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Windows Troubleshooting Guide

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...

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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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Superuser Contribution Spotify Web Player stops playing songs after 2 songs

I am on a DOD computer and am trying to play spotify web player in the background while I work. After like 2 songs, the web player stops playing music and I need to reload the page just to keep listening because everything becomes unusable. I cannot ...

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I am on a DOD computer and am trying to play spotify web player in the background while I work. After like 2 songs, the web player stops playing music and I need to reload the page just to keep liste...

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Superuser Contribution Mysterious Spotify Problem: Just Stops Working Altogether

PlanFreeCountryIrelandDeviceThinkPad LenovoOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueSo far, this has been an unresolvable issue for me: I open Spotify, it immediately shows two error messages "sorry something went wrong" and "Spotify can't play...

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Plan Free Country Ireland Device ThinkPad Lenovo Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue So far, this has been an unresolvable issue for me: I open Spotify, it immediately s...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify shuffle queues same song over and over and over

I just queued my liked song and when i look at my queue spotify queued the same song over and over.You can look at the attachment and yes if you scroll it's the same song over and over then under that new songs again just this one song got queued alo...

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I just queued my liked song and when i look at my queue spotify queued the same song over and over. You can look at the attachment and yes if you scroll it's the same song over and over then under...

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How do i remove this?

How do i remove the new sidebar on the right side of the screen? 

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How do i remove the new sidebar on the right side of the screen? 

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Superuser Contribution my spotify app is not working in my laptop ,why you are giving me very poor service,

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue

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Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue  

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offline mode

I encountered an years old problem of perma spotify offline mode. I can play songs by using the green button, but not choose the exact songs.Edit: I reinstalled spotify, removed absolutely everything from regedit, changed dns... and no fix, but then,...

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I encountered an years old problem of perma spotify offline mode. I can play songs by using the green button, but not choose the exact songs. Edit: I reinstalled spotify, removed absolutely everythi...

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Superuser Contribution Using shift+right click does not select multiple songs

PlanPremium Operating SystemWindows My Question or IssueIf you select a song and use shift+right-click or ctrl+right-click on another song further down, the interface will show all songs as selected by highlighting them (as I would expect). However, ...

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Plan Premium   Operating System Windows   My Question or Issue If you select a song and use shift+right-click or ctrl+right-click on another song further down, the interface will sho...

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Superuser Contribution My downloaded albums do not load in offline mode

PlanPremiumDevice(Desktop)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueI have downloaded several albums, everything worked fine when playing them offline until today, when I select them they stay on the loading screen indefinitely and I can't acc...

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Plan Premium Device (Desktop) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue I have downloaded several albums, everything worked fine when playing them offline until today, when I ...

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Removing connectable devices from the Spotify app on PC

There are certain devices from my network I want to remove from my connectable devices. It's possible on the web player, but not in the application itself. Are there ways remove them?

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There are certain devices from my network I want to remove from my connectable devices. It's possible on the web player, but not in the application itself. Are there ways remove them?

Anyk17

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rembolso

me hicieron un reembolso pero no me llego ningun correo que me iban a rembolsar alg, quisiera saber si efectuaran el reembolso?

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me hicieron un reembolso pero no me llego ningun correo que me iban a rembolsar alg, quisiera saber si efectuaran el reembolso?

Anyk17

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Superuser Contribution Pause button doesn't work

PlanPremiumCountryNetherlands DevicePC Spotify for Windows (64 bit)1.2.55.235.g5eaa0904Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueWhen playing a song the pause button stops the playing, but within a second it automatically resumes.Even when I pla...

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Plan Premium Country Netherlands   Device PC  Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.55.235.g5eaa0904 Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue When playing a song the ...

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How to reset my personal preferences and music taste

Is there any way for me to reset my entire personalised music taste for my account or smth like that.?

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Is there any way for me to reset my entire personalised music taste for my account or smth like that.?

Amay

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Superuser Contribution How to save Spotify charts as playlist?

Spotify published its charts, such as the Global Hits, at https://charts.spotify.com/charts/view/regional-global-weekly/latest. I want to save the chart as a playlist so that I can play all the songs from the chart. How to do this?Also, can I save a ...

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Spotify published its charts, such as the Global Hits, at https://charts.spotify.com/charts/view/regional-global-weekly/latest. I want to save the chart as a playlist so that I can play all the s...

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New desktop app annoyance

Upon restarting my desktop app, I see there's a new side panel with an arrow to indicate expansion of the side panel (see attachment). Spotify has been pushing this big time and it's nothing but an annoyance. The poorly reworked UI is bad enough as i...

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Upon restarting my desktop app, I see there's a new side panel with an arrow to indicate expansion of the side panel (see attachment). Spotify has been pushing this big time and it's nothing but an a...

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Superuser Contribution Entry Point Not Found error

I've been trying to download spotify on my pc but I can't open it as I get the error message"The procedure entry point SetThreadDescription could not be located in the dynamic link libraryC:\users\M\appdatta\roaming\spotify\spotify.exe." I've tried d...

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I've been trying to download spotify on my pc but I can't open it as I get the error message "The procedure entry point SetThreadDescription could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\us...

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Superuser Contribution "This track is not available" - suggested solutions do not work

PlanPremiumCountryCzech RepublicDeviceDell Latitude 7490Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueBasically my issue is same as the user here describes: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/This-track-is-not-available-for-all-tracks/...

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Plan Premium Country Czech Republic Device Dell Latitude 7490 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Basically my issue is same as the user here describes: https:...

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Superuser Contribution search in podcast missing in desktop application

I want to search a pod cast for a particular guest. I can search podcasts in my mobile version but not my desktop. If I search while I am in the Podcast the results shows all sources again. Kind of going backwards.

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I want to search a pod cast for a particular guest. I can search podcasts in my mobile version but not my desktop. If I search while I am in the Podcast the results shows all sources again. Kind of g...

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Superuser Contribution Can not open audio files, only video files

Sound with video is ok. When I change to audio the sound stops. I have tried everything, including new download. Other music from my Windows computer works fine.

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Sound with video is ok. When I change to audio the sound stops. I have tried everything, including new download. Other music from my Windows computer works fine.

Vasil

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