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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 Premium, Country UK, Device PC, Operating System Windows 7Desktop app.Search shows results in the dropdown as you type, but on clicking "Show All Results" it fails to find any and says no matches in the database - even though it was successfully...
Plan Premium, Country UK, Device PC, Operating System Windows 7 Desktop app. Search shows results in the dropdown as you type, but on clicking "Show All Results" it fails to find any and says no ma...
Casual Listener
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My Question or Issue The album art work of the song that was currently playing used to appear with the song information in the bottom left corner of my desktop app and now it is only showing the song and the artist. How do I get the album artwork to ...
My Question or Issue The album art work of the song that was currently playing used to appear with the song information in the bottom left corner of my desktop app and now it is only s...
Newbie
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dont play any song, i have deactivated "streaming" for premiun any idea ? Alan
dont play any song, i have deactivated "streaming" for premiun any idea ? Alan
Roadie
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry greeceDeviceOperating SystemAndroid nougat, Windows 10 My Question or Issue I cant find some albums on the app or thw windows version of spotify but i can find them on the web version which is not helping me that much because ...
Plan Free/Premium Country greece Device Operating System Android nougat, Windows 10 My Question or Issue I cant find some albums on the app or thw windows version of spoti...
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I listen to many mixtapes so I like to have them and my streaming music all in one place. I have deleted and redownloaded all my mixtapes multiple times but Spotify on Windows cant seem to find all my files. I have deleted the local file using %appda...
I listen to many mixtapes so I like to have them and my streaming music all in one place. I have deleted and redownloaded all my mixtapes multiple times but Spotify on Windows cant seem to find all m...
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I use Spotify on my my laptop connected to an RCA flatscreen via HDMI. Everything worked fine for several months. After returning home from a 6 week trip, suddenly Spotify won't play anything, reporting the error "this song is not available..." for a...
I use Spotify on my my laptop connected to an RCA flatscreen via HDMI. Everything worked fine for several months. After returning home from a 6 week trip, suddenly Spotify won't play anything, report...
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PlanFamilyCountry UKDeviceHP Pavilion g6Operating SystemWin 10 My Question or IssueAs said in the topic, Spotify doesn't want to play any music, it skips the Spotify streamed music, and doesn't let me play local files. Additionally, I noticed it does...
Plan Family Country UK Device HP Pavilion g6 Operating System Win 10 My Question or Issue As said in the topic, Spotify doesn't want to play any music, it skips the Spotify str...
Casual Listener
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Hi - I can access the web player no problem but when I try to play music from my library I just get a pop-up saying 'this song is not available'. This happens if I 'search' and from 'playlists' too. I have tried logging out then in again but no luck....
Hi - I can access the web player no problem but when I try to play music from my library I just get a pop-up saying 'this song is not available'. This happens if I 'search' and from 'playlists' too.&...
Newbie
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Hi guys I have a premium account, I've used Spotify heavily over for around 5 years now.I listen mainly through my Galaxy S9+ but would occasionally use PC and do the switch with choosing to play through PC.But lately I switch to windows and the song...
Hi guys I have a premium account, I've used Spotify heavily over for around 5 years now. I listen mainly through my Galaxy S9+ but would occasionally use PC and do the switc...
Casual Listener
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I have Spotify Free... Every sound from Windows 10 to youtube and every other app works... But from spotify it just skips tracks... I set Numark party mix to be default audio device... didn't work... Spotify only works on computers high definition au...
I have Spotify Free... Every sound from Windows 10 to youtube and every other app works... But from spotify it just skips tracks... I set Numark party mix to be default audio device... didn't...
Visitor
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I'm a user from Vietnam. I noticed somes album i listen to (Alter Bridge's AB III & Rev Theory's Justice) are not available on Spotify when use both desktop and mobile apps but when i used web app called "Album Availability Map", which is recommended...
I'm a user from Vietnam. I noticed somes album i listen to (Alter Bridge's AB III & Rev Theory's Justice) are not available on Spotify when use both desktop and mobile apps but when i used web ap...
Roadie
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PlanPremiumCountry GermanyDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueA picture preview of the album cover used to be featured in the lower left of the Spotify desktop app where the song and artist names are listed. I currently hav...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue A picture preview of the album cover used to be featured in the lower left of th...
Music Fan
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Windows 10 with a Wireless headset. I'm on version 1.0.82.447.g975ad224 This used to work fine, but since the latest update I've noticed I have a problem.I hate the overlay so i have it turned off, recently I've noticed that it doesnt stay turned off...
Windows 10 with a Wireless headset. I'm on version 1.0.82.447.g975ad224 This used to work fine, but since the latest update I've noticed I have a problem. I hate the overlay so...
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Hi, I did not login for quite a while and now my playlists are gone.Is there a way to recover them or are the lost for good ? cheers
Hi, I did not login for quite a while and now my playlists are gone. Is there a way to recover them or are the lost for good ? cheers
Community Legend
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PlanPremiumCountry IsraelDeviceDell laptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Spotify (1.0.82) does not scroblle local files (nly local) on windows. It works on android for me (after updating, before it posed a similiar problem) but still...
Plan Premium Country Israel Device Dell laptop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Spotify (1.0.82) does not scroblle local files (nly local) on window...
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PlanPremium Operating SystemWindows 8.1 My Question or IssueToday I find that there are some Spotify playlists that I cannot highlight all tracks from and add to one of my own playlists. By "Spotify playlist" I mean playlists that are "By Spotify". T...
Plan Premium Operating System Windows 8.1 My Question or Issue Today I find that there are some Spotify playlists that I cannot highlight all tracks from and add to one of my own...
Regular
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Hi, out of the blue Spotify wouldnt let me log in today. I would be so grateful for any help on how to fix this! When i try to log in the error message says (translated) "A firewall may be blocking Spotify. Change its settings to allow Spotify throug...
Hi, out of the blue Spotify wouldnt let me log in today. I would be so grateful for any help on how to fix this! When i try to log in the error message says (translated) "A firewall ...
Casual Listener
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I'm using Google Translate, if someone does not understand, sorry.I use the Android operating systemWell, recently an update occurred in the application (version: 8.4.56.803), after this update the application simply started to have a gigantic slowne...
I'm using Google Translate, if someone does not understand, sorry. I use the Android operating system Well, recently an update occurred in the application (version: 8.4.56.803), after this update t...
Roadie
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PlanFreeCountryUSADevicePC (Desktop)Operating SystemWindows 10 (Version 1709) OS Build 16299.431 My Question or Issue I am attempting to purchase Spotify Premium through my browser (Google Chrome) using my PayPal balance, however, when I attempt to c...
Plan Free Country USA Device PC (Desktop) Operating System Windows 10 (Version 1709) OS Build 16299.431 My Question or Issue I am attempting to purchase Spotify Premium through...
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PlanFree/Country DeviceLaptop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue One day as I was listening to my music it just stopped. I checked and it said the music would continue after the ad. Only the ad is not playing, no matter the song I sele...
Plan Free/ Country Device Laptop PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue One day as I was listening to my music it just stopped. I checked and it said the ...
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