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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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Superuser Contribution How to CHANGE CALIFICATION (thumbs up/down) to a song in the radio of a song?

PlanPremium My Question or IssueI accidentally put THUMBS DOWN to a song that I love in the radio of a song, I want to reverse this and put THUMBS UP so Spotify can recommend similar ones, but the song disappeared from the radio list.

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Plan Premium   My Question or Issue I accidentally put THUMBS DOWN to a song that I love in the radio of a song, I want to reverse this and put THUMBS UP so Spotify can recommend&n...

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Volume overlay keeps coming back

PlanFree Operating SystemWindows 10 The banner keeps popping out even though disabled it. Turn on and off the overlay will keep it off for a while, after that it'll popping up again. I even deleted the cache on %appdata% and still keep happening (the...

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Plan Free   Operating System Windows 10   The banner keeps popping out even though disabled it. Turn on and off the overlay will keep it off for a while, after that it'll popping up a...

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Solved!! Cant get rid of spotify task. Wont restart because "spotify is already running"

Just as the title says i cant get the process to end so i can restart it or reinstall. Cant end the task in task manager because "access is denied" even though im the administrator. Cant delete the "Spotify" subfolder because " its currently being us...

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   Just as the title says i cant get the process to end so i can restart it or reinstall. Cant end the task in task manager because "access is denied" even though im the administrator. Can...

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Solved!! Radio will not play

PlanPremiumCountry United States of AmericaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue So:I've logged in and out, reinstalled, restarted my computer, and after experimenting, I realized that radio won't work spefically for my account on m...

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  Plan Premium Country  United States of America Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  So: I've logged in and out, reinstalled, restarted my ...

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Media keys popup box

Even when the option is disabled, if i restart my computer it still shows the pop up box. Have to disable it and re enable it again before it wont show it up any more. Very annoying and was wondering if anyone has a soultion.(Windows 10)

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Even when the option is disabled, if i restart my computer it still shows the pop up box. Have to disable it and re enable it again before it wont show it up any more. Very annoying and was wondering...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution All spotify features no longer work

PlanFreeCountry BrazilDeviceNotebook ASUSOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueAll of my features in spotify simply stop working, I can not search for songs or even listen to the radio, my friends feed does not load, all other options (artis...

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Plan Free Country  Brazil Device Notebook ASUS Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue All of my features in spotify simply stop working, I can not search for songs or ...

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Discover Weekly not updating once again

PlanFreeCountry ItalyDeviceSamsung Galaxy A5 2016Operating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueHi once again my Discover Weekly is not updating on monday. Last week i finally get the update (but then again on tuesday i got another update that changed...

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Plan Free Country  Italy Device Samsung Galaxy A5 2016 Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue Hi once again my Discover Weekly is not updating on monday. Last week i ...

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How do I share/send a song to another Spotify user?

Am I missing something here? I swear there used to be a way to send a song to a friend on Spotify who is also a Spotify user. In fact, I used to have an Inbox where these messages would appear, but I can no longer find my Inbox. I don't like having t...

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Am I missing something here? I swear there used to be a way to send a song to a friend on Spotify who is also a Spotify user. In fact, I used to have an Inbox where these messages would appear, but I...

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Picutes not not showing

PlanPremiumCountry UKDeviceWindowsOperating SystemWindows 8 My Question or Issue When i search artists and go on there page the images do not load?

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  Plan Premium Country  UK Device Windows Operating System Windows 8   My Question or Issue  When i search artists and go on there page the images do not load?

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Solved!! Song picture not showing

A while ago I noticed that the picture of the song I was listening wasn't showing anymore (as the picture is showing). https://gyazo.com/e76b70c7afb83f20bd1efd34c6cb3caf. And I have not been able to get it to show up again. Does anybody know how to g...

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    A while ago I noticed that the picture of the song I was listening wasn't showing anymore (as the picture is showing). https://gyazo.com/e76b70c7afb83f20bd1efd34c6cb3caf. And I ha...

