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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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[Troubleshooting] Windows

Having trouble with the Spotify desktop app? Here’s a step-by-step guide to help get things working again. What to try first Perform a soft reset (generally rebooting the device will suffice). If that doesn’t help, try a clean reinstall. Be sure to l...

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FAQ: Spotify for Windows 10 app

Hey folks, we've outlined some of the common questions you might have about the Windows 10 app now available. Please post in this board if you have any other questions. Q: Why can’t I see Spotify in the Windows 10 store? A: Spotify for Windows store ...

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Superuser Contribution Name of local songs

Hello everyone.When I try to import local files from my computer to Spotify (Mac), it works really well. However, Spotify automatically change the name of my files, trying to guess an existing song title while they are non-market music. I would like ...

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  •  Hello everyone. When I try to import local files from my computer to Spotify (Mac), it works really well. However, Spotify automatically change the name of my files, trying to guess an existin...
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Solved!! Most of my songs disappeared

Hi guys,I'm currently trying to find out why most of my songs are missing on Spotify Dektop... I can see 62 out of +1500 songs on desktop whereas they all display on my android app... Can you guys help me out ? Thanks in advance.

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  • Hi guys, I'm currently trying to find out why most of my songs are missing on Spotify Dektop... I can see 62 out of +1500 songs on desktop whereas they all display on my android app... Can you guys ...
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Resizing the app window

So many updates went through since issue appeared and it is still not fixed for so long.Seriously what's the problem in fixing it?The issue is that resizing makes the window stuck and empty space appears.

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  • So many updates went through since issue appeared and it is still not fixed for so long. Seriously what's the problem in fixing it? The issue is that resizing makes the window stuck and empty space...
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Privacy settings don't save

Hello,I try to turn all my privacy settings off so no-one can see my activity or my recent artists, but every time I close spotify and reopen it, the settings all go back to on.I've tried using both the windows store and the version from the spotify ...

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  • Hello, I try to turn all my privacy settings off so no-one can see my activity or my recent artists, but every time I close spotify and reopen it, the settings all go back to on. I've tried using b...
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Freezing on Exit

When I have Spotify open, it will eventually slow my computer with so much hard drive activity, that I have to close it from the task manager. If I close it by clicking 'X,' a couple of seconds later, my computer will lock up and I'll have to hard re...

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  • When I have Spotify open, it will eventually slow my computer with so much hard drive activity, that I have to close it from the task manager. If I close it by clicking 'X,' a couple of seconds later...
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spotify not loading facebook friends

Hi,i can easily login with my facebook, however if i press find friends, it comes up with nothing even though I've already loged in with facebook on my windows laptop.also when i press 'find friends' it comes up with a tab called 'login with facebook...

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  • Hi, i can easily login with my facebook, however if i press find friends, it comes up with nothing even though I've already loged in with facebook on my windows laptop. also when i press 'find frie...
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Autoplay similar songs keeps playing even when turned off

Hi, Desktop keeps playing similar songs after album, even when this is turned off from settings. Really annoying, any ideas? There are no tracks in my queue so I don't know why this keeps happening.

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  • Hi,   Desktop keeps playing similar songs after album, even when this is turned off from settings. Really annoying, any ideas? There are no tracks in my queue so I don't know why this keeps ha...
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Spotify scrolling glitch with Photoshop

If I have Photoshop open (I run CC), Spotify won't let me scroll correctly. It won't let me scroll downwards through my library and instead I have to scroll upwards to go down in a long swift motion to let the library roll down a bit. I can scroll wi...

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  • If I have Photoshop open (I run CC), Spotify won't let me scroll correctly. It won't let me scroll downwards through my library and instead I have to scroll upwards to go down in a long swift motion ...
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Importing music

Hi,I have put my music from iTunes into a folder and imported it into a new playlist as the iTunes folder wouldn't import into songs. When I try to drag playlist into songs nothing happens?Also, more frustratingly, I can listen to playlist on my lapt...

