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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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jruby

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Solved!! Problem, no option to create a playlist folder

On the file menu I only have the Logout and Close Window option. Im using Spotify in spanish, any hint why Im missing the other options? Thanks a lot!

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On the file menu I only have the Logout and Close Window option. Im using Spotify in spanish, any hint why Im missing the other options?   Thanks a lot!

Soundofus

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Solved!! Collaborative Playlists no longer indicate new tracks or who added them

Seriously, what is going on with this new desktop app? It's like the developers simply forgot to implement a lot of these features.

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Seriously, what is going on with this new desktop app? It's like the developers simply forgot to implement a lot of these features.

MattSuda

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Solved!! Bring back Top 100 auto generated playlist

I like listening to the top 100 playlist that is being played here in teh UK and also in italy! Always fresh music that i don't have to search out! Please bring it back. Thanks

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I like listening to the top 100 playlist that is being played here in teh UK and also in italy! Always fresh music that i don't have to search out!   Please bring it back.   Thanks

MattSuda

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Solved!! Getting Logged off

For last few days whenever I put on Sonos, it seems to log me off if I am playing Spotify through my mac or iphone. Has something changed? For the three device limitation, I use it on my mac, my iphone and sonos. Occasionally sonos will be playing at...

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For last few days whenever I put on Sonos, it seems to log me off if I am playing Spotify through my mac or iphone.    Has something changed? For the three device limitation, I use it on ...

MattSuda

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Solved!! iPhone 4s won't sync to Mac via USB.

Ok so I have an iPhone 4s and a Mac running OS X 10.6 and my iPhone won't sync or show up under the devices tab on the Spotify desktop client version 0.9.15.27 (Is this the latest version? If not, it wont let me update, every restart and even several...

Casual Listener

   Ok so I have an iPhone 4s and a Mac running OS X 10.6 and my iPhone won't sync or show up under the devices tab on the Spotify desktop client version 0.9.15.27 (Is this the latest versio...

MattSuda

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Solved!! The Devices?

I'm really fond of the ability to sync your local tracks to your phone using the devices option on my desktop spotify. However, since the update, there is no device section that I can find, and boy have I looked. Thus, I don't know how to sync any mo...

Casual Listener

I'm really fond of the ability to sync your local tracks to your phone using the devices option on my desktop spotify. However, since the update, there is no device section that I can find, and boy h...

Grazzt

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Solved!! Bring back Date Added in Local Files

We used to be able to sort the local files by date added now that's even gone... And with the ctrl/cmd+f find filter gone from all the views, it's very difficult to find a song. Basically have to sort alphabetically and look for it — which doens't wo...

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We used to be able to sort the local files by date added now that's even gone... And with the ctrl/cmd+f find filter gone from all the views, it's very difficult to find a song. Basically have to sor...

MattSuda

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Solved!! My "Play Queue" and "Messages" disappeared

For some time now I don't have the Play queue or the Messages bar. (Mac OS X)

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For some time now I don't have the Play queue or the Messages bar.       (Mac OS X)

MattSuda

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Solved!! Please bring back AppleScript support

I was excited to see an update today for Mac (1.0.2.6.g9977a14b) but unfortunately scripting support is still broken. It seems like a simple fix... the .sdef file is in the wrong place according to the Info.plist. We can't ask all of our users to dri...

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I was excited to see an update today for Mac (1.0.2.6.g9977a14b) but unfortunately scripting support is still broken. It seems like a simple fix... the .sdef file is in the wrong place according to t...

MattSuda

Spotify Star

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Solved!! Apple scripting broken in 1.0.1.988.g8f17a348

Steps to reproduce: Open AppleScript editor Paste the following: tell application "Spotify" playpause end tell Script -> Run Expected result: Spotify toggles playing Actual result: error "The variable playpause is not defined." Root cause: Scripting ...

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Steps to reproduce: Open AppleScript editor Paste the following: tell application "Spotify" playpause end tell Script -> Run Expected result: Spotify toggles playing   ...

