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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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Solved!! 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...

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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...

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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...

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Is Spotify down today? July 14, 2018

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceSurfacePro 3Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue get error box when click on icon. Never clears up...for many hours so far.

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Plan Premium Country USA   Device SurfacePro 3 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  get error box when click on icon. Never clears up...for many hours so far....

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Superuser Contribution [BUG] Podcasts that are paused and then resumed jump back to where you *originally* started.

PlanPremiumCountry USDevicePCOperating SystemWin7 My Question or Issue When you listen to a podcast and pause it, about 50% of the time the podcast jumps backwards to where you had originally started- it won't resume right where you paused. Some sort...

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Plan Premium Country  US Device PC Operating System Win7   My Question or Issue  When you listen to a podcast and pause it, about 50% of the time the podcast jumps backward...

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Superuser Contribution Herman's Hermits

PlanPremiumCountry USA DevicePC Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueOn the Herman's Hermits Overview page, most of the group's biggest hits do not appear on the Popular list. Most of these hits can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/a...

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Plan Premium Country  USA   Device PC   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue On the Herman's Hermits Overview page, most of the group's biggest hits do n...

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Solved!! HELP problem with Spotify PC

Hello everyone ... I'm having a problem with Spotify for PC ... So I turn to some help from someone who has already had this problem, or who has an idea of how to solve it. ..It marks me this error, as on the screenshot, on my laptop Acer of 2018 on ...

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Hello everyone ... I'm having a problem with Spotify for PC ... So I turn to some help from someone who has already had this problem, or who has an idea of how to solve it. .. It marks me this err...

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Superuser Contribution Saved songs do not show up on Artist pages

I saves songs to the my library. They can be displayed in "Artist" or "Songs" under My Music. If I go to an artist page or an album page for one of the songs I have saved, the song does not have the check by it to show that it is in the saved song li...

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I saves songs to the my library.  They can be displayed in "Artist" or "Songs" under My Music.   If I go to an artist page or an album page for one of the songs I h...

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Solved!! TRACK ORGANIZER - Create a playlist in a playlist.... File Explorer Tree

PlanPremiumCountry The NetherlandsDeviceWindows 10 LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I would like to be able to organize tracks, like I am used in Windows. So build my own tree. With Genres - Subgenres - Tracks... And I wanted thi...

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Plan Premium Country  The Netherlands Device Windows 10 Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I would like to be able to organize tracks, like I am used ...

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Superuser Contribution Availability of an album

PlanPremiumCountry FranceDevicePC Lenovo & Asus phone My Question or Issue Hello everyone, it's my first time asking help from the community as I've never had a problem before.I noticed that there is a group (Miss A) where I only have access to their...

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Plan Premium Country  France Device PC Lenovo & Asus phone   My Question or Issue  Hello everyone, it's my first time asking help from the community as I've never had a pro...

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Solved!! Image Problem

 How do I put the image on the left back ?

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  How do I put the image on the left back ?

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Solved!! Suggestion: Searching shows column with your own playlists

How about when you search in the desktop application, for songs or artists, you also get a column showing where you can find them in your own playlists? And by columns I of course mean like the already existing columns like: Artists, songs, albums......

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How about when you search in the desktop application, for songs or artists, you also get a column showing where you can find them in your own playlists?   And by columns I of course mean like ...

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Hate the Newest Updates/Changes

PlanFreeCountry USADeviceDesktop, iphoneOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI don't know where or how to best voice my concerns, but I hate the newest updates and changes Spotify has made. I know it is to "streamline" the serivce and get u...

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  Plan Free Country  USA Device Desktop, iphone Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I don't know where or how to best voice my concerns, but I hate the n...

Luke

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Artwork large box

I used to have a large bottom left corner artwork in spotify desktop app now it's not the case and I cant find how to make it bigger?

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I used to have a large bottom left corner artwork in spotify desktop app now it's not the case and I cant find how to make it bigger?

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[Windows] Friend Activity pane bug

Using Win7.1, Spotify 1.0.85.257.g0f8531bd. The rightmost "Friend Activity" pane extends horizontally without resizing the other parts when zooming out (Ctrl+-) three or more times. When trying to resize (<-II->) that pane nothing happens. Screenshot...

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Using Win7.1, Spotify 1.0.85.257.g0f8531bd.   The rightmost "Friend Activity" pane extends horizontally without resizing the other parts when zooming out (Ctrl+-) three or more times...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify IP Address Range?

Spotify has recently seemed to start using some IP addresses on the Google Cloud. Those IP addresses don't seem to be documented anywhere, which means my IT department cannot open port 4070 to allow Spotify to work on our network. Is there anyone at ...

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Spotify has recently seemed to start using some IP addresses on the Google Cloud. Those IP addresses don't seem to be documented anywhere, which means my IT department cannot open port 4070 to allow ...

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Superuser Contribution Local File Album Crashes Spotify After Track Ends

PlanPremiumCountry USADeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI downloaded a mixtape to add to my local file section of spotify and it is creating issues. I have added plenty of downloaded music to spotify before and it has always...

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Plan Premium Country  USA Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I downloaded a mixtape to add to my local file section of spotify and it is creating is...

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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...

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  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...

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Windows 10 Store App, toggle settings not working

PlanPremiumCountryPortugalDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 - App store Application.Previous information:Already did a clean install of the Windows app, relogged, did a log out from all devices from the web page (since I also use the android app). M...

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Plan Premium Country Portugal Device PC Operating System Windows 10 - App store Application. Previous information: Already did a clean install of the Windows app, relogged, did a log out f...

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Superuser Contribution Desktop Daily Mix Issue "not available offline"

I've seen a couple posts similar, but none with a fix.....I can get daily mix on the ios app, but when I type it into the search bar on the desktop version and click daily mix it gives me the message, "your daily mix is not available offline. Please ...

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I've seen a couple posts similar, but none with a fix.....I can get daily mix on the ios app, but when I type it into the search bar on the desktop version and click daily mix it gives me the message...

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Cannot play songs after I heared a bit

Hi! I can hear like 10 songs on Spotify, but after that 10 songs the music stops and I cant hear anything until I restart Spotify. It is really uncomfortable to do this every 30 minutes.Can anybody help me to fix this problem?

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  Hi!   I can hear like 10 songs on Spotify, but after that 10 songs the music stops and I cant hear anything until I restart Spotify. It is really uncomfortable to do this every 30 minu...

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[Desktop] Unable to start playback after recent desktop app update

PlanFreeCountry USDeviceDell Inspiron laptop from 2016(?)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue The latest update for the non-Windows Store version of Spotify Desktop is causing all tracks to display the "unplayable" error message and skip u...

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Plan Free Country  US Device Dell Inspiron laptop from 2016(?) Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  The latest update for the non-Windows Store version of Spot...

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