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Can't play an artist's discography on the desktop app

Plan Premium Device PC / Android My Question or Issue This happened a few days ago. Normally when i clicked an Artist > Discography > Show All > And play a song, the next song was from the next album of the artist. Now, the next song is a random one ...

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Issue : no volume control in spotify when exclusive mode is activated

Premium member, France, Windows 10 64 bits updated, Focusrite Audio solo usb external soundcard updated, Desktop app updated I talk with the customer service, we try to solve my problem and they told me that it should be an issue that I have to talk ...

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Black Screen (June 15 2026 install)

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceDesktop PC IntelOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueFollowed clean re-install instructions after getting black screen at startup. Installed the latest June 15 version from the Windows Store. Ran once without p...

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hroski

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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 are...

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Spotify stopped working after Win 10 update

PlanFreeCountry GermanyDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I've been unable to login to my Spotify account for some time now. It was working fine and at some point the app stopped logging in. The only thing that has changed w...

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Plan Free Country  Germany Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I've been unable to login to my Spotify account for some time now. It was workin...

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Solved!! Album Cover is not showing

PlanPremiumCountry AustriaDeviceDesktop/LabtopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue The Album Cover Art of the Songs is not shown on the bottom left where it has been used to in the past. I have this problem since 8 days now and tried every...

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Plan Premium Country  Austria Device Desktop/Labtop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue   The Album Cover Art of the Songs is not shown on the bottom lef...

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Solved!! [Desktop] Can't show only downloaded Songs/Albums

PlanPremiumCountry U.K.DeviceSurface Book (though this still happens on Desktop)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Issue: I'm trying to find out what songs and albums I have downloaded onto my device and what are just saved to library, so I can download t...

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  Plan Premium Country  U.K. Device Surface Book (though this still happens on Desktop) Operating System Windows 10   My Issue:  I'm trying to find out what songs and a...

Loxer

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Solved!! Radio and Stations are not loading

PlanFree/PremiumCountry United StatesDevice(PC)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or Issue When I try to listen to a station all it says is "Your Stations are unavailable please try again later", or when I try the radio it says "Error" Failed t...

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  Plan Free/Premium Country  United States Device (PC) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue  When I try to listen to a station all it says is "Your Stat...

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Error codes 32 and 37: Firewalls and proxies and errors, oh my!

Hello:Tearing my hair out on this one, so all help gratefully received. First, the setup:I'm running Spotify premium via the desktop app on a Windows 10 PC, via a wired (ethernet) connection on a simple home network. Then, the problem:I was experienc...

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Hello: Tearing my hair out on this one, so all help gratefully received.   First, the setup: I'm running Spotify premium via the desktop app on a Windows 10 PC, via a wired (ethern...

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Superuser Contribution Win10 No connection to Spotify

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceSelf-built PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI have used Spotify without any problems on my PC for a year now, but a few days ago, Spotify always said it would be offline. After checking the firewall, I t...

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Plan Premium Country Germany Device Self-built PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I have used Spotify without any problems on my PC for a year now, but a few days ag...

Alfredo

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Slow app? It takes forever to run it

PlanPremiumCountry ArgentinaDeviceWindows 8.1 PC, 12 GB ram, 3.8 4 core cpu, etc.Question or Issue Whenever I run the app for the first time, it takes like 3 or 4 minutes to actually start, and take another 2-3 min to connect to my mobile phone and a...

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Plan Premium Country  Argentina Device Windows 8.1 PC, 12 GB ram, 3.8 4 core cpu, etc. Question or Issue  Whenever I run the app for the first time, it takes like 3 or 4 minutes to a...

Faculegarralde

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Solved!! windows app not syncing favorite songs

Primume, win 10.when adding a new favorite song from my S9, it doesn't add it to the pc spotify app althou it's added to the chrome online spotify player.I tried re-lunching spotify but the same problem.In the photo, the right window is the windows a...

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Primume, win 10. when adding a new favorite song from my S9, it doesn't add it to the pc spotify app althou it's added to the chrome online spotify player. I tried re-lunching spotify but the same ...

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The same song is always "up next" on launch and I don't want it to happen

Hello,One day I decided on a whim to listen to an album that was listed as new release. In this case, it was a certan Bene Rexha. Not that it really matters, but I did not listen to this for more than a few minutes before skipping through and returnt...

