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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...
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...
PlanPremiumCountry IcelandDeviceAllOperating SystemallMy Question or Issue This is the 3rd week in a row which the same playlist has been in discover weekly (and I know it's the same one since i already disliked one of the songs that is still grayed ...
Plan Premium Country Iceland Device All Operating System all My Question or Issue This is the 3rd week in a row which the same playlist has been in discover weekly (and I know it...
Spotify Legend
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Whenever i play a song using search bar . the song will keep repeating . theres no way to play next song from my playlist ? so whats the point of having a playlist ?
Whenever i play a song using search bar . the song will keep repeating . theres no way to play next song from my playlist ? so whats the point of having a playlist ?
Gig Goer
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PlanPremiumCountry NorwayDevice(Computer, iPhone 6)Operating System(iOS 11.4, Windows 10) My Question or Issue My saved songs on my computer won't update. I saved some songs the other day on spotify on my phone and my computer just didn't care. I sav...
Plan Premium Country Norway Device (Computer, iPhone 6) Operating System (iOS 11.4, Windows 10) My Question or Issue My saved songs on my computer won't update. I saved s...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device Operating SystemWindows XP SP3 My Question or Issue I never had this problem before. I cannot see the artist pictures or cd pictures. I only see music notes, a mic or a grey cd as pictures. I have installed the latest a...
Plan Free/Premium Country Device Operating System Windows XP SP3 My Question or Issue I never had this problem before. I cannot see the artist pictures or...
Regular
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PlanPremiumCountry USA Operating SystemWindows 10/ ChromeRecently, I subscribed to premium and I wasn't able to play a single thing on my workstation. I am not allowed to download the app, I can only use the webplayer. Sometimes after 00:09 of playin...
Plan Premium Country USA Operating System Windows 10/ Chrome Recently, I subscribed to premium and I wasn't able to play a single thing on my workstation. I am not allowed to down...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry SwedenDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Hi there, yesterday I spilled some water right where my FN key is, and I cleaned it up immediately, dried it etc.However after a shortwhile my FN key started being ...
Plan Free/Premium Country Sweden Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hi there, yesterday I spilled some water right where my FN key is, and I clean...
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PlanPremiumCountry DevicePCOperating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Spotify adds wrong track to que, playlist. When: Search part of the song. Choose right track and version in advanced results. Double check, that cursor is right line.Add. Res...
Plan Premium Country Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Spotify adds wrong track to que, playlist. When: Search part of th...
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PlanPremiumCountry United StatesDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI use spotify through voicemeeter to control the volume for my stream so I don't have to hear it, but it still plays. Recently it has started just randomly stoppin...
Plan Premium Country United States Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I use spotify through voicemeeter to control the volume for my stream so I...
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PlanFreeCountry FRANCEDeviceHP Pavilion 17 Notebook PC -> Numéro de : (série) 5CD3421T2C / (produit) D9W07EA#ABFOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueBonjour / Bonsoir, au lancement de Spotify (Windows 10) j'ai un BSOD qui rend l'application ...
Plan Free Country FRANCE Device HP Pavilion 17 Notebook PC -> Numéro de : (série) 5CD3421T2C / (produit) D9W07EA#ABF Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Bonjour /...
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Plan: PremiumDevice: PCOperating System: Windows 10 Spotify is only showing 20 songs from "Your Library" > "Songs", and I have to restart the app twice to fix it, but some minutes later it happens again EDIT: If I click on "Artist", "Song", "Album" o...
Plan: Premium Device: PC Operating System: Windows 10 Spotify is only showing 20 songs from "Your Library" > "Songs", and I have to restart the app twice to fix it, but s...
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For the last weeks, I can't log in into my desktop version of Spotify. It says that there is a Firewall blocking Spotify, and to change the proxy settings, and there's nothing I can do to log in. See attached screenshot. I usually use a Macbook, but ...
For the last weeks, I can't log in into my desktop version of Spotify. It says that there is a Firewall blocking Spotify, and to change the proxy settings, and there's nothing I can do to log in...
Newbie
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My Question or Issue How do I search / find a song / singer across ALL my albums and/or playlists ? I can see a filter function when I'm on a particular playlist - that's only for filtering within that paritcular playlist.The search function performs...
My Question or Issue How do I search / find a song / singer across ALL my albums and/or playlists ? I can see a filter function when I'm on a particular playlist - t...
Spotify Legend
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Hi all: before I start, there's an older, very similar topic on the same issue, but the website suggested I start a new topic. Link: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/High-CPU-Usage-amp-Memory-Leak/m-p/4441639 PlanPremiumCountryUS Devi...
Hi all: before I start, there's an older, very similar topic on the same issue, but the website suggested I start a new topic. Link: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/High-CPU-Usage-am...
Casual Listener
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I added my local files to spotify yesterday and I noticed that some of the cover art isnt showing for some songs. Some songs are fine and some arent, the thing is I have a different cover for each song. A cover will show for some songs but the cover ...
I added my local files to spotify yesterday and I noticed that some of the cover art isnt showing for some songs. Some songs are fine and some arent, the thing is I have a different cover for each so...
Composer
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PlanFreeCountry Germany Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHello!I've been having this issue for a very long time. Whenever I start up my PC Spotify gives me an Error saying "The Spotify Application Is Not Responding" while Spotify actual...
Plan Free Country Germany Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hello! I've been having this issue for a very long time. Whenever I start up my PC ...
Visitor
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In the desktop experience (Windows) or even the Android app I'd like to know if there is a way to do the following:I have some of an artists' songs on one or more (created by me or followed) Playlists. However, if I type the artist's name on the sear...
In the desktop experience (Windows) or even the Android app I'd like to know if there is a way to do the following: I have some of an artists' songs on one or more (created by me or f...
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PlanPremium Operating SystemWindows 10 I'm trying to listen to my own music in spotify, this is something I've done before a few months ago with the Local Files options to listen to some games' OST's and it worked. However now, it appears that I'm un...
Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10 I'm trying to listen to my own music in spotify, this is something I've done before a few months ago with the Local Files opt...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountry USA DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Hello! I have recently had an issue where whenever I launch Spotify, it automatically adds a song into my queue. Every single time I launch Spotify. It's a completely rand...
Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hello! I have recently had an issue where whenever I launch Spotify, it automa...
Spotify Legend
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PlanPremium Operating SystemUbuntu 18.04 und Windows 10 My Question or IssueIch habe mehrere Desktop Clients im Netzwerk und nutze lokale Dateien.Hinbekommen habe ich die lokalen Dateien vom Desktop Client in Linux auf dem iPhone zu speichern. Ist es...
Plan Premium Operating System Ubuntu 18.04 und Windows 10 My Question or Issue Ich habe mehrere Desktop Clients im Netzwerk und nutze lokale Dateien. Hinbekommen habe ich die lo...
Spotify Legend
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Picking up from the last post (in June) for this forum topic - playback using Spotify Connect is still randomly stopping when connected to Amazon Alexa devices like Dot and Echo and has been doing so since (at least) the beginning of 2017. During pla...
Picking up from the last post (in June) for this forum topic - playback using Spotify Connect is still randomly stopping when connected to Amazon Alexa devices like Dot and Echo and has been doi...
Roadie
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