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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2024-03-14 3:38:28 PM
2 weeks ago
ipanasenko
Newbie
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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2023-06-26 8:42:18 AM
3 weeks ago
cour10e22
Regular
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268 replies
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72923 Views
268 replies
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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2023-04-28 8:08:45 PM
2023-04-29 10:41:16 PM
MattSuda
Spotify Star
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1 replies
6 likes

5120 Views
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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...

Goodman
Spotify Legend
2013-09-17 11:47:47 AM
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0 replies
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Mac
Windows

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New Releases: limited in most recent update

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceLenovo ThinkPad Operating SystemWindows 10 Pro My Question or IssueI've always known that Spotify limits the amount of new releases posted under Browse > New Releases, however I can only see 100 of the latest albums added t...

johnnybop115
Regular
Plan Premium Country USA Device Lenovo ThinkPad Operating System Windows 10 Pro My Question or Issue I've always known that Spotify limits the amount of new releases posted und...
2019-06-18 11:28:23 PM
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New Spotify update

PlanPremiumCountryNorway Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueBefore the update, Home Browse and Radio used to scroll with your playlists, but now they dont. This results in me not being able to see more than 2 of my playlists at once and i...

alltmann
Newbie
Plan Premium Country Norway Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Before the update, Home Browse and Radio used to scroll with your playlists, but now they dont. Thi...
2019-06-17 7:26:15 PM
2019-06-18 11:18:03 PM
ValtheroPens
Newbie
387 Views
1 replies
2 likes

387 Views
1 replies
2 likes

Spotify flicker with inbeded video clips

PlanPremiumOperating System Windows 7My Question or Issue: my native 144hz monitor that wich is powerd by a nvidia card, starts to flicker, in fullscreen mode!(shortcut key to toggle playback screen-size in spotify?) my only choice is to hit alt+F4, ...

krillerill
Music Fan
Plan Premium Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue: my native 144hz monitor that wich is powerd by a nvidia card, starts to flicker, in fullscreen mode! ...
2019-06-18 4:06:29 PM
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0 replies
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Local files not playing

PlanPremiumCountryEstoniaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI am able to add local files and i can see all of them. The issue is that when i try to press play then it doesn't do anything. Anyone else having the same kind of i...

BuLLeTyE
Newbie
Plan Premium Country Estonia Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I am able to add local files and i can see all of them. The issue is that when i try to p...
2019-06-18 9:14:33 AM
2019-06-18 2:53:23 PM
OneByBoo
Roadie
249 Views
1 replies
0 likes

249 Views
1 replies
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Playlist description problem

PlanPremiumCountrySweden Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHello,There was a client update this morning. When I am going to update my playlist description, the links I have in there are all messed up..

Fineshark
Roadie
Plan Premium Country Sweden Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hello, There was a client update this morning. When I am going to update my playlist description...
2019-05-22 12:57:27 PM
2019-06-18 12:44:18 PM
Fineshark
Roadie
669 Views
7 replies
0 likes

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7 replies
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Spotify Causing Surface Book to not respond

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUKDeviceSurface BookOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Hi My name is Chris, I hope someone can help. For the past week, I noticed that when logging into my user on my Surface Book, my computer would just be black a...

chris_magtultol
Casual Listener
Plan Free/Premium Country UK Device Surface Book Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hi My name is Chris, I hope someone can help. For the past week, I ...
2019-06-18 11:57:49 AM
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Superuser Contribution can't play majority of songs and can't add to playlists...

PlanPremiumCountry DevicelaptopOperating Systemwindows 10 My Question or Issuesince i upgrade to premium a few weeks ago i've had nothing but problems, at first only about 2% of the songs would play, the others would let you click on them and then ju...

dwen
Regular
Plan Premium Country Device laptop Operating System windows 10 My Question or Issue since i upgrade to premium a few weeks ago i've had nothing but problems, at first only abo...
2019-05-25 2:27:04 PM
2019-06-18 11:14:36 AM
dwen
Regular
1214 Views
11 replies
1 likes

1214 Views
11 replies
1 likes

Spotify failed to migrate some of your data - yawn

PlanPremiumCountryUKDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI've done all the uninstall/reinstall/delte this blah blah blah a thousand times. It doesn't work. It still says .."failed to migrate..." each time the app starts. Can you eit...

SystemTrayIcon
Regular
Plan Premium Country UK Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I've done all the uninstall/reinstall/delte this blah blah blah a thousand times. It doesn't work. ...
2019-06-18 10:56:50 AM
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0 replies
1 likes

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1 likes

Spotify is not playing any music.

Hello i got problem with my spotify, when i want to play music on my PC is not responding and the only thing that happens is that what u can see on the screenshot. How i can repair this?PlanPremiumCountry-DevicePCOperating SystemWindowsMy Question or...

