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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2024-03-14 3:38:28 PM
2 weeks ago
ipanasenko
Newbie
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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2023-06-26 8:42:18 AM
3 weeks ago
cour10e22
Regular
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268 replies
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72807 Views
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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2023-04-28 8:08:45 PM
2023-04-29 10:41:16 PM
MattSuda
Spotify Star
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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...

Goodman
Spotify Legend
2013-09-17 11:47:47 AM
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Superuser Contribution Wrapped Comparison

Not sure if this is the correct forum, so I apologize if it isn't. I remember in years past being able to compare the current year's stats with previous years' stats (i.e. how many minutes you listened this year compared to other years). I am unable ...

firebuff101
Roadie
Not sure if this is the correct forum, so I apologize if it isn't. I remember in years past being able to compare the current year's stats with previous years' stats (i.e. how many minutes you listen...
2020-12-12 8:47:41 PM
2020-12-15 9:37:40 AM
Alex
Spotify Legend
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Superuser Contribution Queue

So I don't really know how to ask a question or write on here, but my queue keeps getting deleted lately, on my laptop and on my phone. It is annoying. Anyone know what I can do to solve this problem?

mrsmollyjones
Visitor
So I don't really know how to ask a question or write on here, but my queue keeps getting deleted lately, on my laptop and on my phone. It is annoying. Anyone know what I can do to solve this problem?
2020-12-10 12:14:43 AM
2020-12-15 8:52:51 AM
Ivan
Spotify Legend
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Superuser Contribution Web app won't open

Whenever I try to open up the web app it tells me there's a serve errorI have already cleared my cache and tried every browser on my computer and an incognito window with no successI cannot download or use the app currently because of some issues on ...

hzlllllllllllll
Casual Listener
Whenever I try to open up the web app it tells me there's a serve error I have already cleared my cache and tried every browser on my computer and an incognito window with no success I cannot down...
2020-12-12 3:32:45 AM
2020-12-15 8:36:03 AM
Ivan
Spotify Legend
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Superuser Contribution Multiple tracks from Avantasia's 'Angel of Babylon' have track crossover

PlanPremiumCountryUKDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueThe album 'Angel of Babylon' by Avantasia doesn't seem to be divided up correctly, with multiple tracks featuring snippets of the next track in the album seconds before they en...

RaptureAwaits
Newbie
Plan Premium Country UK Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue The album 'Angel of Babylon' by Avantasia doesn't seem to be divided up correctly, with multiple tracks fea...
2019-02-01 10:31:35 PM
2020-12-14 2:42:05 PM
Alex
Spotify Legend
2048 Views
8 replies
2 likes

2048 Views
8 replies
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Superuser Contribution Local Files Issues - Need Help adding / deleting

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceLenovo IdeaPad 10th GenOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI just got a new laptop - I'm looking to keep things clean this go around as my music was a mess on my last device. I'm trying to add one new album on L...

cptnmarv
Casual Listener
Plan Premium Country USA Device Lenovo IdeaPad 10th Gen Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I just got a new laptop - I'm looking to keep things clean th...
2020-12-06 4:40:36 PM
2020-12-14 12:55:49 PM
Alex
Spotify Legend
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Superuser Contribution Random songs at the bottom of my liked songs

As you can see from the below image, when I scroll down to the beginning of my liked songs, there are three songs that do not have a timestamp for when they were added and were not there previously. Does anyone know why this is and how it happened?Pl...

TDIG_Phil_121
Regular
As you can see from the below image, when I scroll down to the beginning of my liked songs, there are three songs that do not have a timestamp for when they were added and were not there previously. ...
2020-12-12 6:05:11 AM
2020-12-13 4:50:45 PM
Ver
Spotify Legend
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Lyrics not working anymore - "Humming is fun"

PlanFreeCountryIndiaDeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 2004 My Question or IssueThe lyrics from Musixmatch are no longer there, it shows "Humming is fun" message. It used to work before but it no longer works now, please help.

Daksh777
Casual Listener
Plan Free Country India Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10 2004 My Question or Issue The lyrics from Musixmatch are no longer there, it shows "Humming is fun" message. It used...
2020-12-11 4:42:37 AM
2020-12-13 4:41:26 PM
Jeremy
Spotify Legend
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lyrics
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Superuser Contribution Bluetooth speaker controlling my music

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDevicePC desktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueEvery time my bluetooth speaker shuts off automatically it plays spotify and it runs forever in the background. Not a big problem, but very annoying and it ruins t...

lembas
Regular
Plan Premium Country Sweden Device PC desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Every time my bluetooth speaker shuts off automatically it plays spotify and it runs fo...
2020-12-07 9:05:45 PM
2020-12-13 3:12:30 PM
Alex
Spotify Legend
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Superuser Contribution Music Keeps Pausing Every 2-4 Seconds.

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 running spotify thru UWP My Question or IssueMy music keeps pausing every 2-4 seconds. Tried reinstalling logging out, no other devices do this.

thirtyspeed
Visitor
Plan Premium Country USA Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 running spotify thru UWP My Question or Issue My music keeps pausing every 2-4 seconds. Tried reinstalling logging...
2020-12-11 9:48:23 PM
2020-12-13 2:59:16 PM
Jeremy
Spotify Legend
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1 replies
1 likes

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Superuser Contribution won't recognize local file

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I downloaded an mp3 file and moves that to the folder where all my local files are stored. I then deleted the original in my downloads folder. But when I do that, sp...

