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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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Spotify cuts out and restarts a few times during the first ten seconds of each new track

Country France Device DELL XPS i7Operating System Win7 My Question or IssueSpotify cuts out and restarts a few times during the first ten seconds of each new track, on every album. After the first ten seconds the track plays perfectly. This is a new ...

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Country France   Device DELL XPS i7 Operating System Win7   My Question or Issue Spotify cuts out and restarts a few times during the first ten seconds of each new track, on every alb...

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Solved!! "Can't play this song" ASIO4ALL driver issue

PlanPremiumCountryHungaryDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My IssueWhen I'm using ASIO4ALL driver, Spotify client refuse to play any music, when I switch off it's working perfectly fine.Any solution rather than turning it off?

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Plan Premium Country Hungary Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Issue When I'm using ASIO4ALL driver, Spotify client refuse to play any music, when I switch off it's worki...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify won't let me play anything in my library

For some reason on the Chromebook desktop app, I am unable to play any music that's in my library. I can listen to playlists just fine and everything else works, I've tried everything I can think of. I've shut down and restarted my computer, I logged...

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    For some reason on the Chromebook desktop app, I am unable to play any music that's in my library. I can listen to playlists just fine and everything else works, I've tried everything...

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Superuser Contribution Can't play the current song

PlanPremiumCountrySingaporeDeviceWindows desktop (self built)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHi Whenever i click on a song to play on my Spotify, it doesn't play immediately. The time stays at 0:00, and sometimes the album cover of the...

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Plan Premium Country Singapore Device Windows desktop (self built) Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Hi    Whenever i click on a song to play on my Spotify...

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Wrong songs being played - list of searched songs play in strange order when not in default order.

PlanPremiumCountry UKDeviceDesktop PC Operating Systemwin 7 My Question or Issue After searching for any song, when I sort the results (by title, artist or time), the song i click doesnt play, another song in the list is chosen, this also happens whe...

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  Plan Premium Country  UK Device Desktop PC  Operating System win 7   My Question or Issue  After searching for any song, when I sort the results (by title, artis...

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Stopping and Resuming song with 'Cant play the current song' notice

PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Song keeps resuming and stopping while showing Can't play current song notice at the top.Didn't have any issues hours ago but it's been like this for the past hour or so.Tried reinstalling an...

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Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Song keeps resuming and stopping while showing Can't play current song notice at the top. Didn't have any issues hour...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Albums no longer displayed in alphabetical order

Hi, I've already opened this topic ( https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Albums-no-longer-displayed-in-alphabetical-order/m-p/4570114#M65222 ) but I clicked on "accept as solution" by mistake and I'm unable to undo it. I'm a spotify free...

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Hi,   I've already opened this topic ( https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Albums-no-longer-displayed-in-alphabetical-order/m-p/4570114#M65222 ) but I clicked on "accept as soluti...

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Crossfade WITHOUT fades?

Operating System(Windows) My Question or Issue Having heard a few radio mixes lately where they fade into and out of tracks without a drop in volume, wouldn't that Be Gr8 on Spotify? It becomes totally seamless with about 5 seconds of crossfade! Any ...

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  Operating System (Windows)   My Question or Issue  Having heard a few radio mixes lately where they fade into and out of tracks without a drop in volume, wouldn't that Be Gr8 on...

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Superuser Contribution Start off where you left

PlanPremiumCountryNorway Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI have been a Spotify subscriber since many many years now. Although the music collection and device connection possiblitities are great, I've always found the UI to be hard to u...

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Plan Premium Country Norway   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I have been a Spotify subscriber since many many years now. Although the music collection and devic...

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Superuser Contribution Autoplay option missing

PlanPremiumCountry AustraliaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Autoplay is no longer an option under setting on the desktop app, anyone have a clue to where it has gone?

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Plan Premium Country  Australia Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Autoplay is no longer an option under setting on the desktop app, anyone have a ...

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Discover not working correctly?

I very recently opted to try Spotify. After poking around with some features, however, I don't think its working correctly. I use Free on Windows 7. I understand that the Discover tag in Browse is supposed to show you personalized reccomendations (th...

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I very recently opted to try Spotify. After poking around with some features, however, I don't think its working correctly. I use Free on Windows 7.   I understand that the Discover tag in Bro...

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Spotify doesn't play while talking on skype

PlanFreeCountry United States of AmericaDeviceLenovo Legion Y520Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue When I open the volume mixer while in a call on skype, the spotify sound is muted and cannot be turned on unless I leave the call. Please ...

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Plan Free Country  United States of America Device Lenovo Legion Y520 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  When I open the volume mixer while in a call on...

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Hmm, the friend feed failed to load

PlanPremiumCountryUnited Kingdom DeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueFor some reason i've been having the error ' hmm, the friend feed failed to load' for some months now with no way ive found of fixing it. ive tried logging o...

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Plan Premium Country United Kingdom   Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue For some reason i've been having the error ' hmm, the friend feed failed t...

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Edit Discover Weekly Category

How would I just remove a whole genre?I amm 45 so 'Rap Caviar' or 'The Newness' will never be my taste so can I just remove and see if other songs can show up?

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  How would I just remove a whole genre? I amm 45 so 'Rap Caviar' or 'The Newness' will never be my taste so can I just remove and see if other songs can show up?

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Autoplay not showing up as an option at all to turn on or off on the web app

PlanPremiumCountryUSA Operating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue Spotify updated. Not sure if that is what caused it but I was listening and noticed it stopped autoplaying. I went into settings to make sure it was on or toggle in off and on and A...

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  Plan Premium Country USA  Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue  Spotify updated. Not sure if that is what caused it but I was listening and noticed it stop...

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Songs keep breaking up

PlanPremiumCountry MexicoDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue Hi, All songs I play in my client windows application just keep breaking up, I have tried to reinstall but it did not work. It's really annnoying.

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  Plan Premium Country  Mexico Device PC Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue  Hi, All songs I play in my client windows application just keep breaking up,...

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Superuser Contribution Podcasts Do Not Sort by New Episodes

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceLonovo ThinkPadOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue On the android app, when I go to the podcasts in my library, it is very easy to sort by ones that have most recently added new episodes - Your Library>Podcasts...

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Plan Premium Country USA  Device Lonovo ThinkPad Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  On the android app, when I go to the podcasts in my library, it is very e...

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What's new in 1.0.89.313.g34a58dea?

Spotify just updated to version 1.0.89.313.g34a58dea. Where's the change log?

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  Spotify just updated to version 1.0.89.313.g34a58dea. Where's the change log?

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Solved!! Songs not playing

PlanFreeCountryuk Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I have recently removed lots of Local files from my PC. Not spotify will not stream those songs (Spotify cant play right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it) T...

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Plan Free Country uk   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue   I have recently removed lots of Local files from my PC. Not spotify will not stream those songs (S...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify keeps stopping and resume playing music randomly

Plan PremiumCountry Iceland DeviceDell Latitude Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I have been listening to music while working on this computer for about a month now. At first it was no problem. Just recently Spotify decides to pause my...

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  Plan Premium Country Iceland   Device Dell Latitude  Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I have been listening to music while working on...

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