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Can't play an artist's discography on the desktop app

Plan Premium Device PC / Android My Question or Issue This happened a few days ago. Normally when i clicked an Artist > Discography > Show All > And play a song, the next song was from the next album of the artist. Now, the next song is a random one ...

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Issue : no volume control in spotify when exclusive mode is activated

Premium member, France, Windows 10 64 bits updated, Focusrite Audio solo usb external soundcard updated, Desktop app updated I talk with the customer service, we try to solve my problem and they told me that it should be an issue that I have to talk ...

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Black Screen (June 15 2026 install)

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceDesktop PC IntelOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueFollowed clean re-install instructions after getting black screen at startup. Installed the latest June 15 version from the Windows Store. Ran once without p...

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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 are...

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Meu spotify nao aparece nenhuma musica nem album

Ola estou tentando usar meu spotify porem NO COMPUTADOR nao aparece nenhuma musica nem album esta tudo indisponivel, tanto no aplicativo do spotify quanto no wev player por favor me ajude...

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Ola estou tentando usar meu spotify porem NO COMPUTADOR nao aparece nenhuma musica nem album esta tudo indisponivel, tanto no aplicativo do spotify quanto no wev player por favor me ajude...  

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Random Pausing of Songs

PlanPremiumCountryUKDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSo recently my Spotify has started to pause songs randomly while I am playing games, however while I am outside of the game it seems perfectly fine. It's only started happenin...

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Plan Premium Country UK Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue So recently my Spotify has started to pause songs randomly while I am playing games, however while ...

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Problem with images of songs

PlanPremiumCountryMexicoOSWindows 10 My Question or IssueI want to know if you know how to fix thisIt keeps happeningThe images doesn't load I already reinstalled and it doesn't fix anything Please Help ;(

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  Plan Premium Country Mexico OS Windows 10     My Question or Issue I want to know if you know how to fix this It keeps happening The images doesn't load  I alre...

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FAMILY USERS OF SAME ACCOUNT

Hi there, I have a question: I downloud the app to listen music in my desktop computer but I have a family account. How do we change users? I want to listen to my music, but I can't find a buttom to change my daughters playlists to mine.Can anyone he...

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Hi there, I have a question: I downloud the app to listen music in my desktop computer but I have a family account. How do we change users? I want to listen to my music, but I can't find a buttom to ...

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Can't install Spotify

PlanFreeCountrySpainDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 7My Question or IssueI uninstalled Spotify one week ago and now i want to install it again. When i click on the ''SpotifySetup'' it doesn't finish and it shows me this message (Screenshot). I've tri...

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Plan Free Country Spain Device PC Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue I uninstalled Spotify one week ago and now i want to install it again. When i click on the ''SpotifySetup'' ...

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Unable to Play Any Track on Spotify Desktop Player

Plan: FreeCountry: India Device: PCOperating System: Windows 7 (64 bit) My Question or Issue Hello Dev Team and all users, I have just created a brand new Spotify account, installed Spotify for Desktop and tried playing songs but I am unable to play ...

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Plan: Free Country: India   Device: PC Operating System: Windows 7 (64 bit)   My Question or Issue   Hello Dev Team and all users,   I have just created a bran...

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Spotify Desktop Client is extremely laggy

Hello everyone, The windows 10 spotify client. I've been using it for several months now, on both free and premium plans, and the app consistantly sucks. Scrolling is laggy, typed letters take a second or so to show on screen, resizing takes forever....

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  Hello everyone,   The windows 10 spotify client. I've been using it for several months now, on both free and premium plans, and the app consistantly sucks. Scrolling is laggy, typed le...

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favorite album removed from spotify, can't stream it anywhere else

PlanfreeCountryunited statesOperating Systemwindows 10 My Question or Issuemy favorite album was removed from spotify and i'm unable to find these songs anywhere else. will it be back soon? included picture

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Plan free Country united states Operating System windows 10   My Question or Issue my favorite album was removed from spotify and i'm unable to find these songs anywhere else. will it be...

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Spotify will not recognize external DAC

PlanFree/PremiumCountry DeviceDesktop with aune DAC (32bit, 384kHz)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIf I have no audio playing on my dac for too long my computer no longer recognizes my DAC and refuses to play. The only solution I've fo...