MattSuda

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Solved!! Notifications issues

Hello, I have an two different issues with the notifications since the last update. On the one hand, the notifications on the app doesn't finish loading, so I can´t see them. On the other hand, every time I turn off the email notifications in my prof...

Casual Listener

Hello,   I have an two different issues with the notifications since the last update. On the one hand, the notifications on the app doesn't finish loading, so I can´t see them. On the other ha...

MattSuda

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Solved!! Beta desktop client showing commercials for premium account

DescriptionThe desktop beta is displaying the bottom commercial even though I'm logged in as premium user. A more detailed description, using numbered stepsThe ads are there in every window (queue, browsing lists and so on). What I expected to happen...

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Description The desktop beta is displaying the bottom commercial even though I'm logged in as premium user.   A more detailed description, using numbered steps The ads are there in every win...

Soundofus

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Solved!! Playlist sorting is not working

So in all my playlists, I have artists with multiple albums with multiple songs. And when I sort my playlist by artist, it will sort by artist, but all the albums for that artist will be out of order. I never had a problem with this until the new upd...

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So in all my playlists, I have artists with multiple albums with multiple songs. And when I sort my playlist by artist, it will sort by artist, but all the albums for that artist will be out of order...

MattSuda

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Solved!! "Choose as Current Playlist" Features Missing in Mac?

Has the function "Choose as Current Playlist" disapppeared in the latest update? Could someone assist with this? I play music on large photo shoots as well as just at home and the inability to use either of this is really frustration. Thanks.John

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Has the function "Choose as Current Playlist" disapppeared in the latest update?   Could someone assist with this? I play music on large photo shoots as well as just at home and the inabi...

MattSuda

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Solved!! Sortierung der Playlisten

Hallo zusammen ich versuche krampfhaft, meine Playlisten nach dem Alphabet zu sortieren. Nicht falsch verstehen, ich versuche nicht, die Titel in einer Playliste zu sortieren. Kann mir jemand helfen? Gruzz

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Hallo zusammen   ich versuche krampfhaft, meine Playlisten nach dem Alphabet zu sortieren. Nicht falsch verstehen, ich versuche nicht, die Titel in einer Playliste zu sortieren.   Kann ...

Touchdown1978

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Solved!! What happened to Edit Info option?

What happened to the Edit Info option? Deleted as of the latest update? Why?

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What happened to the Edit Info option? Deleted as of the latest update? Why?

spotifyuserpers

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Solved!! Spotify still auto-updates after trying different solution

Hey guys! I know there are many people giving a lot of solutions to stop Spotify from auto-updating but I have tried many methods but it still doesn't work and I have no idea what to do fix it. I am now using the old version of Spotify which is 0.9.1...

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Hey guys! I   know there are many people giving a lot of solutions to stop Spotify from auto-updating but I have tried many methods but it still doesn't work and I have no idea what to do fix ...

iaggy

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Solved!! What happened to the click song in thumbnail and see it in playlist?

Before the latest update you were able to click the thumbnail box that was playing in a created playlist, and once that was clicked it would hilight and bring present that same song in that playist so that you could delte or star. WHat happened to th...

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Before the latest update you were able to click the thumbnail box that was playing in a created playlist, and once that was clicked it would hilight and bring present that same song in that playist s...

MattSuda

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Solved!! Please Help - Dragging Songs from offline folders to Spotify Playlists

Hi Guys, Been with Spotify for around 3 years now, love the service. However there seems to have been a recent update that is no longer letting me drag offline files to a playlist in spotify. As I'm a DJ, i have many edits of songs that spotify doesn...

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Hi Guys,    Been with Spotify for around 3 years now, love the service.   However there seems to have been a recent update that is no longer letting me drag offline files to a play...

MattSuda

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Solved!! Can't command + F filter? Why not?

When searching for an answer to my problem I saw this question asked before however those threads were all old. I thought it'd be best to ask again now. Today when I try to filter my playlists the command + f search doesnt bring up the search bar, wh...

Casual Listener

When searching for an answer to my problem I saw this question asked before however those threads were all old.  I thought it'd be best to ask again now.  Today when I try to filter my play...

ajdidonato

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