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Can't play an artist's discography on the desktop app

Plan Premium Device PC / Android My Question or Issue This happened a few days ago. Normally when i clicked an Artist > Discography > Show All > And play a song, the next song was from the next album of the artist. Now, the next song is a random one ...

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szkill

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Issue : no volume control in spotify when exclusive mode is activated

Premium member, France, Windows 10 64 bits updated, Focusrite Audio solo usb external soundcard updated, Desktop app updated I talk with the customer service, we try to solve my problem and they told me that it should be an issue that I have to talk ...

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MIKAAAAEL

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Black Screen (June 15 2026 install)

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceDesktop PC IntelOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueFollowed clean re-install instructions after getting black screen at startup. Installed the latest June 15 version from the Windows Store. Ran once without p...

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hroski

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Windows Troubleshooting Guide

Having trouble with the Spotify desktop app? Here’s a step-by-step guide of general troubleshooting steps known to resolve a multitude of issues. Basic troubleshooting Restart the Spotify app as well as your PC. Make sure both the app and Windows are...

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Superuser Contribution Integration with LCARS System 3

Hello. I know this is off topic for most threads here. As a music fan and a Star Trek fan, I have converted my Windows desktop to the interactive LCARS System 3 skin for Rainmeter. The LCARS skin has a built in media player integration which supposed...

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Hello.  I know this is off topic for most threads here.  As a music fan and a Star Trek fan, I have converted my Windows desktop to the interactive LCARS System 3 skin for Rainmeter.  ...

MihailY

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Superuser Contribution Music keeps pausing when Spotify is open on two devices

PlanPremiumCountrySwitzerlandDeviceXiaomi Pocophone F1 & Lenovo Thinkpad T14Operating SystemAndroid 10 & Windows 10 My Question or IssueI do not know exactly what is causing my problem. It seems when I have my wireless earbuds (Jabra 65t) connected v...

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Plan Premium Country Switzerland Device Xiaomi Pocophone F1 & Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Operating System Android 10 & Windows 10   My Question or Issue I do not know exactly what is ...

miguel_mich666

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Disable Video on desktop app

There no X or way to close or stop a video on Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.64.408.g0a9b557c

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There no X or way to close or stop a video on Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.64.408.g0a9b557c

minklet

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Hovering the cursor over artist name in the Now Playing bar shows tooltip with song title

PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueThis affects songs with multiple artists, where the complete list of artists is too long to fit in the respective field of the Now Playing bar. One would expect that hovering over the name of ...

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Plan Premium Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue This affects songs with multiple artists, where the complete list of artists is too long to fit in the respective field of t...

qvocane

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Solved!! Disable the smart shuffle.

PlanPremiumCountryTaiwanDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWin11 64bit My Question or IssueCould you please disable the smart shuffle feature? This is the worst feature since I started using Spotify nine years ago.Could you add a toggle button in the setti...

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Plan Premium Country Taiwan Device Desktop Operating System Win11 64bit   My Question or Issue Could you please disable the smart shuffle feature? This is the worst feature since I sta...

MattSuda

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Superuser Contribution Track number column is all of a sudden missing

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueAll of a sudden today, the column number that shows the track has disappeared. There are no podcasts in my playlists. All of my playlists are missing this very helpfu...

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Plan Premium Country USA Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue All of a sudden today, the column number that shows the track has disappeared. There are n...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify resumes from pause automatically after around 50 seconds

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceDell Pro Max 16Operating SystemWindows 11 Enterprise My Question or IssueThis is a newly provided work laptop (which I have admin rights on) with a fresh install of Spotify. For some reason, when I pause my music (to leave t...

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Plan Premium Country UK Device Dell Pro Max 16 Operating System Windows 11 Enterprise   My Question or Issue This is a newly provided work laptop (which I have admin rights on) with a ...

AndyAteWorld

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Superuser Contribution Spotify Keeps Writing Cache to C:\ drive, even though Changed in properties to F:\

Not sure if this is per design, but I had changed the offline Songs cache folder in Advanced settings to F:\ , but my C:\ drive is still being filled up with the same .File **bleep** -These are the 2 offending folders -C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\Pa...

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Not sure if this is per design, but I had changed the offline Songs cache folder in Advanced settings to F:\ , but my C:\ drive is still being filled up with the same .File **bleep** - These are the...

johndt

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Superuser Contribution Can auto-updates be disabled under Windows 10?

PlanPremiumCountryUSADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSince the recent lyrics screen change is terrible (to me), I want to roll back to an older version of the desktop app and disable auto-updates. Under Windows 11, I found that...

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Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Since the recent lyrics screen change is terrible (to me), I want to roll back to an older version...

Grazzt

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Superuser Contribution All playlists are greyed out in app only

PlanFree Device(PC - Amd 7500F, Nvidia 4070s, 32gb ddr5)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueEvery playlist in app are greyed out, however web version works perfectly with 0 issues so its not licensing issue or regional availability. I ca...

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Plan Free   Device (PC - Amd 7500F, Nvidia 4070s, 32gb ddr5) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue Every playlist in app are greyed out, however web version works pe...

theonefur

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New "Recent"

What is this absolutely horrible "Recent" thing ???Do you guys also have this monstrosity instead of the normal recently played view we had before ?Did someone in the dev team thought that this was a good idea, and when will he be fired ?

Roadie

What is this absolutely horrible "Recent" thing ??? Do you guys also have this monstrosity instead of the normal recently played view we had before ? Did someone in the dev team thought that this w...

Grazzt

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Superuser Contribution When listening to Release Radar or Discover Weekly and hiding a song, the wrong song is played next

PlanPremiumCountryUSADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueRecently I've noticed if I'm listening to Release Radar or Discover Weekly and hide a song that I don't like, instead of going to the next song in the queue like usual, it ju...

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  Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue Recently I've noticed if I'm listening to Release Radar or Discover Weekly and hide a song...

freecolortool

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"Now playing preview" makes the scrollbar unusable

On Windows Desktop version: it's difficult to click the scrollbar because it's so thin and keeps disappearing, now there's a little box with an arrow that keeps appearing and moving everything over while I'm trying to click the scrollbar. Why on eart...

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On Windows Desktop version: it's difficult to click the scrollbar because it's so thin and keeps disappearing, now there's a little box with an arrow that keeps appearing and moving everything over w...

dinomight

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Superuser Contribution Re: Error Code 4. Forever.

Same thing happening to me too, but also discord and the Microsoft store seem to not be able to detect an internet connection as well. google chrome and steam and video games seem to run fine just Spotify, Discord and the Microsoft store are struggli...

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Same thing happening to me too, but also discord and the Microsoft store seem to not be able to detect an internet connection as well. google chrome and steam and video games seem to run fine just Sp...

Dessi

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Superuser Contribution Spotify not showing album covers

Hi, so i have an issue where album covers are not showing and downloading, I'm using Spotify that I downloaded from the Spotify site also I'm running on windows 11.

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Hi, so i have an issue where album covers are not showing and downloading, I'm using Spotify that I downloaded from the Spotify site also I'm running on windows 11.

Dessi

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System tray icon keeps disappering on Windows and Linux?

Had this issue for a long time now. Windows 11 for a couple of years and Linux for a few weeks. It seems to have gone insane lately and I need to re-enable it almost every time I open the app. Is there a fix? Why is this not fixed????

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Had this issue for a long time now. Windows 11 for a couple of years and Linux for a few weeks. It seems to have gone insane lately and I need to re-enable it almost every time I open the app. Is the...

Detrital

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Superuser Contribution how do I remove an entire album from a playlist

PlanPremiumCountryUSDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI can't remove an album from one of my playlists

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Plan Premium Country US Device PC Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue I can't remove an album from one of my playlists

GodsBelonging

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Superuser Contribution Accessibility: Screen reader accessibility issues for search results (and other views)

None of the below information is required. However, the more you provide the easier it will be for us to try and help.PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueIn the latest update (1.2.86) or maybe a bit earlier,...

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None of the below information is required. However, the more you provide the easier it will be for us to try and help. Plan Premium Country Sweden Device PC Operating System Windows 11 &nbsp...

Paula_Vi

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Superuser Contribution Spodify won't play any music! HELP!!

I've tried restarting my computer, going on the app, clearing cache etc- and everything on the support/help! It's not a computer issue, all other apps, including music apps work fine, except this. Nothing I click on gets played no matter what. It sta...

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I've tried restarting my computer, going on the app, clearing cache etc- and everything on the support/help! It's not a computer issue, all other apps, including music apps work fine, except this. No...

OscarDC

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