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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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MattSuda

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Unavailable saved songs can be found through search

Hey everyone! Hope you're ejnoying this summer! I've noticed a strange thing with some saved songs I have. 1122334455I don't remember how I was able to put that song to play, as I can't know because the Radio Edit version is removed, but it showed th...

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Hey everyone!   Hope you're ejnoying this summer!   I've noticed a strange thing with some saved songs I have.   11 22 33 44 55I don't remember how I was able to put that s...

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Correct installation folder for Windows Desktop client

This is not an 'idea' actually, but I couldn't find any other feedback/ticket/issue reporting feature.It seems that developers are not quite familiar with Windows platform, as they use user profile 'Roaming' folder (doesn't its name ring a bell?) to ...

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This is not an 'idea' actually, but I couldn't find any other feedback/ticket/issue reporting feature. It seems that developers are not quite familiar with Windows platform, as they use user profile...

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Spotify Desktop App Wont load August 2018

PlanPremiumCountryItaly DeviceIdeaPad 300Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I have tried all the reinstallations, etc, and I am creating this thread because it's so frustrating paying for a service that is not working, it's been at least...

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Plan Premium Country Italy   Device IdeaPad 300 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I have tried all the reinstallations, etc, and I am creating this thread ...

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Désactiver démarrage automatique

Bonjour, J'utilise Spotify sur windows 10. J'ai beau avoir décoché l'option partout, spotify continue de se lancer automatiquement au démarrage de l'ordinateur. En cherchant j'ai trouvé plusieurs fois qu'il fallait désactiver "l'ouverture automatique...

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Bonjour,    J'utilise Spotify sur windows 10. J'ai beau avoir décoché l'option partout, spotify continue de se lancer automatiquement au démarrage de l'ordinateur. En cherchant j'ai trouv...

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Can't skip ads on Desktop?

PlanFreeCountryUnited States DeviceDel Inspiron 15000Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueCan't skip ads on desktop anymore. I used to be able to do this for free but now it won't let me.

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  Plan Free Country United States   Device Del Inspiron 15000 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Can't skip ads on desktop anymore. I used to be able t...

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[Performance] [Bug] Client unbearably slow on 1.0.88.353

With the latest update for the Spotify client, the client tends to become unberably slow after a good few hours of use. Just 10-15 minutes ago, I was trying to browse through my saved albums and songs, and stuff would either completely fail to load, ...

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With the latest update for the Spotify client, the client tends to become unberably slow after a good few hours of use. Just 10-15 minutes ago, I was trying to browse through my saved albums and song...

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Other people on my wifi using my spotify account

PlanPremiumCountry UKDeviceComputerOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I live in a houseshare, and I've recently noticed a few playlists being added to my account that I didn't add. I've tried logging out of all accounts and changing my p...

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Plan Premium Country  UK Device Computer Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I live in a houseshare, and I've recently noticed a few playlists being added to ...

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Syncing Saved Music Between Devices

PlanPremiumCountry CanadaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueHi, so I'm logged onto Spotify across two different Windows PCs. A few weeks ago, I reorganized my saved music and deleted over a hundreds of old songs that I no longer li...

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Plan Premium Country  Canada Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hi, so I'm logged onto Spotify across two different Windows PCs. A few weeks ago, I reorgani...

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Superuser Contribution Search bar not evaluating correctly

This issue happens on desktop (windows 10), android app and web spotify. If you were to input a resource on the bar, the term will not get evaluated, resulting in: 'No results found for "spotify:album:0WKeD3HWbimSq1MjE23htS"' On the desktop version y...

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This issue happens on desktop (windows 10), android app and web spotify.   If you were to input a resource on the bar, the term will not get evaluated, resulting in: 'No results found for "spo...

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Does not play the whole song

My spotify plays only the first few seconds of each song and then switches to another song.How do I listen to music normally?

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My spotify plays only the first few seconds of each song and then switches to another song. How do I listen to music normally?

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An artist i never saved randomly starts playing (and only this artist!!!)

PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueWhen i am on my laptop and spotify is open, an artist i have never searched for or never saved in anyway begins playing. I will not be playing any music at the time...

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Plan Premium Country Australia Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When i am on my laptop and spotify is open, an artist i have never searched for or never saved ...

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Superuser Contribution [Partnerships] Spotify on Apple Watch

PlanPremiumCountryAustralia Device Samsung Galaxy 8, pcOperating SystemWindows 10,etc.) My Question or Issuespotify plays fine on mobile but soon as i try to play songs from pc it says (spotify cant play this right now. if you have the file on your c...

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Plan Premium Country Australia  Device  Samsung Galaxy 8, pc Operating System Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue spotify plays fine on mobile but soon as i try to play s...

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Spotify keeps adding random playlists and songs to my library

Plan - Premium Country - Australia Device - iPhone 7+ My Question or Issue Hi I am a paying Premium customer. I am getting frustrated with spotify as it appears to be adding random playlists and singles to my library. On top of this, one of my playli...

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  Plan - Premium   Country - Australia   Device - iPhone 7+     My Question or Issue   Hi   I am a paying Premium customer.   I am...

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Superuser Contribution A large number of songs simultaneously became unplayable (region locked)

Plan CountryCADevice Operating System My Question or IssueA large number of songs in my library just simultaneously became unplayable in my country (Canada). After asking around, people in other countries are having this problem too but. Was a major ...

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Plan   Country CA Device   Operating System   My Question or Issue A large number of songs in my library just simultaneously became unplayable in my country (Canada). After as...

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Revert Heart Icon and Like Terminology

The Heart Icon and “like” terminology have now shown up on my iPad and iPhone and I feel this new language is illogical and misleading. I save albums/songs to “Your Library” in order to listen to it later. The + (Plus) Icon or Saved terminology makes...

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The Heart Icon and “like” terminology have now shown up on my iPad and iPhone and I feel this new language is illogical and misleading. I save albums/songs to “Your Library” in order to listen to it ...

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Daily Mix not personalized

PlanFreeCountryFrance DeviceComputer mounted (personalized)Operating SystemWindows 10 Pro 1803 My Question or Issue I do not understand how Daily Mix works, I was thinking it worked like a custom playlist based on what I listened (music and artists t...

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Plan Free Country France  Device Computer mounted (personalized) Operating System Windows 10 Pro 1803   My Question or Issue  I do not understand how Daily Mix works, I was t...

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Playlist only plays 99 songs forward/backward relative to first song played

PlanPremiumCountryUnited States DeviceWeb Player, Chrome Version 68.0.3440.106 (Official Build) (64-bit)Operating SystemUbuntu 18.04 LTS My Question or IssueI've attached an MP4 screen recording of the issue described below: When attempting to play s...

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Plan Premium Country United States  Device Web Player, Chrome Version 68.0.3440.106 (Official Build) (64-bit) Operating System Ubuntu 18.04 LTS   My Question or Issue I've at...

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Solved!! Spotify stops playing a song and crashes, must be closed in task manager, sound stays until reboot.

Plan PremiumCountry USA Device Windows 10 PC with desktop client. My Question or Issue I'll be playing my music and then it will stop on a song and keep repeating the last 1 second or so and then I exit spotify and close all instances of spotify.exe ...

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  Plan Premium Country USA   Device Windows 10 PC with desktop client.   My Question or Issue   I'll be playing my music and then it will stop on a song and keep repea...

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Playlist covers are extremely high contrast

Playlist art that I upload to Spotify is extremely high contrast. Any known fix?I'm using Windows 10.

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Playlist art that I upload to Spotify is extremely high contrast. Any known fix? I'm using Windows 10.  

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Solved!! Desktop (not device) 'Waiting' on Download

Windows 10, using the Spotify app from the Windows Store (or...whatever they call it...the metro apps...or wait, we can't say metro any more). I have the same problem as this person, but couldn't respond because it was old and closed (though..not suf...

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Windows 10, using the Spotify app from the Windows Store (or...whatever they call it...the metro apps...or wait, we can't say metro any more).   I have the same problem as this person, but cou...

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