Aqussin
Casual Listener
Hello i got problem with my spotify, when i want to play music on my PC is not responding and the only thing that happens is that what u can see on the screenshot. How i can repair this? Plan Premi...
2019-06-17 12:54:22 AM
2019-06-18 10:53:34 AM
Aqussin
Casual Listener
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2 replies
0 likes

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Papierherz
Newbie
// Edit // Problem solved, can be deleted.
2019-06-18 8:32:25 AM
2019-06-18 9:01:10 AM
Billy-J
Spotify Star
287 Views
1 replies
0 likes

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Play Queue can't be manipulated on desktop when streaming to iPhone

As of this morning when streaming from iPhone, can no longer use the Desktop interface to move songs up or down in Play Queue. You can drag the song and get the green bar, but when released it does not actually move. Can move songs in the queue on th...

blackfalconky
Regular
As of this morning when streaming from iPhone, can no longer use the Desktop interface to move songs up or down in Play Queue. You can drag the song and get the green bar, but when released it ...
2019-06-12 3:13:47 PM
2019-06-18 5:34:06 AM
blackfalconky
Regular
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3 replies
0 likes
problem

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Superuser Contribution Songs not playing on Windows 7, reinstalled several times already

PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceWindows PCOperating SystemWindows 7My Question or IssueHello, I've been an avid spotify user going on 5 years now and for the past couple months I have been having to deal with crippling issues on the Windows 7 client which is...

Ellistan
Music Fan
Plan Free Country USA Device Windows PC Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue Hello, I've been an avid spotify user going on 5 years now and for the past couple months I h...
2019-04-26 2:13:01 PM
2019-06-17 11:29:24 PM
Ellistan
Music Fan
2084 Views
11 replies
0 likes
bug
not playing
Windows
Windows 7

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Playlist is empty

Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueFor a couple of months, whenever I added a new song to my playlist, it would not show so I had to unistall/re-install Spotify everytime. I did the same thing today and when I re-installed it, it says tha...

gcyr
Newbie
Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue For a couple of months, whenever I added a new song to my playlist, it would not show so I had to unistall/re-install Spotify everytime. I ...
2019-06-17 7:39:12 PM
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0 replies
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WiFi bandwidth halved when Spotify running

PlanFreeCountryUkDeviceLenovo laptopOperating Systemwindows 10 My Question or IssueI've found that my WiFi bandwith drops from 30Mbit down to about 10Mbit/sec when Spotify desktop app is running. In fact, has dropped to less than 1Mbit/sec at times w...

Dave_R
Casual Listener
Plan Free Country Uk Device Lenovo laptop Operating System windows 10 My Question or Issue I've found that my WiFi bandwith drops from 30Mbit down to about 10Mbit/sec when Sp...
2019-06-17 7:27:24 PM
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0 replies
0 likes

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'Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it'

PlanPremium Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI am unable to play any local files. It just says 'spotify can't play this right now, if you have the file on your computer you can import it'. I have reinstalled and wiped everything several...

taedium
Roadie
Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I am unable to play any local files. It just says 'spotify can't play this right now, if you have the file on your c...
2019-06-17 4:44:28 PM
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0 replies
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Superuser Contribution Discord "currently listening" not working

PlanFreeOperating SystemWindows 10 and Android 8.0My Question or IssueI have Spotify properly linked to my Discord account. But whenever I listen music, it won't show what I am listening to in my status. I am sure I have the box checked in "connectio...

HerrForehead
Casual Listener
Plan Free Operating System Windows 10 and Android 8.0 My Question or Issue I have Spotify properly linked to my Discord account. But whenever I listen music, it won't show what I am listening to...
2019-06-16 3:12:58 PM
2019-06-17 4:29:38 PM
HerrForehead
Casual Listener
732 Views
2 replies
2 likes

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2 replies
2 likes

Spotify shuts down when reading lokal files

PlanPremiumCountryDenmarkDevicedesktop computerOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI use Spotify 0.9.15.27. Every time I install a newer version and it loads my local songs on the hard drive, it shuts down. And start over when it starts ag...

pongning
Newbie
Plan Premium Country Denmark Device desktop computer Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I use Spotify 0.9.15.27. Every time I install a newer version and it loads my lo...
2019-06-17 4:21:36 PM
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0 replies
0 likes

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Solved!! Favorite song for artist - missing after update

PlanFreeCountryRussiaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHi.I found that after one of the last update the Spotify app lost a cool functionality. It was possible to* navigate from the main menu to the Artist page,* click an artist t...

snowinmars
Casual Listener
Plan Free Country Russia Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hi. I found that after one of the last update the Spotify app lost a cool functionality. ...
2019-06-17 12:24:36 PM
2019-06-17 3:05:53 PM
OneByBoo
Roadie
711 Views
1 replies
1 likes

711 Views
1 replies
1 likes

Albums not saving

PlanPremiumCountryDenmarkDeviceLegion Y530Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issuewhenever i'm in the discover tab and click the save button to save an album it doesn't go anywhere, where i can find them. before they used to go to the libary w...

omotad
Casual Listener
Plan Premium Country Denmark Device Legion Y530 Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue whenever i'm in the discover tab and click the save button to save an album it doesn'...
2019-06-14 9:47:05 PM
2019-06-17 9:17:37 AM
OneByBoo
Roadie
848 Views
3 replies
1 likes

848 Views
3 replies
1 likes

Spotify Connect Problem: Default to Random Song or Go Offline.

Plan: PremiumCountry: UKDevice: Galaxy S10+ & Windows 10 PC (.exe version) My Question or IssueEverytime I try to use spotify connect from my phone to PC it will default the song from what I am listening to, to the same random song. Same happens in t...

Esurient
Casual Listener
Plan: Premium Country: UK Device: Galaxy S10+ & Windows 10 PC (.exe version) My Question or Issue Everytime I try to use spotify connect from my phone to PC it will default the s...
2019-06-17 4:31:01 AM
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