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Solved!! How to permanently turn off smart shuffle?

PlanPremiumCountryPolandOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI just noticed that a new "smart shuffle mode" putting unwanted "smart recommendations" in my queue was added to my desktop app. How to turn it off permanently or at least make th...

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Solved!! Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I try to play a song I get the following error message "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it"I have tried all t...

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Solved!! Disable Video on desktop app

There no X or way to close or stop a video on Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.64.408.g0a9b557c

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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 ar...

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Solved!! Certain songs/albums won't play

PlanFreeCountry PortugalDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 This started happening about 1-2 weeks ago, where specific songs won't play, seemingly all from the same album. The albums I can and can't play seem to change from restart to restart too. Whe...

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Plan Free Country  Portugal Device PC Operating System Windows 10   This started happening about 1-2 weeks ago, where specific songs won't play, seemingly all from the same album. ...

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Spotify Automatically Starting On Windows 10 Boot

PlanPremiumCountry United StatesDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue The Spotify desktop app keeps opening on startup, despite me specifically setting the option to NOT open on startup. I've already tried uninstalling, rebooti...

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Plan Premium Country  United States Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  The Spotify desktop app keeps opening on startup, despite me specifical...

goatpimp

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify can't connect through Chromecast (via browser)

PlanPremiumCountryBrazilDevicePersonal Computer through Chrome BrowserOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Hello.I'm getting a lot of problems when I try to use Spotify through chromecast. Every time I try to stream it from my computer to ...

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  Plan Premium Country Brazil Device Personal Computer through Chrome Browser Operating System Windows 10  My Question or Issue   Hello. I'm getting a lot of problems when ...

lottware

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how to upload from MediaPlayer??

My Question or Issue Hey guys! I'm having a beast of a time trying to upload an album/playlist from Windows MediaPlayer into Spotify. I know I've done it once before, years ago, but just can't make it happen now...Can anyone help?

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    My Question or Issue  Hey guys! I'm having a beast of a time trying to upload an album/playlist from Windows MediaPlayer into Spotify.  I know I've done it once before, yea...

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Is there a shortcut to changing the volume of Spotify while the window is closed?

DevicePcOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI want to be able to change the volume of Spotify while I’m using a different program without having to either change the volume of the whole computer or go to Spotify to change the volume. If th...

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  Device Pc Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I want to be able to change the volume of Spotify while I’m using a different program without having to either change t...

Bittencourt

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Spotify wont play some songs

PlanFreeCountryUnited Kingdom DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue When I try to play a song that I haven't listened to before, it comes up with a blank song cover, no song title and author and the progress bar doesnt move. Been ha...

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Plan Free Country United Kingdom   Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  When I try to play a song that I haven't listened to before, it comes up wit...

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version 09.15.27.g87efe634 stopped working on a Windows XP mediaplayer

PlanPremiumCountry NL:DeviceMedia player embeded Windows XPOperating System(Windows XP) My Question or IssueI have version 09.15.27.g87efe634 running on a XP mediaplayer and it stopped working a few days ago. Spotify still finds the playlists, start ...

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Plan Premium Country  NL: Device Media player embeded Windows XP Operating System (Windows XP)   My Question or Issue I have version 09.15.27.g87efe634 running on a XP mediaplayer...

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Solved!! Songs won't start playing

Premium User - Greece Dell LaptopWindows 7 I'm unable to play certain songs on my laptop app, even though they normally play when using my android app. Changing devices from android to windows will also stop the tracks playing and changing from windo...

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  Premium User - Greece   Dell Laptop Windows 7   I'm unable to play certain songs on my laptop app, even though they normally play when using my android app. Changing ...

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Spotify doesn't play songs from search

PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueHey All!My spotify seems to be really broken-- not sure how, though. Whenever I search for a song via the search bar at the top, none of the results play when clicked on. I get the symbol over ...

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Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hey All! My spotify seems to be really broken-- not sure how, though. Whenever I search for a song via the search bar at the t...

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Can't Play Songs on Windows Spotify App and Browser Spotify

PlanPremiumCountry US DeviceInspiron Windows LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue So before you give me the generic have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling advice, yes I have uninstalled and reinstalled. I did it multiple times ...

