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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2024-03-14 3:38:28 PM
2 weeks ago
James335
Casual Listener
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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2023-06-26 8:42:18 AM
a week ago
rednblu
Roadie
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278 replies
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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2023-04-28 8:08:45 PM
2023-04-29 10:41:16 PM
MattSuda
Spotify Star
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5993 Views
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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...

Goodman
Spotify Legend
2013-09-17 11:47:47 AM
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Track Times on Discover Weekly?

PlanPremiumCountry USADeviceDesktop, Spotify version 1.0.88.353.g15c26ea1Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I know this may seem minor, but I noticed track times are not a column in my Discover Weekly. They still appear in other playlist...

evanposters
Newbie
Plan Premium Country USA Device Desktop, Spotify version 1.0.88.353.g15c26ea1 Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I know this may seem minor, but I notice...
2018-08-28 6:05:14 AM
2018-08-28 7:31:04 AM
user-removed
Not applicable
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Songs wont play

for some reason it wont let me play some songs i've waited a week and still wont play

bizmax200
Newbie
for some reason it wont let me play some songs i've waited a week and still wont play 😕
2018-08-28 1:51:21 AM
2018-08-28 4:57:25 AM
Billy-J
Spotify Star
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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 ...

user-removed
Visitor
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...
2018-08-22 4:51:39 AM
2018-08-28 1:02:19 AM
user-removed
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2 replies
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Friend Activity Failed to Load for about a month straight.

Plan PremiumCountry Canada DeviceASUS LaptopOperating SystemWindows My Question or Issue For a month or so my friend activity has "Failed to load" Ive reinstalled spotify multiple times, restart my computer multiple times, and log in/log out occasion...

itsjenknee
Newbie
Plan Premium Country Canada Device ASUS Laptop Operating System Windows My Question or Issue For a month or so my friend activity has "Failed to load" Ive reins...
2018-08-27 10:51:03 PM
2018-08-27 12:01:04 AM
emiliocl22
Newbie
248 Views
1 replies
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Playlist appears randomly - songs start to play randomly

PlanPremiumCountryDenmark DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueFor some reason I get random playlists added to my spotify (once a day). The genre is always som kind of heavy rap. Sometimes the spotify app just starts playing random ...

Betho83
Casual Listener
Plan Premium Country Denmark Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue For some reason I get random playlists added to my spotify (once a day). The genre is al...
2018-08-24 2:36:44 PM
2018-08-27 10:02:12 PM
Sebasty
Community Legend
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3 replies
1 likes

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List of url's to Spotify playlist

I have a list of Spotify url's (in Excel), e.g. https://open.spotify.com/album/2Lflh9bJHEJaXeTqohNban Now I want to create a playlist with all these albums. Is there a way to do this? So far I have only been able to copy track url's and not album url...

Chevy93
Regular
I have a list of Spotify url's (in Excel), e.g. https://open.spotify.com/album/2Lflh9bJHEJaXeTqohNban Now I want to create a playlist with all these albums. Is there a way to do this? So far...
2018-08-27 6:35:17 PM
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Error with greek Character Decoding

PlanPremiumCountryGreeceOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueAs you see in the screenshots, the desktop application shows the greek characters with a weird font. In other computers, greek and english characters have the same default font. H...

NickSt
Newbie
Plan Premium Country Greece Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue As you see in the screenshots, the desktop application shows the greek characters with a weird font. In oth...
2018-08-27 3:57:27 PM
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characters
greek

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Weird issue I've been having

Recently I've been having a strange issue. First of all spotify is saying it's offline even though my computer is clearly conected to the internet, and it can still play songs from my non-downloaded playlists but those playlists are not updated with ...

Peach3009
Casual Listener
Recently I've been having a strange issue. First of all spotify is saying it's offline even though my computer is clearly conected to the internet, and it can still play songs from my non-downloaded ...
2018-08-27 5:26:44 AM
2018-08-27 3:21:49 PM
Peach3009
Casual Listener
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Solved!! Label search removed?

Until recently I could search a label catalogue with label:"opal tapes"orlabel:tectonic but this doesn't work anymore since the last update.Is this option gone?

Merowinger
Roadie
Until recently I could search a label catalogue with label:"opal tapes" or label:tectonic but this doesn't work anymore since the last update. Is this option gone?
2018-07-02 8:56:19 AM
2018-08-27 1:15:20 PM
Merowinger
Roadie
10869 Views
5 replies
10 likes

10869 Views
5 replies
10 likes

Cannot install on windows 10

PlanPremiumCountryIsrael DeviceHP ENVY laptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I have downloaded the installer - https://download.scdn.co/SpotifySetup.exe - as well as http://download.spotify.com/SpotifyFullSetup.exeBoth installers do n...

zazim
Newbie
Plan Premium Country Israel Device HP ENVY laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I have downloaded the installer - https://download.scdn.co/Spotify...
2018-08-27 12:43:17 PM
2018-08-27 12:46:34 PM
Loxer
Community Legend
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1 replies
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Any improvement in last four years?

