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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...
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...
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 SpainDeviceDell XPS 15 / HTC One M8Operating SystemWindows 10 / Android Marshmallow My Question or Issue So surprise to me this morning, my +2000 songs library got erased or lost, call it whatever you want. Instead, a lot of albums...
Plan Premium Country Spain Device Dell XPS 15 / HTC One M8 Operating System Windows 10 / Android Marshmallow My Question or Issue So surprise to me this morning, my +2000...
Roadie
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PlanPremiumCountry United KingdomDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I have just noticed that the bonus tracks on the Pink Floyd remasters are greyed out & when clicking on them I get a message saying "This song is not ava...
Plan Premium Country United Kingdom Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I have just noticed that the bonus tracks on the Pink Floyd remaste...
Community Legend
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My Question or Issue how do I find my 'songs' playlist - gone! All the other playlists are there...help please!
My Question or Issue how do I find my 'songs' playlist - gone! All the other playlists are there...help please!
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how do I find my 'songs' playlist - gone! All the other playlists are there...help please!
how do I find my 'songs' playlist - gone! All the other playlists are there...help please!
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DeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Spotify seemed to have migrated itself over to the windows store app without asking me first, I have the windows store disabled for privacy reasons on my device. I uninstalled the windows s...
Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Spotify seemed to have migrated itself over to the windows store app without asking me first, I have the w...
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PremiumWindows 10 I've got some mp3 files that Spotify won't recognize the titles of. I've fixed them in Mp3tag, but Spotify still won't recognize them. Check out the attached pic from Mp3tag... ... and check out the attached pic from Spotify Desktop...
Premium Windows 10 I've got some mp3 files that Spotify won't recognize the titles of. I've fixed them in Mp3tag, but Spotify still won't recognize them. Check out the attached pic from Mp3...
Moderator
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PlanPremiumCountryUK Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThe songs tab has gone missing from My library.I used this all the time on shuffle to listen to all the music ive saved on spotify!Why has this gone and anyway around it? I left spot...
Plan Premium Country UK Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue The songs tab has gone missing from My library. I used this all the time on shuffle to...
Newbie
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Hi, there used to be the "audio effects" that could change the "distance" of the music, how far it sounded, my favourite one was the club mode, it was the furthest and didn't disturb my game audio.I've been trying to find an app or plugin that does i...
Hi, there used to be the "audio effects" that could change the "distance" of the music, how far it sounded, my favourite one was the club mode, it was the furthest and didn't disturb my game audio. ...
Community Legend
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PlanFreeCountry ParaguayDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I create a collaborative playlist with my free Spotify account but none of my friends can access to the playlist to add, erase o modify the playlist. Please I need some h...
Plan Free Country Paraguay Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I create a collaborative playlist with my free Spotify account but none of my friend...
Roadie
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PlanPremiumCountryNorway DeviceWindows 10 DesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue After 1.84.344.0 was automatically installed I can no longer play any songs. When I click to play a song there is a delay of about 2 - 4 seconds before a...
Plan Premium Country Norway Device Windows 10 Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue After 1.84.344.0 was automatically installed I can no longer p...
Community Legend
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I have a bluetooth controller which i use for playing games, it is a no name generic one. I want to know if anyone knows of an app or a way to bind the back buttons to skip songs on spotify? it annoying to have to click away from my game to spotify j...
I have a bluetooth controller which i use for playing games, it is a no name generic one. I want to know if anyone knows of an app or a way to bind the back buttons to skip songs on sp...
Regular
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with spotify on windows, i used to have local files of differents artists and recently i deleted them. The problem is that everytime i want to stream one of these songs, spotify might be trying to find these songs but they aren't here anymore so i ca...
with spotify on windows, i used to have local files of differents artists and recently i deleted them. The problem is that everytime i want to stream one of these songs, spotify might b...
Regular
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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...
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...
Spotify Star
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry CanadaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueLogged on this morning and I really like the change with the Heart icon now. Makes it easy to see what I have saved.However, the main thing I noticed is that al...
Plan Free/Premium Country Canada Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Logged on this morning and I really like the change with the Heart icon now. Ma...
Casual Listener
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When I log in to my laptop (or unlock after a break), I want Spotify to automatically play - but only if it was running before I closed my laptop - and I don't like it starting halfway through a song, so I want it to always start a new track on my pl...
When I log in to my laptop (or unlock after a break), I want Spotify to automatically play - but only if it was running before I closed my laptop - and I don't like it starting halfway through a song...
Spotify Legend
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Plan UnlimitedCountry USADevice PCOperating System Windows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I don't know what I want to listen to I used to be able to select from the "Your Library" menu "Songs." This would list all the songs I had saved in which I could ...
Plan Unlimited Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When I don't know what I want to listen to I used to be able to select from the "Your...
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PlanFreeDevicePC - Windows 7Operating SystemWindows 7 (SP2, 64-bit)My Question or Issue I logged back into Spotify today after the update, and uh, after logging back in, NOTHING exists. Literally nothing. All that is on the page is the Exit button an...
Plan Free Device PC - Windows 7 Operating System Windows 7 (SP2, 64-bit) My Question or Issue I logged back into Spotify today after the update, and uh, after logging back in, NOTHING ex...
Spotify
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PlanPremiumCountry NorwayDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI cannot remove some songs from my favorites, i have noticed they are all local files, but i cannot remove them from the favorites tab
Plan Premium Country Norway Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I cannot remove some songs from my favorites, i have noticed they are all local file...
Community Legend
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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...
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...
Spotify
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This morning my artist page "Follow" button has turned into a heart button. It does the same thing as Follow did, but it's much harder to quickly see whether I'm following (hearting? liking?) an artist, since the button is very small and doesn't chan...
This morning my artist page "Follow" button has turned into a heart button. It does the same thing as Follow did, but it's much harder to quickly see whether I'm following (hearting? liking?)...
Casual Listener
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