Thaliel
Roadie
Plan Premium Country Germany Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I downloaded an mp3 file and moves that to the folder where all my local f...
2020-12-07 2:21:21 AM
2020-12-13 1:32:48 PM
Thaliel
Roadie
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Superuser Contribution how to change the genres of your artistpage?

Busy looking around for 30 minutes and not idea where to post this or where to find an answer.through everynoise.com I found out my own band is labeled in only 1 very specific genre. This is not correct as we are much broader and not even countryspec...

ce5s97p
Casual Listener
Busy looking around for 30 minutes and not idea where to post this or where to find an answer. through everynoise.com I found out my own band is labeled in only 1 very specific genre. This is ...
2020-03-01 5:46:19 AM
2020-12-13 12:52:09 PM
Danpatra
Regular
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5 replies
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artist

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[Desktop] Local files no longer linked

I recently discovered that spotify (Windows desktop version) could browse my local files and if they existed on spotify I could click on the song/artist/album and be taken to the page, where I could follow/add etc. I was happily making my way through...

sevenus
Newbie
I recently discovered that spotify (Windows desktop version) could browse my local files and if they existed on spotify I could click on the song/artist/album and be taken to the page, where I could ...
2020-12-13 12:13:46 PM
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Superuser Contribution Autoplay still plays after turned off

PlanFamily PremiumCountryU.S.A.DeviceAcer LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issueso after spending 2 days trying to turn off autoplay i finally figured it out but even after i turned it off it still continued to use autoplay

wolfs4ever666
Newbie
Plan Family Premium Country U.S.A. Device Acer Laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue so after spending 2 days trying to turn off autoplay i finally figured it out b...
2020-12-11 1:07:58 AM
2020-12-13 11:32:18 AM
Jeremy
Spotify Legend
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1 replies
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335 Views
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Spotify app for Windows 10 (PC) no longer working. Multiple attempts to uninstall and reinstall...

Hello. The Windows app for PC is no longer working after multiple attempts to uninstall/reinstall. Nothing but a black screen once downloaded. Spotify Premium user. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

fors82zy
Music Fan
Hello. The Windows app for PC is no longer working after multiple attempts to uninstall/reinstall. Nothing but a black screen once downloaded. Spotify Premium user. Any help would be greatly apprecia...
2020-12-12 4:00:36 PM
2020-12-13 3:53:32 AM
Bella_K
Composer
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1 replies
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Solved!! Windows Script Host Error

PlanPremiumCountryIndiaDevice(Dell Laptop)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueWhenever I open the Desktop App, I get hit with an error as shown in the image belowI have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app multiple times, even uni...

tyroniter
Visitor
Plan Premium Country India Device (Dell Laptop) Operating System (Windows 10) My Question or Issue Whenever I open the Desktop App, I get hit with an error as shown in the image belo...
2020-12-11 10:21:06 PM
2020-12-13 3:41:38 AM
Bella_K
Composer
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1 replies
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Friend Activity Not Synced Correctly

PlanPremiumCountryUnited KingdomDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhile on Discord with a friend who is on my Friend Activity list, we discovered that the Friend Activity List was 1 song behind, as he was listening to his current...

UKMysterrr
Visitor
Plan Premium Country United Kingdom Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue While on Discord with a friend who is on my Friend Activity list, we discovered that th...
2020-12-12 8:39:15 PM
2020-12-13 1:08:39 AM
AdamDam
Spotify Star
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1 replies
1 likes

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New Desktop Experience: Rollback instructions

This is buried in the New Desktop Experience thread. I'm submitting it here so that people can actually find it. @ymmv99 wrote:It's possible to roll back the updates and block any future updates. Just google "reddit Script to roll back latest update ...

mlidbo
Roadie
This is buried in the New Desktop Experience thread. I'm submitting it here so that people can actually find it. @ymmv99 wrote: It's possible to roll back the updates and block ...
2020-12-04 1:51:16 PM
2020-12-12 7:26:28 PM
m-elias
Regular
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2 replies
11 likes

2062 Views
2 replies
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Other] Artist's "about" tab isn't showing

I saw in the 2020 Wrapped that I was in the top 1% for an artist, so I went to the profile to check my rank like I've done in the past. Normally, you can click on the "about" tab and it will show you the monthly listeners. When I went to the profile,...

Matrix_
Visitor
I saw in the 2020 Wrapped that I was in the top 1% for an artist, so I went to the profile to check my rank like I've done in the past. Normally, you can click on the "about" tab and it will show you...
2020-12-03 5:55:43 AM
2020-12-12 4:23:01 PM
Elena
Moderator
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Superuser Contribution Songs only play from my Library (Windows 10)

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceWindows Surface Pro 7Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI can only play songs saved to my Library (as an Album or on a Playlist). Example: go to the Artist page for Biffy Clyro, play the song 'Sounds Like Balloon...

paper_friend
Visitor
Plan Premium Country UK Device Windows Surface Pro 7 Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I can only play songs saved to my Library (as an Album or on a Playlist). &nbsp...
2020-12-10 2:41:19 PM
2020-12-12 1:15:00 PM
Mihail
Spotify Legend
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1 replies
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Superuser Contribution Local Files are greyed out and not playing

PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceLenovo YogaOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueLocal Files are greyed out and not playingI have tried everything listed in this post below and still not working.https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Play...

mrdududu
Music Fan
Plan Premium Country Australia Device Lenovo Yoga Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Local Files are greyed out and not playing I have tried everything listed in this ...
2020-12-10 9:32:02 AM
2020-12-12 12:32:09 PM
Mihail
Spotify Legend
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