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Solved!! Desktop: Jam now available

Spotify is bringing Jam to the desktop app! 拾 ️ Now you can start or join a listening party with your friends, family, colleagues, and classmates, with the Spotify desktop app in addition to the mobile app. Although you can listen on your own, Jam in...

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Desktop: New "Now Playing View" sidebar

Spotify is introducing a new "Now Playing View" sidebar in the desktop app and Web Player to go along with the recently released "Your Library" sidebar. Together, the individually customizable design of these new views provides a richer experience, m...

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New Your Library sidebar

Spotify is introducing a new Your Library sidebar in the desktop app and Web Player. The new Your Library sidebar is rolling out to all desktop users now, so you will be seeing it soon if you haven't already. The new Your Library sidebar improves nav...

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[Troubleshooting] Windows

Having trouble with the Spotify desktop app? Here’s a step-by-step guide to help get things working again. What to try first Perform a soft reset (generally rebooting the device will suffice). If that doesn’t help, try a clean reinstall. Be sure to l...

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Superuser Contribution me sale este mensaje cuando quiero reproducir canciones SPOTTIFY NO PUEDE

me sale este mensaje SPOTIFY NO PUEDE REPRODUCIR EN ESTOS MOMENTOS SI TIENES ARCHIVOS EN TU ORDENADOR PUEDES IMPORTARLOS

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  • me sale este mensaje SPOTIFY NO PUEDE REPRODUCIR EN ESTOS MOMENTOS SI TIENES ARCHIVOS EN TU ORDENADOR PUEDES IMPORTARLOS
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Superuser Contribution Music Won't Play

Plan PremiumCountryTaiwanDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSome music can't playing, for example artist page popular song and in the album songs can't playing. But Top 50 playlist or add songs to personal playlist can playing.

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  • Plan Premium Country Taiwan Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Some music can't playing, for example artist page popular song and in the album song...
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app wont work

app keeps saying Spotify can't play this right now if you have the file in your computer you can import it. The app was working perfectly fine yesterday morning then I started it last night and all it does is give me the same message. yes i have unin...

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  • app keeps saying Spotify can't play this right now if you have the file in your computer you can import it. The app was working perfectly fine yesterday morning then I started it last night and all i...
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Superuser Contribution Library disapears upon resize in split screen window.

My album list disapears as I scroll down the list. This happens when in a narrow split screen window. I used to be able to have full size now playing album cover and a row of 3 album covers in the list. I can get it to work if I resize to 4 per row a...

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  • My album list disapears as I scroll down the list. This happens when in a narrow split screen window. I used to be able to have full size now playing album cover and a row of 3 album covers in the li...
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Superuser Contribution Why won't my music play on the desktop?

My music will play on my phone, etc but when I get to work to listen to it, it won't play any music.... but will play podcasts or books, etc. just not the music. I have logged out of everything, I have restarted the computer, my computer sound works,...

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  • My music will play on my phone, etc but when I get to work to listen to it, it won't play any music.... but will play podcasts or books, etc. just not the music. I have logged out of everything, I ha...
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Superuser Contribution Affichage

Bonjour,Impossible d'ouvrir Spotify en plein écran. Que faire ?Merci.Philo

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  • Bonjour, Impossible d'ouvrir Spotify en plein écran.  Que faire ? Merci. Philo  
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Superuser Contribution i cant seem to upload a photo of me and my friend as our playlist cover

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceWindowsOperating SystemWindows 11My Question or Issuei'm the owner of my friend and i's playlist and i just cant upload this one photo of us for the album cover. ive tried all of my devices. on my phone and ipad i...

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  •   Plan Premium Country United States Device Windows Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue i'm the owner of my friend and i's playlist and i just cant upload this one photo o...
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Superuser Contribution Can't change playlist cover

PlanPremiumCountryBrazilDeviceDesktop Windows, LG K61Operating System(Android, Windows 11) My Question or IssueI simply cannot change my playlist covers. Doesn't matter If I'm using Windows App, Web Browser or Android app. And before you ask, the des...

