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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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Solved!! Windows Spotify 1.1.97.692 stuck at launch on “Try to reload the page” error

PlanPremiumCountryFranceOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I launch Spotify Premium desktop application, I get the following error:« Une erreur s'est produite.Essayez de recharger la page.Recharger la page » Which I would traduce in ...

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  • Plan Premium Country France Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue When I launch Spotify Premium desktop application, I get the following error: « Une erreur s'est produite....
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Superuser Contribution Cant play songs

Whenever I go on an artist's profile to play a song, the bottom just goes gray and nothing loads, the song, art, nothing, I can't listen to it. However, when I try to play any songs on my playlists or local files it works fine. This is only on pc, do...

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  • Whenever I go on an artist's profile to play a song, the bottom just goes gray and nothing loads, the song, art, nothing, I can't listen to it. However, when I try to play any songs on my playlists o...
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Superuser Contribution Can't play Daft Punk content

PlanPremiumCountryThe NetherlandsDeviceComputerOperating SystemWindows 10 desktop My Question or IssueI've been experiencing this issue for a long duration of time, everytime i want to play songs by Daft Punk on my W10 desktop computer it says it can...

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  • Plan Premium Country The Netherlands Device Computer Operating System Windows 10 desktop   My Question or Issue I've been experiencing this issue for a long duration of time, everytime...
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Superuser Contribution Delayed start to tracks

On a 2-month-old HP Pavilion 24-ca0029 AiO PC with Windows 11…I’m getting a 6 or 7-second delay playing individual tracks on Spotify.Happens after about an hour of playing on about 90% of songs in my downloaded playlists.Sounds like fade but we’ve pl...

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  • On a 2-month-old HP Pavilion 24-ca0029 AiO PC with Windows 11… I’m getting a 6 or 7-second delay playing individual tracks on Spotify. Happens after about an hour of playing on about 90% of songs i...
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Superuser Contribution "see all" option not showing up for searches

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceHP PavilionOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueOn both desktop and the web player when I use the search feature the "see all" options don't appear anymore so I can't click on a single topic (artist, songs, playl...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA   Device HP Pavilion Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue On both desktop and the web player when I use the search feature the "see all" op...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify shows a black screen after unlocking

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceLenovo NotebookOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssuePrerequisite:Spotify gets started on startup of Windows 10 and stays minimized and you lock your screen without bringing Spotify to the foreground at least on...

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  • Plan Premium Country Germany Device Lenovo Notebook Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Prerequisite: Spotify gets started on startup of Windows 10 and stays minimized and yo...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Enabling Enhanded on a playlist, disables the shuffling.

Windows app. Like in the title.Enabling Enhanced on a playlist, disables the shuffling. It always goes from the top.Play track number 8, it will start from 1 again. And then it moves to track number 2. Clicking next/previous will also just go up and ...

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  • Windows app. Like in the title. Enabling Enhanced on a playlist, disables the shuffling. It always goes from the top. Play track number 8, it will start from 1 again. And then it moves to track num...
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Superuser Contribution Desktop downloads what I download on mobile.

Whenever I download something on my mobile installation it then also downloads it on my desktop. I couldn't find anything about this and it's incredibly annoying. I have absolutely no need to waste storage space on my PC that's always connected to th...

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  • Whenever I download something on my mobile installation it then also downloads it on my desktop. I couldn't find anything about this and it's incredibly annoying. I have absolutely no need to waste s...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Windows 10: Media Controls not showing up

Hello, I've searched the whole internet without any solution...The windows 10 media controls are not showing for me for Spotify if I turn up or lower the volume via the control keys of my keyboard. It's working on my laptop and my Windows 10 surface,...

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  • Hello,   I've searched the whole internet without any solution... The windows 10 media controls are not showing for me for Spotify if I turn up or lower the volume via the control keys of my ...
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Bug on the ad banner

PlanPremium CountrySpain DevicePC Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueJust to report that I spotted this bug on the ad banner.Now it looks correct, but I just wanted to point out the problem.Hope it helps you.

