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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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Podcasts/Philips Soundbar

PlanPremiumCountryBelgiumDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI cannot play podcasts on my soundbar via Spotify Connect (message is "can't play this right now" and greyed out selection of the device). The device in question is ...

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Plan Premium Country Belgium Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I cannot play podcasts on my soundbar via Spotify Connect (message is "can't play this ri...

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Songs don't play in correct order when ordering them

PlanPremiumCountryItalyDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I order my liked songs and I play one of them, the next song is wrong, because the app is playing the next song like there is no order.I tried reinstalling the app, an...

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  Plan Premium Country Italy Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue When I order my liked songs and I play one of them, the next song is wrong, because the ...

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Muting windows sound while spotify is playing

Hello,While listening to spotify there are still the other windows notification sounds such as Whatsapp, facebook etc...Is there an option to mute these notification sounds while spotify is on? Thank you

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Hello, While listening to spotify there are still the other windows notification sounds such as Whatsapp, facebook etc... Is there an option to mute these notification sounds while spotify is on? ...

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Won't Stay in Playlist

Hello All, New Spotify user here and I've searched for an answer to this problem but can't find it. When I play a playlist, one song plays from the playlist then it plays songs outside the playlist, specifically modern pop songs. I'll try to explain ...

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Hello All,    New Spotify user here and I've searched for an answer to this problem but can't find it.    When I play a playlist, one song plays from the playlist then it play...

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Control and Shift Keys

PlanFreeCountryUSADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 Pro My Question or IssueI need to remove an entire album from a playlist and it contains about 30+ tracks. I tried using the Control and Shift keys to do this but it does not work. Is there another...

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Plan Free Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10 Pro   My Question or Issue I need to remove an entire album from a playlist and it contains about 30+ tracks. I tried using ...

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Download quality on desktop

Hello, on the desktop spotify client there seems to be only an option called streaming quality. I have that set to normal. However on my phone I do have the downloading quality set to very high. As far as downloading on the desktop client since there...

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Hello, on the desktop spotify client there seems to be only an option called streaming quality. I have that set to normal. However on my phone I do have the downloading quality set to very high. As f...

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Songs Wrongly Marked As explicit but explicit ones are not marked

PlanFreeCountryNew ZealandOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueQuite a few songs are either wrongly marked or not marked. for reference, I've had to modify host file in hosts/etc/drivers/system32/windows or something to even use Spotify. I'...

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  Plan Free Country New Zealand Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Quite a few songs are either wrongly marked or not marked. for reference, I've had to modify host...

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Cant sort some playlists

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenOperating SystemWindows 10, installed app, not web app.My Question or IssueI like sorting playlists by recently added. I am able to do that on all of my own and other users playlits. But I have narrowed it down to Spotifys own...

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Plan Premium Country Sweden Operating System Windows 10, installed app, not web app. My Question or Issue I like sorting playlists by recently added. I am able to do that on all of my own and ...

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Streaming to Echo Stereo Pair

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceSamsung Note 10+Operating SystemAndroid 9 My Question or IssueSo I have 3 amazon echo devices and one iLive Concierge which is like a cheap echo. I also have a tv and AV receiver that can be streamed to and 2 of my echos ar...

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Plan Premium Country USA Device Samsung Note 10+ Operating System Android 9   My Question or Issue So I have 3 amazon echo devices and one iLive Concierge which is like a cheap echo....

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[Desktop] "Something went wrong, try again later" error when disliking songs/artists

PlanPremium CountryUSA DeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueWhen I try to dislike songs or artists in my Discover Weekly or Release Radar, I always get the error "something went wrong, try again later" and the same songs/arti...

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Plan Premium   Country USA   Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue When I try to dislike songs or artists in my Discover Weekly or Release...

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Release Radar - Wrong Artist

PlanPremiumCountryUnited States DeviceWindows 101.1.15.448.g00fba0e3Really all devices (the problem appears to be in release radar/spotify backend) My Question or IssueFrom time to time, some artists with the same name as another artist are wrongfull...

