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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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earthbound

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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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Playback doesn't sync PC to phone (but does the opposite way)

Premium member. Windows 10 and iPhone 5. When I'm listening on my phone and I open Spotify on my PC, it shows the current track playing and lets me control resuming it on PC, pause/play etc. But - more importantly - when I'm playing on my PC and I go...

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Premium member. Windows 10 and iPhone 5.    When I'm listening on my phone and I open Spotify on my PC, it shows the current track playing and lets me control resuming it on PC, pause/pla...

Nico

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Playlists blank and songs not playing

PlanPremiumCountryUKOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueRecently moved to a Windows 10 machine, since then have had constant playback issues for most songs. Playlists open blank, although adding songs to then can provide the duplicate mess...

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Plan Premium Country UK Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Recently moved to a Windows 10 machine, since then have had constant playback issues for most songs. Playlists ...

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Search for my own playlists no longer working in Windows 10 desktop app.

PlanPremiumCountry USA DeviceWindows 10 desktopOperating SystemWindows 10 Search for my own playlists no longer working. A search used to list my playlist first, now my playlist is not included at all among the others. Has the process to locate your ...

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Plan Premium Country USA   Device Windows 10 desktop Operating System Windows 10   Search for my own playlists no longer working. A search used to list my playlist first, now my pl...

alkaplan

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Windows 10 App won't launch

PlanPremiumCountryUKDevice2016 Razer Blade 14Operating SystemWindows 10 - latest version My Question or IssueI am running the microsoft store version of Spotify. Since about a week ago, the app won't launch. Both the app and windows 10 are up to date...

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Plan Premium Country UK Device 2016 Razer Blade 14 Operating System Windows 10 - latest version   My Question or Issue I am running the microsoft store version of Spotify. Since about ...

Nico

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Local files aren't appearing on Desktop app

Hi! I have a Premium account. I'm playing Spotify on my Windows Laptop, and I don't see where I can add local files to my player. I have screengrabbed where my local files would normally be. Now, this is a new laptop, and I recently transferred some ...

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Hi!   I have a Premium account. I'm playing Spotify on my Windows Laptop, and I don't see where I can add local files to my player. I have screengrabbed where my local files would normally be....

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I can't get my local files on my iPhone

So none of my songs will sync to my iPhone from my computer and it is extremely annoying because spotify still won't put any of Lil Peep's old music on here but thats besides the point. I do not have a WiFi adapter on my computer so I use ethernet, h...

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So none of my songs will sync to my iPhone from my computer and it is extremely annoying because spotify still won't put any of Lil Peep's old music on here but thats besides the point. I do not have...

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Skipping songs and generally acting weird

PlanFreeCountryUnited StatesOperating SystemWindows 10 The issues started a few days ago. Basically, whenever I click on a song in an album or playlist when I first log on, it'll play and skip a few songs in the album/playlist that I was listening to...

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Plan Free Country United States Operating System Windows 10   The issues started a few days ago. Basically, whenever I click on a song in an album or playlist when I first log on, it'll p...

mosohodPeti

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Cover art bug

PlanPremiumCountryNetherlandsDeviceAndroid 8.0.0 Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThe cover art for my latest playlist are bugged. I've provided some screenshots. So Spotify can create automatic cover art for you, it basically takes the...

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Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device Android 8.0.0  Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue The cover art for my latest playlist are bugged. I've provided some scree...

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"Spotify can't play this right now." error message

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(Desktop)Operating System(Windows) I can't play random songs/podcasts on my work computer. I get an error message at the top of the window that say "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your compute...

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Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (Desktop) Operating System (Windows)   I can't play random songs/podcasts on my work computer. I get an error message at the top of the window th...

cristalopez

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Spotify Shuffle is terrible and needs re-development

Does anyone here besides me think that the Spotify shuffle method is complete **bleep**? I have a total of 36 songs, however, the shuffle only plays songs at the beginning of the list of songs that I have. It never plays the songs towards the end of ...

