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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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  • whatintheworldisthis
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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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  • MattSuda
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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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Solved!! Cover art disappeared

PlanPremiumCountryUSAOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueI clicked on the cover art in the bottom left corner of the screen and instead of getting larger, it disappeared and I can't seem to get it back. Can anyone verify if this is happenen...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country USA Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue I clicked on the cover art in the bottom left corner of the screen and instead of getting larger, it disappeare...
  • Soundofus
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Some songs wont play at all, Its been like this for over a month.

PlanFreeCountryUSADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSo for the last month or so some songs will not play at all. Any song ive listened to in the past few years will load fine but the majority of the new songs just wont load. When...

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  • Plan Free Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue So for the last month or so some songs will not play at all. Any song ive listened to in the past few...
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Can't play songs!

PlanPremiumCountryPhilippines Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSongs in my library or songs that I search for will play for a few seconds and then abruptly stop with the message "Spotify can't play this song right now. If you have this ...

  • Newbie
  • Plan Premium Country Philippines   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Songs in my library or songs that I search for will play for a few seconds and then abruptly s...
  • A_Musicophile
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Songs adding them selfs to a certain playlist

PlanPremium FamilyCountryUSA Device(Pixel XL, Webplayer, Destop)Operating System(Android Oreo and Windows 10) My Question or IssueSo for the past 3-4 months music I listen to from anywhere on spotify keeps adding its self to my Twitch playlist. This ...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Family Country USA   Device (Pixel XL, Webplayer, Destop) Operating System (Android Oreo and Windows 10)   My Question or Issue So for the past 3-4 months music...
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The block is gone on spotify daily mixes.

PlanPremiumCountryLithuania DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueCan't block songs/artists I don't like in my playlists. Overall quality (or daily mix improvement) has gone worse, the song/artist genres are random and don't fit in w...

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  • Plan Premium Country Lithuania   Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Can't block songs/artists I don't like in my playlists. Overall quality (or daily mi...
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Spotify can't play this right now

PlanPremiumCountrynorwayDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 IssueWhenever i try to play a song on spotify i just get the meesage "Spotify can't play thi right now. If you have the file on your computer you can imoprt it."I can play my songs on my...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country norway Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   Issue Whenever i try to play a song on spotify i just get the meesage "Spotify can't play thi right now. If you...
  • tiham
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Superuser Contribution Spotify skips songs and doesn't play them

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThe application works on my phone, in web application but not on desktop app.Will attempt to play a song but it never plays, seems to be stuck in a fast foward stat...

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  • Plan Premium Country United States Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue The application works on my phone, in web application but not on desktop app. Will at...
  • dreinon
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Solved!! Absolute 0 : subscribers are all gone

PlanFreeCountryFranceDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 x1803 My Question or IssueI'm Duhemsounds a video games covers artist, I just noticed the Spotify app shows 0 subscribers on my profile and it looks to be a random bug, I've found other people w...

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  • Plan Free Country France Device PC Operating System Windows 10 x1803   My Question or Issue I'm Duhemsounds a video games covers artist, I just noticed the Spotify app shows 0 subscr...
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My songs on PC won't sync with mobile.

As the subjuct said... my songs on PC won't sync with mobile. When I add any song on mobile, it won't appear on PC. However, if I add song on PC, it appears on my mobile. I tried uninstall and reinstall the PC version. Also, this isn't happen with pl...

  • Casual Listener
  • As the subjuct said... my songs on PC won't sync with mobile. When I add any song on mobile, it won't appear on PC. However, if I add song on PC, it appears on my mobile. I tried uninstall and reinst...
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Superuser Contribution Desktop app doesn't usually work correctly on initial start up, requires restart to fix

So since I've started using the desktop app, I run into issues on the daily. I will launch the app, usually automatically upon start up of my computer, and whether it works correctly is a gamble (usually it doesn't). Often, my playlists/library won't...

