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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
2024-09-03 1:50:30 PM
ipanasenko
Newbie
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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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271 replies
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75263 Views
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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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1 replies
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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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Solved!! Spotify Radio / Song Radio / Friendfeed - all not working

HelloI'm having a bit of a frustrating few days with the spotify desktop app.First off: PlanPremiumCountry BelgiumDeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 8.1 My Question or Issue I can't seem to connect to ANY radio station. Nor can I get Song Radio Star...

Captain-Duck
Casual Listener
Hello I'm having a bit of a frustrating few days with the spotify desktop app. First off: Plan Premium Country Belgium Device Laptop Operating System Windows 8.1 My Q...
2018-07-16 2:57:01 PM
2018-07-16 4:04:13 PM
Captain-Duck
Casual Listener
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Premium

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search for genre or year

PlanPremiumCountryGermanDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueUnfortunately, the genre search does not work for me anymore ... if I genre: country input, then I have zero results. Also, the year-search is no longer ... is that me ... ...

anghy
Gig Goer
Plan Premium Country German Device PC Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue Unfortunately, the genre search does not work for me anymore ... if I genre: country input, then...
2018-07-16 1:15:42 PM
2018-07-16 2:54:17 PM
Loxer
Community Legend
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1 replies
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Spotify Song Picture disappeared

My Problem is that somehow the picture of the currently played song disappeared one day, i don't know if i simply missclicked or if this is a bug. Every song can still be played and everything, but this just looks kinda empty...

Schwannick
Newbie
My Problem is that somehow the picture of the currently played song disappeared one day, i don't know if i simply missclicked or if this is a bug. Every song can still be played and everything, but t...
2018-07-16 12:38:53 PM
2018-07-16 2:44:16 PM
Loxer
Community Legend
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1 replies
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Superuser Contribution Thumbnails are messed up and tracks are disappearing

Last night I noticed that the new update went live. However, after the update went live I noticed some errors here and there. The first problem I encountered was that the thumbnails got updated with the wrong images. As you can see here, the first fe...

MauriceMV
Spotify Star
Last night I noticed that the new update went live. However, after the update went live I noticed some errors here and there. The first problem I encountered was that the thumbnai...
2018-07-05 4:53:54 PM
2018-07-16 2:36:10 PM
MauriceMV
Spotify Star
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2 replies
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Solved!! Recovering all tracks accidentally deleted from Songs section of library

Hi all, Hoping an admin can help me out here. I accidentally managed to delete all of my music library (went to delete a duplicate track in the Songs section of my library in the Windows app and “ctrl + A” must have been pressed because all tracks we...

Laz91
Casual Listener
Hi all, Hoping an admin can help me out here. I accidentally managed to delete all of my music library (went to delete a duplicate track in the Songs section of my library in t...
2018-07-13 3:39:16 PM
2018-07-16 2:35:51 PM
Loxer
Community Legend
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3 replies
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recover
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Certain songs causing spotify to crash

PlanFreeCountryAustralia Operating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue I have been experiencing a glitch since yesterday where certain songs will freeze at the very end and Spotify will crash on my PC.I have noticed when some songs are queued the "<...

AC1996
Regular
Plan Free Country Australia Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue I have been experiencing a glitch since yesterday where certain songs will freeze at the very ...
2018-07-13 5:22:12 PM
2018-07-16 2:22:05 PM
AC1996
Regular
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8 replies
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Solved!! Song's tab is not appearing on the library

PlanFree/PremiumCountry BrazilDevicePC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue: In The library, where it shows the tabs Artists, Albuns, Favorite songs, Podcasts.. ETC... It used to have a tab for Songs or Music, now It is gone, I see all th...

MRxxROBOT
Casual Listener
Plan Free/Premium Country Brazil Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue: In The library, where it shows the tabs Artists, Albuns, Favo...
2018-07-16 1:57:21 AM
2018-07-16 12:44:27 PM
MRxxROBOT
Casual Listener
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Can you download a single song on the computer?

I have a premium account and I like how I can download my favorite albums, but for certain artists/albums I would mostly like one or two songs. I have them saved but I don't know how to download them individually. Is that just not a feature yet or am...

Nakiechu
Newbie
I have a premium account and I like how I can download my favorite albums, but for certain artists/albums I would mostly like one or two songs. I have them saved but I don't know how to downl...
2018-07-13 12:23:20 AM
2018-07-16 7:57:02 AM
DennyEMufc
Roadie
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2 replies
1 likes
Help
songs

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spotify keeps redownloading songs

PlanPremiumCountryNorway DevicepcOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issuespotify keeps redownloading songs.It's not all my songs only like 20/40 songs every time i restart spotify it wants to download them over again, I didnt have this problem...

eXtreme332
Newbie
Plan Premium Country Norway Device pc Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue spotify keeps redownloading songs. It's not all my songs only like 20/40 songs...
2018-07-15 5:15:56 PM
2018-07-16 7:43:38 AM
DennyEMufc
Roadie
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1 replies
1 likes

622 Views
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Superuser Contribution Folder and Playlist Naming

Stop delete and change features in Spotify. Instead add new ones!!!!What the point to change the order o the Folder and Playlist's naming!?It always have been Artist - Album Name, now out of the sudden is the inverse Album Name - Artist, which does n...

