I'm using a macbook idk can someone help!?!?
hey everyone. I'm really struggling with loggin in my account. It says that there is a firewall blocking spotif, and to change the proxy settings, and there's nothing i can do to log in.. I'm using a...
Newbie
26355 Views
12 replies
2 likes
Hi guys, several times I tried to download the Mac App, unfortunately without any success. Although, it is possible to download the .dmg from the website, when I open it, it tells me that the download server is not respoing after trying a couple of s...
Hi guys, several times I tried to download the Mac App, unfortunately without any success. Although, it is possible to download the .dmg from the website, when I open it, it te...
Casual Listener
985 Views
2 replies
0 likes
PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSA DeviceMacBook Pro 2015Operating SystemiOS 10 My Question or Issue There used to be a box here when your music was playing. Why did it go away? When a song would be playing it would be there.
Plan Free/Premium Country USA Device MacBook Pro 2015 Operating System iOS 10 My Question or Issue There used to be a box here when your music was playing. Why di...
Community Legend
1033 Views
3 replies
0 likes
PremiumBelgiumLate 2013 iMacOperating System High Sierrasystem is in Dutch. First, I'm aware of all the other topics but none helped so far.Spotify works fine on my Macbook, but after deleting and installing it for about 5 times now it still gives a ...
Premium Belgium Late 2013 iMac Operating System High Sierra system is in Dutch. First, I'm aware of all the other topics but none helped so far. Spotify works fine on my Macbook, but af...
Casual Listener
1735 Views
2 replies
0 likes
Macbook Pro late 2011, Sierra My Question or Issue Sound is distorted when casting from my mac. Volume can't be turned down in the app or web-browser without disconnecting chromecast first. When reconnecting volume goes back to full. This is an issue...
Macbook Pro late 2011, Sierra My Question or Issue Sound is distorted when casting from my mac. Volume can't be turned down in the app or web-browser without disconnecting chro...
Casual Listener
1050 Views
1 replies
0 likes
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...
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...
Community Legend
909 Views
3 replies
0 likes
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 ...
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...
Composer
5851 Views
10 replies
0 likes
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...
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 ...
Community Legend
1459 Views
1 replies
0 likes
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...
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 ...
Not applicable
7690 Views
1 replies
0 likes
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...
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. ...
Casual Listener
2744 Views
2 replies
0 likes
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...
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...
Newbie
73983 Views
148 replies
113 likes
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
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...
Community Legend
6818 Views
5 replies
0 likes
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 ...
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...
Casual Listener
3382 Views
2 replies
0 likes
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.
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 ...
Music Fan
2013 Views
5 replies
0 likes
Spotify Connect randomly pauses since last app update with Yamaha RN402D and MacBook Pro. Not having issues with iphone & chromecast...Anyone else?
Spotify Connect randomly pauses since last app update with Yamaha RN402D and MacBook Pro. Not having issues with iphone & chromecast... Anyone else?
Roadie
1078 Views
1 replies
1 likes
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 ...
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, ...
Community Legend
2203 Views
1 replies
0 likes
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,...
Plan: Premium Family Country: USA Device 27” iMac (current second to bottom build w/32GB RAM added post purchase) Operating System macOS current b...
Community Legend
6180 Views
2 replies
0 likes
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...
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...
Community Legend
1484 Views
1 replies
1 likes
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...
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...
Not applicable
79677 Views
4 replies
7 likes
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?
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...
Not applicable
1574 Views
1 replies
0 likes