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  • Plan Premium   Country Spain   Device PC   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Just to report that I spotted this bug on the ad banner. Now it looks c...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify can't play this file right now.

I have tried everything I've seen here: deleted the Library files, restarted the app, reinstalled the app. But when I tried to play on browser it works.Windows 11.

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  • I have tried everything I've seen here: deleted the Library files, restarted the app, reinstalled the app. But when I tried to play on browser it works. Windows 11.  
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Profile Categories to have option to be public

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUnited KingdomDeviceDesktop, Samsung S21UOperating SystemWindows 11, Android 11 My Question or IssueOn my profile, I notice there have been my top artists and top tracks for the month. I wish there was a way to make these publi...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country United Kingdom Device Desktop, Samsung S21U Operating System Windows 11, Android 11   My Question or Issue On my profile, I notice there have been my top arti...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify Gives Error: The code execution can not proceed

PlanPremiumCountryTurkeyOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI have installed Spotify after resetting my pc and now it gives "The code execution cannot proceed because ResampleDmo.DLL was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this pro...

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  •   Plan Premium Country Turkey Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I have installed Spotify after resetting my pc and now it gives "The code execution cannot proceed ...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Can't download offline playlist

Since a few days I can't anymore download playlists for offline listening. When I want to click on the arrow, a bubble spawn with "Unlock downloads et and others features with Spotify Premium". Okay, but I'm Premium (Duo).When I try on my phone, I wo...

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  • Since a few days I can't anymore download playlists for offline listening. When I want to click on the arrow, a bubble spawn with "Unlock downloads et and others features with Spotify Premium". Oka...
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Superuser Contribution Can't play songs in artist page unless add it to liked tracks or playist

When I click play on songs in artist page, song cover and name on the bottom left corner went blank. It's been 2 months. This problem started when I moved to a new place, so it might be an Internet issue.

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  • When I click play on songs in artist page, song cover and name on the bottom left corner went blank. It's been 2 months. This problem started when I moved to a new place, so it might be an Internet i...
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Superuser Contribution It has been deleted without any confirmation when I clicked the "delete downloaded songs" mistakenly

PlanPremiumCountry DeviceHP ProbookOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueIt has been deleted without any confirmation when I clicked the "delete downloaded songs" mistakenly. Why?! I had 5K songs and now puff! I must download again now and i...

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  • Plan Premium Country   Device HP Probook Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue It has been deleted without any confirmation when I clicked the "delete downloaded song...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Windows Spotify app says "spotify cannot play this song right now" to all songs

I have restarted my computer, cleared my cache and clean reinstalled spotify a few times now but I keep getting that error message when I try to play any song. However it works fine on my Apple phone and Chrome browser. Its specifically the app that ...

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  • I have restarted my computer, cleared my cache and clean reinstalled spotify a few times now but I keep getting that error message when I try to play any song. However it works fine on my Apple phone...
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A firewall may be blocking Spotify.

So I'm using the web player, no app installed at all.. and as soon as I sign into Spotify I get the ''Something went wrong'' error. If I'm not signed into my account then the error doesn't appear. I don't get it

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  • So I'm using the web player, no app installed at all.. and as soon as I sign into Spotify I get the ''Something went wrong'' error. If I'm not signed into my account then the error doesn't appear. ...
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Please why

I can't use my password and the reset link isn't working

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Superuser Contribution Issue with playback on computer

So i got this weird issue with my work laptop. When i play music with the application there are some songs that i cant play (not grayed or local) and if i start playing on my phone or other computer it dosnt pause (Im playing on two units at the same...

  • Casual Listener
  • So i got this weird issue with my work laptop. When i play music with the application there are some songs that i cant play (not grayed or local) and if i start playing on my phone or other computer ...
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