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Discuss Spotify for Windows
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...
PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceDell G5 Laptop Operating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueAbout 2 weeks ago I noticed that about 60% of my liked songs tracks aren't showing on the windows desktop software. I have around 9000 tracks in my liked so...
Plan Premium Country Australia Device Dell G5 Laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue About 2 weeks ago I noticed that about 60% of my liked songs tracks aren't showing...
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I see Ctrl-X is still part of the documentation, but it doesn't seem to work on the Windows client any longer. Would be really, really nice if this got fixed, because moving tracks around in a big playlist by dragging and dropping is a real hassle.
I see Ctrl-X is still part of the documentation, but it doesn't seem to work on the Windows client any longer. Would be really, really nice if this got fixed, because moving tracks around in...
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PlanFreeCountryDenmarkDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI have been using spotify for quite a while now, I started using spotify on another account that I had connected to my facebook back in 2013ish, but I made a new account a y...
Plan Free Country Denmark Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I have been using spotify for quite a while now, I started using spotify on another account that ...
Spotify Legend
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueAs of April 15, 2021 Spotify has again made another stupid decision about format design. This...
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 As of A...
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PlanPremium FamilyDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThe album name is now missing in the author's Popular tracklist. Please upvote a Feature requesthttps://community.spotify.com/t5/Idea-Submissions/Desktop-Browse-Display-album-na...
Plan Premium Family Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue The album name is now missing in the author's Popular tracklist. Please upvote a Fea...
Roadie
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PlanPremium FamilyDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssuePreviously, it was possible to start playing artist's album's tracks one after another. When one album ended, the second in order would start playing automatically.This behavior...
Plan Premium Family Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Previously, it was possible to start playing artist's album's tracks one after another. When one album ...
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Recently played is currently limited to 8 entries. In the previous version, recently played had its dedicated page where you could see the last 25 (?) artists/albums/playlists played and you were able to remove entries from this page.My request is to...
Recently played is currently limited to 8 entries. In the previous version, recently played had its dedicated page where you could see the last 25 (?) artists/albums/playlists played and you w...
Visitor
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On the desktop application for Windows, when you sort a playlist by a setting that is not the default, let's say sort by name in ascending order, and you play a song, then you click on the song image on the left, because you want to be taken to the l...
On the desktop application for Windows, when you sort a playlist by a setting that is not the default, let's say sort by name in ascending order, and you play a song, then you click on the song image...
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I used to look forward to friday, checking the new releases tab...
I used to look forward to friday, checking the new releases tab... 😞
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Y’all I am DESPERATE here. I can’t get my local songs to sync to my iPhone and I’ve tried EVERYTHING. Cleared my cache, turned off my fire wall, downloaded the songs to play offline, checked local files were selected.... NOTHING WORKS. For some reaso...
Y’all I am DESPERATE here. I can’t get my local songs to sync to my iPhone and I’ve tried EVERYTHING. Cleared my cache, turned off my fire wall, downloaded the songs to play offline, checked local fi...
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On Desktop, "Edit Playlist Details" activates across 3/4 of the screen, rather than only being activated when directly clicking on the actual playlist name. How is this a thing? Editing text normally happens when directly clicking on the text. Howeve...
On Desktop, "Edit Playlist Details" activates across 3/4 of the screen, rather than only being activated when directly clicking on the actual playlist name. How is this a thing? Edi...
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DeviceWindows PCOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueThe new desktop UI experience is very degraded. I often multi-select tracks to copy or move to another playlist. In prior version, the tracks stayed selected so I could do more actions on ...
Device Windows PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue The new desktop UI experience is very degraded. I often multi-select tracks to copy or move to another p...
Newbie
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PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 / Linux My Question or IssueAdd back the ability to see all of the tracks from an artist on their main page. The new update on the desktop made it so we have to click on an album to see a sp...
Plan Premium Country US Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 / Linux My Question or Issue Add back the ability to see all of the tracks from an artist on their main page. The n...
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PlanPremiumCountryBoliviaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen you search by song name, many songs titled like that don't show up in the top of the result list. For example, for the search term "sed de amor", first 2 results are...
Plan Premium Country Bolivia Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When you search by song name, many songs titled like that don't show up in the top of the resu...
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I don't know who thought it was remotely cool to remove the ability to sort the songs in a playlist by artist but let's bring that functionality back, k? I don't think I need to explain why that ability is needed. (Don't get me started on the visual ...
I don't know who thought it was remotely cool to remove the ability to sort the songs in a playlist by artist but let's bring that functionality back, k? I don't think I need to explain why ...
Gig Goer
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PlanPremiumCountryLithuaniaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueMy issue is that I not possible to update the spotify PC version app. At first, I've tried to update at Microsoft store, but it wasn't updateble, so I deleted the app a...
Plan Premium Country Lithuania Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue My issue is that I not possible to update the spotify PC version app. At first, I've tried t...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountryNorwayDeviceWindowsOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueAlt-Left and Alt-Right doesn't work for me anymore. Other keyboard shortcuts, like Ctrl-Right and Shift-Right work fine. When deleting several tracks from a playlist,...
Plan Premium Country Norway Device Windows Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Alt-Left and Alt-Right doesn't work for me anymore. Other keyboard shortcuts, like Ctrl-Ri...
Regular
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PlanPremiumCountryThe NetherlandsDevicedesktopOperating Systemwindows 10 My Question or IssueI can't see my friend activity tab on spotify!now before you say to just go to my settings and click ''see what your friends are playing'' it doesn't work. I...
Plan Premium Country The Netherlands Device desktop Operating System windows 10 My Question or Issue I can't see my friend activity tab on spotify! now before you say to just go to ...
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceAsus G15Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI got home from school and I wanted to listen to music only to discover that the Spotify application was lagging beyond all belief. I had used the application...
Plan Premium Country United States Device Asus G15 Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I got home from school and I wanted to listen to music only to discover that the S...
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Hey everyone. is there a way to Convert a Playlist file from Spotify (LDB FILE) to a TXT file or convert it directly to a New Spotify Account?
Hey everyone. is there a way to Convert a Playlist file from Spotify (LDB FILE) to a TXT file or convert it directly to a New Spotify Account?
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