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Solved!! Disable the Mini-Player on the Web-Version

Hi GuysI switched on my Windows 10 from the Desktop-Version to the Browser-Version. It works, but now I get/see every time a Mini-Player in the left upper corner for about 5 seconds when I press Pause/Play or e.g. if I change the volume. How can I de...

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Solved!! Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I try to play a song I get the following error message "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it"I have tried all t...

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Solved!! Disable Video on desktop app

There no X or way to close or stop a video on Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.64.408.g0a9b557c

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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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Superuser Contribution How to disable autoplay after album ends?

Whenever I click play on an album, after the last song, Spotify just moves on to something similar instead of ending play. I want it to stop at the end of the album. I'm not seeing any way to stop this other than adding the album to its own playlist,...

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Whenever I click play on an album, after the last song, Spotify just moves on to something similar instead of ending play. I want it to stop at the end of the album. I'm not seeing any way to stop th...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution spotify can not play this right now. if you have the file on your computer you can import it.

PlanFreeCountryEgyptDevicedesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSpotify can not play this right now. if you have the file on your computer you can import it. This happens with the Windows app while using computer speakers or headphone...

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Plan Free Country Egypt Device desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Spotify can not play this right now. if you have the file on your computer you can import it. ...

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Quick way to queue song

How come Spotify still hasn't a quick way to add a song in the queue? Clicking the song title with the right button, highlighting the "add to queue" and then clicking again looks simple but in fact becomes a lot tedious and not practical at all when ...

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How come Spotify still hasn't a quick way to add a song in the queue? Clicking the song title with the right button, highlighting the "add to queue" and then clicking again looks simple but in fact b...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Desktop app wont use headset as output device.

I've been reading through multiple posts about this issue but I haven't been able to find the answer. I'm on the desktop app and I get the "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." message when I tr...

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I've been reading through multiple posts about this issue but I haven't been able to find the answer. I'm on the desktop app and I get the "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on ...

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Change Playback Device BETA

yesterday i saw that there was a beta and now its gone i dont know if my client is broken or its being pulled back for further testing but my question is does anyone know where it went?

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yesterday i saw that there was a beta and now its gone i dont know if my client is broken or its being pulled back for further testing but my question is does anyone know where it went?

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Superuser Contribution Integration with LCARS System 3

Hello. I know this is off topic for most threads here. As a music fan and a Star Trek fan, I have converted my Windows desktop to the interactive LCARS System 3 skin for Rainmeter. The LCARS skin has a built in media player integration which supposed...

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Hello.  I know this is off topic for most threads here.  As a music fan and a Star Trek fan, I have converted my Windows desktop to the interactive LCARS System 3 skin for Rainmeter.  ...

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Superuser Contribution Music keeps pausing when Spotify is open on two devices

PlanPremiumCountrySwitzerlandDeviceXiaomi Pocophone F1 & Lenovo Thinkpad T14Operating SystemAndroid 10 & Windows 10 My Question or IssueI do not know exactly what is causing my problem. It seems when I have my wireless earbuds (Jabra 65t) connected v...

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Plan Premium Country Switzerland Device Xiaomi Pocophone F1 & Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Operating System Android 10 & Windows 10   My Question or Issue I do not know exactly what is ...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Disable Video on desktop app

There no X or way to close or stop a video on Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.64.408.g0a9b557c

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There no X or way to close or stop a video on Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.64.408.g0a9b557c

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Hovering the cursor over artist name in the Now Playing bar shows tooltip with song title

PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueThis affects songs with multiple artists, where the complete list of artists is too long to fit in the respective field of the Now Playing bar. One would expect that hovering over the name of ...

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Plan Premium Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue This affects songs with multiple artists, where the complete list of artists is too long to fit in the respective field of t...

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Solved!! Disable the smart shuffle.

PlanPremiumCountryTaiwanDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWin11 64bit My Question or IssueCould you please disable the smart shuffle feature? This is the worst feature since I started using Spotify nine years ago.Could you add a toggle button in the setti...

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Plan Premium Country Taiwan Device Desktop Operating System Win11 64bit   My Question or Issue Could you please disable the smart shuffle feature? This is the worst feature since I sta...

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Superuser Contribution Track number column is all of a sudden missing

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueAll of a sudden today, the column number that shows the track has disappeared. There are no podcasts in my playlists. All of my playlists are missing this very helpfu...

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Plan Premium Country USA Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue All of a sudden today, the column number that shows the track has disappeared. There are n...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify resumes from pause automatically after around 50 seconds

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceDell Pro Max 16Operating SystemWindows 11 Enterprise My Question or IssueThis is a newly provided work laptop (which I have admin rights on) with a fresh install of Spotify. For some reason, when I pause my music (to leave t...

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Plan Premium Country UK Device Dell Pro Max 16 Operating System Windows 11 Enterprise   My Question or Issue This is a newly provided work laptop (which I have admin rights on) with a ...

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Spotify web app logs me out every time i restart my pc

Every time I open the Spotify web app it logs me and ask forces me to authenticate my profile via email every time I log out of my pc. I am unable to use the Spotify application so this is the only way.PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceWindows 11 PC

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Every time I open the Spotify web app it logs me and ask forces me to authenticate my profile via email every time I log out of my pc. I am unable to use the Spotify application so this is the only w...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify Keeps Writing Cache to C:\ drive, even though Changed in properties to F:\

Not sure if this is per design, but I had changed the offline Songs cache folder in Advanced settings to F:\ , but my C:\ drive is still being filled up with the same .File **bleep** -These are the 2 offending folders -C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\Pa...

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Not sure if this is per design, but I had changed the offline Songs cache folder in Advanced settings to F:\ , but my C:\ drive is still being filled up with the same .File **bleep** - These are the...

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Superuser Contribution Can auto-updates be disabled under Windows 10?

PlanPremiumCountryUSADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSince the recent lyrics screen change is terrible (to me), I want to roll back to an older version of the desktop app and disable auto-updates. Under Windows 11, I found that...

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Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Since the recent lyrics screen change is terrible (to me), I want to roll back to an older version...

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Superuser Contribution All playlists are greyed out in app only

PlanFree Device(PC - Amd 7500F, Nvidia 4070s, 32gb ddr5)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueEvery playlist in app are greyed out, however web version works perfectly with 0 issues so its not licensing issue or regional availability. I ca...

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Plan Free   Device (PC - Amd 7500F, Nvidia 4070s, 32gb ddr5) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue Every playlist in app are greyed out, however web version works pe...

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New "Recent"

What is this absolutely horrible "Recent" thing ???Do you guys also have this monstrosity instead of the normal recently played view we had before ?Did someone in the dev team thought that this was a good idea, and when will he be fired ?

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What is this absolutely horrible "Recent" thing ??? Do you guys also have this monstrosity instead of the normal recently played view we had before ? Did someone in the dev team thought that this w...

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Superuser Contribution When listening to Release Radar or Discover Weekly and hiding a song, the wrong song is played next

PlanPremiumCountryUSADevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueRecently I've noticed if I'm listening to Release Radar or Discover Weekly and hide a song that I don't like, instead of going to the next song in the queue like usual, it ju...

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  Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue Recently I've noticed if I'm listening to Release Radar or Discover Weekly and hide a song...

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"Now playing preview" makes the scrollbar unusable

On Windows Desktop version: it's difficult to click the scrollbar because it's so thin and keeps disappearing, now there's a little box with an arrow that keeps appearing and moving everything over while I'm trying to click the scrollbar. Why on eart...

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On Windows Desktop version: it's difficult to click the scrollbar because it's so thin and keeps disappearing, now there's a little box with an arrow that keeps appearing and moving everything over w...

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