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  • Hi, I have put my music from iTunes into a folder and imported it into a new playlist as the iTunes folder wouldn't import into songs. When I try to drag playlist into songs nothing happens? Also, ...
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Shuffle play only playing first songs in playlist

This seems to be a recent change for me on my desktop app (streaming to my SONOS Play). Pressing "next" -button ~100 times now, and it exclusively plays songs with artist name A-D (which makes up roughly 15% of the entire playlist). Funny enough, it ...

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  • This seems to be a recent change for me on my desktop app (streaming to my SONOS Play). Pressing "next" -button ~100 times now, and it exclusively plays songs with artist name A-D (which makes up rou...
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Windows Desktop App Blank Screen

Well here I am back making a new post for the same issue yes that's right Windows Desktop App Blank Screen just installed the latest version and I get the same issue as I reported September 2017 yes that's right 8 months ago, so I'm sorry Spotify bac...

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  • Well here I am back making a new post for the same issue yes that's right Windows Desktop App Blank Screen just installed the latest version and I get the same issue as I reported September 2017 yes ...
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Windows 10 app showing facebook account

I disconnected my email account from facebook but when I open windows 10 app I still see my facebook account user name besides my email!How get rid of facebook account and user name ?Please see the screenshot.

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  • I disconnected my email account from facebook but when I open windows 10 app I still see my facebook account user name besides my email! How get rid of facebook account and user name ? Please see t...
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Spotify funktioniert nicht

Seit etwa einer Woche funktioniert Spotify gar nicht mehr auf meinem PC (auf meinem Handy schon).Wenn ich Spotify öffnen möchte, öffnet sich kein Fenster und es hängt leicht (an der Taskleiste öffnet sich das kleine Fenster, wenn ich mit der Maus dra...

  • Casual Listener
  • Seit etwa einer Woche funktioniert Spotify gar nicht mehr auf meinem PC (auf meinem Handy schon). Wenn ich Spotify öffnen möchte, öffnet sich kein Fenster und es hängt leicht  (an der Taskleist...
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Downloaded songs and now I can't find them

Hey all!I really hope you can help me, it's driving me crazy.Yesterday I downloaded my mix of the week so I can hear it offline. Now I can't find the songs anywhere. Anybody has an idea how I can find them again? I don't remember any names of the art...

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  • Hey all! I really hope you can help me, it's driving me crazy. Yesterday I downloaded my mix of the week so I can hear it offline. Now I can't find the songs anywhere. Anybody has an idea how I can...
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Friend Feed gone

My friend feed is gone. I now have a button "Find Friends." When I click on that button it shows that I am following several people but nothing is showing up in the feed. It can't be possible that everyone decided at the same time to turn off publish...

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  • My friend feed is gone.   I now have a button "Find Friends."  When I click on that button it shows that I am following several people but nothing is showing up in the feed.  &nbs...
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Recently played artists not showing up on profile

This is happening to me and a friend, we can both see our own recently played artists but not each others (only public playlists). However we can both see a third friends recently played artists. I've tried enabling and disabling show top artists and...

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  • This is happening to me and a friend, we can both see our own recently played artists but not each others (only public playlists). However we can both see a third friends recently played artists. I...
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Superuser Contribution Song skipping half of the track

So, basically when a song finish, the next one starts at the half. Example: Is it normal? How can I fix this?

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  • So, basically when a song finish, the next one starts at the half. Example:   Is it normal? How can I fix this? 
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Spotify doesn't play firefox

Today Spotify webplayer update Shuffle playback and infinite playback do not turn off when you click Refresh. This patch does not seem to be Firefox.

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  • Today Spotify webplayer update   Shuffle playback and infinite playback do not turn off when you click Refresh.   This patch does not seem to be Firefox.
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Black screen in Chrome

Hi, again I'm having problem with the spotify web player in chrome in windows 7.When opening https://play.spotify.com/browse it immediately switches to https://open.spotify.com/browse/featured and shows the well known content for a fraction of a seco...

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  • Hi,   again I'm having problem with the spotify web player in chrome in windows 7. When opening https://play.spotify.com/browse it immediately switches to https://open.spo...
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