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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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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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Solved!! EZblocker

PlanFreeCountry United StatesDeviceiPhone 7Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Well I've been using spotify since 2016 and got EZBlocker in 2017 and It's been good and all but now I think it's broken or spotify is trying to stop people fr...

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  Plan Free Country  United States Device iPhone 7 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Well I've been using spotify since 2016 and got EZBlocker in 2017...

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[Can't install Spotify] Use "normal" account instead administrator to install Spotify (?)

PlanFreeCountry SpainDeviceDesktop x64 bitsOperating SystemWindows 10 Pro My Question or IssueAfter I had the last problem with the songs in blank bla bla bla, I see that days after someone have finally solve it.But I had already uninstall it, and no...

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Plan Free Country  Spain Device Desktop x64 bits Operating System Windows 10 Pro  My Question or Issue After I had the last problem with the songs in blank bla bla bla, I see that ...

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"the migration of your data has failed"

Hello all, i'm annoyed. Because, i have a big problem.When i install, or i uninstall spotify (pc), i have this text : "the migration of your data has failed".I have uninstall spotify much time, but nothing to do. Impossible!All playlist are empty, my...

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Hello all, i'm annoyed. Because, i have a big problem. When i install, or i uninstall spotify (pc), i have this text : "the migration of your data has failed". I have uninstall spotify much time, b...

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Solved!! [Solved] Can't play searched music

PlanPremiumCountryCZOperating SystemWindows 10, 64-bit My Issue:dk whats the problem, I can play music from "Browse" library but if Im looking for some music through the input box most of them doesnt work. I got it on video for sure: It also pops up ...

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Plan Premium Country CZ Operating System Windows 10, 64-bit   My Issue: dk whats the problem, I can play music from "Browse" library but if Im looking for some music through the input bo...

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Solved!! I CAN'T PLAY ALL THE SONGS ON MY PC SPOTIFY

PlanFreeCountry Hong KongDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI downloaded spotify on mircosoft store, i login my account but can't play the song, all the playlist don't show songs, please help, thank you

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Plan Free Country  Hong Kong Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I downloaded spotify on mircosoft store, i login my account but can't play the song, all ...

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Solved!! Some songs wont play

PlanFreeCountry U.SDeviceDesktop Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Some songs wont play and it'll show the "local file" image. Songs in my playlist work fine, but I cant listen to any some songs outside of my playlist. I have uninstalle...

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  Plan Free Country  U.S Device Desktop  Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Some songs wont play and it'll show the "local file" image. Songs in m...

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All my Music Disappeared in my playlist, and my albums are gone

All my Music Disappeared in my playlist, and my albums are gone. They still show up on my phone and other computers. But not on my main pc, is there anyway to fix this? Even the Spotfiy made playlists have no songs.

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All my Music Disappeared in my playlist, and my albums are gone. They still show up on my phone and other computers. But not on my main pc, is there anyway to fix this? Even the Spotfiy made playlist...

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Go to browse and won't play anything

I'm using Win10 I've tried uninstall reinstall turning off cross fading and Hardware acceleration and restarting my PC entirely.. just says go to browse when on song, artist, album, station, video, and podcast.. idk what to do at this point.. Also wo...

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I'm using Win10 I've tried uninstall reinstall turning off cross fading and Hardware acceleration and restarting my PC entirely.. just says go to browse when on song, artist, album, station, video, a...

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(detailed issue) Certain songs can't play in spotify

PlanFreeCountry SwedenDevice(Huawei mate 10 pro)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue As title says. For example, if I go into any artist literally (No examples needed, literally any artist at all) and pick a song, sometimes it's able to pl...

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Plan Free Country  Sweden Device (Huawei mate 10 pro) Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  As title says. For example, if I go into any artist literally (No ex...

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Can't use space when typing in playlist

Country USA Device MSI Laptop Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI click into my playlist and try to search for a song, however every time I hit the spacebar pauses the song, as opposed to allowing me to type the next word in the song tit...

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  Country  USA   Device   MSI Laptop   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I click into my playlist and try to search for a song, however ever...

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All Spotify Playlists Empty - User fix does not work

I have seen the fixes to open notepad as admin - open "notes" and delete the spotify related strings, but I dont have any of those in my notes. Tried to reinstall 5 times. PlanPremiumCountryNA DeviceWindows 10 PC My Question or Issue: As stated

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I have seen the fixes to open notepad as admin - open "notes" and delete the spotify related strings, but I dont have any of those in my notes.   Tried to reinstall 5 times.    Pla...

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Desktop does not work whatsoever.

Spotify on my desktop refuses to play anything other than the playlist I created. When I search for a song it does not play, adding songs to my playlist does not actually add them, and the daily mix has gaps where songs should be. I have deleted and ...

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Spotify on my desktop refuses to play anything other than the playlist I created. When I search for a song it does not play, adding songs to my playlist does not actually add them, and the daily mix ...

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Spotamb 0.2.1 stops music

PlanPremiumCountryGermanDeviceDestop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI'm running Spotify over the Spotiamb 0.2.1. The music breaks off after a few seconds. I have already reinstalled everything, as it is described here in other posts...

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Plan Premium Country German Device Destop PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I'm running Spotify over the Spotiamb 0.2.1. The music breaks off after a few seconds. I...

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Solved!! Unable to play songs on desktop . Discover Weekly list is not working well

PlanFree/PremiumDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIssue (s):Some of the songs are not able to play. Screenshot below Release Radar / Discover Weekly doesn't update or has only few songs compared to what I have when I am usin...

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Plan Free/Premium Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Issue (s): Some of the songs are not able to play. Screenshot below   Release Radar / Disc...

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Solved!! Songs not playing on Windows client

PlanPremium for StudentsCountryItalyDeviceDesktop computerOperating SystemWindows 10 Pro x64 My Question or IssueA few days ago I noticed that I can only play the tracks I saved from various artists. If I try to reproduce any other track the player s...

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Plan Premium for Students Country Italy Device Desktop computer Operating System Windows 10 Pro x64   My Question or Issue A few days ago I noticed that I can only play the tracks I sa...

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Repeat One turning off with selection of new song

PlanPremium On Spotify desktop for Windows, but also for all other environments, the repeat one functionality seems odd to me. When repeat one is on and a new song is selected, the selection turns to just repeat (which just ensures that music keeps p...

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Plan Premium   On Spotify desktop for Windows, but also for all other environments, the repeat one functionality seems odd to me. When repeat one is on and a new song is selected, t...

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Banning accounts

I use the ad blocker in my browsers, adboclk.Does he enter into the new policy of banning accounts for the use of blockers?

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    I use the ad blocker in my browsers, adboclk.Does he enter into the new policy of banning accounts for the use of blockers?    

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HELP, songs won't play on desktop app, only on phone

Premium user who has a lot of playlists. All of my songs played an hour ago and I've played them for years, but my computer just crashed and when I rebooted all the songs added to playlists on the same date through ITunes playlist import no longer pl...

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Premium user who has a lot of playlists.  All of my songs played an hour ago and I've played them for years, but my computer just crashed and when I rebooted all the songs added to playlists on ...

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Solved!! I can't play any song and all playlist song are deleted

I have some hours without music, I can't play any song and all playlist are empty.I already unistall and install twice times and it doesn't work.I try to play on the web version and it doesn't work as well. I can play on my iphone normally but no in ...

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I have some hours without music, I can't play any song and all playlist are empty. I already unistall and install twice times and it doesn't work. I try to play on the web version and it ...

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