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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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Solved!! Having issues with friend feed and radio.

PlanFreeCountryUnited StatesDeviceWindows laptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueTitle says it all, but let me tell you what I've tried and explain a little better. Basically, everytime I open up Spotify, my friend feed says "Hmm, the F...

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Plan Free Country United States Device Windows laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Title says it all, but let me tell you what I've tried and explain a little bet...

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Daily Mix Disappeared Desktop and Web

Spotify Version1.0.83.318.g6c07039dPlanFree CountryItalyDeviceDell Notebook, Iphone 6 Operating SystemWindows 10, Ios 9.3 My Question or IssueI've been using Spotify for at least 2 years and for 3 weeks now My Daily Mix has been missing from Spotify ...

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Spotify Version 1.0.83.318.g6c07039d Plan Free  Country Italy Device Dell Notebook, Iphone 6  Operating System Windows 10, Ios 9.3   My Question or Issue I've been using Sp...

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Random or shuffle button dont remember my slection

PlanPremiumCountryArgentina DevicePcOperating SystemWindows 10 and 7 My Question or Issue Hi. Everyday i star the windows app and the shouffle button is not selected. The app dont save my selection.

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Plan Premium Country Argentina   Device Pc Operating System Windows 10 and 7   My Question or Issue  Hi. Everyday i star the windows app and the shouffle button is not selec...

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Playlist inspired

Hello. I have a question regarding the playlists on spotify. I recently searched for a song on my phone and played it. After a while i noticed there is a playlist on Home tab called "Inspired by *song*". The playlist is created by spotify. My problem...

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Hello. I have a question regarding the playlists on spotify. I recently searched for a song on my phone and played it. After a while i noticed there is a playlist on Home tab called "Inspired by *son...

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Not launching; disappeared

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceASUS laptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Tried to open Spotify from the pinned icon on the startbar and got the error "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have ...

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Plan Premium Country United States Device ASUS laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Tried to open Spotify from the pinned icon on the startbar and got the er...

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Window not resizing

Windows 10, spotify is not responsive to window size change.The right side is cut off here, so i cannot adjust the volume slide, skip to next song, see the activity feed, nor access the second half of the playback bar

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Windows 10, spotify is not responsive to window size change. The right side is cut off here, so i cannot adjust the volume slide, skip to next song, see the activity feed, nor access the second half...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Dayly mix completely disappeared

PlanFreeCountry NetherlandsDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue Around a week or so ago, the "Dayly Mix" tab in my library disappeared. In addition, the friends feed fails to load as well.Uninstalling & reinstalling spotify fixes th...

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Plan Free Country  Netherlands Device PC Operating System Windows 7  My Question or Issue  Around a week or so ago, the "Dayly Mix" tab in my library disappeared. In addition,...

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music label search doesnt work?

PremiumCountry NL Device(iPhone 10 & DesktopOperating System(iOS 10,Windows 10,etc.) Music label search doest work?

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Premium Country NL   Device (iPhone 10 & Desktop Operating System (iOS 10,Windows 10,etc.)   Music label search doest work?  

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German songs in my Discover Weekly

I keep getting more and more german songs in my Discover Weekly list. I NEVER listen to german songs, I never add german songs, I am constantly making new playlists (mainly english songs, some dutch) My current Discover weekly contains atleast 12 ger...

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I keep getting more and more german songs in my Discover Weekly list.   I NEVER listen to german songs, I never add german songs, I am constantly making new playlists (mainly english songs, so...

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Shuffle Is Repeating the Exact Same Songs From Yesterday

PlanPremiumCountry CanadaDeviceHP ZBook 17 G3Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue For several days now, when I log in to my laptop, Spotify is starting at the same song as it did yesterday. When I skip ahead, the "shuffle" feature is going...

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Plan Premium Country  Canada Device HP ZBook 17 G3 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  For several days now, when I log in to my laptop, Spotify is starting a...

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BAD SOUND QUALITY ON PC WINDOWS

Ever since I downloaded spotify on my computer (windows) it's sounded trash from day 1. I have premium with the High Quality option turned on and still sounds terrible, anyone know any fixes? I've tried turning off Normalize volume but it did nothing...

