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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...
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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...
PlanPremiumCountry UK DeviceDell LaptopOperating SystemWin 7 Home Premium My Question or Issue After years of successfully running Spotify on this laptop running WinXP when I received notifications that XP was no longer going to be supported by Spoti...
Plan Premium Country UK Device Dell Laptop Operating System Win 7 Home Premium My Question or Issue After years of successfully running Spotify on this laptop runnin...
Gig Goer
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I'm unable to add radio stations. I've followed guides on how to but in the radio menu there is no option called "Add radio station". Even when I open Spotify on my moblie device, I don't even have a radio menu at all. So is being able to add and lis...
I'm unable to add radio stations. I've followed guides on how to but in the radio menu there is no option called "Add radio station". Even when I open Spotify on my moblie device, I don't even have a...
Casual Listener
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Hey, In the last couple of weeks Spotify kept failing at updating. Everytime I started it, it gave it a try, failed and gave an error (it started normally though afterwards). So now I tried to reinstall to see if it solves the problem, but now it won...
Hey, In the last couple of weeks Spotify kept failing at updating. Everytime I started it, it gave it a try, failed and gave an error (it started normally though afterwards). So now I tried ...
Newbie
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PlanPremiumCountryCzech Republic Devicedell notebookOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHi. my problem is, that if i stop song in spotify, my sound just disappear. I can't play anything else just spotify ( if the spotify is playing some so...
Plan Premium Country Czech Republic Device dell notebook Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hi. my problem is, that if i stop song in spotify, my sound ju...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountryNetherlandsDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Spotify suddenly keeps saying "Cannot play this right now". Additionally, it keeps skipping songs automatically until there is none left and then gives same error ag...
Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Spotify suddenly keeps saying "Cannot play this right now". Additionally, it keeps s...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceMacbook pro 15 inch late 2018Operating Systemmacos mojave v10.14.1 My Question or Issue Here is issue, when I search for a song/artist/album, sometimes the text cursor does this (backwards). In the attached file, you'll ...
Plan Premium Country Canada Device Macbook pro 15 inch late 2018 Operating System macos mojave v10.14.1 My Question or Issue Here is issue, when I search for a song/artist...
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So I just released a track on spotify, and I know for a fact that people have listend to it, but it doesn't show on neither the artist website, the artist app nor the normal soptify app and website. Here's the link to the track: https://open.spotify....
So I just released a track on spotify, and I know for a fact that people have listend to it, but it doesn't show on neither the artist website, the artist app nor the normal soptify app and website. ...
Roadie
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PlanPremiumCountry USADeviceWindows PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhenever I try to login to my spotify account using the application it gives me the error: Service is temporarily unavailable, please try again later. (Error code: 2...
Plan Premium Country USA Device Windows PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Whenever I try to login to my spotify account using the application it gives me the ...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremium (student)Country SwedenDeviceComputer, HP Pavillion dv6 NotebookOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue I have my computer connected with the speaker through an auxcable. As soon as the auxcable gets removed or when I put it in, Sp...
Plan Premium (student) Country Sweden Device Computer, HP Pavillion dv6 Notebook Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue I have my computer connected wi...
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PlanPremiumCountryAustralia DeviceDesktop, Samsung Galaxy S8Operating SystemWindos 10, Android My Question or IssueSongs that play with no issue on mobile won't play on desktop. I recieved a message saying "spotify can't play this right now. If you h...
Plan Premium Country Australia Device Desktop, Samsung Galaxy S8 Operating System Windos 10, Android My Question or Issue Songs that play with no issue on mobile won't play on ...
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PlanPremiumCountry IsraelDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 Hi,I have a problem that one specific random song , let me call it X , cannot be switched, or turned off. As I said, no matter which song I choose to play, no matter which playlist it is fro...
Plan Premium Country Israel Device PC Operating System Windows 10 Hi, I have a problem that one specific random song , let me call it X , cannot be switched, or turne...
Spotify Legend
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So I've found an issue where if you transfer between playing the music on android to PC then the song currently being played will always start at the timestamp at which the changover occured. I'm using the spotify desktop application for windows. (in...
So I've found an issue where if you transfer between playing the music on android to PC then the song currently being played will always start at the timestamp at which the changover occured. ...
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So i added Be a king by E-dubble to my playlist through local files and after i listened it took up to 10ish min for it to turn grey and disappear from my local files so my Q is do spotify got a program in spotify that recognizes songs that are not '...
So i added Be a king by E-dubble to my playlist through local files and after i listened it took up to 10ish min for it to turn grey and disappear from my local files so my Q is do spotify got a prog...
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Windows 10 Desktop:Is there a way to further change/modify the display options?...view/width/positioning/location/size of each section columns within Spotify? And also select which sections we want to include in the view? It looks like we have very l...
Windows 10 Desktop: Is there a way to further change/modify the display options?...view/width/positioning/location/size of each section columns within Spotify? And also select which sections we want...
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PlanPremiumCountrySwedenOperating SystemWindows 10 64bit For a couple of weeks I have been getting an error message when I start my spotify. The error message says something about "updater wasn't able to start properly" so I uninstalled spotify and d...
Plan Premium Country Sweden Operating System Windows 10 64bit For a couple of weeks I have been getting an error message when I start my spotify. The error message says something about ...
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PlanPremiumCountry FranceOperating SystemAndroid 7.0, Windows 10 My Question or IssueI have multiple problems who start to annoy me and make me test other services : - When I add a song to my library on my phone it does not sync on my computer. - It ...
Plan Premium Country France Operating System Android 7.0, Windows 10 My Question or Issue I have multiple problems who start to annoy me and make me test other services : ...
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PlanPremiumDeviceWindows 10 PC and Xperia Z2Operating SystemWindows 10 and Anrdoid My Question or IssueI have just started following spotify's 'Enter The Jungle' playlist and everytime I click to skip the song, the next one does not start at the begi...
Plan Premium Device Windows 10 PC and Xperia Z2 Operating System Windows 10 and Anrdoid My Question or Issue I have just started following spotify's 'Enter The Jungle' playlist and eve...
Regular
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PlanPremiumCountry RomaniaDeviceAsus ROG G56jk upgraded to 8GB ram with 1tb HDD 7200 RPM and i7 4710HQ processorOperating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueHello Spotify community. I have a big issue with my app. Usually it didn't happen so ofte...
Plan Premium Country Romania Device Asus ROG G56jk upgraded to 8GB ram with 1tb HDD 7200 RPM and i7 4710HQ processor Operating System (Windows 10) My Question or Issue Hello ...
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I really can't believe I am still having to ask this question. The last 12 page thread on this full of people begging for a fix was marked as 'solved' (which it wasn't) and then locked for being old. Why is it I cannot cast audio from the Mac desktop...
I really can't believe I am still having to ask this question. The last 12 page thread on this full of people begging for a fix was marked as 'solved' (which it wasn't) and then locked for be...
Casual Listener
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In Windows 10, I use a headset wich my laptop sees as another speaker. Normally my Spotify would would go through my headset when i plugged it in but now it stopped doing that and it keeps going through my laptop's speakers. I can't find anything in ...
In Windows 10, I use a headset wich my laptop sees as another speaker. Normally my Spotify would would go through my headset when i plugged it in but now it stopped doing that and it keeps go...
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