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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...
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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...
Premium México Windows 10 My Question or IssueCertain friends are not showing up on my friends feed unless I stop following them and follow them again. Have to do this everytime I start Spotify. Known issue?
Premium México Windows 10 My Question or Issue Certain friends are not showing up on my friends feed unless I stop following them and follow them again. Have...
Casual Listener
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Windows-Client: 1.0.86.337.ga8d5cef9 Issue:UI: Icons of the like and dislike buttons in the lower left corner of the player controls:a) do not have the same height (15 Pixels vs 16 Pixels) andb) are also not vertical aligned. Screenshot see attachmen...
Windows-Client: 1.0.86.337.ga8d5cef9 Issue: UI: Icons of the like and dislike buttons in the lower left corner of the player controls: a) do not have the same height (15 Pixels vs ...
Spotify Star
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PlanPremiumCountryUK DeviceDell DesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Is there any way to cast to a Chromecast Audio dongle (connected to my hifi amp on an AUX input) when using the Spotify App (outside of the Chrome browser) on Wind...
Plan Premium Country UK Device Dell Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Is there any way to cast to a Chromecast Audio dongle (connected to my hifi a...
Spotify Star
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My Question or IssueI can see all my saved songs in the songs tab as per usual but whenever I go into an artists page or album the songs don't appear to be saved. This does not affect all albums but the majority of them. I'm not able to find a correl...
My Question or Issue I can see all my saved songs in the songs tab as per usual but whenever I go into an artists page or album the songs don't appear to be saved. This does not affect all albums bu...
Roadie
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On my pc at work the %appdata% folder has been redirected to a server. The result is a black screen with Spotify. If i change the registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\AppData to use a l...
On my pc at work the %appdata% folder has been redirected to a server. The result is a black screen with Spotify. If i change the registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\C...
Roadie
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Hi I've been going through this problem for awhile now and this problem is and on and off situation So basically,Whenever i try and start up spotify it would say Spotify application not responding then i tried getting help online in the community the...
Hi I've been going through this problem for awhile now and this problem is and on and off situation So basically,Whenever i try and start up spotify it would say Spotify application not respon...
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PlanPremium Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue How can we disable spotify from running in the bottom right hand corner, the notification area (system tray) in windows. If the software is running it cannot be removed.
Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue How can we disable spotify from running in the bottom right hand corner, the notification area (system...
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PlanPremiumCountryCanada DeviceDell Latitude E7470Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueUntil recently, when I switched to one of the Stranger Things playlists published last year, the visualization effect would work beautifully. Sometime in...
Plan Premium Country Canada Device Dell Latitude E7470 Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Until recently, when I switched to one of the Stranger Things playlists ...
Roadie
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So, I am starting to think Spotify is trying to kick my **bleep** out... I need the option to select my output audio device because I want to output Spotify to a HT, without outputing the Windows and other notification sounds there. I have followed i...
So, I am starting to think Spotify is trying to kick my **bleep** out... I need the option to select my output audio device because I want to output Spotify to a HT, without outputing the Wi...
Roadie
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PlanPremiumCountry United StatesDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueI uninstalled Spotify to see if it would help with the zombie process because Spotify would hang and not close at all. Now that it's uninstalled there is still a Sp...
Plan Premium Country United States Device PC Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue I uninstalled Spotify to see if it would help with the zombie process because Spoti...
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PlanPremiumCountry GermanyDeviceDell XPSOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Steps to reproduce:1) Need Full HD screen with resolution 1920x10802) Go to display settings and change Scalle and Layout to 100% (120% by default)3) Open Spotify...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device Dell XPS Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Steps to reproduce: 1) Need Full HD screen with resolution 1920x1080 2) Go...
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The problem with an artist search only returning a subset of available songs is solved.If you search and then immediately sort, many songs will be missed if the total list is roughly greater than two pages worth. This is because if there are more tit...
The problem with an artist search only returning a subset of available songs is solved. If you search and then immediately sort, many songs will be missed if the total list is roughly greater than t...
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PlanPremiumCountrySwitching from US to VietnamDeviceBoth on my Windows PC and Android phone 7.0Operating SystemWindows 10 and Android 7.0 My Question or IssuePreviously, I was using US region or my account, then I moved and decided to change my accou...
Plan Premium Country Switching from US to Vietnam Device Both on my Windows PC and Android phone 7.0 Operating System Windows 10 and Android 7.0 My Question or Issue Previously, I wa...
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PlanPremiumCountry Costa RicaDevicePcOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Why my Radio and Feed dont works, but in my celphone this works sucefully, i have this problem about 2 months ago.
Plan Premium Country Costa Rica Device Pc Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Why my Radio and Feed dont works, but in my celphone this works suceful...
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PlanPremiumCountry USADeviceDell XPS DesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 Pro My Question or Issue I've seen this topic around for years, and it's affecting ME now, and there doesn't seem to be any real solution to it. I have my local files. I ADD SOURC...
Plan Premium Country USA Device Dell XPS Desktop Operating System Windows 10 Pro My Question or Issue I've seen this topic around for years, and it's affecting ME now, an...
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PlanFreeCountry United StatesDeviceHP Laptop (Intel) thats all i knowOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Is there a .exe i can create a shortcut to or something? I can't find anything.
Plan Free Country United States Device HP Laptop (Intel) thats all i know Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Is there a .exe i can create a shortcut to or s...
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So, I've been using spotify premium for a while now. I can remember there being an option to change the order of the songs in your playlist by artist/album/etc, but I can't seem to find it anymore. I know you can change the order of your songs by dra...
So, I've been using spotify premium for a while now. I can remember there being an option to change the order of the songs in your playlist by artist/album/etc, but I can't seem to find it an...
Spotify Star
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Hi, whenever I try and open spotify.com, it comes up with an error sayin this site can't be reached as well as it took too long to respond. I've tried restarting my laptop and everything, it just wont open. Thanks for any help.
Hi, whenever I try and open spotify.com, it comes up with an error sayin this site can't be reached as well as it took too long to respond. I've tried restarting my laptop and everyth...
Spotify Star
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PlanPremiumDeviceWindowsOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or Issue I updated spotify to 1.0.86.337 and came to this error. Spotify appears "Can't play current song" each time I play different song, and about 15' later, the song stop playing but t...
Plan Premium Device Windows Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I updated spotify to 1.0.86.337 and came to this error. Spotify appears "Can't play current song" eac...
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PlanPremiumCountry DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 8.1 My Question or Issue So recently Spotify added a "?si=" parameter to song when you copy the url. This apparently gives the url a unique stamp in where it was copied and by who. This is seemingly ...
Plan Premium Country Device PC Operating System Windows 8.1 My Question or Issue So recently Spotify added a "?si=" parameter to song when you copy the url. This appar...
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