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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...

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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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  • rednblu
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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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  • MattSuda
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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...

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Solved!! No current album/song picture when song is playing

Premium family Sweden Operating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue: I don't have a song/albumpicture for the current song that is playing.

  • Casual Listener
  • Premium family   Sweden     Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue: I don't have a song/albumpicture for the current song that is playing.  
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Solved!! Logging me out

PremiumCountryUS DeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI listen to spotify at my work through the spotify web player rather than the app since I can't download it onto my work computer. I've been listening through the web player...

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  • Premium Country US  Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I listen to spotify at my work through the spotify web player rather than the app since I can'...
  • Sebasty
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Is there a way i can see all the songs the people i follow listened??

PlanFreeCountry BrazilDeviceWindowsOperating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue Hey guys so i was wondering if theres any way of me seeing ALLthe songs someone i follow has listened to? Right now i only see the last so...

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  • Plan Free Country  Brazil Device Windows Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue  Hey guys so i was wondering if theres any way o...
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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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My Spotify spontaneously logs me out every 30 minutes. Help!

Every 30 minutes my Spotify logs me out on my PC desktop. I've tried resetting the password and logging out of all other machines but it doesn't seem to work. I just updated my billing information so don't know if that would affect it.Thanks for any ...

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  •   Every 30 minutes my Spotify logs me out on my PC desktop. I've tried resetting the password and logging out of all other machines but it doesn't seem to work. I just updated my billing inform...
  • Loxer
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Superuser Contribution Spotify window issue

PlanPremiumCountry GermanyDevicePersonal ComputerOperating SystemWindows 10 Pro 10.0.17134 Build 17134 My Question or Issue I found a bug. You need to know, that I'm using two displays and whenever I move the fullscreened Spotify window to the displa...

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  • Plan Premium Country  Germany Device Personal Computer Operating System Windows 10 Pro 10.0.17134 Build 17134   My Question or Issue  I found a bug.  You need to know, t...
  • Chris
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radio is confused with daily mix

PlanFreeCountry USADeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or Issue spotify won't let me use tumbs up or thumbs down because it thinks im listening to my daily mix please advise. thank you

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  • Plan Free Country  USA Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue  spotify won't let me use tumbs up or thumbs down because it thinks im listening to my daily ...
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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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Your Daily Mix not showing up

PlanFreeCountry USADeviceDell Inspiron LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueMy Daily Mix is not showing up at all anywhere. I went to search and found it, but it gives me a message like "Your Daily Mix is not available offline -- Plea...

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  • Plan Free Country  USA Device Dell Inspiron Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue My Daily Mix is not showing up at all anywhere. I went to search and found it...
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Superuser Contribution Saved songs don't show up on PC

PlanPremiumCountry HungaryDeviceN/AOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue Hey, I've been experiencing this thing more and more, where if I add a song to my library from my phone, it doesn't show up on the PC Spotify client.Yes, I have tried r...

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  •   Plan Premium Country  Hungary Device N/A Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue   Hey,   I've been experiencing this thing more and more, where if ...
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Solved!! Connect to facebook

PlanFreeCountryAzerbaijanDeviceHp pavilion 15Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueConnect to facebook option doesn't work. After the recent update to spotify for windows desktop this option has become useless. Login page appears to be activ...

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  • Plan Free Country Azerbaijan Device Hp pavilion 15 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Connect to facebook option doesn't work. After the recent update to spotify for wi...
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Spotify's autoplay not working at the end of a playlist, friend activity failed to load.

PlanFreeCountry United StatesDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue The autoplay function on the spotify desktop program doesn't work for me. I've tried restarting spotify, reinstalling it, switching the setting off and back on again...

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  • Plan Free Country  United States Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  The autoplay function on the spotify desktop program doesn't work for me. I've ...
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My discover Weekly isnt working it hasn't changed for over 8 days

My Question or Issue spotify:user:spotify:playlist:37i9dQZEVXcIvJ9HTynpxWMy playlist hasn't changed for over a week and I keep getting absolute junk and brainmash in my playlists

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  •   My Question or Issue  spotify:user:spotify:playlist:37i9dQZEVXcIvJ9HTynpxW My playlist hasn't changed for over a week and I keep getting absolute junk and brainmash in my playlists
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Superuser Contribution [Bug] 2 Pixel Gap Between Taskbar and Window on Startup

DeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My IssueWindow is created with the wrong size every startup when using the small icons taskbar. Fixable by re-maximizing the window but still annoying.

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  • Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10   My Issue Window is created with the wrong size every startup when using the small icons taskbar. Fixable by re-maximizing the window but sti...
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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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Solved!! Radio and Daily mixes not working on pc

PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 10 Hey there,it's been about a week that the desktop version of Spotify just doesn't load either radio or daily mixes. I tried to reinstall it, disable the hardware acceleration option ( someone in the community sug...

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  •   Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10   Hey there, it's been about a week that the desktop version of Spotify just doesn't load either radio or daily mixes.  I tried to...
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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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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!! 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...

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  • 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...
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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 ... ...

  • 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...
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