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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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Superuser Contribution My spotify desktop app isn't work neither is the web player

PlanPremiumCountry USADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Recently my spotify has just not been working, when I'm clicking songs the song will not play and the album cover in the bottom left won't even show up, and when I go to my...

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  • Plan Premium Country  USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Recently my spotify has just not been working, when I'm clicking songs the song will n...
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Spotify on pc doesn't work

PlanFreeCountry IsraelDeviceDesktopOperating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Any song on the pc doesn't work, It shows me my playlists are empty if though they are not, and it shows me error on some pages but on the phone everything works fine...

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  • Plan Free Country  Israel Device Desktop Operating System  Windows 10  My Question or Issue  Any song on the pc doesn't work, It shows me my playlists are empty if though...
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Solved!! Playlists, Library - all empty

I made a fresh install of Spotify on my pc and after that all Playlists, Library etc display as empty.empty libraryEven original spotify playlists seem to be empty.Home screen seems normal though, containing recently played tracks and daily mixes bas...

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  • I made a fresh install of Spotify on my pc and after that all Playlists, Library etc display as empty. empty library Even original spotify playlists seem to be empty. Home screen seems norma...
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Spotify for Windows Broken?

PlanPremiumCountry CanadaDeviceAsus ROG GL756Operating SystemWindows 10 64bit My Question or Issue Hello, after I installed the most recent Windows 10 update my spotify app hasn't been working properly, as such it has constantly been presenting me wi...

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  • Plan Premium Country  Canada Device Asus ROG GL756 Operating System Windows 10 64bit   My Question or Issue  Hello, after I installed the most recent Windows 10 update my spo...
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Solved!! Spotify for PC not playing any tracks or radio

PlanPremiumCountry USADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueLike i touched on a bit in the title, my PC version of Spotify is unable to play any tracks that I don't already have downloaded or the Radio. I get an error when trying to ...

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  • Plan Premium Country  USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Like i touched on a bit in the title, my PC version of Spotify is unable to play any tracks ...
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Solved!! Hide someone else's playlist from my public profile

I'm following someone's collaborative playlist and it shows up on my profile (public playlists). I don't want this, is there any way to remove it from there without unfollowing the playlist? On this person's profile you can't see this particular play...

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  • I'm following someone's collaborative playlist and it shows up on my profile (public playlists). I don't want this, is there any way to remove it from there without unfollowing the playlist? On this ...
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New musics and albums doesn't

Hello, my new music playing phone account. The same account does not play on the computer. The screen remains like this;PlanPremiumCountryTurkeyDevice(Windows 10)

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  • Hello, my new music playing phone account. The same account does not play on the computer. The screen remains like this; Plan Premium Country Turkey Device (Windows 10)  
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NO IMAGES -Album Artwork, Artist Image Gallery

Using the Spotify desktop app on my Windows PC. The now playing album are shows. However, none of the playlist images, none of the other (besides now playing) album artwork, and none of the artist info or artist image gallery are display. No images a...

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  • Using the Spotify desktop app on my Windows PC.   The now playing album are shows.   However, none of the playlist images, none of the other (besides now playing) album artwork, and non...
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Solved!! My Spotify account is broken?

Windows 10 My Question or Issue Sorry if I show you my screenshots in spanish, but I can`t use any function on my Spotify app in Windows, I can`t listening any kind of songs becuese the app does not play them, the issued started gradually, first I co...

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  •   Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Sorry if I show you my screenshots in spanish, but I can`t use any function on my Spotify app in Windows, I can`t listening any kind of songs b...
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Discover Weekly Playlist only shows 1 song

PlanPremiumCountryGermany DeviceEvery deviceOperating SystemMac and Windows My Question or IssueThis is now the 3rd week in a row that my "Discover Weekly" playlist only shows 1 song. It used to work just fine before. I didn't change anything so I'm ...

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  • Plan Premium Country Germany    Device Every device Operating System Mac and Windows   My Question or Issue This is now the 3rd week in a row that my "Discover Weekly" playl...
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Solved!! Every songs has disapeared

PlanFreeCountry France Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Hello, I have a problem with my spotify on my pc, when I go in any playlist done by spotify or my favorite songs, there isn't any songs. And when I'm clicking play on a playlist n...