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    Ever since I downloaded spotify on my computer (windows) it's sounded trash from day 1. I have premium with the High Quality option turned on and still sounds terrible, anyone know an...

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Certain songs don't play

Hi! I am having some problems with my spotify. I recently got premium but for some reason I can not play songs anymore that I had marked as do not play when I did not have premium. Is there a way to turn this back and make the songs paly again?Thanks...

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Hi! I am having some problems with my spotify. I recently got premium but for some reason I can not play songs anymore that I had marked as do not play when I did not have premium. Is there a way to ...

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Superuser Contribution Flux d'amis et Radio

Bonjour,J'ai Spotify Premium pendant 3 mois sur mon PC sous Windows 10.J'ai 2 soucis dès le démarrage de l'application car je ne peux pas voir le flux d'amis, un message 'Impossible de voir le flux d'amis' apparaît.J'ai également un soucis pour lance...

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Bonjour, J'ai Spotify Premium pendant 3 mois sur mon PC sous Windows 10. J'ai 2 soucis dès le démarrage de l'application car je ne peux pas voir le flux d'amis, un message 'Impossible de voir le fl...

SergioDavid

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Superuser Contribution Playlist sync between iPhone and Desktop seems not to work

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceiPhone 7Operating SystemWindows 10 on desk My Question or Issue I created a playlist but the number of songs on my desktop app and my mobile app differ. On the iPhone I got 998 songs on it, on the desktop it is only 989...

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Plan Premium Country Germany Device iPhone 7 Operating System Windows 10 on desk  My Question or Issue  I created a playlist but the number of songs on my desktop app and my mobile...

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Superuser Contribution MMDEVAPI popup

Last night my Spotify stopped working....it kept giving me an error that if I had the song locally on my computer I could listen to it....then just started to skip to a next song in a playlist repeatedly without playing anything. Then it started givi...

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Last night my Spotify stopped working....it kept giving me an error that if I had the song locally on my computer I could listen to it....then just started to skip to a next song in a playlist repeat...

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Superuser Contribution Daily Mix Says Offline and Radio gives an error 'Failing to Load'

I have an active premium subscription and running the desktop version on Windows 7, these features have worked fine in the past but in the past month these features have stopped working, they do work after a reinstall but as soon as I close Spotify t...

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I have an active premium subscription and running the desktop version on Windows 7, these features have worked fine in the past but in the past month these features have stopped working, they do work...

Alfredo

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Superuser Contribution Daily Mix saying I'm offline

PlanFreeCountry United StatesDeviceLenovo LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Whenever I try to launch my daily mix, which I have to search for because it doesn't show up on the left side bar, it says that I am not allowed to access...

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Plan Free Country  United States Device Lenovo Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Whenever I try to launch my daily mix, which I have to search for be...

Alfredo

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Daily Mix/Friend Activity Not Working

I use Spotify on Windows 10, and only have a free account at the moment. But as the title says, the Daily playlists don't show up, autoplay doesn't work even if I have it enabled, and I can't see the Friend Activity. (it says "Hmm, the Friend Feed fa...

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   I use Spotify on Windows 10, and only have a free account at the moment. But as the title says, the Daily playlists don't show up, autoplay doesn't work even if I have it enabled, and I...

ApatheticHands

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Can't see profile + infinite "next" on multiple device + Language

PlanFreeCountryItaly Device(3xPCs + 1 Mobile)Operating System(Windows 10 (x2) & Ubuntu & Android 8.0) My Question or Issue I can't see my profile, in friends "follower" is just showed my ID.In the Windows application it says "The page doesn't exists ...

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Plan Free Country Italy   Device (3xPCs + 1 Mobile) Operating System (Windows 10 (x2) & Ubuntu & Android 8.0)   My Question or Issue  I can't see my profile, in frie...

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[Windows] Spotify window always stays on top

PlanFreeCountry DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I restarted my computer today and I guess Spotify updated (1.0.83.318.g6c07039d) or something and I noticed that the Spotify window stays on top and has priority over every other...

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Plan Free Country   Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I restarted my computer today and I guess Spotify updated (1.0.83.318.g6c07039d) or somethin...

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