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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...

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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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[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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Lost all my song

Hey so i star my computer opened spotify and all my song and song in my playlist are gone but i can see the playlist name etc. On my phone i have all my song and everything works fine.I tried uninstallig spotify and reinstalling it and it didnt work....

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  • Hey so i star my computer opened spotify and all my song and song in my playlist are gone but i can see the playlist name etc. On my phone i have all my song and everything works fine. I tried unins...
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Can't play particular song.

Country DenmarkDeviceSpotify apps across all platforms. PC/Mobile etc. My Question or Issue I haven't been able to play "Vicetone - Walk Thru Fire" for the last couple of months. It displays the error message "Spotify can't play this right now. If yo...

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  • Country  Denmark Device Spotify apps across all platforms. PC/Mobile etc.     My Question or Issue  I haven't been able to play "Vicetone - Walk Thru Fire" for the last cou...
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Solved!! Desktop Spotify can't play any songs (mobile works)

Plan - Premium Country - US Devices - iPhone 10s (works perfectly fine, has all songs) and Windows (doesn't work)Operating Systems - (iOS 12.1.4, Windows 10,) My Issue - The desktop version of my Spotify randomly stopped working, I can't play any mus...

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  • Plan - Premium   Country - US   Devices - iPhone 10s (works perfectly fine, has all songs) and Windows (doesn't work) Operating Systems - (iOS 12.1.4, Windows 10,) ...
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No songs in playlist

Hi, my spotify started by not playing any songs that weren't in my playlist and wouldn't add songs that I would add to my playlists on my PC but would add on my phone. A few days ago, no songs would show up in any playlist I would open. I have tried ...

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  • Hi, my spotify started by not playing any songs that weren't in my playlist and wouldn't add songs that I would add to my playlists on my PC but would add on my phone. A few days ago, no songs would ...
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Solved!! Nothing loads or plays

PlanPremiumCountry United StatesDevicePCOperating System Windows 10My Question or Issue I have been having this issue for a while but its been getting really annoying, It started off a couple months ago when i first got premium anything added to my p...

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  •   Plan Premium Country  United States Device PC Operating System   Windows 10 My Question or Issue  I have been having this issue for a while but its been getting reall...
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Songs wont load at all and wont play

PlanFreeCountry IsraelDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueMy issue is simple, spotify wont play any songs, buffers all of the time before displaying this. AND always shows this on pc. How ever i tried playing it on mutliple other n...

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  • Plan Free Country  Israel Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue My issue is simple, spotify wont play any songs, buffers all of the time before displaying t...
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Solved!! Not playing any song.

Hi! I use the free version of Spotify on a Windows 10 Pro PC. Whenever I tryed to play some songs nothing happened and they had no title or artist, as shown in the pic below. Now it happens on every song that I play, after reinstalling Spotify.

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  •   Hi! I use the free version of Spotify on a Windows 10 Pro PC. Whenever I tryed to play some songs nothing happened and they had no title or artist, as shown in the pic below. Now it happens o...
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Solved!! Not playing songs, Going from bad to worse

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceBrand new Windows 10 PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueOriginally my windows spotify app was randomly not playing certain songs, after doing some google fu i tried a few troubleshooting suggestions. I did ...

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  •   Plan Premium Country Canada Device Brand new Windows 10 PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Originally my windows spotify app was randomly not playing certain...
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Solved!! Spotify Opening at Start Up...

PlanPremium CountryCanada DeviceMacBook Pro Mid-2012Operating SystemWindows 10 via BootCamp My Question or Issue Starting yesterday (Feb 22, 2019), Spotify has been opening on it's own when I start my computer even though I have it set to not open an...

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  • Plan Premium   Country Canada   Device MacBook Pro Mid-2012 Operating System Windows 10 via BootCamp   My Question or Issue  Starting yesterday (Feb 22, 2019), Spotify...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Discover weekly empty

Hey guys, so it's been the third week with this issue, I though it could be a problem with spotify so I let it go, but I'm guessing it's my account only. My discover weekly it's empty, and I tried to logout and login again and I tried to unfollow and...

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  • Hey guys, so it's been the third week with this issue, I though it could be a problem with spotify so I let it go, but I'm guessing it's my account only.   My discover weekly it's empty, and I...
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Superuser Contribution SpotifyMigrator.exe Help

PlanPremiumCountry USADeviceASUS LabtopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue When I try opening up spotify it gives me this error.Does anyone know how to fix this? I've tried deleting all the Spotify files and restarting my computer and it ...

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  •   Plan Premium Country  USA Device ASUS Labtop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  When I try opening up spotify it gives me this error. Does anyon...
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Solved!! My Music is gone :(

PlanFreeCountryGermany DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue For some time now I have had the problem that my music is not updated anymore, so I logged out once and logged in again and all my music was gone. I've already reinstalled...

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  •   Plan Free Country Germany   Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue   For some time now I have had the problem that my music is not updated any...
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Spotify Desktop Completely Unusable

This issue began a couple weeks ago and is getting worse. It is completely unpredictable. I will be listening to music and suddenly it will go silent because the next song won't play. Sometimes it happens with every other song in an album, sometimes ...

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  • This issue began a couple weeks ago and is getting worse. It is completely unpredictable. I will be listening to music and suddenly it will go silent because the next song won't play. Sometimes it ha...
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High CPU usage

Im using windows 10 and every time i want to hear music, spotify uses 50% of my CPU. I already tried with un-/reinstall but it did not help. I also shut down some settings.

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  •   Im using windows 10 and every time i want to hear music, spotify uses 50% of my CPU. I already tried with un-/reinstall but it did not help. I also shut down some settings.
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Spotify isn't showing any songs

PlanFreeCountry UKDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I have multiple playlists that i have created with lots of songs in each on however all of a sudden the Spotify app on my pc isn't showing any songs in any playlists. This is n...

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  • Plan Free Country  UK Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I have multiple playlists that i have created with lots of songs in each on however a...
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Atividade de Amigos "bugada"

PlanPremiumCountryBrasil Operating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue Boa noite, pessoal! Desde que comecei a utilizar o app do Spotify versão desktop, venho tendo problemas para visualizar as atividades de amigos. Está habilitada e alguns amigos j...

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  • Plan Premium Country Brasil    Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue  Boa noite, pessoal!   Desde que comecei a utilizar o app do Spotify versão deskto...
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Solved!! Spotify non trova più nessun brano!

So che forse non è il tag giusto in cui chiedere una mano ma non sapevo dove altro scrivere.Oggi ho aperto spotify sul mio PC e volevo ascoltarmi la mia musica ma in qualsi playlist io entrassi mi diceva che non avevo brani dentro a quella playlist. ...

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  • So che forse non è il tag giusto in cui chiedere una mano ma non sapevo dove altro scrivere. Oggi ho aperto spotify sul mio PC e volevo ascoltarmi la mia musica ma in qualsi playlist io entrassi mi ...
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Solved!! Playlist are completely empty

Free version, operating on the desktop player which has been reliable for years and all of a sudden I can't play songs that arent on one of my playlists. Then I can't make a queue. So I reinstalled the desktop player for windows and not all my playli...

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  • Free version, operating on the desktop player which has been reliable for years and all of a sudden I can't play songs that arent on one of my playlists. Then I can't make a queue. So I reinstalled t...
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connecting to FB and Twitter

My Question or Issuecan anyone help with this connect spotify desktop app to Facebook and Twitter, for some it doesnt want to or do it now, it used togoing to FB or Twitter apps I can't see a revoke or remove and app isn't there on either All I have ...

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  • My Question or Issue can anyone help with this connect spotify desktop app to Facebook and Twitter, for some it doesnt want to or do it now, it used to going to FB or Twitter apps I can't see a rev...
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Superuser Contribution Having trouble spotify skips 10 or 16 second from the song

PlanFreeOperating System( Windows 8.1) My Question or Issuei use spotify for windows and when i am on playlist and spotify start the next song he skips 10 or 16 second from the song but when i add the songs to queue the software play them without any...

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  • Plan Free Operating System ( Windows 8.1)   My Question or Issue i use spotify for windows and when i am on playlist and spotify start the next song he skips 10 or 16 second from the song ...
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