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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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Can no longer see how many Liked Songs I have

PlanPremiumCountryUKDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueUntil recently I could Select All of my Liked Songs and when I dragged it would show how many I currently have in that list (8000+). Now, although I still have that amount it o...

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  • Plan Premium Country UK Device PC Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue Until recently I could Select All of my Liked Songs and when I dragged it would show how many I curr...
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Spotify peer to peer

PlanPremiumCountryNetherlandsDevice(Dell)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueI cannot access Spotify from my work network. As per IT Spotify uses peer to peer networks which are banned at work. Is this the case? Does Spotify really use p...

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  • Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device (Dell) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue I cannot access Spotify from my work network. As per IT Spotify uses peer to peer ne...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify completely died

PlanFreeCountryEnglandDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueYesterday I reinstalled Spotify for no reason, after I installed it, all my song from my playlist were gone and when I attempted at playing any song nothing worked, the song...

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  • Plan Free Country England Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Yesterday I reinstalled Spotify for no reason, after I installed it, all my song from my playlist...
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Improve discover weekly. This is what it looks like now

Discover Weekly doesn't do a good job suggesting music: it's only suggesting **bleep** that doesn't match the music I usually listen to.

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  •   Discover Weekly doesn't do a good job suggesting music:   it's only suggesting **bleep** that doesn't match the music I usually listen to.
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Recently played not changing

Plan PremiumCountryUKDeviceSurface book 2Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueOn both the windows store app and installing seperately my recently played is not changing and hasnt changed for a while, I have reinstalled both versions without...

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  • Plan  Premium Country UK Device Surface book 2 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue On both the windows store app and installing seperately my recently played is not...
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Can't add songs to playlist on DeskTop

PlanPremiumCountryUK DeviceWindows 10 Laptop and Android PhoneOperating SystemWindows 10Hi, I'm unable to add tracks to my playlist since 13/09/2019. When i do it on my desktop, and try and drag a track in, i get the stop/prohibition sign and when i ...

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  • Plan Premium Country UK   Device Windows 10 Laptop and Android Phone Operating System Windows 10 Hi,   I'm unable to add tracks to my playlist since 13/09/2019. When i do it on m...
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Spotify Does Not Open

PlanPremiumMy Question or IssueHello,Up until a few months ago, the Spotify Player (Windows 10) was working fine. However, now when I try to open it, nothing happens. There are no tasks with "Spotify" in it running in the Task Manager.I have already ...

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  • Plan Premium My Question or Issue Hello, Up until a few months ago, the Spotify Player (Windows 10) was working fine. However, now when I try to open it, nothing happens. There are no tasks with ...
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Home - Resting State EP Unavailable. Why?

PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 10, android 5.0 My Question or IssueWhy is the EP Resting State by Home unavailble for listening? I know spotify has these tracks, but for some reason I can't play them. Why? https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0kD4DB...

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  • Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10, android 5.0   My Question or Issue Why is the EP Resting State by Home unavailble for listening? I know spotify has these tracks, but for some rea...
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spotify non funziona pc

salve, spotify è da un po di tempo che non funziona più nel mio pc. se seleziono una canzone non suona. ho gia provato a disinstallare e reinstallare spotify, ma non funziona lo stesso. le canzoni non suonano. la canzone va in "play" ma non esce alcu...

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  • salve, spotify è da un po di tempo che non funziona più nel mio pc. se seleziono una canzone non suona. ho gia provato a disinstallare e reinstallare spotify, ma non funziona lo stesso. le canzoni no...
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Spotify bugging in Windows

PlanPremiumCountryDenmarkDeviceDesktop and Samsung Galaxy S8Operating SystemWindows 10 and Android 9 Pie My Question or IssueSo, Spotify is working perfectly fine on my phone but I have shared its details here just in case it's helpful. The problem i...

