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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...

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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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[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...

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Superuser Contribution Playlist and favourite songs all gone, but still show up on phone

PlanFreeCountry AustraliaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue Lately when trying to open spotify it's been wigging out and trying to open half off my monitor which is making it instantly go into a non responsive state and never...

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  • Plan Free Country  Australia Device Desktop Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue  Lately when trying to open spotify it's been wigging out and trying to open hal...
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Superuser Contribution MP3 players / Walkman

PlanPremiumCountryCroatiaDevicePCOperating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue Hello! First of all thank you for finally coming to Croatia. I subscribed for Premium the same hour it was released. The question I have is ...

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  •   Plan Premium Country Croatia Device PC Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue   Hello! First of all thank you for finally 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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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SpotifyMigrator Bad Image on Windows 10

Hi, I recently got a new Windows 10 machine and went to install Spotify. For the first day it worked, but when i unplugged the machine to move it, when it booted up again, Spotify no longer worked. I get a bad image error (attached screenshot) every ...

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  • Hi,   I recently got a new Windows 10 machine and went to install Spotify. For the first day it worked, but when i unplugged the machine to move it, when it booted up again, Spotify no longe...
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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!! Liked songs page not showing liked songs

PlanPremium (Family)CountryAustriaDeviceHP Omen 15Operating SystemWindows 10 Pro My Question or IssueMy liked songs page suddenly doesn't display my liked songs, instead it thinks I don't have any liked songs. I can see my liked songs on my iPhone an...

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  • Plan Premium (Family) Country Austria Device HP Omen 15 Operating System Windows 10 Pro   My Question or Issue My liked songs page suddenly doesn't display my liked songs, instead it t...
  • Billy-J
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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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I can't see "My music"

PlanPremiumCountryPerúOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueGood morning everyone. I have a problem days ago only in the PC App. I am a Premium User and I cannot see or reproduce my "My Songs" playlist having almost 4500 songs saved. Spotify...

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  • Plan Premium Country Perú Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Good morning everyone. I have a problem days ago only in the PC App. I am a Premium User and I cannot see or ...
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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?
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I can't reproduce liked song on PC App

PlanStudent PremiumCountryPortugalDeviceLenovo Legion Y520-15IKBMOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHi,I having some issues when I try to play my liked songs on PC.When I try to open the list of liked songs, they don't show the musics and...

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  • Plan Student Premium Country Portugal Device Lenovo Legion Y520-15IKBM Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Hi, I having some issues when I try to play my liked songs on...
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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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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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Superuser Contribution Bug report: Spotify high cpu usage with Italian translation

PlanFree and proCountryItalyDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 v. 1909 build 18363.900Spotify version1.1.36.734.g8731c306 (Microsoft Store version) for all computersBug report With italian translation, cpu usage is 20/30% on I5 8/9 I7 8/9, Ryzen...

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  • Plan Free and pro Country Italy Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 v. 1909 build 18363.900 Spotify version 1.1.36.734.g8731c306 (Microsoft Store version) for all computers Bug ...
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