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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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  • crawford13x
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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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  • Ytse
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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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  • MattSuda
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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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A question about the discover page

Hi everyone! My question is: There's an individual that is constantly being posted on my discover page. I have not selected them for following and was wondering how I can remove this.

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi everyone! My question is: There's an individual  that is constantly being posted on my discover page. I have not selected them for following and was wondering how I can remove this. 
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Shortcut Q not working when using it on friends' activity list

Usually I just right click a song I want to queue and press "Q" to queue it. This has always worked and still does work, except in my friends' activity list. When I right click a song in my friends' actvity list and press "Q", the song doesn't get qu...

  • Roadie
  • Usually I just right click a song I want to queue and press "Q" to queue it. This has always worked and still does work, except in my friends' activity list. When I right click a song in my friends' ...
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Sync issue

I have a Spotify Premium account and every time that I try to sync my iPod Nano with a playlist, it only will sync local files. What am I doing wrong?

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  • I have a Spotify Premium account and every time that I try to sync my iPod Nano with a playlist, it only will sync local files. What am I doing wrong?
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10 hour limit

Does it involve everyone or only people who only used Spotify for more than 6 months? Cos I've been using it for like 2 weeks and apparently I've crossed it.

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  • Does it involve everyone or only people who only used Spotify for more than 6 months? Cos I've been using it for like 2 weeks and apparently I've crossed it.
  • Thedev
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playlist hide and que reversed

Hi! Found few mysterious things about spotify behaviour. While surfing people I'm following and try to find and pick some playlist, some lists don't show up. These can be lists I follow already, or user X updated Y-list in Activity bar. Of course the...

  • Roadie
  • Hi!   Found few mysterious things about spotify behaviour. While surfing people I'm following and try to find and pick some playlist, some lists don't show up. These can be lists I follow al...
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Solved!! Facebook feed not updating despite being linked to Facebook!

Hello Spotify Community! I have this issue where my Facebook feed is not appearing in the Activity section of the Spotify Desktop App. On the top right of my Spotify Desktop App, it came up as my Spotify account name instead of my Facebook account na...

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  • Hello Spotify Community!   I have this issue where my Facebook feed is not appearing in the Activity section of the Spotify Desktop App.   On the top right of my Spotify Desktop App...
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Stops at adverts

Hi - im listening direct from the website and everytime an advert comes on it just stops. Advert doesnt play and cant get anything to start playing without refreshing the page. The advert displays a picture of Squarespace, the title and artist as squ...

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  • Hi - im listening direct from the website and everytime an advert comes on it just stops. Advert doesnt play and cant get anything to start playing without refreshing the page.   The advert ...
  • Peter__
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Following people bug

Player: Windows client OS: Windows 7 When scrolling the followers/following tab the windows client the top bar doesn't stick to the top but floats a bit below. This happens in the following tab on the profile page. Solved! Without scroll: http://i.im...

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  • Player: Windows client OS: Windows 7   When scrolling the followers/following tab the windows client the top bar doesn't stick to the top but floats a bit below. This happens in the foll...
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Track skipping

I was pushed a new version this morning ( I was already at 0.9.4) . This version seems to cause track to skip and stutter. Best example was it you shake a portable CD player a little too much, if anyone remembers that far back. They only last for les...

  • Roadie
  • I was pushed a new version this morning ( I was already at 0.9.4) .  This version seems to cause track to skip and stutter. Best example was it you shake a portable CD player a little too much, ...
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retrieve playlist

I accidentally deleted my playlist "Lea likes animals" i would love to get it back. Please help! Thank you! Lea

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  • I accidentally deleted my playlist "Lea likes animals" i would love to get it back. Please help! Thank you! Lea
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Solved!! Music won't play smoothly at some hours.

Hi, so that's my problem. Music is not loading properly, seems like a connection problem, songs pause every few seconds making it impossible to listen to music. It doesn't happen all the time, in the mornings it usually works fine, but in the afterno...

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  • Hi, so that's my problem. Music is not loading properly, seems like a connection problem, songs pause every few seconds making it impossible to listen to music. It doesn't happen all the time, in the...
  • Joe
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Please Help me! all my playlists are gone.

When I logged in today all my playlists were gone. I had several that I could get back when looking at my friends who were following. But the majority of my playlists are nowhere to be found. I have put a lot of effort when creating them and are very...

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  • When I logged in today all my playlists were gone. I had several that I could get back when looking at my friends who were following. But the majority of my playlists are nowhere to be found. I have ...
  • Peter__
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Solved!! Spotify will not play Bruno Mars

Hello - I am new to Spotify - I bought Unlimited monthly access - It is great but for some weird reason, out of all the playlists I have created and enjoyed, NO Bruno Mars songs will play. I have no idea why. It doesn't matter if I just have one BM s...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello - I am new to Spotify - I bought Unlimited monthly access - It is great but for some weird reason, out of all the playlists I have created and enjoyed, NO Bruno Mars songs will play. I have no ...
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Solved!! Lost all followers on playlists

I just started getting a few followers on one playlist in particular and suddenly saw they've all gone. I'm checked if this was just a problem with that particular laptop but I checked my desktop PC and it also says they've all gone. Is there an easy...

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  • I just started getting a few followers on one playlist in particular and suddenly saw they've all gone. I'm checked if this was just a problem with that particular laptop but I checked my desktop PC ...
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Windows 7 Spotify crashes everytime I make a change to any playlist

Anytime I either add or delete a song from any playlist spotify will crash. The same problem happens on my android device from time to time, although it happens every single time on my PC. I have done a complete uninstall/reinstall too. Nothing helps...

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  • Anytime I either add or delete a song from any playlist spotify will crash. The same problem happens on my android device from time to time, although it happens every single time on my PC. I have don...
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mercury.db and "Browser" folder in Spotify's AppData folder

I'm currently cleaning out my AppData folder and I found the above-mentioned items in Spotify's folder. They each take up about 100 MB, so I'm wondering what they do and whether I can delete them or not. I've already redirected my Spotify Cache to a ...

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  • I'm currently cleaning out my AppData folder and I found the above-mentioned items in Spotify's folder. They each take up about 100 MB, so I'm wondering what they do and whether I can delete them or ...
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Solved!! Windows - Spotify window isn't going full screen

This has been annoying me for quite some time but when I maximise Spotify the horizontal resize icon still shows when scrolling down. The horizontal resize icon shouldn't be shown when the window is maximised right? Also it doesn't happen on all scre...

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  • This has been annoying me for quite some time but when I maximise Spotify the horizontal resize icon still shows when scrolling down.   The horizontal resize icon shouldn't be shown when the...
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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...

  • Spotify Legend
  • 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 devi...
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Moving Local Files

Currently all my local music files are under D:\My Music. I will be moving everything to V:\My Music. What's the best way of preventing Spotify (Windows) from freaking out and messing up my playlists (a mix of local and online tracks) and offline pla...

  • Roadie
  • Currently all my local music files are under D:\My Music.  I will be moving everything to V:\My Music.  What's the best way of preventing Spotify (Windows) from freaking out and messing up ...
  • NeilN
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Is Spotify streaming 44 or 48khz?

Hello there, I have an audio interface in which I have to set it to 44 or 48khz, otherwise it seems to be doing some conversion on the fly. When I set it to 44khz some albums sound better on Spotify, and others in 48khz, there seems to be a clear aud...

  • Visitor
  • Hello there,   I have an audio interface in which I have to set it to 44 or 48khz, otherwise it seems to be doing some conversion on the fly. When I set it to 44khz some albums sound bet...
  • Peter__
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