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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 ar...
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...
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...
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...
PlanPremiumCountryNetherlandsDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueHello, I've been listening to my private playlist and out of nowhere I get this video shown where a artist thanks me for listening the past year. All fun and all, but ...
Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hello, I've been listening to my private playlist and out of nowhere I get this video sho...
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PlanPremiumCountryRussiaOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueHello I have 700+ song in "liked songs playlist". But then I start play, only ~40 songs placed in queue and they are cycled. I want to play all my liked songs in random or in order...
Plan Premium Country Russia Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hello I have 700+ song in "liked songs playlist". But then I start play, only ~40 songs placed in queue and they ar...
Moderator
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PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceLaptop (Spotify for Windows 1.1.73.517.gbef50fdb)Operating SystemWindows 10 Pro (Version 1909) My Question or IssueHey,I navigated to the "Sponsored by" view and found out that this view does not seem to be ready to sho...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device Laptop (Spotify for Windows 1.1.73.517.gbef50fdb) Operating System Windows 10 Pro (Version 1909) My Question or Issue Hey, I navigated to the "Sp...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSAOperating SystemWindows 10, Android AutoMy Question or IssueHello,I pay for Premium Spotify service because it is music service. Not political and not educational! I pay for Premium also not to see and not to listen ADs.Why do I ...
Plan Premium Country USA Operating System Windows 10, Android Auto My Question or Issue Hello, I pay for Premium Spotify service because it is music service. Not political and not edu...
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I have been using the paid version for many years and for a couple of years I have been having several problems with the beloved application, I have made many possible solutions within my reach and sometimes I have preferred to give up, but now I am ...
I have been using the paid version for many years and for a couple of years I have been having several problems with the beloved application, I have made many possible solutions within my reach and s...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueStreamed audio quality will become distorted/garbled whenever I am opening a new web page in Google Chrome or (blech) Edge.The issue persists when using the web player vs the...
Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Streamed audio quality will become distorted/garbled whenever I am opening a new web page in Googl...
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PlanPremium CountryFrance DeviceAll apps My Question or IssueHelloActually my Spotify desktop app is polluted by some categories I don't want to see, I will never listen to.It seems there is no way to remove them.Worst I have to scroll to see the pla...
Plan Premium Country France Device All apps My Question or Issue Hello Actually my Spotify desktop app is polluted by some categories I don't want to see, I will never...
Casual Listener
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Plan Free/Premium Country England Device Sony Xperia 1 II and PC Operating System Android, Windows 10 My Question or Issue I have hit a problem where Spotify says I must turn off offline mode before playing a song. However I can't find where to turn ...
Plan Free/Premium Country England Device Sony Xperia 1 II and PC Operating System Android, Windows 10 My Question or Issue I have hit a problem where Spotify says I must tu...
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So I came up with the idea of a public playlist when I was trying to figure out how my friends and I can share a playlist. I soon realized that this isn't an option for playlists, and I believe it is a good idea. Here's how it would work. 1 person wo...
So I came up with the idea of a public playlist when I was trying to figure out how my friends and I can share a playlist. I soon realized that this isn't an option for playlists, and I believe it is...
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PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueNothing is working right now.I did a clean unistall, rebooted 3 times, updated my windows too.
Plan Premium Country Canada Device PC Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue Nothing is working right now. I did a clean unistall, rebooted 3 times, updated my windows too.
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PlanPremiumCountryFranceDeviceMSIOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueFor some reason that escapes me, the Pc App no longer syncs the songs that are being played.Let me explain: when I play a song on my cell phone, normally I have to have th...
Plan Premium Country France Device MSI Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue For some reason that escapes me, the Pc App no longer syncs the songs that are being played. Let me e...
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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.PlanPremium(student bundle) Country DeviceCustom build amd 5950x 3090 Fe 1 tb ssd nvme on mobob550 f gaming WiFi board I believe 4 s...
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(student bundle) Country Device Custom build&nbs...
Spotify Legend
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I have a lot of songs that are from my library since Spotify doesn't have them, and some of them are grey-ed. If I click them, they will play it; but when they are on the playlist and when it's the next song Spotify skips the song and play a one next...
I have a lot of songs that are from my library since Spotify doesn't have them, and some of them are grey-ed. If I click them, they will play it; but when they are on the playlist and when it...
Spotify Legend
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But after the danged thing refused to let me submit it 15 times in a roll I decided to chuck it here.May we please get an option to copy an artists name? Sometimes they're in foreign languages that I can't spell out to find them in google and learn m...
But after the danged thing refused to let me submit it 15 times in a roll I decided to chuck it here. May we please get an option to copy an artists name? Sometimes they're in foreign languages th...
Roadie
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PlanPremiumCountryNODeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssuePreviously, when I dragged a playlist over to a cell in excel, it would result in the the following text: "[Playlist Name] - [playlist creator]" with a hyperlink to the pl...
Plan Premium Country NO Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Previously, when I dragged a playlist over to a cell in excel, it would result in the the follo...
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PlanPremiumCountrySingapore DeviceA LenovoOperating SystemWindows 11 Insider Preview My Question or IssueThe font used for lyrics does not display certain characters correctly. Note that this isn't an issue with iOS and Android Spotify. It seems like...
Plan Premium Country Singapore Device A Lenovo Operating System Windows 11 Insider Preview My Question or Issue The font used for lyrics does not display certain characters c...
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Spotify uses extreme amounts of Ram, and it gets worse the more I use it. I'm thinking some of the reason is because I'm running a 32bit app on a 64bit device, Changing Hardware Acceleration, restarting my laptop, reinstalling spotify, logging out an...
Spotify uses extreme amounts of Ram, and it gets worse the more I use it. I'm thinking some of the reason is because I'm running a 32bit app on a 64bit device, Changing Hardware Acceleration...
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Window 10 Black ScreenI need help with itPlanFreeCountryUKDeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindow 10 I am using Microsoft store that Spotify App and there have a black screen when I opened it and I tried lots of ways but still cannot solve it (like Window...
Window 10 Black Screen I need help with it Plan Free Country UK Device Laptop Operating System Window 10 I am using Microsoft store that Spotify App and there have a black screen wh...
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I have problem with PC application on Windows 10. We are using Family plan. The problem start when another use from family plan (my wife) connect her mobile to android auto my PC application start to play on her phone. I have only this problem on PC ...
I have problem with PC application on Windows 10. We are using Family plan. The problem start when another use from family plan (my wife) connect her mobile to android auto my PC appl...
Spotify Legend
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PlanPremiumCountryNLDevice Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSince a couple of weeks all album art has disappeared in the windows 10 spotify desktop app. See below for an example.Have tried all the regular stuff, like:- re-install- clean...
Plan Premium Country NL Device Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Since a couple of weeks all album art has disappeared in the windows 10 spotify desktop app. Se...
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