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Hello, One day I decided on a whim to listen to an album that was listed as new release.   In this case, it was a certan Bene Rexha.  Not that it really matters, but I did not listen ...

thelonious

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Songs Tab (Desktop)

PlanPremiumCountryUK Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThe songs tab has gone missing from My library.I used this all the time on shuffle to listen to all the music ive saved on spotify!Why has this gone and anyway around it? I left spot...

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  Plan Premium Country UK     Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue The songs tab has gone missing from My library. I used this all the time on shuffle to...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Dayly mix completely disappeared

PlanFreeCountry NetherlandsDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or Issue Around a week or so ago, the "Dayly Mix" tab in my library disappeared. In addition, the friends feed fails to load as well.Uninstalling & reinstalling spotify fixes th...

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Plan Free Country  Netherlands Device PC Operating System Windows 7  My Question or Issue  Around a week or so ago, the "Dayly Mix" tab in my library disappeared. In addition,...

debries

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Pic of the day

PlanFree/PremiumCountry GermanyDeviceSony VaioOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueToday i found on an old backup an old version of spotify....Good old times, easy to use, no big Letters, Covers, Pictures and those stuff, no waiting Just sim...

Gig Goer

Plan Free/Premium Country  Germany Device Sony Vaio Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue Today i found on an old backup an old version of spotify.... Good old time...

Loxer

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Download Playlists

I have downloaded playlists to my Lenovo computer. I believe the files are physically downoaded to the harddrive? When I play from my Samsung the same playlist which is marked downloaded;Are the files downloaded to my Samsung mobile hard drive. If so...

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  I have downloaded playlists to my Lenovo computer. I believe the files are physically downoaded to the harddrive?   When I play from my Samsung the same playlist which is marked downlo...

Loxer

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Remove from favorites

PlanPremiumCountry NorwayDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI cannot remove some songs from my favorites, i have noticed they are all local files, but i cannot remove them from the favorites tab

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Plan Premium Country  Norway Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I cannot remove some songs from my favorites, i have noticed they are all local file...

Loxer

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Advanced search doesn't work

PlanPremiumCountry FranceDevicePCOperating SystemW7 My Question or IssueI can not performed an advanced search ! Always "no result"....Any ideas ?

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Plan Premium Country  France Device PC Operating System W7   My Question or Issue I can not performed an advanced search ! Always "no result".... Any ideas ? 

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Solved!! how to install spotify in windows without using the spotify installer ?

PlanSingle PremiumCountry IrelandDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHow to install spotify in windows without using the spotify installer ? As seems the Spotify installer will download Spotify itself, but in my working place its v...

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Plan Single Premium Country  Ireland Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue How to install spotify in windows without using the spotify installer ? As seems ...

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Solved!! SpotifyMigrator has stopped working

DeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Spotify seemed to have migrated itself over to the windows store app without asking me first, I have the windows store disabled for privacy reasons on my device. I uninstalled the windows s...

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  Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue   Spotify seemed to have migrated itself over to the windows store app without asking me first, I have the w...

Loxer

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Local files not showing up under Artists, Albums, Music

PlanPremiumCountry USDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 Microsoft is forcing me to switch from Groove to Spotify. I have 32,000 purchased songs on my local drive. They show up under Local Files, but only a few are showing up under Artists, Album...

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Plan Premium Country  US Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   Microsoft is forcing me to switch from Groove to Spotify.  I have 32,000 purchased songs on my local driv...

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Solved!! automatically skips the songs never play one

PlanPremiumCountryTurkeyDevicepackard bell laptopOperating Systemwindows 7 My Question or Issue i am using spotify on my laptop for 2 days.When i decided to listen to music this morning spotify started to skip every song,i could not listen to one of ...

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Plan Premium Country Turkey Device packard bell laptop Operating System windows 7   My Question or Issue  i am using spotify on my laptop for 2 days.When i decided to listen to mu...

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[Desktop][Music] Typing "hue" rewinds the current song

Look, i'm mexican, and most of the time we text "a huevo" but this is annoying me cus everytime i type "hue" (maybe too fast on windows 10) spotify ALWAYS rewind my darn current song, please somebody tell me how to skip this thing cus is making me cr...

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Look, i'm mexican, and most of the time we text "a huevo" but this is annoying me cus everytime i type "hue" (maybe too fast on windows 10) spotify ALWAYS rewind my darn current song, please somebody...

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