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  • Plan Free Country  France   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Hello, I have a problem with my spotify on my pc, when I go in any playlist done by spotif...
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Solved!! Desktop App and Web Player playing no music

PlanPremiumCountry United States DeviceDesktop App and Web PlayerOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueFor a couple of months now, I have not been able to play any music from Spotify on my desktop. It started with only a couple of songs skip...

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  • Plan Premium Country  United States  Device Desktop App and Web Player Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue For a couple of months now, I have not been able to ...
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No music on spotify

PlanFreeCountry FinlandDeviceComputerOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I noticed that some songs on my friends playlist werent shown that were shown on my phone, I tried installing spotify again, and now there's no music. Not anywhere, ...

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  • Plan Free Country  Finland Device Computer Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I noticed that some songs on my friends playlist werent shown that were shown o...
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How to use Spotify overlay

Hello there Spotify community!I'm looking for help about the Spotify overlay on my Windows 10. I did use it sometimes when I spammed my keyboard. I have it enabled but what's the actual keybind for it? Looking for volume up & down, next song & previo...

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  • Hello there Spotify community! I'm looking for help about the Spotify overlay on my Windows 10. I did use it sometimes when I spammed my keyboard. I have it enabled but what's the actual keybind for...
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Superuser Contribution Problemas con la reproduccion

Hola, tengo problemas al reproducir ciertas canciones... puedo reproducir algunas del album, pero no todas. adjunto imagenPlanPremiumCountryChileDevicelenovo ideapad 500Operating Systemwindows 10 My Question or Issue

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  • Hola, tengo problemas al reproducir ciertas canciones... puedo reproducir algunas del album, pero no todas. adjunto imagen Plan Premium Country Chile Device lenovo ideapad 500 Operating System...
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Brani preferiti vuoti

Buongiorno,oggi ho riinstallato spotify sul mio pc(windows 10) perché non funzionava correttamente. Successivamente l'installazione e l'accesso all' applicazione ho constatato che purtroppo nella sezione "Brani preferiti" sono scomparse tutte le canz...

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  • Buongiorno, oggi ho riinstallato spotify sul mio pc(windows 10) perché non funzionava correttamente. Successivamente l'installazione e l'accesso all' applicazione ho constatato che purtroppo nella s...
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Superuser Contribution Playing a podcast episode will play a episode 5 episodes back?

PlanFreeCountry Operating Systemwindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I play a podcast episode, it will go forward 5 episodes. Once I was trying to play the second episode, and when I clicked on it, it went 5 videos forward and played that, so I had to...

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  • Plan Free Country     Operating System windows 10   My Question or Issue When I play a podcast episode, it will go forward 5 episodes. Once I was trying to play the second epi...
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Superuser Contribution Playlist fica diferente em cada plataforma

a minha playlist no iphone tem algumas musicas que nao aparecem no pc enquanto outras eu tive de adicionar nas duas plataformas,ou seja,as playlist nao estao sincronizando

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  •    a minha playlist no iphone tem algumas musicas que nao aparecem no pc enquanto outras eu tive de adicionar nas duas plataformas,ou seja,as playlist nao estao sincronizando
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Superuser Contribution Las listas de reproducción están vacias o incompletas

Las listas de reproduccion en la aplicacion de la pc estan vacias. Previamente por varios dias estuvieron incompletas con respecto a las listas correctas que podia ver en el smarphone y en el reproductor web, pero reintale la aplicacion de escritorio...

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  • Las listas de reproduccion en la aplicacion de la pc estan vacias. Previamente por varios dias estuvieron incompletas con respecto a las listas correctas que podia ver en el smarphone y en el reprodu...
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Playlist Scrolling Lag

I am running a Dell XPS 13 9370 an dhave found that when scrolling my larger playlists the CPU usage increases largely and lags.I did a quick look for others with this issue and the closest thing i have found to a cause for this is the 4k screen caus...

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  •   I am running a Dell XPS 13 9370 an dhave found that when scrolling my larger playlists the CPU usage increases largely and  lags. I did a quick look for others with this issue and the c...
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