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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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MIKAAAAEL

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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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All saved songs are gone

PlanFreeCountry USADeviceDesktop ComputerOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I was having an issue with followed friends' music history not showing up in the side-bar, so I was doing trouble-shooting things like uninstall/reinstall, and u...

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Plan Free Country  USA Device Desktop Computer Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I was having an issue with followed friends' music history not showing up i...

nukeysenpai

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Solved!! No Form of Spotify is working on my pc

PlanPremiumCountryUK Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSpotify is not working on my pc at all I have uninstalled and re-installed twice already and it is currently uninstalled. However, the web player is not working either. I have no Ide...

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  Plan Premium Country UK    Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Spotify is not working on my pc at all I have uninstalled and re-installed twice already ...

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Sorting in Search Results

PlanUnlimited.Country USADevice(PC Computer)Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Why is the sort (by title/artist/album/time, etc.) within searches no longer working? Also, what about filtering results...? It worked yesterday - then a new...

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Plan Unlimited. Country  USA Device (PC Computer) Operating System  Windows 10   My Question or Issue   Why is the sort (by title/artist/album/time, etc.) within search...

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Solved!! My playlists on my phone is now more up to date that the one on my two pc's.

PlanPremiumCountryNorwayDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue my playlist only has a couple of songs in it after i reinstalled spotify on my computer! Somehow i only have a couple of songs on my other computer as well even though i ...

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Plan Premium Country Norway Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  my playlist only has a couple of songs in it after i reinstalled spotify on my computer! ...

RICARDO1231

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[Windows] Universal App for Windows 10 (UWP)

Hello i have problem with my spotify Yesterday i was listening music and suddenly when i restarted my PC for a reason my songs doesn't appear in Favorite songs neither they were playing.It happens only on my PC app when im in my IOS App on Iphone 6 i...

Newbie

Hello i have problem with my spotify  Yesterday i was listening music and suddenly when i restarted my PC for a reason my songs doesn't appear in Favorite songs neither they were playing.It hap...

A_Musicophile

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spotify lag

PremiumCountry CanadaDeviceDesktopOperating Systemwindows 7 My Question or Issuei dont know why but my spotify is looping every random 3 seconds of any song Plan

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  Premium Country  Canada Device Desktop Operating System windows 7   My Question or Issue i dont know why but my spotify is looping every random 3 seconds of any s...

OneByBoo

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Spotify song list on the PC fails to update when new favourite songs are added via the Spotify Web P

When I fave a song on the Spotify Web Player it doesn't update my favorite songs list of Spotify on PC.

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When I fave a song on the Spotify Web Player it doesn't update my favorite songs list of Spotify on PC.

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"Favorite Songs" disappeared

Hello, All of my "Favorite songs" playlist disappeared, along with the possibility of "loving" specific songs in Spotify, after an update.Is there a way to recover those features? Now I can only "add" songs but it's not as intuitive as before. PlanPr...

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Hello,   All of my "Favorite songs" playlist disappeared, along with the possibility of "loving" specific songs in Spotify, after an update. Is there a way to recover those features? Now I ca...

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Spotify still uses bandwidth after Offline Mode is turned on

Plan Premium Country Norway Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My IssueMy internet is really bad, so while watching video tutorials with music in the background I didn't want Spotify to use up any bandwidth. So I switched on Offline Mode to o...

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Plan Premium Country Norway Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Issue My internet is really bad, so while watching video tutorials with music in...

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Some songs do not work on PC but works on Phone

PlanPremiumCountryNorwayDeviceiPhone XSOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI can not play some songs on my PC but works fine on my Phone (my friend have the same problem) Example On PC:I see the new Album an artist posted and I press play ...

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Plan Premium Country Norway Device iPhone XS Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I can not play some songs on my PC but works fine on my Phone (my friend have the same p...

KrisSs

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Can no longer play music on Windows 10 :(

I get 2 different errors when I try to play a song. Mostly I get "Spotify canot play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." but sometimes it jumps from song to song to song too fast for them to begin playing (not ev...

