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Discuss Spotify for Windows
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...
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...
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...
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...
PlanPremiumCountryUK DeviceDell laptopOperating SystemWindows 10Version 1809OS Build 17763.292All updates installed up to 09/02/2019 My Question or Issue I went to use Spotify on my laptop yesterday to find that it no longer works. Having checked a f...
Plan Premium Country UK Device Dell laptop Operating System Windows 10 Version 1809 OS Build 17763.292 All updates installed up to 09/02/2019 My Question or Issue I we...
Regular
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PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 10Edit: this also happens the Linux version. My Question or Issue Steps to reproduce:1. Open Spotify2. Play a song and/or change the volume in app3. Shutdown/restart the computer (or close it from task manager) whil...
Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10 Edit: this also happens the Linux version. My Question or Issue Steps to reproduce: 1. Open Spotify 2. Play a song and/or change the vol...
Newbie
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Free/PremiumCountry Devicewindows 10 desktop (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI don't know why but it seems like ALL my playlists are showing as public, in settings they are set to not 'automatically show', and i have creat...
Free/Premium Country Device windows 10 desktop (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue I don't know why but it seems like ALL my playlist...
Spotify Legend
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PlanPremiumCountry United StatesDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue The Spotify desktop app keeps opening on startup, despite me specifically setting the option to NOT open on startup. I've already tried uninstalling, rebooti...
Plan Premium Country United States Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue The Spotify desktop app keeps opening on startup, despite me specifical...
Gig Goer
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PlanUnlimitedCountryUSADeviceDesktop computer, 64-bitOperating SystemWindows 8.1 My Question or IssueI cannot drag songs into or within a playlist; I can only add songs by clicking on the three dots or right-clicking and choosing "add to playlist". A...
Plan Unlimited Country USA Device Desktop computer, 64-bit Operating System Windows 8.1 My Question or Issue I cannot drag songs into or within a playlist; I can only add songs by cl...
Regular
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PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueHey All!My spotify seems to be really broken-- not sure how, though. Whenever I search for a song via the search bar at the top, none of the results play when clicked on. I get the symbol over ...
Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hey All! My spotify seems to be really broken-- not sure how, though. Whenever I search for a song via the search bar at the t...
Roadie
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PlanPremiumCountry US DeviceInspiron Windows LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue So before you give me the generic have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling advice, yes I have uninstalled and reinstalled. I did it multiple times ...
Plan Premium Country US Device Inspiron Windows Laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue So before you give me the generic have you tried uninstall...
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From what I've gathered from other forum posts, it's from Spotify's stored data. Why is Spotify storing that much data though? Is it storing songs? I thought Spotify only saved songs for offline usage for premium users (I'm on the free version). If I...
From what I've gathered from other forum posts, it's from Spotify's stored data. Why is Spotify storing that much data though? Is it storing songs? I thought Spotify only saved songs for offlin...
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so im on windows 10 and trying to get spotify linked to cortana but when i do i get long lines of text wich i can only read halve of and then there is nothing more i can do.and i do have premium.the lines of text are in the attachement.
so im on windows 10 and trying to get spotify linked to cortana but when i do i get long lines of text wich i can only read halve of and then there is nothing more i can do. and i do have premium. ...
Newbie
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I've used Spotify on my phone for the past half year or so. I like to listen to it when I go for my walks. I usually get a very reasonable number of ads- about one or two ad breaks per thirty minute block of songs or so. I didn't mind them, and I've ...
I've used Spotify on my phone for the past half year or so. I like to listen to it when I go for my walks. I usually get a very reasonable number of ads- about one or two ad breaks per thirty minute ...
Visitor
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On my windows phone when i search for music there always no result at all. Got this problem for a month. I reinstalled two times... Same problem. I cant search for an artist or a song...
On my windows phone when i search for music there always no result at all. Got this problem for a month. I reinstalled two times... Same problem. I cant search for an artist or a song...  ...
Newbie
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I have Spotify Premium, running on Windows 7. I always used the albums tab to listen to my saved music, however it has been completely ruined as of lately. I believe Spotify has just recently made album saving and song saving two different things, wh...
I have Spotify Premium, running on Windows 7. I always used the albums tab to listen to my saved music, however it has been completely ruined as of lately. I believe Spotify has just recently made al...
Regular
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PlanPremiumCountry NL:DeviceMedia player embeded Windows XPOperating System(Windows XP) My Question or IssueI have version 09.15.27.g87efe634 running on a XP mediaplayer and it stopped working a few days ago. Spotify still finds the playlists, start ...
Plan Premium Country NL: Device Media player embeded Windows XP Operating System (Windows XP) My Question or Issue I have version 09.15.27.g87efe634 running on a XP mediaplayer...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountryUSOperating SystemWindows 10 When going to the Radio tab, there is no Create New Station button as this guide says there should be: "Click Radio.Click CREATE NEW STATION.Enter a track, artist, or playlist, then select it to get star...
Plan Premium Country US Operating System Windows 10 When going to the Radio tab, there is no Create New Station button as this guide says there should be: " Click Radio....
Spotify Star
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PlanFreeCountry SpainDevicePC WindowsOperating System Windows 10 My Question or IssueSuddenly, I stopped hearing the music on my wireless headset (Corsair Void Pro). If I change to my speakers, It works. It's not the headset's problem because I can h...
Plan Free Country Spain Device PC Windows Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Suddenly, I stopped hearing the music on my wireless headset (Corsair Void Pro)...
Moderator
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Hi - My Spotify artist page is not showing all the tour dates from Songkick. Can someone please help?https://www.songkick.com/artists/9638149-dawn-fadesspotify:artist:7gSzfBOFyUUwFrf0sgc2lB
Hi - My Spotify artist page is not showing all the tour dates from Songkick. Can someone please help? https://www.songkick.com/artists/9638149-dawn-fades spotify:artist:7gSzfBOFyUUwFrf0sgc2lB
Roadie
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Is anyone else annoyed when an "Expanded" or "Delux Edition" shows up in an aritist's discography and replaces the orignal verion of the album? I rarely (if ever at all) want to add the Expanded Edition to my library, with all the extra demo tracks a...
Is anyone else annoyed when an "Expanded" or "Delux Edition" shows up in an aritist's discography and replaces the orignal verion of the album? I rarely (if ever at all) want to add the...
Newbie
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I am using the player on my desktop for Windows and when I come in each day the same songs play in the same order. I've logged out each day, it's on shuffle yet each day it continues to play the same songs. Any help would be appreciated!PlanPremiumCo...
I am using the player on my desktop for Windows and when I come in each day the same songs play in the same order. I've logged out each day, it's on shuffle yet each day it continues to play the same...
Community Legend
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PlanPremiumCountry USADeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I'm just starting to get used to Spotify app. Is there a way to message a follower or vice versa without having to use Facebook.
Plan Premium Country USA Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I'm just starting to get used to Spotify app. Is there a way to mess...
Community Legend
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I've been using Spotify on my phone. I told it where my local files are, to save on downloading them again. But I'm using my Spotify library for only the songs I really, really like rather than all the misc **bleep** I've accumulated over the years. ...
I've been using Spotify on my phone. I told it where my local files are, to save on downloading them again. But I'm using my Spotify library for only the songs I really, really like rather than all t...
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