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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...
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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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Plan Free/Premium Country South Africa Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When Desktop overlay when using media keys is enabled, the media keys are not ab...
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Everything is up to date. Win 10 desktop. When opening the spotify app a window with the message 'something went wrong, try reloading' comes up. Reloading doesn't work. Using the task manager doesn't work either as one instance of the process with th...
Everything is up to date. Win 10 desktop. When opening the spotify app a window with the message 'something went wrong, try reloading' comes up. Reloading doesn't work. Using the task manage...
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PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIt is well known that Spotify doesn't like VPNs, more so since the new UI for desktop apparently. My guess is that Spotify uses tcp connections on specific ports that ...
Plan Premium Country Canada Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue It is well known that Spotify doesn't like VPNs, more so since the new UI for desktop ...
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Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My song in my LIKED SONGS won't play, neither by hitting the big Play button, nor any of the individual songs in That list. Won't play through my Alexa speaker either. Can add and remove ...
Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My song in my LIKED SONGS won't play, neither by hitting the big Play button, nor any of the individual songs i...
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Hello Comunity, Whenever i play a song on spotify they keep pausing after 30 seconds,i tried reinstalling it on my computer and on my phone but it doesent work, i also tried logging out on every device but that also did nothing. my PC has the newest ...
Hello Comunity, Whenever i play a song on spotify they keep pausing after 30 seconds, i tried reinstalling it on my computer and on my phone but it doesent work, i also tried logging out on...
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PlanFreeCountryIndia DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue1 month ago I updated my Spotify on my pc and my android phone and recent searches do not show songs anymore. I can search and play the songs but it is not stored in the rece...
Plan Free Country India Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue 1 month ago I updated my Spotify on my pc and my android phone and recent searches do not s...
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PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceNotebookOperating SystemWindows 8.1 My Question or IssueHey, when you open an artist's page, at the very bottom you will find the information "Discovered in", where you can view playlists that contain music by the curre...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device Notebook Operating System Windows 8.1 My Question or Issue Hey, when you open an artist's page, at the very bottom you will find the info...
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PlanFreeCountryArgentina DeviceMoto C / DesktopOperating System(Android 7, Windows 10) No access to history.Hello, I recently updated the desktop (three days ago, upon the app's request) and mobile app (with some delay) . I use Spotify Lite and deskt...
Plan Free Country Argentina Device Moto C / Desktop Operating System (Android 7, Windows 10) No access to history. Hello, I recently updated the desktop (three days ago, up...
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PlanPremiumCountryEurope DeviceDesktop PC Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSo I have one modem/router, and then a Google Wifi system. Now with phones and tablets Spotify Connect is no problem. But with my PC using cable to the modem/rou...
Plan Premium Country Europe Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue So I have one modem/router, and then a Google Wifi system. Now with pho...
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Note: This thing is not only on desktop.When I type "Yodeling" to search engine, nothing happened. I would like to find playlists with this name, but there is nothing viewed. Same problem is also in Web version of Spotify, not only on Windows Desktop...
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PlanPremiumCountryRussiaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueHello! I have a problem. The slider of the first track of the playlist (after the last track played) is not at 0:00
Plan Premium Country Russia Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hello! I have a problem. The slider of the first track of the playlist (after the last track played) is...
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PlanPremium FamilyCountryAustraliaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSo I've only just discovered the fullscreen option recently and this has become how I like to listen to Spotify now as I was able to throw it up on my secon...
Plan Premium Family Country Australia Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue So I've only just discovered the fullscreen option recently and this has become ...
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I have hundreds of playlists as I cant filter by anything meaningful I also cant search for songs within the playlists so I have duplicate tracks in unused playlists can you advise on the following and not give some generic answer, please. 1. Can you...
I have hundreds of playlists as I cant filter by anything meaningful I also cant search for songs within the playlists so I have duplicate tracks in unused playlists can you advise on the following a...
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Plan Premium Country Ireland Device HP Pavillion Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue The window is improperly sized when uin fullscreen. As you can see there are a few p...
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I am basically reinvigorating an error report that was closed as fixed without the problem actually being resolved, at least not for me. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Web-Player-Error-when-editing-playlist/idc-p/5249758 The post was...
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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.PlanPremiumCountrySlovakiaDeviceDell InspironOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHello.I have noticed, that new languages...
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Plan Premium Country US Device Desktop Operating System Windows, Chrome My Question or Issue The way artist discography is viewed was updated recently to where all albums are in orde...
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I followed the instructions for making local files (which are NOT available on Spotify) available on mobile devices (article) as provided by Moderator Mario which worked fine. Now the files are downloaded to both desktop and iphone xr. I can play the...
I followed the instructions for making local files (which are NOT available on Spotify) available on mobile devices (article) as provided by Moderator Mario which worked fine. Now the files ...
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