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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...
PlanFree CountryUnited States DeviceWindows 10 laptop My Question or IssueSpotify app stops playing songs from my Local Files and announces it "Can't play current song". This often coincides with the laptop disconnecting from my Bluetooth speaker.
Plan Free Country United States Device Windows 10 laptop My Question or Issue Spotify app stops playing songs from my Local Files and announces it "Can't play current s...
Roadie
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PlanPremiumCountryUSA DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I've noticed this over the past month or so. If I'm listening to a playlist with a song that is 10+ minutes long, when the end of the song is reached Spotify will not conti...
Plan Premium Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I've noticed this over the past month or so. If I'm listening to a playlist with a s...
Newbie
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Hello, I have Samsung note 5 and I recently upgraded to premium but the quality is bad. I manage to hear great quality on my pc but on the phone, it is just bad. I have all the settings to the highest quality, checked the equalizer, tried with a few ...
Hello, I have Samsung note 5 and I recently upgraded to premium but the quality is bad. I manage to hear great quality on my pc but on the phone, it is just bad. I have all the settings to the...
Casual Listener
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PlanFreeCountry USADeviceWindow desktopOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue Playback freezes after ad. I cannot skip to the next song or start another playlist. I have restarted machine and reinstalled the app with no improvement.
Plan Free Country USA Device Window desktop Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue Playback freezes after ad. I cannot skip to the next song or start another pla...
Regular
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PlanPremiumCountryNetherlands Operating SystemWindows 10 Build 1803My Question or IssueBug: The "normalize volume" setting is present twice in the settings. (see attachments)
Plan Premium Country Netherlands Operating System Windows 10 Build 1803 My Question or Issue Bug: The "normalize volume" setting is present twice in the settings. (see attachments)
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Use case: I am a user who had a song play that they no longer like in one of their playlists and wants to delete that song before the next song plays.PlanPremiumCountryU.S. DeviceSamsung Galaxy S7Operating SystemI do UX for a living so I have access ...
Use case: I am a user who had a song play that they no longer like in one of their playlists and wants to delete that song before the next song plays. Plan Premium Country U.S. Device...
Regular
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Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIs there a way to stop Spotify from skipping to the next or previous track when I press my mouse's forward/back buttons to navigate websites in a browser? To avoid this I have to left-click the forward/b...
Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Is there a way to stop Spotify from skipping to the next or previous track when I press my mouse's forward/back buttons to navigate website...
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After formatting my PC (Windows 10 64bit) Spotify no longer shows up in the volume mixer (see picture). I use PCPanel to control sound via volume mixer, so I need Spotify there for it to work. Has anyone had a similar issue, or maybe know about a fix...
After formatting my PC (Windows 10 64bit) Spotify no longer shows up in the volume mixer (see picture). I use PCPanel to control sound via volume mixer, so I need Spotify there for i...
Casual Listener
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Hi I tried logging in to the browser version of Spotify and when I typed my password, I ended up spending two minutes answering questions about the existense of cars in a wide array of pictures. That's a lot of time spent identifying cars, when all I...
Hi I tried logging in to the browser version of Spotify and when I typed my password, I ended up spending two minutes answering questions about the existense of cars in a wide array of&...
Roadie
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HI, i activate high quality, but sound still has a really bad quality. PlanPremiumCountryChile DeviceNotebook/bluetooth/senhaiser pcx550Operating SystemWindows 10
HI, i activate high quality, but sound still has a really bad quality. Plan Premium Country Chile Device Notebook/bluetooth/senhaiser pcx550 Operating System Windows 10 ...
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PlanFamily PremiumCountry USADeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows My Question or Issue The last played song is appearing as the same song, even if I play another song. It is also a song I dont want to be associated with! I dont know what elso to do!
Plan Family Premium Country USA Device Laptop Operating System Windows My Question or Issue The last played song is appearing as the same song, even if I play ano...
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First of all, I don't think this community is clarifying. And also not intuïtive. And I guess too many Apple users are working on Spotify. Here is what I am missing in the genres section. (I would wanna choose between genres and moods). If I have cho...
First of all, I don't think this community is clarifying. And also not intuïtive. And I guess too many Apple users are working on Spotify. Here is what I am missing in the genres sec...
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So i have some music downloaded on my PC (not through spotify) and when i like the 'source' or file location then try to play these songs it says 'This song is not available. If you have the file on your computer you can import it.' which i have done...
So i have some music downloaded on my PC (not through spotify) and when i like the 'source' or file location then try to play these songs it says 'This song is not available. If you have the ...
Roadie
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PlanFreeCountry Windows 10 My Question or Issue Is there a way to configure a macro or a hotkey for controlling the volume only on spotify on a logitech g mouse? (g 502)
Plan Free Country Windows 10 My Question or Issue Is there a way to configure a macro or a hotkey for controlling the volume only on spotify on a logitech g mouse? ...
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just a dot without nothing someone can help?
just a dot without nothing someone can help?
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Last week the "Peak Spotify Client™", version 0.8.5 if you don't remember, stopped breathing. Many features had stopped working over the years, a slow death. Most crucially "search" broke some months ago where you couldn't find an artist if it didn't...
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PlanFreeCountry USA DeviceNextbook 11A tablet pcOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue This has been an issue for quite some time and I'm noticing it more and more as ads become videos instead of just audio. The ads and some music videos eve...
Plan Free Country USA Device Nextbook 11A tablet pc Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue This has been an issue for quite some time and I'm noticing i...
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PlanFreeCountry CanadaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIts 1 am, im trying to study for a test, i keep getting the hereditary ad, please stop trying to make me more sleep deprived than i already am spotify.
Plan Free Country Canada Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Its 1 am, im trying to study for a test, i keep getting the hereditary ad, please stop ...
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PlanFreeCountry ItalyDeviceSamsung Galaxy A5 2016Operating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueHi, it's 1:07 AM and my Discover Weekly hasn't updatet yet. Sometimes it happened that instead at midnight, it updates at 1 AM, but this time, nothing. Can...
Plan Free Country Italy Device Samsung Galaxy A5 2016 Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue Hi, it's 1:07 AM and my Discover Weekly hasn't updatet yet. Sometimes it h...
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PlanPremiumCountry Austria Operating SystemWindows 10 (Version 1803) Spotify Version1.0.81.325.g17f71170 My Question or Issue:I can´t disable the annoying Media Overlay anymore!Ever since I started using Spotify I have disabled the Overlay with the o...
Plan Premium Country Austria Operating System Windows 10 (Version 1803) Spotify Version 1.0.81.325.g17f71170 My Question or Issue: I can´t disable the annoying&...
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