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Plan Free Premium trial Country England Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Having strange playback issues after about a week of using spotify on my PC. Cannot...
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Plan Free Country United States Device Dell laptop. 32 gigs of ram, i7 processor, 1TB SSHD with only 176 GB used Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I'm trying t...
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhenever I listen to podcasts using spotify it will randomly stop playing and give me a blue error message saying "Can't play the current song." The time it ta...
Plan Premium Country United States Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Whenever I listen to podcasts using spotify it will randomly stop playing and give ...
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PlanPremiumCountryIrelandDeviceCustom BuildOperating SystemWindow 10 Pro N for Workstations 1909My Question or IssueI'm having an issue where no matter what I do Spotify starts when the computer starts. Love Spotify, just one of those things I cant l...
Plan Premium Country Ireland Device Custom Build Operating System Window 10 Pro N for Workstations 1909 My Question or Issue I'm having an issue where no matter what I do Spotify starts when...
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The Spotify program is showing as offline when connected to Nord vpn. Is there anyway to fix this because it is annoying to disconnect and reconnect to vpn every time?
The Spotify program is showing as offline when connected to Nord vpn. Is there anyway to fix this because it is annoying to disconnect and reconnect to vpn every time?
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Plan:PremiumDevice(iPhone 6S, Ipad mini, Desktop, Laptop)Operating System(iOS 10, Windows 10,etc .) My Question or IssueA setting was removed a while ago where i could stop music from playing on the radio after my playlist has finished why was it rem...
Plan: Premium Device (iPhone 6S, Ipad mini, Desktop, Laptop) Operating System (iOS 10, Windows 10,etc .) My Question or Issue A setting was removed a while ago where i could stop music...
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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
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhenever I put my local files my Spotify takes so long to load them in. Sometimes it just crashes. Yes, I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Spotify. I tried delet...
Plan Premium Country USA Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Whenever I put my local files my Spotify takes so long to load them in. Sometimes it just cra...
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Plan PremiumFree/PremiumCountryCanadaDevice Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI've embedded some tracks using Spotify player on my blog. They show up fine, but even if I am logged in to Spotify, it will only play a 30 second sample, then...
Plan Premium Free/Premium Country Canada Device Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I've embedded some tracks using Spotify player on my blog. They show u...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceDell Inspiron 15 5000Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI got a new laptop recently and for a day everything was playing fine through my monitors. All of a sudden anytime I try to play spotify through my monitors...
Plan Premium Country US Device Dell Inspiron 15 5000 Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I got a new laptop recently and for a day everything was playing fine through my...
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PlanFreeCountryUSA DeviceDesktop appOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhenever the New Seasons Market ad pops up, it pauses and won't play. I have to close Spotify and re-open it for play music again.
Plan Free Country USA Device Desktop app Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Whenever the New Seasons Market ad pops up, it pauses and won't play. I have to clos...
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PlanPremiumCountryItalyDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueRecently Spotify started using my entire download bandwidth to stream songs.The best way i can describe it is, instead of loading the song while it plays like it used to, i...
Plan Premium Country Italy Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Recently Spotify started using my entire download bandwidth to stream songs. The best way i can...
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PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 10 Hello, i know this has been here several times but what about making Spotify 64bit version? I think most of the windows machines are running 64 so why not make two versions and let the users choose more stable ve...
Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10 Hello, i know this has been here several times but what about making Spotify 64bit version? I think most of the windows machines are running 64 so...
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PlanPremium (1.1.22.633.g1bab253a)CountryGermanyDevicePC, Core i5, 32 GB RAMOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssuePlayback is jerky when other programs are running. The system is underutilized and has more than enough capacity.I do not have s...
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Hello, Currently I am at a college. I keep trying to listen to music over the WiFi, but it keeps connecting to other devices that are not mine that are connected to the same WiFi. This is very annoying. No nobody else is logged into my account. Yes, ...
Hello, Currently I am at a college. I keep trying to listen to music over the WiFi, but it keeps connecting to other devices that are not mine that are connected to the same WiFi. This is very annoyi...
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So I'm using bluetooth headphones to listen to music while I'm on my windows 10 PC, but my spotify app is bugged out completely whenever I use my bluetooth headphones (which are connected via micro-usb). I can't skip songs, only the last listened son...
So I'm using bluetooth headphones to listen to music while I'm on my windows 10 PC, but my spotify app is bugged out completely whenever I use my bluetooth headphones (which are connected via micro-u...
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PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDevicePCOperating SystemWin10 My Question or IssueHi, it's a dumb question and I really feel even dumber not finding the answer. How can I listen to *all* songs from one artist from *all* of his albums etc.? No "best of" or m...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device PC Operating System Win10 My Question or Issue Hi, it's a dumb question and I really feel even dumber not finding the answer. 😞 H...
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PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 ProSo I recently got this issue on my PC. It works fine on my Mac and my iPhone, but when I play songs from my main playlist on PC, Spotify jumps to random Stevie Wonder songs (that I have ne...
Plan Premium Country Sweden Device PC Operating System Windows 10 Pro So I recently got this issue on my PC. It works fine on my Mac and my iPhone, but when I play songs from my main playli...
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Plan Free Country United States Device Surface Pro 3 Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Sometimes playback will "freeze" when or after ads are played. Pressing th...
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