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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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MattSuda

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there is no "do not like" button, but a friend has it

PlanPremiumCountryRussiaDevice(windows 10)Operating System( Windows 10) My Question or Issuethere is no "do not like" button, but a friend has itmy - http://prntscr.com/ti6uuxfriend - http://prntscr.com/ti6vfb

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Plan Premium Country Russia Device (windows 10) Operating System ( Windows 10)   My Question or Issue there is no "do not like" button, but a friend has it my - http://prntscr.co...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Windows App not working, Web player and other works fine

PlanPremiumCountryRussiaDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueWeb player, Android App, App on Samsung TV works fine, but Windows App just keeps telling me that "This track is unavailable, if you have it on PC - import it" with...

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Plan Premium Country Russia Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Web player, Android App, App on Samsung TV works fine, but Windows App just keeps telling me th...

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remove song from radio

PlanPremiumCountryPortugal Operating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueI cant remove songs from radio on the desktop app: there is an item option "REmove from this playlist", but its unavailable (grey).In the Android app there is an icon block, why...

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Plan Premium Country Portugal   Operating System Windows 7    My Question or Issue I cant remove songs from radio on the desktop app: there is an item option "REmove from this...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution No "Liked Music" and "Favorite albums" in Desktop App

PlanPremiumCountryRussiaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueMy liked songs and albums just disappeared on dektop. I can see them in my web player and mobile app. I tried doing a reinstall and I restarted my computer but sadly t...

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Plan Premium Country Russia Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue My liked songs and albums just disappeared on dektop. I can see them in my web player and mobile a...

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Player suddenly switches to Car

PlanPremiumCountrySwitzerlandDeviceWindows (Desktop)Iphone 11 ProSamsung TabletOperating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueWhen I'm playing on the PC using the Windows Player it suddenly stops and switches to another d...

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Plan Premium Country Switzerland Device Windows (Desktop) Iphone 11 Pro Samsung Tablet Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue When I'm p...

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No "Liked Music" in Desktop App

PlanFree/Premium CountryRussia DeviceAcer Aspire A317-54K Operating SystemWindows 10 1909 Hello! I added some music to favourite. After that, I installed the desktop app for Windows. And there's no anything in "Liked Music". I've seen the 'hosts' fil...

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Plan Free/Premium   Country Russia   Device Acer Aspire A317-54K   Operating System Windows 10 1909   Hello! I added some music to favourite. After that, I installed...

Billy-J

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Trying to shuffle a large playlist only uses a subset on Windows

PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceWindows PCOperating SystemWindows 10 (1909) My Question or IssueMy Liked songs playlist is bigger than 1000 songs and when I hit shuffle on it it seems to only play the songs "around" where I hit shuffle but nothing else, so...

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  Plan Premium Country US Device Windows PC Operating System Windows 10 (1909)   My Question or Issue My Liked songs playlist is bigger than 1000 songs and when I hit shuffle on ...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify for desktop has a mind of its own :(

PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHi there! Just had this issue come up yesterday where the Spotify app on my desktop wouldn't let me play or select any music. It will randomly start playing mus...

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Plan Premium Country Australia Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Hi there! Just had this issue come up yesterday where the Spotify app on my desktop ...

Sebasty

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Superuser Contribution Slow Windows 10 app.

Hello,My Spotify app has been extremely slow lately, songs won't play for seconds after I click them and music doesn't play/pause for long pauses after I click on the button, artists won' t load either, nothing at all. This started from nowhere, real...

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Hello, My Spotify app has been extremely slow lately, songs won't play for seconds after I click them and music doesn't play/pause for long pauses after I click on the button, artists won' t lo...

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cant clic artist name

PlanPremiumCountryargDevicepcOperating System Windows 10 My Question or Issuecant clic on artist name anywhere on the home screen, i have to select an album or song and then clic the artist to get to its profile, what is that?? tried to upload a vide...

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Plan Premium Country arg Device pc Operating System  Windows 10   My Question or Issue cant clic on artist name anywhere on the home screen, i have to select an album or song and ...

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Any multi media keys control Spotify sounds only?

Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueI have a keyboard that allows me to put bind multi media keys, and other stuff, but when I lower my volume or make it high via multi media keys, it controls all sounds for my computer and I was wonderi...

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Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue I have a keyboard that allows me to put bind multi media keys, and other stuff, but when I lower my volume or make it high via multi medi...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Friend feed still not updating for Windows 10

PlanPremium (Family)CountryWales, United Kingdom DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 (x64) Spotify Version1.1.37.690.g8f3b16fc (Microsoft Store version) My Question or IssueHey, I've looked around the help boards but I haven't found a solution that ha...

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Plan Premium (Family) Country Wales, United Kingdom   Device PC Operating System Windows 10 (x64)   Spotify Version 1.1.37.690.g8f3b16fc (Microsoft Store version)   My Que...

helenacapriati

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Friend Activity
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Music stops randomly

PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI´ve got a new PC since a few days. I downloaded Spotify the first day. The next two days I was abled to listen to music with no problems at all. But at the time the music randomly stops playi...

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Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I´ve got a new PC since a few days. I downloaded Spotify the first day. The next two days I was abled to listen to music wit...

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Superuser Contribution Can't filter by both artist and song on Windows desktop client

PlanPremium CountryCanada Device Thinkpad P52 Operating System Windows 10 Pro (10.0.17763) My Question or Issue I used to be able to filter through my library by searching the song name as well as the artist. For instance, I could search "Michael Jac...

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Plan Premium   Country Canada   Device   Thinkpad P52   Operating System   Windows 10 Pro (10.0.17763)   My Question or Issue   I used to be able to...

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Superuser Contribution Discover Weekly Constantly Bad

Every week, I make it a priority to listen to my discover weekly and mark the songs I don't like, but last year I made a playlist full of "meme songs" aka songs I wouldn't listen to normally, and I played it with my friends in the car as a joke once,...

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Every week, I make it a priority to listen to my discover weekly and mark the songs I don't like, but last year I made a playlist full of "meme songs" aka songs I wouldn't listen to normally, and I p...

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Read lyrics

PlanFreeCountryRussiaDeviceHP Laptop 15-bs1xxOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueCan i read lyrics on Spotify PC client?

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Plan Free Country Russia Device HP Laptop 15-bs1xx Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Can i read lyrics on Spotify PC client?

Billy-J

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no internet connection,error code 4

Hello ,this error makes me crazy ,I dont use proxy at work but spotify is sometimes offline ,sometimes online.But of course I can use internet always in my pc.Please just solve this issue ,This is a old old problem with spotify,but still unsolved.Pla...

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Hello ,this error makes me crazy ,I dont use proxy at work but spotify is sometimes offline ,sometimes online.But of course I can use internet always in my pc.Please just solve this issue ,This is a ...

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Spotify script error for embedded podcast

PlanFree Operating SystemWindows 10, all browsers My IssueSince yesterday suddenly my embedded podcast stopped working. I have embedded it like so on my website: Unfortunately, when I press play, a script error occurs: embed-podcast.47cf6d9a.js:1 Unc...

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Plan Free   Operating System Windows 10, all browsers   My Issue Since yesterday suddenly my embedded podcast stopped working. I have embedded it like so on my website: <iframe s...

Sayenna

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I can't see all the records.

PlanFreeCountryCanadaDevice(Laptop)Operating System(Windows 10)Version1.137.690.0 All the songs are not displayed in these categories: Home, Liked songs, Recently played, Albums. As you can see there are songs which I added in the liked songs

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Plan Free Country Canada Device (Laptop) Operating System (Windows 10) Version 1.137.690.0     All the songs are not displayed in these categories: Home, Liked songs, Recently p...

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Missing music

PlanPremiumCountryArgentinaOperating SystemWindows 10 So this last week I had troubles with the Spotify program on my windows 10 computer, none of mine or my sister's music appears, only saved playlists but none of the saved music. Meanwhile on other...

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Plan Premium Country Argentina Operating System Windows 10   So this last week I had troubles with the Spotify program on my windows 10 computer, none of mine or my sister's music appears...

Billy-J

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