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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...
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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...
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&...
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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 ...
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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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PlanFreeCountry Indonesia Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) Windows 10My Question or Issue Whenever the apps start playing ads , the ads stuck on 00:00 and need manually pause-play to play the ads , any idea how to fix this? Alr...
Plan Free Country Indonesia Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) Windows 10 My Question or Issue Whenever the apps start playing ads , the a...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSA Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Recently moved my songs from my main hard drive to secondary hard drive on my PC. I wanted to re-link the files to their proper locations, but when I was unable to do that, I tried...
Plan Premium Country USA Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Recently moved my songs from my main hard drive to secondary hard drive on my PC. I wanted...
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Buongiorno,non riesco a scaricare canzoni su Desktopo o mp3. Grazie ciao
Buongiorno, non riesco a scaricare canzoni su Desktopo o mp3. Grazie ciao
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I wanted to play music on my PC through Spotify so I went to the "Local files" setting and turned it on, and it all worked I could now play anything on my PC through Spotify... The only thing was though, whenever I played any music of my PC on Spotif...
I wanted to play music on my PC through Spotify so I went to the "Local files" setting and turned it on, and it all worked I could now play anything on my PC through Spotify... The only thing was tho...
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PlanPremiumDeviceDesktop, Laptop, Sony Xperia z5 (E6653)Operating SystemWindows 10, Android 7.1.1 My Question or Issue [Songs that were playable a moment ago are locked up the next moment]All of a sudden certain artists have beomce unplayable on all ...
Plan Premium Device Desktop, Laptop, Sony Xperia z5 (E6653) Operating System Windows 10, Android 7.1.1 My Question or Issue [Songs that were playable a moment ago are locked up t...
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PlanPremiumCountryNorwayDeviceWindows PCOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueAfter the last received upgrade to Spotify, I get a persistent error message saying "There is no diskette in the drive. Enter a diskette in the drive \Device\Harddi...
Plan Premium Country Norway Device Windows PC Operating System Windows 7 My Question or Issue After the last received upgrade to Spotify, I get a persistent error message saying "The...
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Spotify isn't linking my local files with their library correctly (or at all, for that matter). Below you can see a playlist made through spotify directly. Searching for music, adding it to the playlist:And here you can see the same music from my loc...
Spotify isn't linking my local files with their library correctly (or at all, for that matter). Below you can see a playlist made through spotify directly. Searching for music, adding it to the playl...
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Hello, I have some songs on my computer and that songs there aren't on spotify.I added these songs to my playlist in computer. But when I login on my phone and I look at that playlist. I can't see that songs. What can ı do now ? Thank you for help.(T...
Hello, I have some songs on my computer and that songs there aren't on spotify.I added these songs to my playlist in computer. But when I login on my phone and I look at that playlist. I can't see th...
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