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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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liliabern

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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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whatintheworldisthis

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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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MattSuda

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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 Webplayer problems

Hello! I’m not a paying customer, I only use what’s for free. So I don’t want any service from you, I just want to help and point out some something.The web interface has some problems, partially very essential. Let’s show this on the example of Abov...

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Hello!   I’m not a paying customer, I only use what’s for free. So I don’t want any service from you, I just want to help and point out some something. The web interface has some problems, pa...

toneyginder

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Superuser Contribution Spotify desktop version audio cuts off when opening a Chrome tab for the first time

DeviceAsus G14Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueWhen I have music playing from the desktop application and go and open a chrome tab to browse the web, the audio cuts off and spotify says it cannot play this song. Fix for this is to have ...

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Device Asus G14 Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue When I have music playing from the desktop application and go and open a chrome tab to browse the web, the audio cuts off...

kunnaal

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Superuser Contribution win10,brave browser frontend

PlanFreeCountryindia Device(brave,windows)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or Issueon opening the home page the class name are also shown along the button namesimilar issue with user profile buttonsissue is same with and without brave shieldt...

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Plan Free Country india   Device (brave,windows) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue on opening the home page the class name are also shown along the button name...

MihailY

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Superuser Contribution Songs out of order/missing from Liked Playlist

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceDell LaptopOperating SystemWindows My Question or IssueHi all, The songs in my "Liked Songs" are displayed out of order or missing. When I click on a song to play, it plays the correct song, but when I look at the unshuffl...

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Plan Premium Country USA   Device Dell Laptop Operating System Windows   My Question or Issue Hi all,   The songs in my "Liked Songs" are displayed out of order or missing...

Lyubka

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Superuser Contribution cant play songs on pc app

I cannot play songs on pc app but when I open spotify in browser I can play and listen songs. How can I fix this.

Newbie

I cannot play songs on pc app but when I open spotify in browser I can play and listen songs. How can I fix this.

bkorns4

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Superuser Contribution Apparently Windows installed Spotify app without my permission

I spotted Spotify mysteriously running upon boot up, yet I never installed it-- ever. One theory: Sometimes if there are Windows updates, updates to apps can squeeze through. And maybe I always had the app installed and somehow a setting in it change...

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I spotted Spotify mysteriously running upon boot up, yet I never installed it-- ever.   One theory: Sometimes if there are Windows updates, updates to apps can squeeze through. And maybe I alw...

Iselamar

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Spotify cannot play whole albums but allows to play playlists

This problem only exists while using Spotify on PC. While using it with iPhone it works perfectly.

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This problem only exists while using Spotify on PC. While using it with iPhone it works perfectly.

kaworu_bloodpaw

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Menus in web player are showing object names rather than display names

Web player on chrome. Instead of Home, Search, Your Library, See All menus are showing as view.web-player-home, navbar.search, navbar.your-library, shelf.see-all

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Web player on chrome. Instead of Home, Search, Your Library, See All menus are showing as view.web-player-home, navbar.search, navbar.your-library, shelf.see-all

kaworu_bloodpaw

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Superuser Contribution Submitting ideas

I'm trying to find the place to submit a new idea for implementation to Spotify in the future, however, I can't find it and I've seen two people post the link to where to do so although I have no clue where the button is on the linked page to do it.O...

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  I'm trying to find the place to submit a new idea for implementation to Spotify in the future, however, I can't find it and I've seen two people post the link to where to do so although I hav...

MihailY

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Superuser Contribution Not sorting podcasts properly

PlanPremiumCountryIrelandDevice(Samsung Galaxy Book Go)Operating System(Windows 11.) My Question or IssueSpotify doesn't properly sort my podcasts by recently added. The one at the end was last uploaded yesterday and one of them in the middle was Mar...

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  Plan Premium Country Ireland Device (Samsung Galaxy Book Go) Operating System (Windows 11.)   My Question or Issue Spotify doesn't properly sort my podcasts by recently added. ...

Dian

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Superuser Contribution Shuffle playlist in the desktop app is broken

Some o the songs in the shuffle playslist aren't there, in its place there a blank song with no name, no artist, no album, no nothing. And when the play list get to that song, spotify just stop playing completely.

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Some o the songs in the shuffle playslist aren't there, in its place there a blank song with no name, no artist, no album, no nothing. And when the play list get to that song, spotify just stop playi...

Dian

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Refuses to play any songs on Desktop Win10

PlanPremium FamilyCountryUSDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I try to open any of my playlists/library/liked songs, it shows a loading icon for ~30 seconds and then "Something went wrong while loading your albums." I can sea...

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Plan Premium Family Country US Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue When I try to open any of my playlists/library/liked songs, it shows a loading icon for ~30 ...

phazeHello

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Superuser Contribution Spotify keeps increasing the volume of all media open

When I open the Spotify app on my computer, the audio of any media playing from my web browser is doubled. Spotify doesn't change the volume on my computer, it remains at the level I set it at, but is considerably louder without changing the number. ...

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When I open the Spotify app on my computer, the audio of any media playing from my web browser is doubled. Spotify doesn't change the volume on my computer, it remains at the level I set it at, but i...

Eni

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Can't download any music in new Desktop App

Hi, when I set a playlist to download, the progress bar just goes to the percentage of already-downloaded songs, and the icon in the playlist list keeps going in a circle. There is no download progress bar appearing in the usual place (below "Create ...

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  Hi,  when I set a playlist to download, the progress bar just goes to the percentage of already-downloaded songs, and the icon in the playlist list keeps going in a circle. There is no ...

saerin

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Solved!! spotify doesnt play music unless its in a playlist

PlanPremiumCountryU.SDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSpotify doesn't play music unless its in a playlist. I can't just search up a song and listen, I have to add it to a playlist first. It has become very annoying. Is there a f...

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Plan Premium Country U.S Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Spotify doesn't play music unless its in a playlist. I can't just search up a song and listen, I h...

achitkara

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Superuser Contribution Spotify just stops playing my songs

On PC, Spotify just stops playing songs. When pressing play, it starts a random song. It`s been an ongoing issue in resent months. It appears on multiple pc`s not on my mobile app

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On PC, Spotify just stops playing songs. When pressing play, it starts a random song. It`s been an ongoing issue in resent months. It appears on multiple pc`s not on my mobile app

Vasil

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Superuser Contribution i live in israel, mixed language in app

i want my account to be fully english,today i noticed that the mixes names had automatically changedfrom "example mix" to "example מיקס" in the picture that previews that mixand there is also another tab that is below the "Best of artists" tabthat is...

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i want my account to be fully english, today i noticed that the mixes names had automatically changed from "example mix" to "example מיקס" in the picture that previews that mix and there is also a...

MihailY

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