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Does anyone here besides me think that the Spotify shuffle method is complete **bleep**? I have a total of 36 songs, however, the shuffle only plays songs at the beginning of the list of songs t...

mynewplugbing

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Re: Playlists appear empty on desktop app

Hi everyone, I have the same problem, the last weeks I figure that I can't play some songs in Desktop app in Windows, like that files are corrupted, but all works fine in my phone app, now I tried to reinstall the Desktop app and now all my playlists...

Newbie

Hi everyone,   I have the same problem, the last weeks I figure that I can't play some songs in Desktop app in Windows, like that files are corrupted, but all works fine in my phone app, now I...

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Spotiamb 2.1.5 stopped working

Plan PremiumCountry CanadaDevice Compac PCOperating System Windows 7My Question or IssueI use Spotiamb in conjunction with the Spotify Windows Application. I found the Spotiamb had a much better sound quality and I could control it with global hotkey...

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Plan Premium Country Canada Device Compac PC Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue I use Spotiamb in conjunction with the Spotify Windows Application. I found the Spotiamb had a mu...

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Recommended Songs way off

Whenever I open up one of my playlists (one comprised entirely of Protest The Hero) the recommended section on the bottom of the list will contain literally nothing but Ed Sheeran songs.. I have to hit refresh a few times to eventually filter all of ...

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Whenever I open up one of my playlists (one comprised entirely of Protest The Hero) the recommended section on the bottom of the list will contain literally nothing but Ed Sheeran songs.. I have to h...

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Click-Searching in my Playlist

PlanPremiumCountryUSAOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI used to be able to click the thumbnail of the song currently playing and it would go directly to where this song was located in my playlist. Now, when I click the thumbnail, it see...

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Plan Premium Country USA Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I used to be able to click the thumbnail of the song currently playing and it would go directly to where this ...

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Lost "My Stations'

PlanFree CountryUSADeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueAll of the Stations that I created have all disappeared - over time the 'stations' were modified with songs I enjoyed - now they are all gone! Can I get them back?

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Plan Free  Country USA Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10    My Question or Issue All of the Stations that I created have all disappeared - over time the 'stations' w...

Nico

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Question about use of media keys with spotify.

PlanFreeCountry USDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSo, i know theres other posts similar to this, but i couldnt find any that could answer my questions. Anyways i was just wondering if the volume media keys could be used to...

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Plan Free Country  US Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue So, i know theres other posts similar to this, but i couldnt find any that could answer my ...

Nico

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Spotify stops playing after two tunes

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSpotify suddenly stops playing after two tunes.

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Plan Premium Country Sweden Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Spotify suddenly stops playing after two tunes.

Nico

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Browsing by saved album with new filtering

So i used to browse my Albums section to find specific album containing all my liked songs for this album. Now, if i understand correctly, album section will only contain explicitly saved albums and this album entry will point to an ENTIRE album, inc...

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So i used to browse my Albums section to find specific album containing all my liked songs for this album. Now, if i understand correctly, album section will only contain explicitly saved albums and ...

Peter

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Avira reports that Spotify has this virus: HEUR/AGEN.1036052

PlanPremiumCountryMexicoDeviceDesktop Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI started my computer today and Avira reported that it found HEUR/AGEN.1036052 virus at Spotify.exe. I haven't downloaded any software or made any changes to Spotify...

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Plan Premium Country Mexico Device Desktop  Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I started my computer today and Avira reported that it found HEUR/AGEN.1036052 ...

Nico

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Superuser Contribution Tracks wont load

PlanPremiumCountryFinland Operating SystemWindows 7 I'm trying to create some playlists but I keep encoutering the same problem/issue again and again. First I write name of the artist in the search bar and when the results come in I select all the tr...

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Plan Premium Country Finland   Operating System Windows 7     I'm trying to create some playlists but I keep encoutering the same problem/issue again and again.   First...

Peter

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