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  • Plan Premium Country Denmark Device Desktop and Samsung Galaxy S8 Operating System Windows 10 and Android 9 Pie   My Question or Issue So,  Spotify is working perfectly fine on my...
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Spotify adding pre-ordered songs that I keep removing

My Question or IssueSo few days ago I pre-ordered a playlist and now that it's released bunch of playlist songs were added to my liked playlist and that's fine, but there's some songs I don't want and whenever I unlike them they get added back.I pre-...

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  • My Question or Issue So few days ago I pre-ordered a playlist and now that it's released bunch of playlist songs were added to my liked playlist and that's fine, but there's some songs I don't want ...
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'Playlist Radio based on ....' Like/Dislike - Something went wrong Error

PlanPremium CountryUnited States DeviceiPhone 7 Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI'm noticing an issue with my mobile app for iPhone. Being an avid user for finding new music, I often go to the last song on my playlist then skip the son...

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  • Plan Premium   Country United States   Device iPhone 7   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I'm noticing an issue with my mobile app for iPhone. ...
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Spotify search doesn't index all offline songs

PlanPremiumCountry DeviceWindows, Android and iOS My Question or IssueSo I have spotify Premium and I've downloaded some playlists for offline use. But whenever I try to find a song that I've downloaded to add to my queue, most of the time it doesn't...

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  • Plan Premium Country   Device Windows, Android and iOS   My Question or Issue So I have spotify Premium and I've downloaded some playlists for offline use. But whenever I try to fin...
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Spotify adding random playlists

PlanFreeCountryItalyOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSpotify keeps on saving random playlist to my account. Usually it adds like 4 playlists once a week or so..Now, it's been a while since I used my computer (like a month), and I just o...

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  • Plan Free Country Italy Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Spotify keeps on saving random playlist to my account.  Usually it adds like 4 playlists once a week or...
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Solved!! When ı am open Spotify Windows(Desktop), my pc freezes

PlanFreeCountryTurkeyDeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen ı open Spotify, ı can't use my pc. Everything freezes. I've been having this problem for a day.

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  • Plan Free Country Turkey Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue When ı open Spotify, ı can't use my pc. Everything freezes. I've been having this problem...
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Can't find Spotify on McAfee firewall [Windows 10]

PlanPremiumCountryU.S. DeviceiPhone7/Dell LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI've been having problems getting my local files from my laptop spotify synced to my iPhone spotify. I think I've found the problem though. I'm pretty sure...

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  • Plan Premium Country U.S.   Device iPhone7/Dell Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I've been having problems getting my local files from my laptop spotify ...
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Spotify won't open

Recently, I have been experiencing problems opening Spotify program, with nothing happening when opening the app. The problem started simultaneously on 3 different computers and different OSs (Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04). After a few reinstalls, I m...

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  • Recently, I have been experiencing problems opening Spotify program, with nothing happening when opening the app. The problem started simultaneously on 3 different computers and different OSs (Window...
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ctrl+a only selects the currently visible songs in a playlist

PlanPremiumCountryThe NetherlandsDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issuein my "liked songs", i was always able to ctrl+a and ctrl+c to select all 3000+ songs in there, to put them in a playlist. this no longer works. it only selects a...

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  • Plan Premium Country The Netherlands Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue in my "liked songs", i was always able to ctrl+a and ctrl+c to select all 3000+ songs ...
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Local Files Showing Gray On PC

Today when I got home I noticed 2 songs were grayed out from local files. Both of them being from albums, not singles. All the other songs in the album weren't grayed out. They are also both from diffrent albums. So they appeared grayed out but when ...

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  • Today when I got home I noticed 2 songs were grayed out from local files. Both of them being from albums, not singles. All the other songs in the album weren't grayed out. They are also both from dif...
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Why I can't change my profile picture anymore?

PlanFree/PremiumCountryMXDevice(Spotify app for desk)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueI can't change my profile picture since a week ago.My spotify account is separated from Facebook, but not too long ago it was linked to Facebook to ...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country MX Device (Spotify app for desk) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue I can't change my profile picture since a week ago. My spotify account ...
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