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I get 2 different errors when I try to play a song. Mostly I get "Spotify canot play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." but sometimes it jumps from song to song...

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Spotify GUI stuttering

PlanPremiumCountryFinlandDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 Pro, version 1809NVIDIA Display driver version: 419.17Spotify client version: 1.1.0.237.g378f6f25 My Question or Issue The Spotify client window, when moved, stutters and moves in a blocky f...

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Plan Premium Country Finland Device PC Operating System Windows 10 Pro, version 1809 NVIDIA Display driver version: 419.17 Spotify client version: 1.1.0.237.g378f6f25   My Questi...

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spotify no me reproduce algunas canciones en windows (NaN)

tengo cuenta premium, en la aplicacion del telefono no tengo ningun problema, en la pc hay canciones que no se reproducen, les doy play a es como si no existieran en la lista de reproduccion aparaece el simbolo "NaN" en la parte del tiempo de duracio...

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tengo cuenta premium, en la aplicacion del telefono no tengo ningun problema, en la pc hay canciones que no se reproducen, les doy play a es como si no existieran en la lista de reproduccion aparaece...

Mantisentil

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Lost all my song

Hey so i star my computer opened spotify and all my song and song in my playlist are gone but i can see the playlist name etc. On my phone i have all my song and everything works fine.I tried uninstallig spotify and reinstalling it and it didnt work....

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Hey so i star my computer opened spotify and all my song and song in my playlist are gone but i can see the playlist name etc. On my phone i have all my song and everything works fine. I tried unins...

Mantisentil

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Can't play particular song.

Country DenmarkDeviceSpotify apps across all platforms. PC/Mobile etc. My Question or Issue I haven't been able to play "Vicetone - Walk Thru Fire" for the last couple of months. It displays the error message "Spotify can't play this right now. If yo...

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Country  Denmark Device Spotify apps across all platforms. PC/Mobile etc.     My Question or Issue  I haven't been able to play "Vicetone - Walk Thru Fire" for the last cou...

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Solved!! Desktop Spotify can't play any songs (mobile works)

Plan - Premium Country - US Devices - iPhone 10s (works perfectly fine, has all songs) and Windows (doesn't work)Operating Systems - (iOS 12.1.4, Windows 10,) My Issue - The desktop version of my Spotify randomly stopped working, I can't play any mus...

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Plan - Premium   Country - US   Devices - iPhone 10s (works perfectly fine, has all songs) and Windows (doesn't work) Operating Systems - (iOS 12.1.4, Windows 10,) ...

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No songs in playlist

Hi, my spotify started by not playing any songs that weren't in my playlist and wouldn't add songs that I would add to my playlists on my PC but would add on my phone. A few days ago, no songs would show up in any playlist I would open. I have tried ...

Newbie

Hi, my spotify started by not playing any songs that weren't in my playlist and wouldn't add songs that I would add to my playlists on my PC but would add on my phone. A few days ago, no songs would ...

A_Musicophile

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Solved!! Nothing loads or plays

PlanPremiumCountry United StatesDevicePCOperating System Windows 10My Question or Issue I have been having this issue for a while but its been getting really annoying, It started off a couple months ago when i first got premium anything added to my p...

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  Plan Premium Country  United States Device PC Operating System   Windows 10 My Question or Issue  I have been having this issue for a while but its been getting reall...

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Songs wont load at all and wont play

PlanFreeCountry IsraelDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueMy issue is simple, spotify wont play any songs, buffers all of the time before displaying this. AND always shows this on pc. How ever i tried playing it on mutliple other n...

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Plan Free Country  Israel Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue My issue is simple, spotify wont play any songs, buffers all of the time before displaying t...

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Solved!! Not playing any song.

Hi! I use the free version of Spotify on a Windows 10 Pro PC. Whenever I tryed to play some songs nothing happened and they had no title or artist, as shown in the pic below. Now it happens on every song that I play, after reinstalling Spotify.

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  Hi! I use the free version of Spotify on a Windows 10 Pro PC. Whenever I tryed to play some songs nothing happened and they had no title or artist, as shown in the pic below. Now it happens o...

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