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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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MIKAAAAEL

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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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bluehallon

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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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Superuser Contribution Fix playlist rendering issues

It seems that Spotify Windows has an rendering issues showing the playlists. Many are not displayed, only the playlist creator is shown, if mouse hovers over

Roadie

It seems that Spotify Windows has an rendering issues showing the playlists. Many are not displayed, only the playlist creator is shown, if mouse hovers over  

Kalmora

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"Show desktop overlay when using media keys" on Windows still showing after being disabled

Hello Everyone, when i'm creating multiple desktops on windows the function for disabling the desktop overlay when using media keys is not working properly.In order to make it work i have to got to the setting page switch it on and then off.Can you f...

Newbie

Hello Everyone,   when i'm creating multiple desktops on windows the function for disabling the desktop overlay when using media keys is not working properly. In order to make it wo...

jkildedal

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Song list (full) disappeared

Plan FreeCountry UKDevice desktop pcOperating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue:Within library my full song list has disappeared.It seems to have been replaced with favourite songs.My problem with this is that 'my songs' contained hundreds more ...

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Plan Free Country UK Device desktop pc Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue: Within library my full song list has disappeared. It seems to have been replaced with favou...

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Viewing Albums

PlanPremiumCountry UKDeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueOriginally raised back in Feb, no reply and now it's locked as old, so re-posting...---Some of us who grew up listening to CDs like to listen to full albums. I've in fact ...

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Plan Premium Country  UK Device Laptop Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue Originally raised back in Feb, no reply and now it's locked as old, so re-posting... --- ...

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Sort playlist alphabetically

Hi. Since 2012 people have asked to implement this SIMPLE basic function, i.e. being able to sort playlists alphabetically. Nothing happened and this is getting very annoying. I have a premium subscription and using the desktop client on linux and wi...

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Hi. Since 2012 people have asked to implement this SIMPLE basic function, i.e. being able to sort playlists alphabetically. Nothing happened and this is getting very annoying. I have a premium subscr...

Mantisentil

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Deleted All Songs

PlanPremiumCountry NZDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I accidentally deleted all my Songs under my library. Luckily they are a playlist. I was wondering how I would transfer the songs from my playlist to my library. copy/paste ...

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Plan Premium Country  NZ Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I accidentally deleted all my Songs under my library. Luckily they are a playlist. I wa...

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Unable to Delete Local Files

Plan PremiumCountry UKDevice Macbook Pro 2011Operating System OS X El Capitain My Question or Issue**Sighs*** I have read so many solutions to this and for me NONE have worked. I'm using the Spotify Desktop App and I cannot ......CANNOT remove any lo...

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Plan Premium Country  UK Device Macbook Pro 2011 Operating System OS X El Capitain    My Question or Issue **Sighs***   I have read so many solutions to thi...

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Problems with Windows 7?

I've seen multiple user's having complications using Windows 7. Anyone else running spotify on Windows 7 having issues at all?

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I've seen multiple user's having complications using Windows 7. Anyone else running spotify on Windows 7 having issues at all?

AndresQQ

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Spotify won't download

PlanPremiumCountryCzechiaDeviceDesktop ComputerOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI've been using Spotify for over a half of a year now. Recently, everytime I boot my computer, and start Spotify it tells me that updater had problems start...

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Plan Premium Country Czechia Device Desktop Computer Operating System Windows 10  My Question or Issue I've been using Spotify for over a half of a year now. Recently, everytime I boot ...

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Why isn't "Popular" sorted by popularity????

This has stumped me from the beginning of Spotify, and yet still remains an obvious question years later. On each artist page there is a "Popular" section, listing (presumably) the most popular/streamed songs by the artist. It's in some random order,...

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  This has stumped me from the beginning of Spotify, and yet still remains an obvious question years later.   On each artist page there is a "Popular" section, listing (presumably) the m...

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iTunes library to Spotify

Hi Guys, I have just signed up to Spotify after being a iTunes user for many years. I have over 10,000 song in iTunes which I wish to transfer over to Spotify but when going to local files nothing copies over... Please help as i am not sure where i a...

Newbie

Hi Guys,   I have just signed up to Spotify after being a iTunes user for many years.   I have over 10,000 song in iTunes which I wish to transfer over to Spotify but when going to loca...

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Unknown Error (Error Code 24) on Win7

Hello, My Question or IssueI've small problem Problem with the app on my PC. On my PC are two accounts, admin and guest without admin rights. Normally I use the last one.Since a week or so I get the Error Code 24 when I try to start the program, and ...

Casual Listener

Hello,   My Question or Issue I've small problem Problem with the app on my PC. On my PC are two accounts, admin and guest without admin rights. Normally I use the last one. Since a week or ...

Sebasty

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Start on windows, always starting with the SAME song.

PlanPremiumCountryNetherlands DeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I have set that Spotify starts with windows. However it always starts up with the SAME song in the queue. On my phone (Android Samsung S9) for example, if I pa...

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Plan Premium Country Netherlands   Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I have set that Spotify starts with windows. However it always starts u...

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Media overlay won't go away + other problems

I'm currently using the newest version of spotify premium (1.0.95.289.g342899da) on Windows 10. I've been experiencing some problems with spotify for the last month or so. I started noticing that the media overlay won't go away even when i turn it of...

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I'm currently using the newest version of spotify premium (1.0.95.289.g342899da) on Windows 10. I've been experiencing some problems with spotify for the last month or so. I started noticing that the...

stilitzkin

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How do I change the Discover Weekly playlist?

Hi there! I'm a little annoyed by the Discover Weekly playlist currently. At night, when I'm sleeping i have my instrumental playlist I made on all night (it helps me sleep) I have a few other playlists that are completely different, with songs with ...

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  Hi there! I'm a little annoyed by the Discover Weekly playlist currently. At night, when I'm sleeping i have my instrumental playlist I made on all night (it helps me sleep) I have a few othe...

Bethany_Dawn

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How can I play just one song!?!?

[The original post has been inexplicably locked - see the numerous messages there]The biggest problem with the unmanageable Spotify player is that I am just not in control of what is being played: it decides what is "up next".I have taken to playing ...

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[The original post has been inexplicably locked - see the numerous messages there] The biggest problem with the unmanageable Spotify player is that I am just not in control of what is being played: ...

jasjas

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Songs stop during the listening and play the next one

PlanPremiumCountryFrance DeviceDesktop computerOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Hi everyone, everything is in the title a song stops after a minute or so and automatically play the next one. I didn't see any subject like this one so if...

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Plan Premium Country France   Device Desktop computer Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Hi everyone, everything is in the title a song stops after a minute...

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Spotify won't play songs with videos on PC

PlanFreeCountry United StatesDeviceCustom Built PC, i7-8700k, 32gb RAM, GTX 1080Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue So, with the windows download version of Spotify, any song with a video will not show the video nor play the song at all, ...

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Plan Free Country  United States Device Custom Built PC, i7-8700k, 32gb RAM, GTX 1080 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  So, with the windows download versio...

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The annoying window is back! (BUG?)

The annoying window is back, but its disabled. But it still shows up. This happen after todays update.

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  The annoying window is back, but its disabled. But it still shows up. This happen after todays update.  

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Can't see pictures / only the left bottom one!

Ahoi there, I looked through all those posts about the missing covers. But it seems that all those reports are always about the left bottom one and in fact that's the only one I can see. If I visit the start page within the desktop windows version (a...

Casual Listener

Ahoi there,   I looked through all those posts about the missing covers. But it seems that all those reports are always about the left bottom one and in fact that's the only one I can see. If ...

VanFersen

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