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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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Unable to play Slenderbodies' music

PlanPremiumCountry AustraliaDevicePC, Samsung S8 PlusOperating SystemWindows 10 "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it."Hey there!So about two days ago my account got hacked, but thats a different ...

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  • Plan Premium Country  Australia Device PC, Samsung S8 Plus Operating System Windows 10   "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it...
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Song Radio not working properly

Hi,so recently the song radio feature has stopped working for me.The option "go to song radio" (I use the German version, so I don't know if this is the exact translation of the menu entry) is still there in the little pop-up menu when I right-click ...

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  •   Hi, so recently the song radio feature has stopped working for me. The option "go to song radio" (I use the German version, so I don't know if this is the exact translation of the menu entr...
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Videos won't play

PlanFree/PremiumCountry United StatesDeviceDesktop (Custom PC)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Is anyone else having the issue where the videos won't play on the spotify desktop app or web player? The videos seem to work fine on phones...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country  United States Device Desktop (Custom PC) Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Is anyone else having the issue where the videos won't...
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Can't play anything.

PlanPremiumCountryThe United States.DevicePersonal computerOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue When I try to play any song I get the error message "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it...

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  • Plan Premium Country The United States. Device Personal computer Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  When I try to play any song I get the error message "Spotify c...
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Solved!! spotify on desktop won't work

PlanFreeCountry United statesDevicehp pavillion g6Operating Systemwindows 7 My Question or Issue Spotify works across all my devices except for my laptop. It won't show me my favorite songs, won't play any music. I have done a clean reinstall and res...

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  • Plan Free Country  United states Device hp pavillion g6 Operating System windows 7   My Question or Issue  Spotify works across all my devices except for my laptop. It won't ...
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I can't play any music!

PlanFreeCountryPolandDeviceLenovo ideapad 510Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue The moment I turned on my Spotify app today I've seen that all my playlist were empty. I've tried to find a non-empty one, but all were. I've restarted the a...

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  • Plan Free Country Poland Device Lenovo ideapad 510 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  The moment I turned on my Spotify app today I've seen that all my playlist w...
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[BUGS] Playlist folders in sidebar

PlanPremiumCountry GermanyDeviceDesktop PC x86 Operating SystemWindows 10 Pro My Question or IssueThe following behaviour regarding playlist folders is new, persistent (couple of weeks) and I am on the latest version: 1) The content of playlist folde...

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  • Plan Premium Country  Germany Device Desktop PC x86  Operating System Windows 10 Pro  My Question or Issue The following behaviour regarding playlist folders is new, pers...
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Solved!! Multiple issues with Spotify desktop

1. I cannot save any new albums. Clicking the save button on an album doesn't add the album to my albums page, and the icons next to the songs do not change to ticks to indicate that they have been saved. I have no issues with hitting the limit; I've...

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  • 1. I cannot save any new albums. Clicking the save button on an album doesn't add the album to my albums page, and the icons next to the songs do not change to ticks to indicate that they have been s...
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Queuing single pod track queues all episodes

When listening to my own set of tracks, I some times want to listen to the latest news from P3 Nyheter på en minut or Ekot (and only the latest news) so I want to be able to queue a single news pod, but queueing a single pod episode will queue ALL po...

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  • When listening to my own set of tracks, I some times want to listen to the latest news from P3 Nyheter på en minut or Ekot (and only the latest news) so I want to be able to queue a single news pod, ...
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Multiple spotify.exe tasks continue to open

Hi there - I have been experiencing a really strange issue BOTH when trying to launch Spotify on my PC and now when trying to uninstall it (I was hoping that would fix the problem). When running the application, it opens spotify.exe in the task manag...

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  • Hi there - I have been experiencing a really strange issue BOTH when trying to launch Spotify on my PC and now when trying to uninstall it (I was hoping that would fix the problem).   When run...
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Discord Listen Along Not Working??

PlanFree 30 day Trial Premium Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSo I got premium to be able to listen along with my discord friends on spotify. But for some reason everytime I click 'Listen Along' it would allow me to join but the song w...

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  • Plan Free 30 day Trial Premium   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue So I got premium to be able to listen along with my discord friends on spotify. But for some rea...
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Account got Hacked

PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceWindows 10 PC and Samsung S8 PlusOperating SystemWindows 10 This is somewhat solved, I justed wanted to put this here... I guess. But two days ago my Spotify account got hacked. Reason why I think this is because I wa...

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  • Plan Premium Country Australia Device Windows 10 PC and Samsung S8 Plus Operating System Windows 10   This is somewhat solved, I justed wanted to put this here... I guess. But two days ...
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Superuser Contribution Empty playlists and no songs play with blank album art (yes, I have checked that post already)

Version: FreeCountry: USADevice: Windows DesktopOS: Windows 10 Pro So my problem has been ongoing for a couple of months and has been gradually evolving into something worse and worse over time. It started as the occasional song, that should be avail...

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  • Version: Free Country: USA Device: Windows Desktop OS: Windows 10 Pro   So my problem has been ongoing for a couple of months and has been gradually evolving into something worse and worse ...
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Switching from mobile to desktop or refreshing on browser reshuffles queue

For my playlist with 350 songs, I always start the first song of the day with shuffle and want to maintain the entire queue for the rest of the day so the same song won't appear twice. On most days I start out listening on mobile (offline) for about ...

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  • For my playlist with 350 songs, I always start the first song of the day with shuffle and want to maintain the entire queue for the rest of the day so the same song won't appear twice. On most days I...
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My currently played song is skipped and random playlist starts playing!

PlanPremiumCountryAustria DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueI have a very annoying issue - I play a playlist ("Atmospheric Sci-fi Soundtracks") and all of a sudden, in the middle of a song, a rondom playlists starts playing (in my...

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  • Plan Premium Country Austria  Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I have a very annoying issue - I play a playlist ("Atmospheric Sci-fi Soundtracks") and all of a...
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The New Layout

PlanFree/PremiumCountry U.S.ADeviceIpad, Operating System(iOS 11.4.1 My Question or IssuePlease bring back the old layout with My Songs and recently played on the same page, I would like to be able to delete things from my recently played again. Ever...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country  U.S.A Device Ipad,  Operating System (iOS 11.4.1   My Question or Issue Please bring back the old layout with My Songs and recently played on the s...
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Solved!! [desktop] no music will work.

PlanPremiumCountry United KingdomDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue i am unable to play/load any music on spotify desktop. it works fine on my phone but i cant play any music and all spotify playlists are empty(see attached ...

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  • Plan Premium Country  United Kingdom Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  i am unable to play/load any music on spotify desktop. it works fine o...
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