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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!! Desktop: Jam now available

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...

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Desktop: New "Now Playing View" sidebar

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...

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New Your Library sidebar

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...

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Cant play music after ads

PlanFreeCountry United StatesDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueWhen im listening to music on spotify and then ads play, after the ads i cant play music again. When i click on a song to play it says the selected song will be p...

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  Plan Free Country  United States Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When im listening to music on spotify and then ads play, after the ads i cant pl...

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Spotify Program on windows 10 always force close

PlanPremiumCountry IndonesiaDeviceHP Pavalion dv6Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I have tried all methods from moving folders to Program files (x86) and other methods, all of them end up in force close. sometimes the application will ...

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Plan Premium Country  Indonesia Device HP Pavalion dv6 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I have tried all methods from moving folders to Program files (x86)...

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Crashing on Win 10 without user interaction

PlanPremiumCountry United States of AmericaDeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Issue Since the latest update to Spotify, the application will crash at random times while playing podcasts, shutting itself down unexpectedly. This occurs after the...

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Plan Premium Country  United States of America Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Issue  Since the latest update to Spotify, the application will crash at random ...

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Spotify... Microsoft version

So see heres tthe thing i dont want Spotify microsoft version, but when i download it from the website it says "migrating data" and moves all the files to the microsoft version. Please help. Ty alot.

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    So see heres tthe thing i dont want Spotify microsoft version, but when i download it from the website it says "migrating data" and moves all the files to the microsoft vers...

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When I listen to a song on pc, I actually listen to another song.

PlanFreeCountry ItalyDeviceSamsung Galaxy J7 2017 & ASUS ROG STRIX GL753VEOperating SystemAndroid 8.1.0 & Windows 10My Question or Issue Hi Community!My problem is about listening to my music. When I listen to Afterparty (https://open.spotify.com/tra...

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Plan Free Country  Italy Device Samsung Galaxy J7 2017 & ASUS ROG STRIX GL753VE Operating System Android 8.1.0 & Windows 10 My Question or Issue  Hi Community! My problem ...

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error code 13 for Windows 7, again

I've been running Free Spotify on my 64-bit Windows 7 Dell (in the UK) without a problem for some time. (Occasionally when I've run it, it first tells me that it's installing Spotify: I presume it was downloading updates.) Earlier this week, that pro...

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I've been running Free Spotify on my 64-bit Windows 7 Dell (in the UK) without a problem for some time.  (Occasionally when I've run it, it first tells me that it's installing Spotify: I pr...

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iPhone Spotify Pauses When I Open Spotify on Windows PC

PlanPremiumCountry United StatesDeviceiPhone XOperating SystemiOS 12 My Question or Issue Everytime I open spotify on my computer while listening to music on my iphone, the iphone pauses the music. When I attempt to press play on my phone, it begins ...

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Plan Premium Country  United States Device iPhone X Operating System iOS 12   My Question or Issue  Everytime I open spotify on my computer while listening to music on my iph...

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My "Your Library" is without Podcasts

PlanPremiumDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue In my "YOUR LIBRARY", is the menu Podcast missing, how do I get that menu back?

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Plan Premium Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  In my "YOUR LIBRARY", is the menu Podcast missing, how do I get that menu back?

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Duda playlists órden alfabético.

PlanPremiumCountry DevicePCOperating SystemWindows7 My Question or Issue Al guardar albums en carpetas de playlists, algunos aparecen con autor primero y otros con título primero, lo cuál es un problema para ordenarlos por orden alfabético. Es esto m...

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Plan Premium Country   Device PC Operating System Windows7   My Question or Issue  Al guardar albums en carpetas de playlists, algunos aparecen con autor primero y otros con ...

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Superuser Contribution Podcasts don't appear in W10 app

PlanPremiumCountry FranceDevicePCOperating SystemW10 My Question or Issue Hi, The podcasts section doesn't appear on my desktop app. It appear on my phone but not on my PC anymore. I have to search podcast to play episodes. Tanks.

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Plan Premium Country  France Device PC Operating System W10   My Question or Issue  Hi,   The podcasts section doesn't appear on my desktop app. It appear on my phone ...

