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Discuss Spotify for Windows
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...
Having trouble with the Spotify desktop app? Here’s a step-by-step guide to help get things working again. What to try first Perform a soft reset (generally rebooting the device will suffice). If that doesn’t help, try a clean reinstall. Be sure to l...
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I have maintained a playlist of songs i like for the past 7 years or so. Recently i have been adding songs but they do not show in the playlist properly. If i click on the Playlist tab and then on the playlist, the same older version of the playlist ...
I have maintained a playlist of songs i like for the past 7 years or so. Recently i have been adding songs but they do not show in the playlist properly. If i click on the Playlist tab and then on th...
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PlanPremiumCountry USADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 Pro My Question or Issue When I have my playlist running automatically (Shuffle or Repeat Track) everytime it switches to a Local file song that I added to the playlist it stops playing and say...
Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10 Pro My Question or Issue When I have my playlist running automatically (Shuffle or Repeat Track) everytime it...
Newbie
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 build 17134.472Spotify Desktop App Version1.0.96.181.gf6bc1b6b My Question or IssueIn the last few weeks, spotify has been freezing my computer. The symptoms are as follows. Intermittendly,...
Plan Premium Country USA Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 build 17134.472 Spotify Desktop App Version 1.0.96.181.gf6bc1b6b My Question or Issue In the last few we...
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Seen this on a few other albums as well. I don't want to add them again, because then I'd have two, if I removed them and added them again I'm willing to bet the issue would still occur.
Seen this on a few other albums as well. I don't want to add them again, because then I'd have two, if I removed them and added them again I'm willing to bet t...
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PlanFreeCountryUSA DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI like to browse the lists made for my by Spotify. Discover Weekly has no issues, this is regarding the other lists. How do I delete items on the PC? I usually only use Spotify...
Plan Free Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I like to browse the lists made for my by Spotify. Discover Weekly has no issues,...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryArgentina Operating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue:When i want to ear a song appears "This song is not avaible", but i can hear the rest of album.Only this song cant play. Was deleted?The song is: https://open.spotify.com...
Plan Free/Premium Country Argentina Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue: When i want to ear a song appears "This song is not avaible", but i can hear the rest of ...
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PlanPremiumCountry DeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 Pro My Question or Issue. Windows version has started to default to Shuffle every time I boot the PC. I'm a premium user
Plan Premium Country Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10 Pro My Question or Issue. Windows version has started to default to Shuffle every time I boot the P...
Music Fan
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PlanPremiumCountryUS DeviceiPhone XS, Pixel 2 XL, WindowsOperating SystemiOS 12, Android P, Windows 10 My Question or IssueI've had an issue with my account not showing any 'Recent Activity' for several months now. I've attached screenshots that show...
Plan Premium Country US Device iPhone XS, Pixel 2 XL, Windows Operating System iOS 12, Android P, Windows 10 My Question or Issue I've had an issue with my account not showin...
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PlanPremiumCountry GermanyDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 7 x64 Sp1 My Question or Issue I set my system up. now i cant install Spotify. in my account i deleted my old sytem that was attached to Spotify.Got ideas?
Plan Premium Country Germany Device PC Operating System Windows 7 x64 Sp1 My Question or Issue I set my system up. now i cant install Spotify. in my account i delet...
Casual Listener
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Is it possible to permanently (or at least while playing) show the overlay that pops up when you use media keys? I really like it, and would like to keep it there permanently.
Is it possible to permanently (or at least while playing) show the overlay that pops up when you use media keys? I really like it, and would like to keep it there permanently.
Community Legend
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Not much else to say about this one, I was listening to music, went to bed, got up , put music back on only spotify refuses to load because of the error message in the title. Ive tried the obvious uninstall reinstall so no need to waste your time typ...
Not much else to say about this one, I was listening to music, went to bed, got up , put music back on only spotify refuses to load because of the error message in the title. Ive tried the o...
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Hello, I've been unable to install Spotify for Windows 7 for 2 months. Everytime I launched Spotify it said an update is avaliable, so I clicked yes, update. And each time it said: SpotifyInstaller has stopped working, so I just closed the window and...
Hello, I've been unable to install Spotify for Windows 7 for 2 months. Everytime I launched Spotify it said an update is avaliable, so I clicked yes, update. And each time it said: SpotifyInstaller h...
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PlanPremiumCountry DeviceDell laptop - 5510 Operating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue When I try to play a podcast on my laptop the timer does not move and the podcast does not play. This has happened over multiple podcasts now. I do not have th...
Plan Premium Country Device Dell laptop - 5510 Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue When I try to play a podcast on my laptop the timer does not mov...
Spotify Legend
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Selamlar, Başlıkta da belirttiğim üzere Spotify'ı bilgisayarıma yükleyemiyorum sorunu Windows 8.1 İşletim sisteminde kullanıyorum bütün programlarım güncel.
Selamlar, Başlıkta da belirttiğim üzere Spotify'ı bilgisayarıma yükleyemiyorum sorunu Windows 8.1 İşletim sisteminde kullanıyorum bütün programlarım güncel.
Community Legend
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So recently I made a new collaborative playlist so my friends in my band could add songs that we want to do play in the band, and for a little while it worked fine. However, after a while it stopped updating so I thought one of the guys had simply st...
So recently I made a new collaborative playlist so my friends in my band could add songs that we want to do play in the band, and for a little while it worked fine. However, after a while it ...
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PlanPremium My Question or Issue Hello, On my windows desktop my songs won't download (It only says "Waiting" next to the green bar), and neither will my playlists, even though there is an active internet connection. I've recently reinstalled the app...
Plan Premium My Question or Issue Hello, On my windows desktop my songs won't download (It only says "Waiting" next to the green bar), and neither will my playlists, even th...
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PlanPremium DeviceiPhone X, Windows 10Operating SystemiOS, Windows 10 My Question or IssueI've added may songs to my library in the past several days from my iPhone. On Spotify on Windows, they don't show up in my library, and the most recently added...
Plan Premium Device iPhone X, Windows 10 Operating System iOS, Windows 10 My Question or Issue I've added may songs to my library in the past several days from my iPhone. On Spot...
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I installed Spotify and it won't open. It doesn't show up in the task manager either (not for a second). When I double click it the only thing that happens is my mouse cursor goes "loading" for a split second. I tried changing compatibility mode, run...
I installed Spotify and it won't open. It doesn't show up in the task manager either (not for a second). When I double click it the only thing that happens is my mouse cursor goes "loading" for a spl...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountryNetherlandsDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueAs said in the title, for probably a week now Spotify hasn't been scrobbling downloaded songs to Last.FM and downloaded songs don't show up as my Discord status anymo...
Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue As said in the title, for probably a week now Spotify hasn't been scrobbling downloaded so...
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited States DeviceDell DesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 Intel Core i7 My Question or IssueI recently have been using a desktop for my spotify use as my laptop is currently unusable, however I've noticed I haven't been able to upl...
Plan Premium Country United States Device Dell Desktop Operating System Windows 10 Intel Core i7 My Question or Issue I recently have been using a desktop for my spotify use ...
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