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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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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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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 is there any tag information available related to the different playlists? accessible?

looking for a manner to sort playlists (links) with most complete available tag information available on Spotify. Using an Excel table, filter and then play my choice by clicking the playlist link in this Excel sheet. thanks

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looking for a manner to sort playlists (links) with most complete available tag information available on Spotify. Using an Excel table, filter and then play my choice by clicking the playlist link in...

Peter

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Superuser Contribution I'm hearing and seeing foreign language Ads

PlanFree/PremiumCountry AustraliaDeviceLenovo Yoga 510Operating SystemWindows 10My Question or Issue I'm hearing and seeing foreign language ads and I don't know what to do to fix it either (I have uninstalled and reinstalled). Could you please help ...

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Plan Free/Premium Country  Australia Device Lenovo Yoga 510 Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue  I'm hearing and seeing foreign language ads and I don't know what to d...

Peter

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Superuser Contribution Greyed out songs in playlist

When I view a playlist I created with 240 songs on a windows desktop, it now has many songs greyed out (seemingly randomly). When I click on the song, it comes up with "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can ...

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    When I view a playlist I created with 240 songs on a windows desktop, it now has many songs greyed out (seemingly randomly). When I click on the song, it comes up with "Spotify can't ...

Peter

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Superuser Contribution "spotify can't play this right now" Message on every song, won't play anything.

PlanPremiumCountry USADeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue No songs are playing, about to cancel service

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Plan Premium Country  USA Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10  My Question or Issue   No songs are playing, about to cancel service   

Peter

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify plays by itself after being paused

Windows 10 and Free plan. On my headphones, Sennheiser HD 660 S, whenever I pause Spotify, it would unpause itself or just play by itself after ~10-15 seconds. It only does this on these headphones, I don't know if it is Spotify not working with it o...

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Windows 10 and Free plan.   On my headphones, Sennheiser HD 660 S, whenever I pause Spotify, it would unpause itself or just play by itself after ~10-15 seconds. It only does this on these hea...

Peter

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Superuser Contribution Spotify not playing any songs want to import all songs

PlanPremiumCountry EnglandDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue When ever i try to play anything that isnt downloaded or anything downloaded im asked to import it, it was playing fine a few minutes ago

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Plan Premium Country  England Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  When ever i try to play anything that isnt downloaded or anything downloaded im as...

Peter

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Connect won't let me play in browser

PlanFreeCountry USADeviceWindows Desktop (work) and Google home mini (home) My Question or IssueStarted spotify at work and the music never came on. I check the volume and see it says I'm playing to my "bedroom speaker". Call my wife and sure enough,...

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Plan Free Country  USA Device Windows Desktop (work) and Google home mini (home)     My Question or Issue Started spotify at work and the music never came on.  I che...

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Change offline songs folder bug

PlanPremiumCountry France DeviceDesktop computerOperating SystemWindows 10 October 2018 update My Question or IssueI am using the Windows store version of Spotify. Right after I installed Spotify and logged, I went to advanced settings to change the ...

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Plan Premium Country  France   Device Desktop computer Operating System Windows 10 October 2018 update   My Question or Issue I am using the Windows store version of Spotify...

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Superuser Contribution Unstable Windows Desktop Connection to Amazon Alexa devices

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...

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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 doi...

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Superuser Contribution Queue resets after restarting spotify

Almost every time I restart spotify or my computer, the queue resets to something from a while ago. It can be a queue from earlier that day, but I've had it reset to the same queue for like a week straight (starting with the exact same song every tim...

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Almost every time I restart spotify or my computer, the queue resets to something from a while ago. It can be a queue from earlier that day, but I've had it reset to the same queue for like a week st...

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Superuser Contribution date for added songs is ahead

I recently made a new playlist and all of the songs added apear as if they've been added "in 63 years". I'm not sure why it's showing this, but it could be due to the fact that my laptop's time/date settings got all crazy earlier and i had to set it ...

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    I recently made a new playlist and all of the songs added apear as if they've been added "in 63 years". I'm not sure why it's showing this, but it could be due to the fact that my lap...

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Superuser Contribution Songs disappearing from playlist

PlanPremiumCountry Poland Operating Systemwindows, android, ios. My Question or Issue Hello. some songs disappeared from my playlist (i.e. Come down by Andersoon Paak, Passin' me by by The Pharcyde and many more). They are still avialable on spotify,...

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Plan Premium Country  Poland  Operating System windows,  android,  ios.    My Question or Issue  Hello.  some songs disappeared from my playlist (i.e. ...

Guido

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Unusable app after upgrading GPU

I recently upgraded to an RTX 2080 Ti in my desktop and the Spotify app has become unusable. It's extremely sluggish scrolling and clicking anything - it's barely usable. I disable hardware acceleration and after the app restarts, it's better for jus...

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I recently upgraded to an RTX 2080 Ti in my desktop and the Spotify app has become unusable. It's extremely sluggish scrolling and clicking anything - it's barely usable.   I disable hardware ...

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HIGH CPU Usage on Windows Desktop

This issue happens on all my computers (Mac & PC) , since 2 years or more. The problem occurs when I play a playlist folder (even on pause), my CPU usage go to 30-40%. Thats a lot for a music player is not it ? I tried evrything, changed computers an...

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This issue happens on all my computers (Mac & PC) , since 2 years or more.  The problem occurs when I play a playlist folder (even on pause), my CPU usage go to 30-40%. Thats a lo...

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Windows Store App: High CPU Usage and Memory Leak

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...

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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-am...

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Connect Causing Issues

PlanPremiumCountry UKDeviceDesktopOperating SystemW10 My Question or Issue Spotify is randomly pausing music, changing songs, adding weird playlists. How the **bleep** do I turn off connect? It's the**bleep** ever and makes Spotify unusuable. How can...

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  Plan Premium Country  UK Device Desktop Operating System W10   My Question or Issue  Spotify is randomly pausing music, changing songs, adding weird playlists.  ...

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Flac support

Hi, I read so many years ago, someone raise about flac support but i see is like still not yet implemented in spotify? What a disappointment.

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Hi,   I read so many years ago, someone raise about flac support but i see is like still not yet implemented in spotify?   What a disappointment.  

universe49

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Windows 10 Black Screen

Country UKDeviceASUS LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Everytime I open the spotify app, it either doesn't load anything or it loads a black screen. I can't use the app at all as nothing shows up. This has been happening to me for...

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  Country  UK Device ASUS Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Everytime I open the spotify app, it either doesn't load anything or it loads a black...

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Solved!! Spotify maximized window issue on Windows 10 April update Build 17134.1!

Hello, When using Spotify on Windows 10 April 2018 update build 17134.1 or even Redstone 5 builds every second time you click the maximize middle button on spotify it is not completely going into a maximized window! And you can actually see that the ...

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Hello,   When using Spotify on Windows 10 April 2018 update build 17134.1 or even Redstone 5 builds every second time you click the maximize middle button on spotify it is not completely going...

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