Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it

[lukaswil]

Plan

Premium

Country

UK

Device

Desktop

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

When I try to play a song I get the following error message "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it"

I have tried all the fixes I have seen:

Reinstalling app.

Using version from Microsoft store.

Disabled hardware acceleration.

Disabled crossfading.

Changed speaker options.

Deleted local files.

I've had this issue before and it was fixed by using the version from the Microsoft store but this isn't working now.

Spotify works on my phone and my laptop, web player also works only the desktop app doesn't work.

[lukaswil]

Hey everyone,

Thank you for sharing your solutions! We've shared them with the team investigating this 🙏

In the meantime, we have an Ongoing Issues thread on the topic where we'll keep you folks posted as soon as we have any updates, check it out 👍

Cheers!

[slizzlee]

Randomly one day after years of working spotify tells me It can't play anything but my local files. I have 2 inputs/outputs for the wireless gaming headset I use: Game and Chat. My computers default is Game as well as spotifys, but it won't play when it's selected. However it will play when "chat" output is selected even though I have it disabled.

[slizzlee]

It actually will play when I select any other output that is not my default one.

[#5]

I keep getting message that spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can download it. This is on my laptop. Plays fine on android. I have uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. I have followed the spotify video hints and still nothing. I have freed up lots of space. Any ideas

[#6]

On PC, get this message, connected to internet, files are also downloaded... supposedly

[#7]

pcのソフトでspotifyを再生しようとすると、このコンテンツは現在再生できません。パソコン上にファイルがある場合はインポートできます。と表示され、再生できない。
再インストールやキャッシュクリア、再起動などは一通り試してみたが改善されず、料金だけが取られている状態