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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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[Troubleshooting] Windows

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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Cannot use Radio, Artist Radio or Friend feed

PlanPremiumCountry USDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue I am having issues with Radio and Friend Activity. When I open Friend Activity I get the error ( Hmm, the Friend Feed failed to load.) When I try and just open Radio I get th...

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  • Plan Premium Country  US Device PC Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue  I am having issues with Radio and Friend Activity. When I open Friend Activity I get the...
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Cannot remove an artist

So there is an artist on my artist page that I cannot remove no matter what I try. I am not following the artist and I have no songs favorited, saved, or anything from them. I don't know how they got in there because I do not remember ever even liste...

  • Casual Listener
  • So there is an artist on my artist page that I cannot remove no matter what I try. I am not following the artist and I have no songs favorited, saved, or anything from them. I don't know how they got...
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Solved!! Tracks skips to 20-30 seconds

PlanPremiumCountry PhilippinesDeviceDesktop, also happens in AndroidOperating SystemWindows, android Nougat My Question or Issue So when i play on loop a certain track on a single (only one track) it skips in the middle or around 20-30 seconds of the...

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  • Plan Premium Country  Philippines Device Desktop, also happens in Android Operating System Windows, android Nougat   My Question or Issue  So when i play on loop a certa...
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Solved!! Spotify username only shows up as numbers?

Plan: Student PremiumCountry: United StatesOperating System: Windows 10 My Question or IssueI recently downloaded Spotify on my work computer, and used Facebook to log into my account. Later on, I logged out of Facebook on that computer. Shortly afte...

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  • Plan: Student Premium Country: United States Operating System: Windows 10   My Question or Issue I recently downloaded Spotify on my work computer, and used Facebook to log i...
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Superuser Contribution [Discover] New Release Section for Followed Artists gone?

Before there was a category in discover tab that showed new albums from artists you follow. Now it's been gone for quite a while? Did it move or is it a bug or what?Windows Desktop client

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  •   Before there was a category in discover tab that showed new albums from artists you follow. Now it's been gone for quite a while? Did it move or is it a bug or what? Windows Desktop client&n...
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Superuser Contribution Get rid of ratings

PlanPremiumCountryMexico DeviceDell Inpiron Gaming and a S8Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHow can I get rid of ratings to songs in my playlist? So I can really shuffle my playlist and not be listenig a lot more often to the ones with ...

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  • Plan Premium Country Mexico  Device Dell Inpiron Gaming and a S8 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue How can I get rid of ratings to songs in my playlist? So I can ...
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Music stops after exactly 10 Seconds

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceFirefox on different systemsOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Using the Webplayer my music stops after 10 seconds. I can start a new song, but that stops too.When I change the device from webplayer to mobi...

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  • Plan Premium Country Germany Device Firefox on different systems Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue   Using the Webplayer my music stops after 10 seconds. I can s...
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Solved!! Firewall Error code 17

Hey guys, yesterday i wanted to listen to some music and couldn't log in, because i had error code 17.Here's the photo: http://prntscr.com/lep63pI tried some methods: deleting remainings from %appdata% and registry editor after uninstalling, dindn't ...

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  • Hey guys, yesterday i wanted to listen to some music and couldn't log in, because i had error code 17. Here's the photo:  http://prntscr.com/lep63p I tried some methods: deleting remainin...
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Solved!! Spotify Update

PlanFreeCountryPoland DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I have error code 17 and I installed old full installer. Everything fine but i don't have (or only I just don't see) a update option and my spotify looks ugly

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  •   Plan Free Country Poland  Device PC Operating System Windows 10  My Question or Issue  I have error code 17 and I installed old full installer. Everything fine but i d...
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Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it.

So i use spotify like everyday and all of a sudden yesterday every song was being skipped and individual songs get "spotify can't play this right now".I reinstalled it like 4 times now, turned off hardware acceleration, etc etc.The web player works f...

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  •    So i use spotify like everyday and all of a sudden yesterday every song was being skipped and individual songs get "spotify can't play this right now". I reinstalled it like 4 times no...
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Spotify on Google Home and Desktop only plays new songs on shuffle play.

PlanPremium for studentsCountry United StatesDeviceGoogle Home and DesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Whenever I ask my Google Home to "shuffle my songs on Spotify" or press the shuffle play button on Spotify for Windows in my son...

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  • Plan Premium for students Country  United States Device Google Home and Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Whenever I ask my Google Home to "shuffle ...
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Dragging music to playlist

PlanPremiumCountry PolandDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI can't drag any song to a different playlist or rearrange the order of songs. I tried reinstalling Spotify and it didn't help

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  • Plan Premium Country  Poland Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I can't drag any song to a different playlist or rearrange the order of songs. ...
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Spotify is on autostart and is freezing windows 10

As a result, I cannot use the PC at all. I have tried to quickly uninstall the app before Spotify get going but it does not do so quickly enough, Spotify starts and the whole thing freezes. It has been like this for a couple of days.

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  • As a result, I cannot use the PC at all. I have tried to quickly uninstall the  app before Spotify get going  but it does not do so quickly enough, Spotify starts and the whole thing freeze...
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adng local files freezes computer

PlanPremiumCountry CanadaDevicedesktopOperating Systemwindows 10 My Question or Issue Spotify keeps freezing my computer. I have a rather large collection and the program freezes the whole computer while loading it. I leave the program running in the...

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  • Plan Premium Country  Canada Device desktop Operating Systemwindows 10   My Question or Issue  Spotify keeps freezing my computer. I have a rather large collection and the pro...
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Solved!! Playlist's description is reverting

After I change my playlist's description on the computer, the new description is visible as long as Spotify is open. However, it reverts if I restart the program. My phone shows the new description for some reason. I've had this issue several times a...

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  • After I change my playlist's description on the computer, the new description is visible as long as Spotify is open. However, it reverts if I restart the program. My phone shows the new description f...
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Solved!! Interface Looks changed

PlanPremiumDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSince today, my PC interface of Spotify looks changed (I'm talking about the downloadeable program). The bar with the playlists on the left is enlarged towards the right greatly and th...

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  • Plan Premium Device PC Operating System Windows 10  My Question or Issue Since today, my PC interface of Spotify looks changed (I'm talking about the downloadeable program). The bar with ...
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Restarting filter in playlist doesn't play all the songs of the playlist

CountrySpainDevicePC, MacBook Pro mid-2012Operating SystemWindows 7, macOS MojaveVersion1.0.92.390.g2ce5ec7d My Question or IssueHello, I've noticed the following issue: I have a very large playlist that I use as a personalized radio (almost 6,000 so...

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  • Country Spain Device PC, MacBook Pro mid-2012 Operating System Windows 7, macOS Mojave Version 1.0.92.390.g2ce5ec7d   My Question or Issue Hello, I've noticed the following issue: I ha...
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Songs are queued every time I open Spotify

PlanPremiumCountry United StatesDevice(Desktop)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or Issue Every time I restart my computer, or phone or macbook, and open up spotify, the same 3 songs are always queued and I have to manually skip them every tim...

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  • Plan Premium Country  United States Device (Desktop) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue  Every time I restart my computer, or phone or macbook, and open up ...
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Solved!! Shuffle won't work casting to device after update in Windows 10

Hello, I am using the Spotify desktop app for Windows 10 and I have a Premium account subscription. I cannot get the shuffle to work anymore after a recent update, about 11/1/2018. I have seen older articles on this is issue that say to clear the pla...

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  • Hello, I am using the Spotify desktop app for Windows 10 and I have a Premium account subscription. I cannot get the shuffle to work anymore after a recent update, about 11/1/2018. I have seen older ...
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