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Desktop: Jam now available

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...

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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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Solved!! