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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 "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...
PlanPremiumCountryAustriaDevicePcOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question/IssueSo since the Big Update, I have the problem that when I add new songs(multiple) to a Playlist the order is not correct or mixed up on the Desktop app.You see in the Pictures...
Plan Premium Country Austria Device Pc Operating System Windows 10 My Question/Issue So since the Big Update, I have the problem that when I add new songs(multiple) to a Playlist the...
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Premium, USA, Dell Desktop, WindowsISSUE:Perhaps it was yesterday ~4/28/2021, 'Open Spotify' stopped allowing users to play a song of their choice from the list of 'Recommended' songs. For example, my playlist 'Piano' has a 'Recommended' list at the ...
Premium, USA, Dell Desktop, Windows ISSUE: Perhaps it was yesterday ~4/28/2021, 'Open Spotify' stopped allowing users to play a song of their choice from the list of 'Recommended' songs. For ...
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PlanPremiumCountry Device(Laptop)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueI have uninstalled and reinstalled twice the Spotify app on the pc I still get the "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can imp...
Plan Premium Country Device (Laptop) Operating System (Windows 10) My Question or Issue I have uninstalled and reinstalled twice the Spotify app on the pc I still get the "Spo...
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PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10x64My Question or IssueActual behaviour:When I double click a playlist or open playlist and double click/select one of the songs and press "play", spotify plays songs outside of my playlist...
...laylist before attempting to play similar songs, outside of the playlist. Broken website The second issue is that I cannot get to https://community.spotify.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/desktop_windows...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHi Support, since the UI upgrade I have persistent issues with the search functionality. It times out and then returns "Oops, something went wrong while loading the artist". ...
Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hi Support, since the UI upgrade I have persistent issues with the search functionality. I...
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Plan: Family PremiumCountry: GermanyDevice: PCOperating System: Windows 10 My Question or IssueHello Community,i have a problem to find the beta switch or something like that.My Girlfriend got one day a Update and got a completely newLayout and behav...
Plan: Family Premium Country: Germany Device: PC Operating System: Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hello Community, i have a problem to find the beta switch or something ...
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DeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen listening to a podcast with many episodes, the Windows Spotify app plays them in the order of top to bottom, not oldest to newest. So the only way to listen to a podcast is to sort the e...
Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When listening to a podcast with many episodes, the Windows Spotify app plays them in the order of top to bottom, not old...
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I can listen to almost all of my songs from local files except for a few, I can listen to these on my phone but not on windows. This started after I got a new Spotify update that looks like this
I can listen to almost all of my songs from local files except for a few, I can listen to these on my phone but not on windows. This started after I got a new Spotify update that looks like this ...
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1. My playlist "Открытия (1)" I deleted 25.04.2021 (shown in the screenshot). 2. Today is 28.04.2021 after the Windows version is launched, I saw the update of the "Good morning" section.2.1 And there a remote playlist appeared "Открытия (1)" (shown ...
1. My playlist "Открытия (1)" I deleted 25.04.2021 (shown in the screenshot). 2. Today is 28.04.2021 after the Windows ver...
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PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI listen through a bluetooth speaker connected to my laptop. If I press pause in Spotify and leave it, after 10 minutes the speaker enters standby. When this happens Spotify detects a switch i...
Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I listen through a bluetooth speaker connected to my laptop. If I press pause in Spotify and leave it, after 10 minutes the ...
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PlanPremiumCountryCanadaOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHi there...i'd like to know if there is a way to arrange Liked songs by dragging to a specific order. Similar to Winamp or any other media player. I have tried it and it doesn't s...
Plan Premium Country Canada Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hi there...i'd like to know if there is a way to arrange Liked songs by dragging to a specific order. ...
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Stop randomly pausing music when I’m listening. It’s so fking annoying. I tried your article on randomly pausing and it doesn’t work.PlanFreeCountryUSA Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueStop randomly pausing while I’m listening. On web p...
Stop randomly pausing music when I’m listening. It’s so fking annoying. I tried your article on randomly pausing and it doesn’t work. Plan Free Country USA Operating System Windows 10 ...
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PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceLaptop 2016Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueCannot login to Spotify on PC app or browser.It says "Something went wrong, try reloading page"I tried reloading page, restarting PC, reinstalling Spotify, clearing cac...
Plan Free Country USA Device Laptop 2016 Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Cannot login to Spotify on PC app or browser. It says "Something went wrong, try reloading ...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceDesktop PCAMD Ryzen 7 380064GB RAMNvidia GTX 970Operating SystemWindows 10 64bit My Question or IssueThe app will play and operate fine for about 20 minutes or so and then will just crash. This happens every time I use it, a...
Plan Premium Country US Device Desktop PC AMD Ryzen 7 3800 64GB RAM Nvidia GTX 970 Operating System Windows 10 64bit My Question or Issue The app will play and operate fine for ab...
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Whenever I enable local tracks nothing changes in the sidebar, I really wish I had not/had the choice to update. Now I will not be able to listen to music I had ready to go before I opened Spotify. I have seen a few other members report this but I wa...
Whenever I enable local tracks nothing changes in the sidebar, I really wish I had not/had the choice to update. Now I will not be able to listen to music I had ready to go before I opened Spot...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceAcer LaptopOperating System Windows 10 My Question or IssueLocal files menu not showing up on left. Ghost data source showing up under local files. I have tried toggling off. Restarting and even uninstalling. Nothing allows...
Plan Premium Country USA Device Acer Laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Local files menu not showing up on left. Ghost data source showing up...
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PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDevice(Samsung Galaxy 9)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueOn the Spotify desktop application (Windows 10) I would like to sort my playlists, e.g. alphabetically.Not the tracks within a playlist, but the playlists...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device (Samsung Galaxy 9) Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue On the Spotify desktop application (Windows 10) I would like to sort my playli...
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Spoiler (Highlight to read)Spoiler (Highlight to read)How do i delete this spoiler How do i delete this spoiler PremiumSingapore Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueTo reproduce: View the lyrics of a song while it's playing.Click on the fa...
How do i delete this spoiler Premium Singapore Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue To reproduce: View the lyrics of a song while...
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PlanPremiumCountryCanadaOperating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueSince the latest update, using either the Windows desktop app or the web player in Chrome, every time I click the back button to go to the previous page I was on it jumps back t...
Plan Premium Country Canada Operating System (Windows 10) My Question or Issue Since the latest update, using either the Windows desktop app or the web player in Chrome, every time I c...
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PlanPremiumCountryTurkeyOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueAfter the latest big update I cannot make other accounts' playlists secret or public for my account via desktop. It works on Android but I couldn't find any way to do that on Wind...
Plan Premium Country Turkey Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue After the latest big update I cannot make other accounts' playlists secret or public for my account via des...
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