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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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followed playlists do not update correctly

PlanPremiumCountryRomaniaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI follow a few Spotify playlists. When Spotify updates them, they do not get updated correctly in my Spotify on WIndows 10. Some strage things happen:I click on a song an...

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Plan Premium Country Romania Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I follow a few Spotify playlists. When Spotify updates them, they do not get updated correctly...

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Solved!! Tracks not available.

Hello.Why are tracks available on iTunes but not Spotify? For example, The Police album "Ghost in the Machine" only has 5 out of 11 tracks available to play even though I am a Spotify Premium customer in the UK. Why is Spotify so poor at obtaining th...

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Hello. Why are tracks available on iTunes but not Spotify?   For example, The Police album "Ghost in the Machine" only has 5 out of 11 tracks available to play even though I am a Spotify Prem...

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Superuser Contribution Download using cellular data desktop

PlanPremium (Family)CountryAustraliaDeviceMicrosoft Surface Go 128GB 4GLTEOperating SystemWindows 10 Home My Question or IssueI've recently been using Spotify on my new Surface Go tablet, however upon trying to download playlist using my 40GB of data...

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Plan Premium (Family) Country Australia Device Microsoft Surface Go 128GB 4GLTE Operating System Windows 10 Home   My Question or Issue I've recently been using Spotify on my new Surfa...

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Error 18 and force install at launch

DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 IssueSo after using spotify and closing out of it spotify.exe is still being used by System and not properly being terminated by windows 10 causing error 18 to occur forcing a restart just to update. This being the ...

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Device PC Operating System Windows 10   Issue So after using spotify and closing out of it spotify.exe is still being used  by System and not properly being terminated by windows 10 c...

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Can't load spotify anymore

PlanPremiumCountryCanada DevicePCOperating System Windows 7 My Question or IssuePOP UP"""computer does not have enough memory and disk space (but IT DOES!) please close programs and delete some files (which I have done) and retry. And I have retried ...

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  Plan Premium Country Canada   Device PC Operating System  Windows 7   My Question or Issue POP UP"""computer does not have enough memory and disk space (but IT DOES!...

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[Desktop] Equalizer for the Desktop Version

I have Acer swift PC with windowa 10 pro and Spotify premium.And I CANT FIND a equalizer (or like it) that works. Prefferably free.Please helpjonasPlanPremiumCountrysweden

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I have Acer swift PC with windowa 10 pro and Spotify premium. And I CANT FIND a equalizer (or like it) that works. Prefferably free. Please help jonas Plan Premium Country sweden   &nbs...

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Solved!! [Desktop] Select default Sound Device

--enable-audio-graph command line option stop workinghow to open output sound device selection in advanced settings now?PremiumWindows 10

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--enable-audio-graph command line option stop working how to open output sound device selection in advanced settings now? Premium Windows 10  

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Search bar is gone

PlanPremiumCountryNetherlandsDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThe search bar has disappeared from my Spotify (UWP version). The only way to search is through a button in the sidebar. How can I fix this?

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Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue The search bar has disappeared from my Spotify (UWP version). The only way to search is th...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Daily mix no longer enless mix, normal playlist instead

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceThinkpad T480s, Thinkpad X260, Intel NUC, Oneplus 2Operating SystemWindows 10, OxygenOS 3.6.1 (Android 6.0.1) My Question or IssueMy daily mixes have over the course of the last few days gone from being endless mixes to ...

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Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Thinkpad T480s, Thinkpad X260, Intel NUC, Oneplus 2 Operating System Windows 10, OxygenOS 3.6.1 (Android 6.0.1)   My Question or Issue My daily mixes...

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Solved!! cache

PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or Issuehow can I delete the cache? it's about 7 giga

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Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue how can I delete the cache? it's about 7 giga

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Re-Installed Spotify on Win7 PC - cannot listen choppy playback

PlanPremiumCountryUSDevicePCOperating SystemWin7 My Question or IssueWhenever I play a song, it plays for about 7 seconds, then it starts jumping back and forth between its current time and about 30 seconds forward making playback horrible, choppy, a...

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Plan Premium Country US Device PC Operating System Win7   My Question or Issue Whenever I play a song, it plays for about 7 seconds, then it starts jumping back and forth between its c...

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Can't play Spotify on PC

PlanPremiumCountryIsraelDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueHello, I can't play any songs on spotify on my windows 10 pc, I can do that perfectly on my android phone, I've tried reinstalling Spotify and try to use both regular and w...

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Plan Premium Country Israel Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hello, I can't play any songs on spotify on my windows 10 pc, I can do that perfectly on my android pho...

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Can't play MP3 local files

PlanPremiumCountryItalyDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 Hello, I tried to add MP3 files inside Spotify, but only other formats work. I tried installing QuickTime, K-Lite Codecs, removing ID3 tags, but nothing works.

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Plan Premium Country Italy Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10   Hello, I tried to add MP3 files inside Spotify, but only other formats work. I tried installing QuickTime, K-L...

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I Have a Problem with a Artist

PlanPremiumCountryChileDevicePCOperating SystemWINDOWS 10 My Question or IssueI cant find where fix this

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Plan Premium Country Chile Device PC Operating System WINDOWS 10   My Question or Issue I cant find where fix this

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Spotify opens automatically

Spotify opens automatically when I start my computer even though my settings say it shouldnt.

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  Spotify opens automatically when I start my computer even though my settings say it shouldnt.

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My spotify doesn't show up daily mix.

PlanPremiumCountryCHINADevicePCOperating SystemWIN10 My Question or Issuei've been use this for 17days, until today it does not show up daily mix, i try to some solution on the forum, but seems like not useful for me .Can you guys check my account se...

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  Plan Premium Country CHINA Device PC Operating System WIN10   My Question or Issue i've been use this for 17days, until today it does not show up daily mix, i try to some solut...

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[FIX] Spotify doesn't show friends activity or doesn't play new songs

Recently, my Spotify got some problems like: i wasn't able to see what my friends were listening to, or the biggest one, i couldn't listen to other songs if they weren't in my library.I fixed it by sending tickets to the Spotify support, after some d...

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Recently, my Spotify got some problems like: i wasn't able to see what my friends were listening to, or the biggest one, i couldn't listen to other songs if they weren't in my library. I fixed it by...

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Can't listen some artists on PC

PlanFreeCountryFrance DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI discover new artists and I just want to listen and add them to my playlist, but the songs doesn't play, even if I play an album if I pass to next song I can see it's chang...

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  Plan Free Country France   Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I discover new artists and I just want to listen and add them to my playlist, but ...

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My activity not showing in last.fm and discord

PlanPremiumCountryPolandDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueLast.fm and Discord can't see what music I'm playing, other users can see my activity, but I suspect that not for long. I've been listening to music pretty much nonstop al...

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Plan Premium Country Poland Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Last.fm and Discord can't see what music I'm playing, other users can see my activity, but I su...

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Unable to Link Cortana and Spotify

PlanPremiumCountry DeviceWindows 10 PC My IssueWhen I try to link the Spotify service to Cortana, a blank page is shown and nothing happens after. I am able to connect to other services such as LinkedIn or Google.It seems that the calls from Cortana ...

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Plan Premium Country   Device Windows 10 PC   My Issue When I try to link the Spotify service to Cortana, a blank page is shown and nothing happens after.  I am able to connec...

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