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COMDLG32.dll: PqthFindExtensionW not found

PlanFree/PremiumCountry DeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Upon starting Spotify I get the following message:---------------------------Spotify.exe - Entry Point Not Found---------------------------The procedure entry point ...

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Plan Free/Premium Country   Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  Upon starting Spotify I get the following message: -------------------------...

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Superuser Contribution 6 Daily Mixes exist, only 1 is shown in Desktop

Hi,I've started using Spotify about 3 weeks ago,and on Desktop I see only Daily Mix 1 (which is not updated at all, even though I listen to music).BUT, in Android app I see that Spotify created more Daily Mixes for me.So why can't I play them on Desk...

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Hi, I've started using Spotify about 3 weeks ago, and on Desktop I see only Daily Mix 1 (which is not updated at all, even though I listen to music). BUT, in Android app I see that Spotify created...

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Superuser Contribution 0 Friends on Spotify

PlanFreeCountry AustraliaDeviceSpotify Desktop AppOperating SystemWindows 7 Home Premium My Question or Issue I'm having troubles finding my friends on Facebook, had 8 friends show up until about 2 months ago lost them all at once and can't get them ...

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Plan Free Country  Australia Device Spotify Desktop App Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium   My Question or Issue  I'm having troubles finding my friends on Facebook, ha...

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Solved!! Can't drag tracks in newest Spotify app update (v1.83.318.0)

My Question or Issue The Windows Spotify app was just updated via Windows Store to v1.83.318.0. App restarted after update, and when it started up again, I could no longer drag and drop tracks into playlists, or drag and drop playlist tracks to re-or...

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My Question or Issue   The Windows Spotify app was just updated via Windows Store to v1.83.318.0. App restarted after update, and when it started up again, I could no longer drag and drop trac...

PomPomTom

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Superuser Contribution I cant log in with Facebook account

PlanPremiumCountry ChileDeviceNotebookOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI click in Log in with Facebook account but nothing hapens then it appears a error message "code error:8" , i dont have this problem on my android device

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  Plan Premium Country  Chile Device Notebook Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I click in Log in with Facebook account but nothing hapens then it appears a...

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Why is there a limit on how many songs I can save to my library?

Whenever I reach the limit, there is a banner that says "Your library is full." I want to know why there is this limit and if there will ever be a time it will be expanded.

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  Whenever I reach the limit, there is a banner that says "Your library is full." I want to know why there is this limit and if there will ever be a time it will be expanded.

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Playlists suddenly saves as Album - Artist

PlanPremiumCountry Norway Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Hi! Spotify suddenly saves playlists as Album - Artist, and it's really annoying to have to manually change to Artist - Album. Can't find any way in settings to change it eithe...

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Plan Premium Country  Norway   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue   Hi!   Spotify suddenly saves playlists as Album - Artist, and it's really anno...

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Solved!! I just upgraded to Premium. Radio feature seems broken now along with seeing my buds on here.

PlanPremiumCountry USADeviceAlienwear m17 xr3Operating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue I upgraded a weekago. been trying to listen to some my bands radios and they refuse to play. I've rebooted, logged out and few other things. Nothing gotten th...

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Plan Premium Country  USA Device Alienwear m17 xr3 Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue  I upgraded a weekago. been trying to listen to some my bands radios and ...

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Missing icons in Spotify on Windows 10

Hi guys,it seems that all the icons from the GUI have disappeared. Almost looks like the font or something is missing. Anyone experienced the same behaviour recently? The problem persists after reboot/logging out/etc. Spotify version: 1.0.83.318.g6c0...

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  Hi guys, it seems that all the icons from the GUI have disappeared. Almost looks like the font or something is missing. Anyone experienced the same behaviour recently? The problem persists a...

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Solved!! Why is the social media bar on the right displayed upon fresh install when I'm not connected to FB?

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDevicePCOperating SystemWin 10 My Question or IssueIt irritates me that there is people being displayed from a Facebook acc that I had once linked to Spotify. It doesn't exist anymore. Wondering why it comes up even on a fres...

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Plan Premium Country Germany Device PC Operating System Win 10   My Question or Issue It irritates me that there is people being displayed from a Facebook acc that I had once linked to...

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