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Spotify wrapped sorting

My Question or Issue On the phone, when sorting a playlist we have multiple options to sort e.g. By song name, artist, length of song, custom, etc.On the desktop you can only sort by the cateogies of the columns, meaning there is no option to sort by...

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  My Question or Issue  On the phone, when sorting a playlist we have multiple options to sort e.g. By song name, artist, length of song, custom, etc. On the desktop you can only sor...

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[Troubleshooting] Spotify keeps muting itself during skype screen and sound share

PlanPremiumCountry USADeviceLenovo Ideapad 320Operating SystemWindows 10 Home My Question or Issue I am playing spotify but after I pause a song, it may decide to mute itself, but when I try to unmute it in volume mixer, it doesn't unmute, I restart ...

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Plan Premium Country  USA Device Lenovo Ideapad 320 Operating System Windows 10 Home   My Question or Issue  I am playing spotify but after I pause a song, it may decide to m...

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Please unlink my Facebook Account

Hi, I am a Premium member living in the US. When I first created this Spotify account, I used my Facebook account to create it. I have since deactivated my Facebook, and wish to keep it that way. However, I can only seem to login to my Spotify by rea...

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  Hi, I am a Premium member living in the US.    When I first created this Spotify account, I used my Facebook account to create it. I have since deactivated my Facebook, and wish t...

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Application crash when i used two audio output in same time

PlanPremiunCountry BrazilDeviceWindows 10Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue before the last update I was using spotify with 2 audio interface, one normal and one bluetooth (my pc has 4 audio interfaces). The spotify always played in blue...

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Plan Premiun Country  Brazil Device Windows 10 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  before the last update I was using spotify with 2 audio interface, one norm...

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FPS drop while on the Spotify Windows App

Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhile the Spotify window is selected, the fps drop significantly. It doesn't happen with any other window selected, only the spotify windows 10 app.

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Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue While the Spotify window is selected, the fps drop significantly. It doesn't happen with any other window selected, only the spotify window...

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Podcast not showing on Library

EDIT: Great just saw a post with the same problem...PlanPremiumCountryPortugal DeviceMacbook ProOperating SystemmacOS Mojave So, since yesterday, under My Library the Podcast option disapeared. I still have the follows on my regular podcasts but I ca...

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EDIT: Great just saw a post with the same problem... Plan Premium Country Portugal   Device Macbook Pro Operating System macOS Mojave   So, since yesterday, under My Library th...

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Spotify stops working when I lock my windows 10 machine and log-back in

PlanPremium FamilyCountry United StatesDeviceDell Latitude Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueMy job requires us to lock our computer when not at our desk. Everytime I lock my computer, whenever I return and log-back in I get the "can't p...

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Plan Premium Family Country  United States Device Dell Latitude  Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue My job requires us to lock our computer when not at our de...

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Superuser Contribution Desktop app not playing through bluetooth headphones

PlanPremiumCountry SwedenDevicePC LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I just bought a new pair of bluetooth headphones (Sony h.ear2 WH-H900N). I can pair them with my laptop, but I cannot listen to the Spotify desktop app with them....

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Plan Premium Country  Sweden Device PC Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I just bought a new pair of bluetooth headphones (Sony h.ear2 WH-H900N). I c...

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Sound quality between wrapped and application

PlanPremiumCountry CanadaDevice(PC)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or Issue So as I went to check my spotify wrapped 2018, I noticed that the sound quality when I play songs on that is much higher/(louder?) than the quality I have on my desk...

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Plan Premium Country  Canada Device (PC) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue  So as I went to check my spotify wrapped 2018, I noticed that the sound quality...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution [Playlists] See in which of my Playlists a Song is playing from

Hi, in previous versions of Spotify you could click on the song title that was playing on the bottom left corner and it would take you to the playlist (or artist page/album) where it was being played from. Now when I click on the song name it takes m...

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Hi, in previous versions of Spotify you could click on the song title that was playing on the bottom left corner and it would take you to the playlist (or artist page/album) where it was being played...

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