sergioro
Regular
Stop delete and change features in Spotify. Instead add new ones!!!! What the point to change the order o the Folder and Playlist's naming!? It always have been Artist - Album Name, now out of the ...
2018-06-25 11:35:39 AM
2018-07-16 5:56:51 AM
polite_society
Music Fan
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2 replies
2 likes

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Bring back old playlist naming

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceWindows PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI noticed that playlist that are created by dragging an album to a playlist folder are now named [Album title - Artist]. It used to be [Artist - Album title]. This...

mhult
Regular
Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Windows PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I noticed that playlist that are created by dragging an album to a playlist folder are ...
2018-06-14 12:21:17 PM
2018-07-16 5:54:50 AM
polite_society
Music Fan
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1 replies
2 likes

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Deleting radio stations

I can't delete some radio stations. They keep coming back.

Plover
Regular
I can't delete some radio stations. They keep coming back.
2018-06-06 7:22:47 PM
2018-07-16 2:44:29 AM
Alfredo
Roadie
3187 Views
10 replies
1 likes

3187 Views
10 replies
1 likes

Solved!! Black Screen + spotify.exe missing

Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I've already reinstalled a thousand times (clean manual unistall/register removal), i've tried like a million solutions, but it keeps happen. My screen gets black, while the app is running (if i dont cl...

FillipeOliver
Regular
Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I've already reinstalled a thousand times (clean manual unistall/register removal), i've tried like a million solutio...
2018-07-11 6:41:57 PM
2018-07-16 1:13:43 AM
FillipeOliver
Regular
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Wrong song playing

Removed songs from my own playlist. Playing that playlist on shuffle, it always plays the same sequence of songs and it plays songs in the playlist that I have deleted from the playlist.PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceDell laptopOperating SystemWindows 1...

ruanbrits
Casual Listener
Removed songs from my own playlist. Playing that playlist on shuffle, it always plays the same sequence of songs and it plays songs in the playlist that I have deleted from the playlist. Plan Premi...
2018-07-15 7:54:54 PM
2018-07-15 12:00:22 AM
dinomight
Spotify Star
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1 replies
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Attention To All Members: How To Update Desktop App!!

The following screen shots shows the correct way to upgrade! When an update is available, you'll see a blue dot on the right side of your profile name. Click on the drop down menu and select "Restart Now." Spotify will then install and configure your...

user-removed
Visitor
The following screen shots shows the correct way to upgrade! When an update is available, you'll see a blue dot on the right side of your profile name. Click on the drop down menu and select "Restart...
2018-07-15 7:43:37 PM
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Desktop
PC

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Can't login to Spotify App on Windows 10

PlanFreeCountry United States of America DeviceHP Probook 440 G2 Operating SystemWindows 10 1803 My Question or Issue So whenever I try to login to Spotify on Windows 10, I get an error 17 which says A firewall may be blocking Spotify. Please update ...

Yashwant
Regular
Plan Free Country United States of America Device HP Probook 440 G2 Operating System Windows 10 1803 My Question or Issue So whenever I try to login to Sp...
2018-06-25 9:30:07 AM
2018-07-15 7:28:21 PM
gilltron0
Newbie
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Superuser Contribution Daily Mix - Missing from Left Panel

I believe there was a recent update to Spotify on Windows and now the Daily Mix does not appear on the left panel under "Your Library". I can still find it if I search Daily Mix but this is an additional inconvenient step. Is there a way to put it ba...

kwloo
Casual Listener
I believe there was a recent update to Spotify on Windows and now the Daily Mix does not appear on the left panel under "Your Library". I can still find it if I search Daily Mix but this is an a...
2018-07-13 5:08:59 PM
2018-07-15 6:03:23 PM
SergioDavid
Roadie
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1 replies
1 likes

333 Views
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so i have spotify on my phone and computer

so i have spotify premium i add songs on my phone but they don't show up on my computer any way to fix this?

attackhop3
Newbie
so i have spotify premium i add songs on my phone but they don't show up on my computer any way to fix this?
2018-07-15 3:59:51 AM
2018-07-15 10:07:56 AM
Loxer
Community Legend
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I Saw A Private Playlist

On Tuesday I saw my friend listening to a private playlist on Spotify. It showed the playlist, I clicked it and followed because it looked like just another playlist. Now he's convinced I did something underhanded to get access. How the **bleep** is ...

MikePotter28
Newbie
On Tuesday I saw my friend listening to a private playlist on Spotify. It showed the playlist, I clicked it and followed because it looked like just another playlist. Now he's convinced I did somethi...
2018-07-15 7:39:48 AM
2018-07-15 7:53:12 AM
PKimchi
Regular
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1 replies
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App forgets last played position/song (no queue either)

DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSince the Windows 10 version of Spotify installed it no longer remembers the last position/song I was playing when I start my PC.I've ended up clean uninstalling and reinstalling with the win32 a...

martynking
Casual Listener
Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Since the Windows 10 version of Spotify installed it no longer remembers the last position/song I was playing when I start my P...
2018-05-24 8:25:36 PM
2018-07-15 6:44:11 AM
Preticle
Composer
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2 replies
2 likes

650 Views
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