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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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PlanPremiumCountry USADeviceMacBook Pro 13-inch, 2016, 4 thunderbolt portsOperating SystemiOS 10.12.6 My Question or Issue I deleted the whole song list on Saved Songs under Your Library after putting them all over to a playlist. Ever since then, aft...
Plan Premium Country USA Device MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2016, 4 thunderbolt ports Operating System iOS 10.12.6 My Question or Issue I deleted the whole song list on Saved So...
Community Legend
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My Question or Issuecan i use spotify downloaded songs in a mac Photos photo album
My Question or Issue can i use spotify downloaded songs in a mac Photos photo album
Community Legend
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited Kingdom. DeviceMacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015)Operating SystemMac OS High Sierra 10.13.5. Well, I was listening to some songs at first and everything was ok then I went to change track and it was stuck on the track I was li...
Plan Premium Country United Kingdom. Device MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015) Operating System Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.5. Well, I was listening to some songs at first a...
Composer
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PlanFreeCountryAustralia DeviceMacbook AirOperating SystemmacOS SierraMy Question or IssueThis problem has happened once before, a song I listen to heaps starts to play another song from the same album. For example, I was listening to 'Reborn' from K...
Plan Free Country Australia Device Macbook Air Operating System macOS Sierra My Question or Issue This problem has happened once before, a song I listen to heaps starts to play another...
Newbie
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Spotify Mac app is crashing on launch. I tried reinstalling it which allowed it to open, but as soon as I tried to play anything it crashed then continued to crash any subsequent launch. I hope this is a quick fix as I can't listen to music at work n...
Spotify Mac app is crashing on launch. I tried reinstalling it which allowed it to open, but as soon as I tried to play anything it crashed then continued to crash any subsequent launch. I hope this ...
Regular
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31 replies
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I have a macbook pro, and whenever I use the spotify appn I downloaded in full screen mode, it has a grey bar at the top of the screen. It makes it difficult to see the song I am playing along with making it hard to see what I'm typing in the search ...
I have a macbook pro, and whenever I use the spotify appn I downloaded in full screen mode, it has a grey bar at the top of the screen. It makes it difficult to see the song I am playing along with m...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceiMac (27-inch, Late 2009)Operating SystemMacOS 10.13.5 High Sierra My Question or IssueOn opening the app a window briefly appears but then disappears. This started happening in the last day or two, coincided with the...
Plan Premium Country Australia Device iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) Operating System MacOS 10.13.5 High Sierra My Question or Issue On opening the app a window briefly appears but t...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountryFrance (language english)DeviceMacbook AirOperating SystemMacOS High Sierra 10.13.5 My Question or IssueThe album covers of the music I'm listening to aren't displaying in the bottom left as they normally would, but they load fine w...
Plan Premium Country France (language english) Device Macbook Air Operating System MacOS High Sierra 10.13.5 My Question or Issue The album covers of the music I'm listening to aren'...
Community Legend
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Hi, I'm using the Desktop version of Spotify on Macbook Pro with Premium in the US. I want to get rid of all my local files as I don't need or want them. I searched this topic and saw many people found a solution in going to the "Spotify" -> "Users" ...
Hi, I'm using the Desktop version of Spotify on Macbook Pro with Premium in the US. I want to get rid of all my local files as I don't need or want them. I searched this topic an...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountry USDeviceMacbook ProOperating SystemmacOS High Sierra My Question or IssueOn my Mac I can no longer see how many followers an artist has. Not that big of a deal, but I liked being able to see how popular an artist was or seeing if t...
Plan Premium Country US Device Macbook Pro Operating System macOS High Sierra My Question or Issue On my Mac I can no longer see how many followers an artist has. Not that big ...
Community Legend
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PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceMacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)Operating SystemMacOS 10.13.4My Question or IssueI just updated my spotify and now I can't see the album artwork in the bottom left corner while listening to music. I know it isn'...
Plan Premium Country Canada Device MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) Operating System MacOS 10.13.4 My Question or Issue I just updated my spotify and now I can't see the album ...
Casual Listener
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Today I found an 8 GB cache folder (in /Library/Caches/com.spotify.client/Data) and deleted it. It seems that every time I listen to a song, it gets cached. I looked it up and found that setting the storage.size field in /Application Support/Spotify/...
Today I found an 8 GB cache folder (in /Library/Caches/com.spotify.client/Data) and deleted it. It seems that every time I listen to a song, it gets cached. I looked it up and found that setting the ...
Casual Listener
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Hello, The "add to library" icon is now a tick icon instead of plus button, but it is very confusing. Because the plus button is still used to add a song to the library in playlists/albums (on the main column) but it is different on the left bottom s...
Hello, The "add to library" icon is now a tick icon instead of plus button, but it is very confusing. Because the plus button is still used to add a song to the library in playlists/albums (...
Not applicable
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Updated Spotify today, and it seems they've done away with the album artwork of the currently playing song in the bottom left corner...I see a couple other people have posted about that. Personally, I'll miss having that there, but what actually both...
Updated Spotify today, and it seems they've done away with the album artwork of the currently playing song in the bottom left corner...I see a couple other people have posted about that. Personally, ...
Newbie
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PlanFree/Premium familyCountry UK Deviceiphone 7Operating SystemMac high sierra My Question or Issuei am new to spotify. I apologise if this has been posted, but i cannot find a similar post elsewhere. I have several albums on itunes that are not on ...
Plan Free/Premium family Country UK Device iphone 7 Operating System Mac high sierra My Question or Issue i am new to spotify. I apologise if this has been posted, but i canno...
Regular
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There are all these RANDOM songs in my library that I can't get rid of!Help.
There are all these RANDOM songs in my library that I can't get rid of! Help.
Not applicable
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I'm having trouble with my discover weekly playlist, it's stopped updating every week and I don't know how to fix it. It's been a month now with the same songs and won't update. Please help!
I'm having trouble with my discover weekly playlist, it's stopped updating every week and I don't know how to fix it. It's been a month now with the same songs and won't update. Please help!
Roadie
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Premium Plan in USA On Macbook Air & iPod TouchI'm new to Spotify and wondering if I can edit a playlist on the mac without affecting what's playing on the other attached device (iPod Touch). Is there any way to do this? Thanks for any pointers.
Premium Plan in USA On Macbook Air & iPod Touch I'm new to Spotify and wondering if I can edit a playlist on the mac without affecting what's playing on the other a...
Community Legend
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What is the proper way to control the volume of the music without reducing the quality? Which method does spotify use to control the volume via. built in software control? It is my understanding that in order to keep the music in its original state o...
What is the proper way to control the volume of the music without reducing the quality? Which method does spotify use to control the volume via. built in software control? ...
Roadie
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Every once in a while, I'll get to a song where spotify will skip the first 1 or 2 seconds of a song. I can move the seeker all the way to the front, it says it starting at the beginning, but spotify will still skip the first few seconds of the song....
Every once in a while, I'll get to a song where spotify will skip the first 1 or 2 seconds of a song. I can move the seeker all the way to the front, it says it starting at the beginning, but spotify...
Newbie
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