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Plan Premium Country  US   Device Inspiron Windows Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  So before you give me the generic have you tried uninstall...

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Solved!! Spotfiy won't let me play available songs that I could've played before.

Before Spotify would let me play any song I want as long it was available. Now there are songs at random that for some reason won't let me play them. At first I thought it was songs that weren't saved to my songs. While that is somewhat the case, the...

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Before Spotify would let me play any song I want as long it was available. Now there are songs at random that for some reason won't let me play them. At first I thought it was songs that weren't save...

TheMaxynator

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WHY is spotify 8.57 gigabytes?

From what I've gathered from other forum posts, it's from Spotify's stored data. Why is Spotify storing that much data though? Is it storing songs? I thought Spotify only saved songs for offline usage for premium users (I'm on the free version). If I...

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From what I've gathered from other forum posts, it's from Spotify's stored data. Why is Spotify storing that much data though? Is it storing songs?  I thought Spotify only saved songs for offlin...

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Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it.

Plan - PremiumCountry - UKDevice - PC, Win 7This is a joke right? The file is a local file, how could I select it if it wasn't imported?This used to work just fine but now for some reason none of my local files will play.Loads of threads offer loads ...

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Plan - Premium Country - UK Device - PC, Win 7 This is a joke right? The file is a local file, how could I select it if it wasn't imported? This used to work just fine but now for some reason...

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Song to Song skip

My Question or IssueWhen I change the Track, Spotify skips up to the half of the next Song on one specific Spotifiy Playlist.

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    My Question or Issue When I change the Track, Spotify skips up to the half of the next Song on one specific Spotifiy Playlist.

Loxer

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Volume bug on Edge

PlanPremiumCountryRomania DeviceDell E5570 LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 - x64 My Question or IssueOn the Edge browser when using the web-player, if I adjust the player volume to a lower value, it jumps back to max after about a minute of listenin...

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Plan Premium Country Romania   Device Dell E5570 Laptop Operating System Windows 10 - x64   My Question or Issue On the Edge browser when using the web-player, if I adjust the pl...

OneByBoo

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Spotify artist page not showing all songkick dates

Hi - My Spotify artist page is not showing all the tour dates from Songkick. Can someone please help?https://www.songkick.com/artists/9638149-dawn-fadesspotify:artist:7gSzfBOFyUUwFrf0sgc2lB

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Hi - My Spotify artist page is not showing all the tour dates from Songkick. Can someone please help? https://www.songkick.com/artists/9638149-dawn-fades spotify:artist:7gSzfBOFyUUwFrf0sgc2lB

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Bug al usar la opción "aleatorio"

Hace un tiempo que me fijaba que al reproducir, me salia música sin información por lo que no la reproducia, si mirabas la lista de reproducción son como 5 canciones sin datos y la siguiente estaba bien. Así sucesivamente.Probé a reinstalar la aplica...

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 Hace un tiempo que me fijaba que al reproducir, me salia música sin información por lo que no la reproducia, si mirabas la lista de reproducción son como 5 canciones sin datos y la siguiente es...

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Solved!! Song will not play for me.

PlanFreeCountry USADeviceHP PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Certian songs will not play or add to my playlist.

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  Plan Free Country  USA Device HP PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Certian songs will not play or add to my playlist.

KMOX4

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"Create New Station" button missing

PlanPremiumCountryUSOperating SystemWindows 10 When going to the Radio tab, there is no Create New Station button as this guide says there should be: "Click Radio.Click CREATE NEW STATION.Enter a track, artist, or playlist, then select it to get star...

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Plan Premium Country US Operating System Windows 10   When going to the Radio tab, there is no Create New Station button as this guide says there should be:   " Click Radio....

Bittencourt

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Spotify still wont play some songs.

My Question or IssueAlthough my windows pc updated. The thing is still not sloved. As such i gotta keep reinstalling spotify when it does it. Also i get a disconnecting sound when i start windows.

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  My Question or Issue Although my windows pc updated. The thing is still not sloved. As such i gotta keep reinstalling spotify when it does it. Also i get a disconnecting sound when i start w...

KMOX4

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