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  • Plan Premium Country Brazil Device Desktop Windows, LG K61 Operating System (Android, Windows 11)   My Question or Issue I simply cannot change my playlist covers. Doesn't matter If I'...
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Superuser Contribution Windows 10 Desktop app crashing

FamilyCountry DeviceWindows 10 ProOperating SystemEdition Windows 10 ProVersion 22H2Installed on ‎6/‎12/‎2020OS build 19045.2788Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4190.0 My Question or IssueSpotify Version Spotify for Windows1.2.8.92...

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  • Family Country   Device Windows 10 Pro Operating System Edition Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 Installed on ‎6/‎12/‎2020 OS build 19045.2788 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120...
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new user interface

spotify version :1.2.8.923.g4f94bf0dPlanFreeCountryEnglandDeviceAcer laptopOperating Systemwindows 10 My Question or Issuehow do i disabled the new ui its really ugly and hard to use because of how much stuff there is and i cant find anything man

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  • spotify version : 1.2.8.923.g4f94bf0d Plan Free Country England Device Acer laptop Operating System windows 10   My Question or Issue how do i disabled the new ui its really ugly and...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution [Windows] Songs doesn't play/download

PlanPremiumCountryTurkeyDeviceLaptop (Client version is 1.2.8.923)Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueHello there! I met with two problems: first one is that I can't play any song in any album. The only places where I can still listen are ...

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  • Plan Premium Country Turkey Device Laptop (Client version is 1.2.8.923) Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue Hello there! I met with two problems: first one is that I can...
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Solved!! Keyboard hotkey 'jump to letter' broken (Desktop)

Hi, I have had this problem for a couple of months now, I found an older topic that described the same issue but it seems to be dead. There are 2 playlist functions that seem to have broken/disappeared in an update late 2019. 1.) Previously if I doub...

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  • Hi,   I have had this problem for a couple of months now, I found an older topic that described the same issue but it seems to be dead.   There are 2 playlist functions that seem to hav...
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Superuser Contribution [Win10] Desktop App crashing when uploading image to playlist

PlanPremiumCountryUSADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueAs of 10/03/22 I'm completely up to date on updates for Windows 10 and Spotify desktop app. Every time I try to upload an image to my playlist cover image, the whole app cras...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue As of 10/03/22 I'm completely up to date on updates for Windows 10 and Spotify desktop app. Every ...
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Discover Weekly Bad

I'm just fed up of my discover weekly being bad all the time. I know this is old news but there's always something Scooby Doo related in there. I have no interest in this and its been almost every week since I made my account that there has been a Sc...

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  • I'm just fed up of my discover weekly being bad all the time. I know this is old news but there's always something Scooby Doo related in there. I have no interest in this and its been almost every we...
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Music found through the search-function won't play (same with "recommended songs")

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceLenovo YogaOperating SystemWindows 10 home My Question or IssueIf I search for music throught the search-function, Spotify won't play it. If i scroll to the end of my playlists to where the section is where spotify recom...

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  • Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Lenovo Yoga Operating System Windows 10 home   My Question or Issue If I search for music throught the search-function, Spotify won't play it. If i s...
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Superuser Contribution Can't add local files to spotify app anymore

PlanPremium Device(Winsows PC)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueI had issue with some local files not being able to load in the spotify destop app anymore. They worked previously, so there should not be any issue with the files. I trie...

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  • Plan Premium   Device (Winsows PC) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue I had issue with some local files not being able to load in the spotify destop app anymore. ...
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Superuser Contribution good evening, I get a message that says "now spotify can't play this conten

good evening, I get a message that says"now spotify can't play this content".I tried them all but it doesn't play any songs. What can I still do?

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  • good evening, I get a message that says "now spotify can't play this content". I tried them all but it doesn't play any songs. What can I still do?
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Superuser Contribution Spotify is not letting me reorganise my playlist order

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(Surface Pro 7)Operating System(Windows 11) My Question or Issue A couple of days ago I was going through and reorganising my playlists, (moving the playlists above/below each other and putting them into folders, I reali...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (Surface Pro 7) Operating System (Windows 11)   My Question or Issue   A couple of days ago I was going through and reorganising my playli...
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