  • Casual Listener
  • So since I've started using the desktop app, I run into issues on the daily. I will launch the app, usually automatically upon start up of my computer, and whether it works correctly is a gamble (usu...
  • T6A5
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Click the Heart Lose the Track

Hi everyone, so when driving i hear a song say on my made for you playlist, click the heart as its all i can do, i would like to listen to this music again someday maybe six months in the future. It says saved to your library and on i carry. The prob...

  • Newbie
  • Hi everyone, so when driving i hear a song say on my made for you playlist, click the heart as its all i can do, i would like to listen to this music again someday maybe six months in the future. It ...
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Annoying Album cover

PlanFreeCountryAustraliaDeviceAcer Aspire E 15 LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueRight, I'm extremely fustrated with spotify's crappy user interface and the tedious as **bleep** task it took to get here. I connected my facebook acc...

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  • Plan Free Country Australia Device Acer Aspire E 15 Laptop Operating System Windows  10   My Question or Issue Right, I'm extremely fustrated with spotify's crappy user interface ...
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Widget - Windows 10 - Dont appear.

DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue English:When Spotify was running background, if i pressed a multimedia control key, the overlay widget appeared and the song stop, but now, if i dont deactivate the overlay widget in the prefere...

  • Visitor
  • Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue   English: When Spotify was running background, if i pressed a multimedia control key, the overlay widget appeared and t...
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Error 17 & Spotify play bug

I've had this issue recently where whenever I would play a song it would play for only a few seconds and immediately stops. This would keep happening every time I open Spotify and try to play a song. I tried to close out of the program and reopen it ...

  • Casual Listener
  • I've had this issue recently where whenever I would play a song it would play for only a few seconds and immediately stops. This would keep happening every time I open Spotify and try to play a song....
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Superuser Contribution View list of Artists/Friends that I'm following?

How can I see a list of Artists/Friends that I am following? Also, how can I see a list of friends that are following me?I am using Desktop app in Windows 10. I tried looking up these questions at the Spotify help site (under "Follow friends and arti...

  • Casual Listener
  • How can I see a list of Artists/Friends that I am following?  Also, how can I see a list of friends that are following me? I am using Desktop app in Windows 10.  I tried looking up these...
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Radio gives error all the time. it does not work!

I can not play the radio neither on PC and mobile phone. Why is this so?

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  • I can not play the radio neither on PC and mobile phone. Why is this so?
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Superuser Contribution La musica se para a los 3-5 segundos de iniciarla.

Buenos dias.Ayes estaba escuchando musica, bueno, intentando escucharla y veo que se me para la cancion entre los 3-5 de iniciarla. Esto me pasa con todas las canciones.He probado a reinstalar la aplicacion, a borrar la cache, a borrar archivos resid...

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  • Buenos dias. Ayes estaba escuchando musica, bueno, intentando escucharla y veo que se me para la cancion entre los 3-5 de iniciarla. Esto me pasa con todas las canciones. He probado a reinstalar la...
  • Jemi
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Superuser Contribution Skips Every Song

PlanPremiumCountryUIKDeviceMicrosoft Surface ProOperating SystemWindows 10 Since a few days ago spotify just skips through every track. It works on my phone and the web player but noth the desktop version. I have already been through the forums and t...

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  •   Plan Premium Country UIK Device Microsoft Surface Pro Operating System Windows 10   Since a few days ago spotify just skips through every track. It works on my phone and the web...
  • Jemi
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Superuser Contribution Lied kann zur Zeit nicht abgespielt werden PC Windows

Hi,habe seid neuesten das Problem, dass auf meinem Dektop PC die Lieder nicht mehr abgespielt werden können. War schon auf diversen Internetseiten unterwegs um das Problem zu lösen, hat auch schon öfters für kurze Zeit funktioniert (durch Programm ne...

  • Newbie
  • Hi, habe seid neuesten das Problem, dass auf meinem Dektop PC die Lieder nicht mehr abgespielt werden können. War schon auf diversen Internetseiten unterwegs um das Problem zu lösen, hat auch schon ...
  • Jemi
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