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Plan Free/Premium Country   Device Desktop with aune DAC (32bit, 384kHz) Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue If I have no audio playing on my dac for too long my co...

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Solved!! Spotify not playing music at all

PlanPremium for family (roommates in this case)CountryCzech republicDeviceA desktopOperating SystemWindows 10 Pro (1809 update)Version of Spotify1.1.2.285.ga97985ef My Question or IssueHello everyone,I've been having problems with Spotify on my compu...

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Plan Premium for family (roommates in this case) Country Czech republic Device A desktop Operating System Windows 10 Pro (1809 update) Version of Spotify 1.1.2.285.ga97985ef   My Ques...

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Soundtrack genre shows the same albums from a year ago

PlanPremiumCountryChileDevice(iPhone 5S)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueThis happens both on my phone and my desktop PC. Whenever I navigate to the Movies & TV genre, the same albums show up and I have no way of changing them. What i...

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Plan Premium Country Chile Device (iPhone 5S) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue This happens both on my phone and my desktop PC. Whenever I navigate to the Movies &a...

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I can’t delete playlist

I have an iPhone X and a MacBook Pro and I’m trying to delete my playlist. I’ve deleted it from the desktop and my phone but it still remains as part of a list under my user name. I want to create another list but that list still remains after I’ve d...

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I have an iPhone X and a MacBook Pro and I’m trying to delete my playlist. I’ve deleted it from the desktop and my phone but it still remains as part of a list under my user name. I want to create an...

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Solved!! Spotify free issues

OK.Ive been using Spotify free for a while now on windows 10 in the UK. Last couple of days, I can't get it to work. The songs I want to play are available, I have tried turning off hardware acceleration, cross fade and everything else Ive seen in pe...

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OK. Ive been using Spotify free for a while now on windows 10 in the UK.  Last couple of days, I can't get it to work.  The songs I want to play are available, I have tried turning off h...

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Solved!! Pop-up Virus

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceHP EliteBook 8560wOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueHi there. Recently, for no apparent reason (I have not downloaded any suspicious files), my Spotify has been showing pop-ups for suspicious websites separate fr...

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Plan Premium Country UK Device HP EliteBook 8560w Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue Hi there. Recently, for no apparent reason (I have not downloaded any suspicious fil...

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The desktop application for Spotify is not working! (Win 7 x64)

PlanPremiumCountryTurkeyDevice(PC)Operating System(Windows 7 x64.) My Question or IssueThe application does not start at all, it does not show up on the task manager either even when I start it. At first, I thought it could be an update forced in but...

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Plan Premium Country Turkey Device (PC) Operating System (Windows 7 x64.)   My Question or Issue The application does not start at all, it does not show up on the task manager either e...

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Share songs with friends over Spotify???

Why can I not simply share songs over Spotify with friends WHO HAVE SPOTIFY? It wants me to use facebook or some other crappy social media platform. Am I doing something wrong? I feel like I must be doing something wrong, because this would be ridicu...

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Why can I not simply share songs over Spotify with friends WHO HAVE SPOTIFY? It wants me to use facebook or some other crappy social media platform. Am I doing something wrong? I feel like I must be ...

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Songs, podcasts, they all skip constantly

PlanPremiumCountryUK DeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSince Spotify updated to the latest version (1.1.2.285.ga97985ef), whenever I try to listen to anything it just skips every time, i've searched for various fixes for this...

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Plan Premium Country UK   Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Since Spotify updated to the latest version (1.1.2.285.ga97985ef), whenever I try to li...

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What is up with Images?

PremiumWindows 10 So, I've already linked a post here regarding broken playlist images. Now, I can't create a playlist with any image at all, as shown in exhibit A, where I tried multiple times both re-uploading and simply retrying the process.

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Premium Windows 10   So, I've already linked a post here regarding broken playlist images. Now, I can't create a playlist with any image at all, as shown in exhibit A, where I tried multiple ...

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Local files won’t show any songs

PlanPremiumCountry Device(Lenovo Laptop + iPhone XR)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueSo I’ve downloaded a video from YouTube onto my laptop via an MP4 converter so I could download it to my Spotify. It downloaded to my documents and I...

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  Plan Premium Country   Device (Lenovo Laptop + iPhone XR) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue So I’ve downloaded a video from YouTube onto my laptop via a...

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