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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 FLAC's Causing Spotify to Freeze and Crash

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I just downloaded a bunch of FLACs and pointed spotify to their location on my HDD. Tracks all play, skip, etc. without an issue. However if I skip forward within ...

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  • Plan Premium Country United States Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue   I just downloaded a bunch of FLACs and pointed spotify to their location on my H...
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Superuser Contribution max volume on startup

Everytime it starts up on my desktop it resets to full volume. Tried doing clean reinstall, did not work

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  • Everytime it starts up on my desktop it resets to full volume. Tried doing clean reinstall, did not work
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Liked Songs will occasionally appear unliked on artist page

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceLenovo Thinkpad Yoga 260Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThis has actually been going on for while I just never thought to report it. occasionally when I go to the page of an artist that I have liked songs fro...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 260 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue This has actually been going on for while I just never thought to report it....
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PlanFreeCountryNigeria DevicelaptopOperating Systemwindows 10 My Question or Issue AD banner blocking the lyrics

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  • Plan Free Country Nigeria   Device laptop Operating System windows 10   My Question or Issue  AD banner blocking the lyrics   
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Superuser Contribution Hiding bad suggestions

Have been looking for a way to hide podcast suggestions, I don't listen to podcasts and with how bad the suggestions are I don't think I ever will. I came across this post which is now locked with a non-solution posted so I can't add my suggestion th...

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  •   Have been looking for a way to hide podcast suggestions, I don't listen to podcasts and with how bad the suggestions are I don't think I ever will.  I came across this post which is now...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Can't delete playlist

It's like a glitched folder, I logged on to my account yesterday and there's a ton of playlists so I clean it but for whatever reason, I can't delete a playlist, it's like a glitched playlist. doesn't appear in my library so I can't add songs when de...

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  • It's like a glitched folder, I logged on to my account yesterday and there's a ton of playlists so I clean it but for whatever reason, I can't delete a playlist, it's like a glitched playlist. doesn'...
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Superuser Contribution Are there now bots on Spotify???

So my mate created a public playlist a while ago, and it was a heap of music between us three friends designed for party listening (it's called 'Party Choons'). I juts clicked on it only to find two profiles called Lisa and Ashley with very similar m...

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  • So my mate created a public playlist a while ago, and it was a heap of music between us three friends designed for party listening (it's called 'Party Choons'). I juts clicked on it only to find t...
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Solved!! [Desktop] Storage Location Setting Not Working

When trying to change the Storage location, in some cases the setting will be ignored.

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  • When trying to change the Storage location, in some cases the setting will be ignored.
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Superuser Contribution No puedo reproducir ninguna canción

PlanPremiumCountryParaguayOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or Issue: No puedo reproducir ninguna cancion desde mi computadora, pero no así desde mi iPhone, en la aplicación para escritorio ni siquiera aparecen las canciones para reproducir, teng...

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  • Plan Premium Country Paraguay Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue: No puedo reproducir ninguna cancion desde mi computadora, pero no así desde mi iPhone, en la aplicación para escr...
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Superuser Contribution Unable to Play any Music "This content is not available." - Repeatedly Happening

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThis is the third time in the last week that I've opened Spotify and every song is greyed out and a popup says "This content is not available." when I try to play it.I've...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue This is the third time in the last week that I've opened Spotify and every song is greyed out ...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify error message:Coś się nie udało Spróbuj odświeżyć stronę.

PlanPremiumCountryPolandDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI cant open spotify

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  •   Plan Premium Country Poland Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I cant open spotify
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Superuser Contribution Podcasts not played in order

PlanPremiumCountryUnited KingdomDeviceDell LattitudeOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssuePlaying podcast episodes hides the shuffle button, but does not stop the functionality - therefore while listening to 'Great Expectations' I have now s...

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  • Plan Premium Country United Kingdom Device Dell Lattitude Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Playing podcast episodes hides the shuffle button, but does not stop the fu...
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Superuser Contribution Remove from Queue Missing

PlanPremiumCountryNZVersionSpotify for Windows1.1.76.447.g11f432d8Operating SystemWindows 10 ProblemThe Spotify Queue "Next in queue" does not allow me to remove an item from the queue whilst the "Next from:" allows me to remove an item. Looking at t...

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  • Plan Premium Country NZ Version Spotify for Windows 1.1.76.447.g11f432d8 Operating System Windows 10   Problem The Spotify Queue "Next in queue" does not allow me to remove an item fr...
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Superuser Contribution Playing with spotify connect doesn't change song along with connected device

PlanPremiumCountryFinlandDeviceDesktop to Sony STR-DN1080 via connectOperating SystemWindows 10 2004, Spotify 1.1.43.700.g20acee0f My Question or IssueAfter the latest update I noticed that when playing with connect to my AVR, the the song doesn't ch...

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  • Plan Premium Country Finland Device Desktop to Sony STR-DN1080 via connect Operating System Windows  10 2004, Spotify 1.1.43.700.g20acee0f   My Question or Issue After the la...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify is not accessible in Bulgaria

I cannot log in to Spotify from two different Windows PCs in Bulgaria. The website is loading extremely slow and I am not able to log in.

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  • I cannot log in to Spotify from two different Windows PCs in Bulgaria. The website is loading extremely slow and I am not able to log in.
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Superuser Contribution "Spotify Cant play this right now..."

For 2 weeks whenever I try to play anything. A playlist, a podcast, stream anything it wont play. I get the same error " Spotify cant play this right now, if you have it on your computer you can import it". I dont have any songs to import it, it wont...

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  • For 2 weeks whenever I try to play anything. A playlist, a podcast, stream anything it wont play. I get the same error " Spotify cant play this right now, if you have it on your computer you can impo...
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Superuser Contribution A playlist will play just one second per song

I received a shared playlist from Linkedin https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6xx2bsAB85N4ovGFAOET2O?si=2cd707e70acd4f24&nd=1 and it plays just a second from every song and stops. I don't have a Spotify Premium membership. Any ideas? Do I need to have...

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  • I received a shared playlist from Linkedin https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6xx2bsAB85N4ovGFAOET2O?si=2cd707e70acd4f24&nd=1 and it plays just a second from every song and stops. I don't have a S...
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Superuser Contribution After 1 song plays in my playlist, another song plays from a different list

When I choose to hear playlist, it gives one song from the list but after it uses a song not from the list. I've been looking up how to fix it but they say to disable a auto play setting but it wont work. Please help.

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  • When I choose to hear playlist, it gives one song from the list but after it uses a song not from the list. I've been looking up how to fix it but they say to disable a auto play setting but it wont ...
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