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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...
Plan/PremiumCountry IrelandDevicepcOperating Systemwindows 10 My Question or Issue I think I first signed up for Spotify via facebook, when I did Spotify imported a profile picture and has been showing it in " Your Discover Weekly". This picture is p...
Plan /Premium Country Ireland Device pc Operating System windows 10 My Question or Issue I think I first signed up for Spotify via facebook, when I did Spotif...
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PlanPremiumCountrycruithne Devicelots Operating Systemwindows 10 My Question or IssueAnother day another update another radio problemCan someone please clarify once and for all what on earth is going on with the radio (or lack of)There are posts ever...
Plan Premium Country cruithne Device lots Operating System windows 10 My Question or Issue Another day another update another radio problem Can someone please clarif...
Roadie
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lanPremiumCountry DeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I currently have a large number of songs in my library. It seems the only way to share them is to create a playlist. I have a couple specialized lists, but is there a way t...
lan Premium Country Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I currently have a large number of songs in my library. It seems the only way to...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryUK DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue Around two days ago I've had this problem, I've tried to play my music and every time I do the song plays with the prgress bar moving but no sound. My sound drivers are ...
Plan Free/Premium Country UK Device PC Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue Around two days ago I've had this problem, I've tried to play my music and every ti...
Roadie
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PlanPremiumCountryCanada DeviceIntel Xeon , very recent, 64 gigs of RamOperating SystemWin 10 My Question or Issue The installation of th desktop app is really long. Aborting the process takes even longer. This is really bad and makes me feel like ne...
Plan Premium Country Canada Device Intel Xeon , very recent, 64 gigs of Ram Operating System Win 10 My Question or Issue The installation of th desktop app is rea...
Music Fan
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PlanPremiumCountry FranceDevicePC AMD Ryzen 2700x 16Go Ram 250Go SSD M2 NVMEOperating SystemWindows 10 x64 My Question or Issue Spotify utilise 100% du CPU. Lorsqu'il n'est pas lancé, je n'ai pas de problème. Pouvez-vous m'aider ? Spotify use 100% CP...
Plan Premium Country France Device PC AMD Ryzen 2700x 16Go Ram 250Go SSD M2 NVME Operating System Windows 10 x64 My Question or Issue Spotify utilise 100% du CPU. Lorsqu'...
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Is it just me, or does Desktop Spotify keep crashing for y'all?
Is it just me, or does Desktop Spotify keep crashing for y'all?
Spotify Legend
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PlanPremiumCountryPoland DevicePCsOperating SystemWindows 7 and Windows 10 My Question or Issue This bug appeared in one of the recent updates, before there was not a problem.The situation is, when spotify is launched on windows, any change to audio ...
Plan Premium Country Poland Device PCs Operating System Windows 7 and Windows 10 My Question or Issue This bug appeared in one of the recent updates, before there was not...
Newbie
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Win7 64 bit - Desktop Spotify won't MAXIMIZE. it shows up on Taskbar, but no chance to show/use it in a window. uninstall/reinstall/restart the PC didn't help.no error-msg or so. any idea? thx
Win7 64 bit - Desktop Spotify won't MAXIMIZE. it shows up on Taskbar, but no chance to show/use it in a window. uninstall/reinstall/restart the PC didn't help. no error-msg or so.&nbs...
Roadie
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I can't explain what is causing this... and my virus/malware scanner (BitDefender) isn't picking up anything... but if i click anywhere in the Spotify App (windows store version), it pops open two new tabs on my browser which are obviously spam/malic...
I can't explain what is causing this... and my virus/malware scanner (BitDefender) isn't picking up anything... but if i click anywhere in the Spotify App (windows store version), it pops open two ne...
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PlanPremiumCountryIsrael DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I've set a folder in settings/(edit-->preferences...) --> Offline songs storage but I can still see bloated data folder on:C:\Users\Dekel\AppData\Local\SpotifyThe offlin...
Plan Premium Country Israel Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I've set a folder in settings/(edit-->preferences...) --> Offline songs sto...
Music Fan
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PlanPremiumCountry USDevicePCOperating System(Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI recently re-install my whole system due to harddrive replacement. I downloaded the desktop app and installed it. But after the installing process, the app would not ...
Plan Premium Country US Device PC Operating System (Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue I recently re-install my whole system due to harddrive replacement. I downloaded...
Roadie
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Hi, I am running windows 10 64 bit andI am having multible issues.Issues:High CPU usage (worse than chrome)"the application is not responting" ErrorThe application is very slowEtc... I am running spotify free: 1.0.98.78.gb45d2a6bMy specs: 8GB ram, co...
Hi, I am running windows 10 64 bit andI am having multible issues. Issues: High CPU usage (worse than chrome) "the application is not responting" Error The application is very slow Etc...  ...
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PlanFreeCountryUSA My Question or Issue Did Spotify remove the Radio? It was literally working a second ago while I was on Spotify. Now it only shows previous stations I’ve listened to. Music genres don’t show up either.
Plan Free Country USA My Question or Issue Did Spotify remove the Radio? It was literally working a second ago while I was on Spotify. Now it only shows previous stations I’ve li...
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PlanPremiumCountryDenmarkDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10Spotify Version1.0.98.78.gb45d2a6bConnectionWIFI (Ethernet)OutputDigital Output using Amanero USB Driver.Output settings2 channel 384kHz, with every filetype and quality winged. Physi...
Plan Premium Country Denmark Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10 Spotify Version 1.0.98.78.gb45d2a6b Connection WIFI (Ethernet) Output Digital Output using Amanero USB Driver. ...
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Please remove the ugly green tick that was added in the recent update. Clicking into a playlist to see if it was downloaded was perfectly fine and was no problem. Now I have all these green ticks beside playlist names.At least give us the option to k...
Please remove the ugly green tick that was added in the recent update. Clicking into a playlist to see if it was downloaded was perfectly fine and was no problem. Now I have all these green t...
Roadie
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How does this search "track:"four" NOT track:"fire"", give no results. I'm pretty sure that there should be at least a single track with the word "four" in it without the word "fire".
How does this search "track:"four" NOT track:"fire"", give no results. I'm pretty sure that there should be at least a single track with the word "four" in it without the word "fire". ...
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PlanFreeCountryLatvia DeviceHP 225Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHelp please sometimes Spotify lost internet connetion with happens only with Spotify. What can I do??
Plan Free Country Latvia Device HP 225 Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Help please sometimes Spotify lost internet connetion with happens only with S...
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So this problem occured today when i was were to listen to some music, so i clicked my playlist and it took maybe 1-2 minutes for the playlist to load so i could choose a song that was kind of annoying and a little bit after that i searched a song an...
So this problem occured today when i was were to listen to some music, so i clicked my playlist and it took maybe 1-2 minutes for the playlist to load so i could choose a song that was kind of annoyi...
Newbie
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PlanPremiumCountrySpain DeviceLenovo yoga 510Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I have a windows 10 laptop. I often have to go into meetings so plug in USB headset, then come out the meeting, take the usb headset out and THEN plug in hea...
Plan Premium Country Spain Device Lenovo yoga 510 Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I have a windows 10 laptop. I often have to go into meetings ...
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