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Plan Premium Country United States   Device Windows 10 1.1.15.448.g00fba0e3 Really all devices (the problem appears to be in release radar/spotify backend)   My Question or Issue ...

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Solved!! Is there a way to rearrange tracks of an entire playlist without doing it manually for each song?

PlanPremiumCountryAllDevicePC application and possibly Web too?Operating SystemWin 10 +...?My Question or Issue Is there a way to rearrange track of an entire playlist without doing it manually for each song?

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Plan Premium Country All Device PC application and possibly Web too? Operating System Win 10 +...? My Question or Issue   Is there a way to rearrange track of an entire playlist withou...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify plays random songs

PlanFreeCountryTurkeyDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI’ve been using Spotify on my desktop computer. And I tend to listen to my songs from A to Z. I list them from A to Z, never shuffle. Lately, whenever a song is finished or I...

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Plan Free Country Turkey Device PC Operating System Windows 10     My Question or Issue I’ve been using Spotify on my desktop computer. And I tend to listen to my songs from A to...

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Clicking on album returns reverse order of playlist when playlist is sorted by 'Recent'.

PlanPremiumCountryNorwayOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueClicking on the album art so it returns to the song in the playlist I'm listening from is really handy, but now it doesn't work anymore.Let's say a song playing is the third most ...

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Plan Premium Country Norway Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Clicking on the album art so it returns to the song in the playlist I'm listening from is really handy, but...

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Error submitting my playlist, pls help! (Playlist Exchange)

Hi, I tried posting my playlist in Playlist Exchange several times now. When i put in the URL (spotify:playlist:4D9WbLWQ4dRX9mBxTlbtGi) I get an error saying that i have to use a valid URL but im 100% sure this link is valid.Because it also show the ...

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Hi,    I tried posting my playlist in Playlist Exchange several times now.  When i put in the URL (spotify:playlist:4D9WbLWQ4dRX9mBxTlbtGi)  I get an error saying that i have ...

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Let me configure media keys in spotify settings to control volume/play pause/etc

I've been trying to post this suggestion in these forums and I got directed here. I still do not know if this is the correct place to post it, these forums are really confusing. Anyway Spotify has a major inconvenience explained below: A very importa...

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I've been trying to post this suggestion in these forums and I got directed here. I still do not know if this is the correct place to post it, these forums are really confusing.   Anyway Spoti...

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Spotify skips all the songs

PlanPremiumCountryFIDeviceComputerOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSuddenly Spotify skips all the songs in que with no sound, re-populates the album that I have played some time a go, goes through that album, and finally "que" is empty....

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  Plan Premium Country FI Device Computer Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Suddenly Spotify skips all the songs in que with no sound, re-populates the album tha...

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Superuser Contribution Daily Drive playing ENTIRELY WRONG music

PlanPremium CountryUSA DevicePC and Pixel 3XL Operating SystemWindows 10 and Android My Question or IssueToday as usual I started my daily drive playlist. The entire playlist is country. I have never listened to any of these songs or any country at a...

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Plan Premium   Country USA   Device PC and Pixel 3XL   Operating System Windows 10 and Android   My Question or Issue Today as usual I started my daily drive playlist...

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Superuser Contribution Won't stop shuffling

PlanFreeCountryUSADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSpotify keeps acting as if shuffle is selected when playing from Liked Songs. I cleared out my queue, thinking maybe it was a disconnect there, but once I hit play again, the qu...

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Plan Free Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Spotify keeps acting as if shuffle is selected when playing from Liked Songs. I cleared out my queue,...

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Superuser Contribution Too many ads

I returned to my office after being off for the summer and loaded up Spotify on my Windows 10 work computer. I started playing an album. After the second track, Spotify played several ads--I think more then five. That is an unreasonable amount of ads...

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I returned to my office after being off for the summer and loaded up Spotify on my Windows 10 work computer. I started playing an album. After the second track, Spotify played several ads--I think mo...

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