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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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How to fix, "You Can't play this content on spotify" due to Realtek Drivers

I had a problem these days with spotify desktop App.For Window Users, this problem may appears when you try to play a song. Your speakes are working normally on other apps, but in Spotify Desktop app your Realtek drivers could not work correctly. You...

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I had a problem these days with spotify desktop App. For Window Users, this problem may appears when you try to play a song. Your speakes are working normally on other apps, but in Spotify Desktop...

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Superuser Contribution how to order songs by date added

There is no repsonse when clicking on the date added column, and it will not show any sort options by the search bar or when clicking edit on the playlist. The playlists had previously been in the order of most recent addition at the top but has sudd...

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There is no repsonse when clicking on the date added column, and it will not show any sort options by the search bar or when clicking edit on the playlist. The playlists had previously been in the or...

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Superuser Contribution Audio glitching out

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueThe Issue is primarily with discord. or somehow attached to it. Whenever I open Spotify, I either hear Spotify but not discord, or the other way around. Sometimes my...

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Plan Premium Country Germany Device Desktop Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue The Issue is primarily with discord. or somehow attached to it. Whenever I open Spotify, ...

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Solved!! My entire systems audio starts to glitch whenever spotify is playing.

Whenever I play audio on spotify it begins to glitch out my entire systems audio, not just the sound coming from spotify. I have tried many thing to fix the issue such as, disabling and reenabling hardware acceleration, restarting spotify, restarting...

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Whenever I play audio on spotify it begins to glitch out my entire systems audio, not just the sound coming from spotify. I have tried many thing to fix the issue such as, disabling and reenabling ha...

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Superuser Contribution Lyrics not Showing

PlanPremiumCountryCaliforniaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI'm trying to look at lyrics of songs but it doesn't let me, I've tried others songs same thing I didn't have this problem before and I know the songs work with lyrics...

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Plan Premium Country California Device PC Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue I'm trying to look at lyrics of songs but it doesn't let me, I've tried others songs same t...

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Superuser Contribution Repeat keeps disabling

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceSamsung S24Plush and Windows web player My Question or IssueThe Repeat button keeps disabling. Every time I open the web player or on my phone the button is disabled again. I just want the darn playlist to repeat, I don'...

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Plan Premium Country Canada Device Samsung S24Plush and Windows web player   My Question or Issue The Repeat button keeps disabling. Every time I open the web player or on my phone the b...

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Canvas is crashing my monitor

Hi, every time I open the app on my desktop, it crashes my external monitor. The issue seems tied to the Canvas feature. When a song with Canvas enabled plays, the crash happens immediately. I disabled Canvas for songs, but the home screen also uses ...

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Hi, every time I open the app on my desktop, it crashes my external monitor. The issue seems tied to the Canvas feature. When a song with Canvas enabled plays, the crash happens immediately. I disabl...

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Solved!! Weird Spotify sorting update

So, recently, I've been going through some artists I follow from bottom to top to check out music, always based on when they were uploaded. But recently over the past few days I've noticed some things have been out of place. That's when I figured out...

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So, recently, I've been going through some artists I follow from bottom to top to check out music, always based on when they were uploaded. But recently over the past few days I've noticed some thing...

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can't add songs to public playlist

public playlist shared with me via link by a friend i'm following. cannot add songs to the playlist via desktop app or mobile app. no option appears to add to playlist. dragging song to playlist does not work: playlist greys out when attempting this.

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public playlist shared with me via link by a friend i'm following. cannot add songs to the playlist via desktop app or mobile app. no option appears to add to playlist. dragging song to playlist does...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify for Windows (64 bit) version 1.2.51.345.gcc39d911.

I would like to give feedback regarding Spotify for Windows (64 bit) version 1.2.51.345.gcc39d911.I don't know if it was a deliberate update on your part, but when performing a search, I usually click on the back icon (<) until I return to the home p...

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I would like to give feedback regarding Spotify for Windows (64 bit) version 1.2.51.345.gcc39d911. I don't know if it was a deliberate update on your part, but when performing a search, I usually cl...

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My spotify suddenly low sound and starts playing a really weird playlist

This is actually very weird and it happens always when i listen to spotify in my pc, suddenly sound goes off and start playin a astist ive never searched before, artist name is Justin.Paris.2222, please solve this i really started thinking my spotify...

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This is actually very weird and it happens always when i listen to spotify in my pc, suddenly sound goes off and start playin a astist ive never searched before, artist name is Justin.Paris.2222, ple...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify will no longer open on Windows 11

I have a PC that has been operating perfectly with spotify installed up until today. I installed it by using the Downloaded Executable found on the Spotify website. I have already tried numerous debugging steps, which are outlined in subsequent comme...

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I have a PC that has been operating perfectly with spotify installed up until today. I installed it by using the Downloaded Executable found on the Spotify website.   I have already tried nume...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify does not import my local files

My local files (LF) are Mp3 format, they are my own productions, not downloaded or copied. There is Spotify running in this Windows 11 PC. My LF are playable by Spotify, they are visible in Local Files folder. I created playlist with my LF to be able...

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My local files (LF) are Mp3 format, they are my own productions, not downloaded or copied. There is Spotify running in this Windows 11 PC. My LF are playable by Spotify, they are visible in Local ...

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Superuser Contribution System try icon disappears when Windows Explorer is restarted (Windows 11)

Every single time without fail on Windows 11, restarting Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) for any reason while Spotify is running will cause the system tray icon for Spotify to disappear. It will not re-appear until I close Spotify fully, which due to...

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Every single time without fail on Windows 11, restarting Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) for any reason while Spotify is running will cause the system tray icon for Spotify to disappear.   It ...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Volume slider is unusably small on desktop app

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueWhen using the app in a small window, the volume slider is so small that we can't use it effectively. The screenshot below shows spotify taking up a little less than half of my mo...

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Plan Premium Country Canada Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue When using the app in a small window, the volume slider is so small that we can't use it effectively. The s...

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Superuser Contribution Playlists showing which songs are already added

The mobile app will show if you already have a song added to it, but the desktop version doesnt do that. It only tells you it is already on a playlist after you try adding it. Feel like it would be a nice quality of life change. Thank you for your ti...

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The mobile app will show if you already have a song added to it, but the desktop version doesnt do that. It only tells you it is already on a playlist after you try adding it. Feel like it would be a...

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Superuser Contribution New Folder Added All Playlists

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceHP Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI try to separate out certain items into folders and today when I created a new folder at the top of my playlist view after a few seconds it had added all 775 playlists to t...

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Plan Premium Country USA Device HP  Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue I try to separate out certain items into folders and today when I created a new folder at th...

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Solved!! Can't see friends' listening activity

My Question or IssueI can't see any of my friends' activity and it kept saying "go to settings to enable my share my listening activity" which I did multiple times. I also uninstalled and reinstalled the app, restarted my computer, logged out and log...

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My Question or Issue I can't see any of my friends' activity and it kept saying "go to settings to enable my share my listening activity" which I did multiple times. I also uninstalled and reinstall...

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Superuser Contribution Desktop APP lagging-glitching every sound on PC as long as it opens.

PlanPremiumCountryGreeceDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueA whole week now, everyone in my friend group has the same issue. Support was 0 of help as they repeatedly said to try things we already done and already said they are tem...

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  Plan Premium Country Greece Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue A whole week now, everyone in my friend group has the same issue. Support was 0 of help...

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