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Windows Troubleshooting Guide

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...

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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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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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Username Not Changing To Real Name

PlanFreeCountry United States of AmericaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHey Staff,Today I tried to display my real name on Spotify by connecting my Facebook account to my Spotify account. However, after I did so, my userna...

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Plan Free Country  United States of America Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Hey Staff, Today I tried to display my real name on Spotify by conne...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Songs not playing

PlanPremiumCountry Canada Operating SystemWindows 10Internet ProviderVideotron My Question or IssueSpotify will not stream any song that is not on the local disc or cached and the web player doesn't work. There is a now playing icon on the song but t...

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Plan Premium Country  Canada   Operating System Windows 10 Internet Provider Videotron   My Question or Issue Spotify will not stream any song that is not on ...

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The app will NOT play to "This computer" but will play to spotify connect speakers ..

Plan -PremiumCountry - UKDevice -PCOperating System WIn7My Question or Issue - Suddenly my spotify app will not output sound when I connect to the device: "This computer" (my pc speakers) - have unistalled and reinstalled (twice) - checked my default...

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Plan -Premium Country - UK Device -PC Operating System  WIn7 My Question or Issue - Suddenly my spotify app will not output sound when I connect to the device: "This computer" (my pc speaker...

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Solved!! Song Not Displaying Properly...

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueAs of the past few days, I've noticed that in my Daily Mix, there is one spot in the playlist, which is randomly generated - I assume, that doesn't pop up with a song...

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Plan Premium Country Canada Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue As of the past few days, I've noticed that in my Daily Mix, there is one spot in the pla...

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Now playing artwork?

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUK Operating System(iOS Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue Just recently after resyncing offline playlists my Desktop player doesn't show any artwork at all? Not just the odd song missing art but all of them?

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Plan Free/Premium Country UK   Operating System (iOS Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue  Just recently after resyncing offline playlists my Desktop player doesn't show an...

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Spotify issues (read below)

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUS My Question or IssueOk so I really love spotify and I have some serious issues with it rn so let me explain it.My problem - I can't get onto the spotify web player anymore. It always says "error connection refused" so I trie...

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Plan Free/Premium Country US     My Question or Issue Ok so I really love spotify and I have some serious issues with it rn so let me explain it. My problem - I can't get onto...

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Popping Noises when playing downloaded/streaming songs

PlanPremiumCountry AustraliaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 x64 My Question or Issue Popping noises or suttle crackle noises Re-installed spotify on desktop & played spotify off web browserIssue still evident on both players.Streaming high qu...

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Plan Premium Country  Australia Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 x64   My Question or Issue  Popping noises or suttle crackle noises   Re-installed spotify o...

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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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Superuser Contribution Spoitfy black blank page

PlanFreeCountryCanadaDeviceToshibaOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI'm using Spotify on Windows 10. I used to use Spotify through Facebook login. All of a sudden one day I wasn't able to open Spotify. It would just show me a black blank...

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  Plan Free Country Canada Device Toshiba Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I'm using Spotify on Windows 10. I used to use Spotify through Facebook login. All of...

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Solved!! spotify is just not working properly

Okay, so, basically, I've been using spotify for a while. I have Spotify premium, and I'm running it on a custom built Windows 10 computer. On my phone it works perfectly. 1. I somehow can't play songs that are not saved in my music anymore.Screensho...

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  Okay, so, basically, I've been using spotify for a while. I have Spotify premium, and I'm running it on a custom built Windows 10 computer. On my phone it works perfectly.   1. I someh...

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[Windows 10] Cannot Shuffle

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceAsus LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThis just started today: I open one of my playlists, and press the big green play button. The shuffle play button doesn't seem to exist anymore. When I play the play...

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Plan Premium Country USA Device Asus Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue This just started today: I open one of my playlists, and press the big green play button....

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Digster, this is not fresh...

 Song was released over seven months ago. That ain't fresh to me. 

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  Song was released over seven months ago. That ain't fresh to me. 

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Spotify: Stop answering questions with 3rd party solutions (or not answering at all)

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceAllOperating SystemAll My Question or Issue Spotify support's standard answer for too many user questions/suggestions is to use a 3rd party app - all of which want your current users to agree to share all their information...

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Plan Premium Country USA  Device All Operating System All   My Question or Issue  Spotify support's standard answer for too many user questions/suggestions is to use a 3rd pa...

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Solved!! Spotify doesn't play random songs outside of playlists

PlanFree CountryGermany Operating SystemWindows 10 For some reason when I use the app, Spotify randomly started to simply not play some songs. It used to also not show half of the content of random playlists or telling me they were empty all together...

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Plan Free   Country Germany   Operating System Windows 10   For some reason when I use the app, Spotify randomly started to simply not play some songs. It used to also not s...

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Problema memororia cronologia [ITA]

Plan:Free Country: Italia Device: PC OS: Win 10 Ciao con spotify sul mio computer ho il problema fastidioso che allo spegnimento del computer il programma dimentica quello che stavo ascoltando e alla sessione successiva devo cominciare ricerce ed eve...

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Plan:Free Country: Italia Device: PC OS: Win 10   Ciao con spotify sul mio computer ho il problema fastidioso che allo spegnimento del computer il programma dimentica quello che stavo ascoltan...

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Solved!! Playlists don't load fully on Windows 10

PlanPremium CountryDenmark Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue A lot of playlists only show a few of the songs on the playlist. This happens both to official Spotify playlists and community created ones. It works fine on my OnePlus 5. I'v...

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Plan Premium   Country Denmark   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue   A lot of playlists only show a few of the songs on the playlist. This happens both...

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Superuser Contribution Does Spotify play m4a files?

PlanFreeCountryEngland DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue

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Solved!! Spotify don´t play songs, can´t find them

PlanFreeCountry AustriaOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen i try to find songs in my Spotify app... I can´t play them. It also don´t show me the title or de Picture of the Title. When i go in my safed songs, it´s loading like 5 minute...

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Plan Free Country  Austria Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue When i try to find songs in my Spotify app... I can´t play them. It also don´t show me the title or de ...

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Solved!! Spotify doesn't play anything.

PlanPremiumCountrySouth AfricaDevice Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Each day Spotify doesn't play anything. I have to uninstall and reinstall the client each and every day. This happens across multiple PC's running different versions...

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Plan Premium Country South Africa Device   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Each day Spotify doesn't play anything. I have to uninstall and reinstall the c...

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the playlists spotify h[made for me dont show on my laptop

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUAE Devicelenovo yoga 520 and iphone 6 Operating Systemwindows 10 and ios 11.3.1 My Question or Issue when i open my spotify on my phone i have 6 daily playlists, release radar and a weekly mixtape and then when i open up my la...

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Plan Free/Premium Country UAE   Device lenovo yoga 520 and iphone 6  Operating System windows 10 and ios 11.3.1    My Question or Issue  when i open my spotify on ...

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