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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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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...
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...
PlanPremiumCountryINDIADeviceLAPTOPOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI am not able to play some songs in windowsand those songs are not showing in android app
Plan Premium Country INDIA Device LAPTOP Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I am not able to play some songs in windows and those songs are not showing in android app
Regular
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Windows 10, Spotify Desktop player always auto starts with my computer even though the setting "Open spotify automatically after you log in to the computer" is set to "No". Please fix
Windows 10, Spotify Desktop player always auto starts with my computer even though the setting "Open spotify automatically after you log in to the computer" is set to "No". Please fix
Composer
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited statesDeviceDesktop (pc)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueRecently I've been looking through my D drive and I see a bunch of 2 digit folders some containing nothing others containing a file that is named gibberis...
Plan Premium Country United states Device Desktop (pc) Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Recently I've been looking through my D drive and I see a bunch of 2 digit fol...
Newbie
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PlanPremiumCountryArgentinaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 I am having an annoying problem with my playlists. Tracks that I've added from Spotify, so they're not local files, turning theirselves into local files after a while and and show up like ...
Plan Premium Country Argentina Device PC Operating System Windows 10 I am having an annoying problem with my playlists. Tracks that I've added from Spotify, so they're not local files...
Spotify Legend
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I have recently logged into Spotify using my User Name which is [snip - Community Moderator edit for privacy reasons]. Tried to log in and failed, so I used the reset password option and did as instructed and had email back and to use User Name [snip...
I have recently logged into Spotify using my User Name which is [snip - Community Moderator edit for privacy reasons]. Tried to log in and failed, so I used the reset password option and did as instr...
Spotify Legend
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Spotify keeps randomly pausing for no reason at all. It also randomly unpauses. There is no pattern. I checked for solutions, and most of them are for android. I tried the one for PC, with no result.
Spotify keeps randomly pausing for no reason at all. It also randomly unpauses. There is no pattern. I checked for solutions, and most of them are for android. I tried the one for PC, with no result.
Spotify Legend
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My Question or IssueExample: I search for a song "stain"I click in "songs"It loads the fist batch of songsI scroll down, the refresh icon appears briefly and it loads the second batchWhen I scroll down for the second time, the refresh icon appears an...
My Question or Issue Example: I search for a song "stain" I click in "songs" It loads the fist batch of songs I scroll down, the refresh icon appears briefly and it loads the second batch When I...
Community Legend
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI created a large playlist consisting of 300-400 songs. Every time I play this playlist on shuffle, the song I listen to somehow gets re-added to the playlist. It d...
Plan Premium Country United States Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I created a large playlist consisting of 300-400 songs. Every time I play this p...
Casual Listener
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Hi!The thing here is that my pc does not download my music, it's weird because two weeks ago everything was ok. Suddenly appeared a message saying “Downloading songs 1 of ....” it doesn't download more. PlanPremiumCountryMexicoDeviceHP Probook 4540sO...
Hi! The thing here is that my pc does not download my music, it's weird because two weeks ago everything was ok. Suddenly appeared a message saying “Downloading songs 1 of ....” it doesn't do...
Roadie
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I contacted Spotify because my Spotify application was not working on windows 10. I tried literally everything anyone said in this forum and other websites but that did not work for me. This is the fix they gave me and it worked for me: 1. Open Notep...
I contacted Spotify because my Spotify application was not working on windows 10. I tried literally everything anyone said in this forum and other websites but that did not work for me. This...
Spotify Legend
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueHello guys, I have a problem, recently I changed my cellphone to a new one and I logged in wi...
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 Hello g...
Spotify Legend
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PlanPremiumCountry Device(Notebook Dell)Operating System(Windows 10 Home, Version 10.0.17763 Build 17763) My Question or IssueHi, I using application on Windows and set Proxy HTTP, everything that my configuration is currect.but song cannot play. but...
Plan Premium Country Device (Notebook Dell) Operating System (Windows 10 Home, Version 10.0.17763 Build 17763) My Question or Issue Hi, I using application on Windows ...
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PlanPremiumCountryEngland UKDevice(Home Build Desktop, Windows 8.1)Operating System(Windows 8.1) My Question or IssueHello, recently the desktop app on my machine has not been working well leaving me using the spotify webclient for a while now. The a...
Plan Premium Country England UK Device (Home Build Desktop, Windows 8.1) Operating System (Windows 8.1) My Question or Issue Hello, recently the desktop app on my machine has not bee...
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PlanFreeCountryPolandWindows 10 My Question or IssueHello everyone. I have a problem. Every time I launch Spotify, I switch my account to private session, all playlists are private, every new playlist is private, but my friend still keeps listening t...
Plan Free Country Poland Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hello everyone. I have a problem. Every time I launch Spotify, I switch my account to private session, all playlists are private...
Community Legend
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PlanPremiumCountryTurkey DevicePC with nextDrive SpectraX and Behringer UPHORIA UMC204HDOperating SystemWindows 10 Pro My Question or IssueHi everyone. For two days now I can't play anything on Spotify. Anything at all. Whether if I am trying to stre...
Plan Premium Country Turkey Device PC with nextDrive SpectraX and Behringer UPHORIA UMC204HD Operating System Windows 10 Pro My Question or Issue Hi everyone. For two...
Newbie
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Hi,I noticed that in the version of the Windows 10 Spotify client app, the context menu opened by pressing the "..." in the upper left corner is so small that the text in it is one pixel high and unreadable. I'm using version 1.1.7.13766.gf9dc3904 (W...
Hi, I noticed that in the version of the Windows 10 Spotify client app, the context menu opened by pressing the "..." in the upper left corner is so small that the text in it is one pixel high and u...
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PlanFreeCountryFRDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 (1809) My Question or IssueHi, it's been one month or more that Spotify stoped working, it plays 6 or 7 seconds from a song then stop and says that it's impossible to read the chosen song. I tried E...
Plan Free Country FR Device PC Operating System Windows 10 (1809) My Question or Issue Hi, it's been one month or more that Spotify stoped working, it plays 6 or 7 seconds from a son...
Casual Listener
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry DeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI am having an issue where when i pause my playlist on the Windows App it will start playing again after about 20 seconds, when i press pause again it will do the same...
Plan Free/Premium Country Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I am having an issue where when i pause my playlist on the Windows App it will start p...
Regular
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PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceDell Latitude 3580 LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I am running spotify on my laptop I cannot listen to any song. I have tried closing and opening the app countless times, as well as deleting...
Plan Premium Country Australia Device Dell Latitude 3580 Laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When I am running spotify on my laptop I cannot listen to any song. I...
Composer
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You can't "save" an album without saving every single song on the favorite song list. Saved albums shouldn't be visible in the "Songs", since we would like to use that for single songs only. Please Spotify remedy this. I wanted to post this in ideas ...
You can't "save" an album without saving every single song on the favorite song list. Saved albums shouldn't be visible in the "Songs", since we would like to use that for single songs only. Please S...
Spotify Legend
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