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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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Whenever I try to send my friend a song, I type in their name into the first box of the "send to..." tab, and it always has the message of "Sorry, no results could be found". I am following my friend and they are following me, so that isn't the probl...
Whenever I try to send my friend a song, I type in their name into the first box of the "send to..." tab, and it always has the message of "Sorry, no results could be found". I am following ...
Regular
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Does anybody else have this issue? Running an Early 2011 MacBook Pro with Mavericks (10.9.4), and when spotify is running the volume controls don't work. Hitting the volume buttons shows the volume icon but it has a circle with a line through it. I c...
Does anybody else have this issue? Running an Early 2011 MacBook Pro with Mavericks (10.9.4), and when spotify is running the volume controls don't work. Hitting the volume buttons shows the volume i...
Newbie
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When Spotify is active and in the foreground, quiting works fine. When Spotify is hidden, or another application in in the foreground having focus I cannot quit Spotify. When trying to quit using 'command + Q' when Spotify is not in the foreground:- ...
When Spotify is active and in the foreground, quiting works fine. When Spotify is hidden, or another application in in the foreground having focus I cannot quit Spotify. When trying...
Regular
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I have been using the Spotify desktop app for my Macbook Air for months now and it's worked great. Suddenly a few days ago it just refused to open. When I try I get the beach ball and eventually Spotify stops responding and I have to Force Quit it. I...
I have been using the Spotify desktop app for my Macbook Air for months now and it's worked great. Suddenly a few days ago it just refused to open. When I try I get the beach ball and eventually Spot...
Newbie
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6 replies
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Not sure what happened but up until a few days ago my radio area was working fine and now all of a sudden starting a day ago or so I can't load my radio section at all or create new artist radio's. I'm on a mac and I've tried completely uninstalling ...
Not sure what happened but up until a few days ago my radio area was working fine and now all of a sudden starting a day ago or so I can't load my radio section at all or create new artist radio...
Casual Listener
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41 replies
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The Spotify Service runs fine on my desktop and iPhone -- But when use it on my MacBook PC it keeps on randomly stopping and won't continue to play the song -- You can select another song which will start to play but it will randomly stop playing the...
The Spotify Service runs fine on my desktop and iPhone -- But when use it on my MacBook PC it keeps on randomly stopping and won't continue to play the song -- You can select another song which will ...
Newbie
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15 replies
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The Spotify scroll on Desktop Mac can be quite buggy and when you click on it, it doesn't do anything. I find that to activate the scroll button, you have to first use your mouse / trackpad to scroll and then only can you really click the scroll bar....
The Spotify scroll on Desktop Mac can be quite buggy and when you click on it, it doesn't do anything. I find that to activate the scroll button, you have to first use your mouse / trackpad to scroll...
Community Legend
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1 replies
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I deleted access by BBC iPlayer by mistake. What is the easiest way to restore it?? I was exploring my Account adding this and that. I came across a list of Third Parties that had access to my account. One was BBC iPlayer. There was the word Revoke a...
I deleted access by BBC iPlayer by mistake. What is the easiest way to restore it?? I was exploring my Account adding this and that. I came across a list of Third Parties that had acce...
Regular
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Almost all of songs that I want to play will not play. When attempting to play a green bar pops up at the top of the application that has a flag and then "Can't play the current track". This occurs not only for playlists I've made but the Radio featu...
Almost all of songs that I want to play will not play. When attempting to play a green bar pops up at the top of the application that has a flag and then "Can't play the current track". This occurs n...
Newbie
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17 replies
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Whenever I click on a playlist from the browse menu, it launches a pop-up on my browser. During normal browsing also, if spotify is on, it launches pop-ups. I downloaded my copy of spotify from the official website, I don't know why this is happening...
Whenever I click on a playlist from the browse menu, it launches a pop-up on my browser. During normal browsing also, if spotify is on, it launches pop-ups. I downloaded my copy of spotify from the o...
Newbie
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Hi I am running OSX Yosemite on a one year old iMac, and the Spotify APP sort of goes on and off. And I have had no problem with the app, up until recent updates. And I imagine that it has something to do with Spaces. I locate the Spotify in my secon...
Hi I am running OSX Yosemite on a one year old iMac, and the Spotify APP sort of goes on and off. And I have had no problem with the app, up until recent updates. And I i...
Casual Listener
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Since the most recent update my Spotify has told me I have notifications. When I try to load the notifications it just shows a loading circle that never goes away. I tried restarting, but every time I restart it just says I have one more notification...
Since the most recent update my Spotify has told me I have notifications. When I try to load the notifications it just shows a loading circle that never goes away. I tried restarting, but every time ...
Regular
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I keep getting "You can’t open the application “Spotify” because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." error message on my macbook pro when I try to open the app. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app, but the issue continues. Everything ...
I keep getting "You can’t open the application “Spotify” because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." error message on my macbook pro when I try to open the app. I've uninstalled and reinst...
Casual Listener
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The desktop app doesn't have separate settings for streaming and syncing quality. So if I'm a premium user, does it always download music in 320kbps or only when high quality streaming enabled? If it depends on streaming setting, how do I re-download...
The desktop app doesn't have separate settings for streaming and syncing quality. So if I'm a premium user, does it always download music in 320kbps or only when high quality streaming enabled? If it...
Casual Listener
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So I heard a song from some one I know while workign out. I know the name of the song but they dont have there play list arranged in a way i can find it. IS there a way to search in Spotify in side a person i am following for a particular song?
So I heard a song from some one I know while workign out. I know the name of the song but they dont have there play list arranged in a way i can find it. IS there a way to search in Sp...
Community Legend
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Cant´t login to Spotify, getting error message 127 and I cant´t find any threads about this. Have tried to reinstall Spotify several times and I have also messed around with the firewall settings but nothing seems to help. If you have any suggestions...
Cant´t login to Spotify, getting error message 127 and I cant´t find any threads about this. Have tried to reinstall Spotify several times and I have also messed around with the...
Casual Listener
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Hi, When I listened to music yesterday, the music suddently stoped. It looks like the music is still playing (the 'second counter' in the bottom continues counting up and the progress bar moves) but no sound. I tried to play some music on itunes, whi...
Hi, When I listened to music yesterday, the music suddently stoped. It looks like the music is still playing (the 'second counter' in the bottom continues counting up and the progress bar ...
Newbie
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What's new in this version (1.0.6): You can now filter playlists to find tracks with ease. Long playlists load quickly after sorting. Added hard techno to your Soft Lullabies mix? Ctrl-Z (or Cmd-Z) to undo. Copy Embed Code is now in the menu. Just ri...
What's new in this version (1.0.6): You can now filter playlists to find tracks with ease. Long playlists load quickly after sorting. Added hard techno to your Soft Lullabies mix? Ct...
Regular
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103 replies
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This morning I updated Spotify on my Mac laptop (OS X 10.9.5) to the lastest version (0.9.14.13.gba5645ad), but after that Spotify doesn't play any songs anymore; not from my own playlists nor from Spotify's own playlists. I constantely get the messa...
This morning I updated Spotify on my Mac laptop (OS X 10.9.5) to the lastest version (0.9.14.13.gba5645ad), but after that Spotify doesn't play any songs anymore; not from my own playlists nor from S...
Newbie
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After I updated the app my starred playlist was gone, I had so many great songs there, where did they go? I do need to start all over again????
After I updated the app my starred playlist was gone, I had so many great songs there, where did they go? I do need to start all over again????
Casual Listener
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