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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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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...
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...
PlanPremiumCountry AustriaDeviceDesktop/LabtopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue The Album Cover Art of the Songs is not shown on the bottom left where it has been used to in the past. I have this problem since 8 days now and tried every...
Plan Premium Country Austria Device Desktop/Labtop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue The Album Cover Art of the Songs is not shown on the bottom lef...
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PlanPremiumCountryGermany DevicePC Core i7 3820Network Adapter: Intel 7260 WLAN AC PCI-E cardOperating SystemWin7 My Question or IssueSpotify starts to stutter heavily after about 30sec playback.Looks like this: https://youtu.be/TbmqQDAFnWY New insta...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device PC Core i7 3820 Network Adapter: Intel 7260 WLAN AC PCI-E card Operating System Win7 My Question or Issue Spotify starts to stutter heavi...
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PlanPremiumCountry U.K.DeviceSurface Book (though this still happens on Desktop)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Issue: I'm trying to find out what songs and albums I have downloaded onto my device and what are just saved to library, so I can download t...
Plan Premium Country U.K. Device Surface Book (though this still happens on Desktop) Operating System Windows 10 My Issue: I'm trying to find out what songs and a...
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I have problem with spotify updates.Spotify notice everyday, that new update is available -> restart and update.After update the version number won't change. I have done these:About Spotify -> click here to download and after that please restart to i...
I have problem with spotify updates. Spotify notice everyday, that new update is available -> restart and update. After update the version number won't change. I have done these: About...
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HiThis is like a message in a bottle as this forum is my last resort.For more than 6 months now, Spotify has been randomly causing my PC to freeze (I'm on Windows 10 64 bits). I've contacted Spotify support on several occasions and the only solution ...
Hi This is like a message in a bottle as this forum is my last resort. For more than 6 months now, Spotify has been randomly causing my PC to freeze (I'm on Windows 10 64 bits). I've contacted Spot...
Regular
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Edit: The below was posted in error in this topic. Reposted in "Android"Since middle/late May: "no internet connection, please try again later" 2-3 times on a daily basis. This with a close to flawless mobil internet connection. It never occurs when ...
Edit: The below was posted in error in this topic. Reposted in "Android" Since middle/late May: "no internet connection, please try again later" 2-3 times on a daily basis. This with a close to flaw...
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PlanPremiumCountry NZDeviceHP 850 laptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI have a large number of playlists, and songs. Whenever I add new songs to my playlists now, they don't download, the download toggle change to "waiting" and newly...
Plan Premium Country NZ Device HP 850 laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I have a large number of playlists, and songs. Whenever I add new songs to my play...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry United StatesDevice(PC)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or Issue When I try to listen to a station all it says is "Your Stations are unavailable please try again later", or when I try the radio it says "Error" Failed t...
Plan Free/Premium Country United States Device (PC) Operating System (Windows 10) My Question or Issue When I try to listen to a station all it says is "Your Stat...
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PlanPremiumCountry swedenOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I use the label search function pretty often. It doesn't work any more, did it get removed?Example: Label:"labelname"
Plan Premium Country sweden Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I use the label search function pretty often. It doesn't work any more, did it get removed? Ex...
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I have downloaded playlists to my Lenovo computer. I believe the files are physically downoaded to the harddrive? When I play from my Samsung the same playlist which is marked downloaded;Are the files downloaded to my Samsung mobile hard drive. If so...
I have downloaded playlists to my Lenovo computer. I believe the files are physically downoaded to the harddrive? When I play from my Samsung the same playlist which is marked downlo...
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Hello,One day I decided on a whim to listen to an album that was listed as new release. In this case, it was a certan Bene Rexha. Not that it really matters, but I did not listen to this for more than a few minutes before skipping through and returnt...
Hello, One day I decided on a whim to listen to an album that was listed as new release. In this case, it was a certan Bene Rexha. Not that it really matters, but I did not listen ...
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Hi,I have a new Lenovo ThinkPad and the volume keys (incl mute) don't change the volume on my stereo when using Spotify Connect on Wifi. When I toggle volume keys up/down the Windows volume appears to be changing (ie the W10 pop-up slides up/down) bu...
Hi, I have a new Lenovo ThinkPad and the volume keys (incl mute) don't change the volume on my stereo when using Spotify Connect on Wifi. When I toggle volume keys up/down the Windows volume a...
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This has been extremely annoying for the entirety of the time I've used spotify. Whenever I save an album by any artist, right click it, and click "add as new playlist" it makes it so the playlist is created by me and isn't displayed on my playlist l...
This has been extremely annoying for the entirety of the time I've used spotify. Whenever I save an album by any artist, right click it, and click "add as new playlist" it makes it so the playlist is...
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PlanPremiumCountryNetherlandsDevice and Operating SystemIrrelevant. My IssueI didn't actually know in which board I should've posted this, since it's an issue with Spotify's shuffle algorithm and not with the version of Spotify installed on my device...
Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device and Operating System Irrelevant. My Issue I didn't actually know in which board I should've posted this, since it's an issue with Spotify's shuf...
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PlanSingle PremiumCountry IrelandDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHow to install spotify in windows without using the spotify installer ? As seems the Spotify installer will download Spotify itself, but in my working place its v...
Plan Single Premium Country Ireland Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue How to install spotify in windows without using the spotify installer ? As seems ...
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PlanPremiumCountryU.S. DeviceDesktop ComputerOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue When I try to download a playlist, Spotify stalls and I get the message "Waiting for connection". However, I'm connected to the internet.
Plan Premium Country U.S. Device Desktop Computer Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue When I try to download a playlist, Spotify stalls and I get the messag...
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Plan Premium Country Brazil Device Desktop Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue Hi, I'm having some troubles with my application on Windows 7. I in...
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PlanPremiumCountry ArgentinaDeviceWindows 8.1 PC, 12 GB ram, 3.8 4 core cpu, etc.Question or Issue Whenever I run the app for the first time, it takes like 3 or 4 minutes to actually start, and take another 2-3 min to connect to my mobile phone and a...
Plan Premium Country Argentina Device Windows 8.1 PC, 12 GB ram, 3.8 4 core cpu, etc. Question or Issue Whenever I run the app for the first time, it takes like 3 or 4 minutes to a...
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A firewall may be blocking Spotify. Please, update your firewall to allow Spotify. Additionally, you could try changing the currently used proxy settings. That is the message I get when I start a Spotify client on my desktop machine. I turned the fir...
A firewall may be blocking Spotify. Please, update your firewall to allow Spotify. Additionally, you could try changing the currently used proxy settings. That is the ...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry GermanyDeviceSony VaioOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueToday i found on an old backup an old version of spotify....Good old times, easy to use, no big Letters, Covers, Pictures and those stuff, no waiting Just sim...
Plan Free/Premium Country Germany Device Sony Vaio Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue Today i found on an old backup an old version of spotify.... Good old time...
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