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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...
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...
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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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First of all, I'm sorry, english is not my first language. I will try my best to explain what is the problem. My spotify won't play music. It starts to tilt after ~20 secs. Music stops, plays, stops, plays... Internet connection is just fine, that sh...
First of all, I'm sorry, english is not my first language. I will try my best to explain what is the problem. My spotify won't play music. It starts to tilt after ~20 secs. Music stops, play...
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PlanFreeCountry IndonesiaOperating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssuePlease help me, my songs folder disappeared
Plan Free Country Indonesia Operating System (Windows 10) My Question or Issue Please help me, my songs folder disappeared
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PlanPremiumCountry AustraliaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows10 My Question or Issue I've been having an issue on PC where some artists will refuse to play from the Recently Played list. If I go into the artist's page and play from there it works fine....
Plan Premium Country Australia Device PC Operating System Windows10 My Question or Issue I've been having an issue on PC where some artists will refuse to play from the R...
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My Question or Issue Hello. I've been having problems with Spotify today. Everytime I open it on my PC, after a short time it will freeze and crash. No error messages shown on screen. It happens even if I just open and inmediately close the program. ...
My Question or Issue Hello. I've been having problems with Spotify today. Everytime I open it on my PC, after a short time it will freeze and crash. No error messages shown on screen...
Casual Listener
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Someone on my family Premium account suddenly has a different interface on his desktop app: Instead of SONGS on the left hand side, it says FAVORITE SONGS (he didn't change anything to make this happen), and all his check marks on his songs have beco...
Someone on my family Premium account suddenly has a different interface on his desktop app: Instead of SONGS on the left hand side, it says FAVORITE SONGS (he didn't change anything to make this happ...
Regular
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Plan - PremiumCountry - Canada Device - Toshiba LaptopOperating System - Windows 7 My Question or IssueSo, I am a premium member with a laptop... I am trying to download the music I have selected from Spotify onto my hard drive so that I can put them...
Plan - Premium Country - Canada Device - Toshiba Laptop Operating System - Windows 7 My Question or Issue So, I am a premium member with a laptop... I am tryi...
Roadie
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry- U.S.A. DeviceToshiba Laptop ComputerOperating SystemWindows 7 Home Premium (32-bit) My Question or Issue- Working fine until today. I made no changes to computer before this happened. I cleared web cache and cookies (on the p...
Plan Free/Premium Country- U.S.A. Device Toshiba Laptop Computer Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit) My Question or Issue- Working fine until today. I made...
Regular
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PlanPremiumCountryDenmarkDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Spotify keeps crashing my display adapter. I read that it had something to do with hardware acceleration and Nvidia GPUs but it kept happening after I disabled hardware ...
Plan Premium Country Denmark Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Spotify keeps crashing my display adapter. I read that it had something to do with hardw...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry U.S.A.Device- TOSHIBA LAPTOP COMPUTER Operating System- WINDOWS 7 HOME PREMIUM My Question or Issue- Problem just started today. I did not make any changes to computer before problem started. I cannot get anything to come up o...
Plan Free/Premium Country U.S.A. Device- TOSHIBA LAPTOP COMPUTER Operating System- WINDOWS 7 HOME PREMIUM My Question or Issue- Problem just started today.&nbs...
Roadie
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Primume, win 10.when adding a new favorite song from my S9, it doesn't add it to the pc spotify app althou it's added to the chrome online spotify player.I tried re-lunching spotify but the same problem.In the photo, the right window is the windows a...
Primume, win 10. when adding a new favorite song from my S9, it doesn't add it to the pc spotify app althou it's added to the chrome online spotify player. I tried re-lunching spotify but the same ...
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Hi,I just clicked a small icon like "<" next to the thumbnail at the bottom of the window, for the currently playing song. The thumbnail has been hidden and now I can't seem to bring it back... Can anyone help me and give instruction how to return to...
Hi, I just clicked a small icon like "<" next to the thumbnail at the bottom of the window, for the currently playing song. The thumbnail has been hidden and now I can't seem to bring it back... ...
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Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I would love it if favorite songs would be reverted back to songs. I hate seeing that heart everywhere and would rather see the '+' sign.
Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I would love it if favorite songs would be reverted back to songs. I hate seeing that heart everywhere and would rather see t...
Newbie
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PlanPremiumCountryTurkeyDevicepackard bell laptopOperating Systemwindows 7 My Question or Issue i am using spotify on my laptop for 2 days.When i decided to listen to music this morning spotify started to skip every song,i could not listen to one of ...
Plan Premium Country Turkey Device packard bell laptop Operating System windows 7 My Question or Issue i am using spotify on my laptop for 2 days.When i decided to listen to mu...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountry United StatesDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue My friend feed hasnt been working for a little more than a month now. I reinstalled spotify and it fixed it but now it doesnt work again.
Plan Premium Country United States Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue My friend feed hasnt been working for a little more than a month now. I...
Newbie
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Three weeks ago I downloaded the app of Spotify for desktop on Windows 10. All is good, up to when the ads come in: the music stops and the ads doesn't start until I touch on the Play button. Since this happens every 30 minutes or less, it's quite te...
Three weeks ago I downloaded the app of Spotify for desktop on Windows 10. All is good, up to when the ads come in: the music stops and the ads doesn't start until I touch on the Play button. Since t...
Casual Listener
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