I'm still using the fast and problem-free v0.9.15.27 client from 2014. Do the latest clients approach its speed or are they still a dog's breakfast when it comes to performance and handling local files?

NeilN
Roadie
I'm still using the fast and problem-free v0.9.15.27 client from 2014. Do the latest clients approach its speed or are they still a dog's breakfast when it comes to performance and handling local fil...
2018-08-26 10:42:35 PM
2018-08-27 12:21:55 PM
DennyEMufc
Roadie
863 Views
13 replies
1 likes

863 Views
13 replies
1 likes

Superuser Contribution Some of my musics dissapear in my library

Hello, I'm using Spotify premium in France since 2 month and I add some musics in my library.But I realise when I start the playlist "daily mix (1/ 2... whatever)" I can see some music I know are not in my library but I add them before, from 1 week, ...

Hayce
Casual Listener
Hello, I'm using Spotify premium in France since 2 month and I add some musics in my library. But I realise when I start the playlist "daily mix (1/ 2... whatever)" I can see some m...
2018-08-09 3:05:35 PM
2018-08-27 11:17:21 AM
Hayce
Casual Listener
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4 replies
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Lost radio stations

PlanFree/PremiumCountry DeviceLaptop w10Operating Systemwindows 10 I can not see my radio stations after upgrade, just fragments of a few. Made a clean intstallation with no success.

miga1960
Casual Listener
Plan Free/Premium Country Device Laptop w10 Operating System windows 10 I can not see my radio stations after upgrade, just fragments of a few. Made a clean intstallati...
2018-08-19 6:41:15 PM
2018-08-27 11:04:02 AM
miga1960
Casual Listener
349 Views
2 replies
0 likes

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Spotify desktop app won't play any song

PlanPremiumCountry GermanyDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I have an issue with the desktop app for Windows 10. It refuses to play any song regardless wheather the song is online, downloaded or in my local music library.It keep...

cube7x7
Casual Listener
Plan Premium Country Germany Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I have an issue with the desktop app for Windows 10. It refuses to play any song r...
2018-08-17 3:39:03 PM
2018-08-27 10:51:53 AM
cube7x7
Casual Listener
3378 Views
9 replies
1 likes

3378 Views
9 replies
1 likes

Error Code 8 and Error Code 37 - Can't Login Desktop Only

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 I can't login on my desktop app only. When I try to login with facebook it pops error code 8, then when I try to login regularly it pops error code 37.I am not using a proxy. I also tried t...

Randybob
Casual Listener
Plan Premium Country USA Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 I can't login on my desktop app only. When I try to login with facebook it pops error code 8, then wh...
2018-08-24 4:43:51 PM
2018-08-27 3:13:40 AM
Randybob
Casual Listener
5476 Views
6 replies
2 likes

5476 Views
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friends feed doesnt appear

i already activated friends activity but still the friends feed doesnt appear on my spotify. i tried to re-install and still it doesnt work. please help me thankyou

fitriar
Newbie
i already activated friends activity but still the friends feed doesnt appear on my spotify. i tried to re-install and still it doesnt work. please help me thankyou
2018-08-26 5:52:52 PM
2018-08-26 10:12:20 PM
Loxer
Community Legend
249 Views
1 replies
0 likes

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Local files syncing on new laptop

Dear all, I recently purchased a new laptop and decided i want to sync my spotify playlists, however, i encountered a problem where only the songs available on spotify was able to be synced onto my new laptop from my old desktop, my local files ( son...

kxmelzar
Newbie
Dear all, I recently purchased a new laptop and decided i want to sync my spotify playlists, however, i encountered a problem where only the songs available on spotify was able to be...
2018-08-26 8:06:19 PM
2018-08-26 10:10:41 PM
Loxer
Community Legend
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1 replies
0 likes

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Error: Spotify Can`t play this right now

PlanPremiumCountryBrazilDeviceMotorola G6Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue When i try to play a song on my account this menssageappersbut when i try play on a free account the music plays normally. This only happens in my account.I alre...

mattthxd
Newbie
Plan Premium Country Brazil Device Motorola G6 Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When i try to play a song on my account this menssageappers but when i tr...
2018-08-26 9:03:42 PM
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Solved!! where are my downloads of music in pc?

PlanPremiumCountry DevicelaptopOperating Systemwindows 10 please, where do I found my download songs in the pc? appreciate the info... thanks

AxelGamez
Casual Listener
Plan Premium Country Device laptop Operating System windows 10 please, where do I found my download songs in the pc? appreciate the info... thanks
2018-08-26 9:14:59 AM
2018-08-26 7:12:24 PM
AxelGamez
Casual Listener
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Revert 'Favorite Songs' back to 'Songs'

Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I would love it if favorite songs would be reverted back to songs. I hate seeing that heart everywhere and would rather see the '+' sign.

Phendus
Casual Listener
Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I would love it if favorite songs would be reverted back to songs. I hate seeing that heart everywhere and would rather see t...
2018-07-04 7:17:09 PM
2018-08-26 3:07:17 PM
pedromartinez
Newbie
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27 replies
51 likes

5197 Views
27 replies
51 likes

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