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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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MIKAAAAEL

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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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earthbound

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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 Multiple long running issues

Spotify for months now has behaved oddly both on phone app, on my console, and on my PC, the music will randomly pause 105 songs on a playlist but it will play 2-3 then pause for no reason, no audio will play for a entire song randomly. On consoles w...

Newbie

Spotify for months now has behaved oddly both on phone app, on my console, and on my PC, the music will randomly pause 105 songs on a playlist but it will play 2-3 then pause for no reason, no audio ...

Peter

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All tracks stop at 00:09 on web player

PlanPremiumCountry USA Operating SystemWindows 10/ ChromeRecently, I subscribed to premium and I wasn't able to play a single thing on my workstation. I am not allowed to download the app, I can only use the webplayer. Sometimes after 00:09 of playin...

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Plan Premium Country  USA   Operating System Windows 10/ Chrome Recently, I subscribed to premium and I wasn't able to play a single thing on my workstation. I am not allowed to down...

Sebasty

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Superuser Contribution When playing a playlist, Spotify stops the tracks after a while and starts the next track, and so on

PlanPremiumCountry DenmarkDeviceDesktopOperating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue

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Peter

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Superuser Contribution Wrong song on Windows 10

PlanPremiumCountry NorwayDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Hello!My issue is that my computer is playing wrong some wrong songs when I use the Win 10 App, not all songs put someone, and it works fine on my phone. I have tri...

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  Plan Premium Country  Norway Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Hello! My issue is that my computer is playing wrong some wrong songs...

Peter

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Superuser Contribution Some albums and titles are showing with Asiatic letters, please help !

PlanPremiumCountry FRANCEDevicePC and Android phoneOperating SystemWindows 10, App and web player, Android 6 My Question or IssueI suddenly saw that some albums and titles are showing with Asiatic letters, please help !Examples:

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  Plan Premium Country  FRANCE Device PC and Android phone Operating System Windows 10, App and web player, Android 6   My Question or Issue I suddenly saw that some albums ...

Peter

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Superuser Contribution Play Queue being hijacked by unknown/ unwanted tracks and ignoring next up list too

PlanPremiumUK DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue HELP! In the last two days, on Premium while playing tracks from playlists it suddenly goes to radio in the middle of the playlist, not the end.It is not on shuffle and it even ign...

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Plan Premium UK   Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  HELP!  In the last two days, on Premium while playing tracks from playlists it suddenly ...

Peter

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Superuser Contribution Error Code 17 upon istalling updates after installing program

PlanFree/PremiumCountryAustralia DevicePC DesktopOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue i have already gone through the forums for help to start with.A while back my spotify stopped opening and came up with error messages. i`ve followed vario...

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  Plan Free/Premium Country Australia   Device PC Desktop Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue  i have already gone through the forums for help to start w...

Peter

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Qpad mk-85 keyboard FN and media keys not working properly anymore

PlanFree/PremiumCountry SwedenDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Hi there, yesterday I spilled some water right where my FN key is, and I cleaned it up immediately, dried it etc.However after a shortwhile my FN key started being ...

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Plan Free/Premium Country  Sweden Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Hi there, yesterday I spilled some water right where my FN key is, and I clean...

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Spotify playing wrong song in list

There's a problem which has started occurring as a result of the last update you sent out. Basically, when you search for a song and get the long list, then you sort it by duration and click on one of the songs in the list, it doesn't play the one yo...

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There's a problem which has started occurring as a result of the last update you sent out.   Basically, when you search for a song and get the long list, then you sort it by duration and click...

johnnybravo

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Superuser Contribution Looped playback between sessions (Spotify don't remember when I left off)

PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI am here as @osornios told me. I didn't find any simmilar question so I'm starting new topic. I've noticed that, when I shut down system without prior closing manually manually closing Spotif...

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Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10  My Question or Issue I am here as @osornios told me. I didn't find any simmilar question so I'm starting new topic.  I've noticed that, when ...

arbardon

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution How to increase volume of Spotify, instead of whole windows?

PlanFreeDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue So I got multimedia keys on my keyboard, and when I click to increase volume of music it increases volume of whole windows not only Spotify. Is there any way to increase volume of o...

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Plan Free Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  So I got multimedia keys on my keyboard, and when I click to increase volume of music it increases volum...

Peter

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Wrong track add to que, playlist

PlanPremiumCountry DevicePCOperating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Spotify adds wrong track to que, playlist. When: Search part of the song. Choose right track and version in advanced results. Double check, that cursor is right line.Add. Res...

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  Plan Premium Country   Device PC Operating System  Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Spotify adds wrong track to que, playlist.   When: Search part of th...

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Spotify songs stopping randomly but the song keeps going.

PlanPremiumCountry United StatesDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI use spotify through voicemeeter to control the volume for my stream so I don't have to hear it, but it still plays. Recently it has started just randomly stoppin...

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  Plan Premium Country  United States Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I use spotify through voicemeeter to control the volume for my stream so I...

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Superuser Contribution Default playlist naming while dragging into folder

PlanPremiumCountryPoland Operating SystemWindows 10Spotify Version1.0.88.353.g15c26ea1 My Question or IssueI usually create playlist by dragging an opened album title into the existing playlist folder on the left column. It was creating automaticly a...

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Plan Premium Country Poland   Operating System Windows 10 Spotify Version 1.0.88.353.g15c26ea1   My Question or Issue I usually create playlist by dragging an opened album title ...

Jemi

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Superuser Contribution playing spotify with cortana

PlanFreeCountry south africaDeviceacer laptopOperating Systemwindows 10 My Question or IssueWhenever I ask Cortana to 'play (song) on spotify', it opens spotify but doesn't play the song I asked for. What should I do?

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Plan Free Country  south africa Device acer laptop Operating System windows 10   My Question or Issue Whenever I ask Cortana to 'play (song) on spotify', it opens spotify but does...

Katerina

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Superuser Contribution media player and spotify pause on use of the "N" key

PlanPremiumCountry canadaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue a while ago i had donloaded spotify on my PC for background music while i work but it would pause on the use of the "n" key and while typing you can guess how annoying th...

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  Plan Premium Country  canada Device PC Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue  a while ago i had donloaded spotify on my PC for background music while i wo...

Katerina

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Superuser Contribution Same device registered twice in offline list

Hi! I am experiencing exactly the same issue as related in https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Multiple-registrations-of-same-device-in-offline-device-list/idi-p/2112240 that was marked as "not an issue" and closed. In my case, the fix pr...

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Hi! I am experiencing  exactly the same issue as related in https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Multiple-registrations-of-same-device-in-offline-device-list/idi-p/2112240 that was ma...

Jemi

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BSOD au lancement (FR)

PlanFreeCountry FRANCEDeviceHP Pavilion 17 Notebook PC -> Numéro de : (série) 5CD3421T2C / (produit) D9W07EA#ABFOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueBonjour / Bonsoir, au lancement de Spotify (Windows 10) j'ai un BSOD qui rend l'application ...

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Plan Free Country  FRANCE Device HP Pavilion 17 Notebook PC -> Numéro de :  (série) 5CD3421T2C / (produit) D9W07EA#ABF Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Bonjour /...

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Spotify only shows the 20 most recent songs from my library

Plan: PremiumDevice: PCOperating System: Windows 10 Spotify is only showing 20 songs from "Your Library" > "Songs", and I have to restart the app twice to fix it, but some minutes later it happens again EDIT: If I click on "Artist", "Song", "Album" o...

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Plan: Premium Device: PC Operating System: Windows 10   Spotify is only showing 20 songs from "Your Library" > "Songs", and I have to restart the app twice to fix it, but s...

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Local cover art not showing but does on android

I added my local files to spotify yesterday and I noticed that some of the cover art isnt showing for some songs. Some songs are fine and some arent, the thing is I have a different cover for each song. A cover will show for some songs but the cover ...

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I added my local files to spotify yesterday and I noticed that some of the cover art isnt showing for some songs. Some songs are fine and some arent, the thing is I have a different cover for each so...

AeroZ

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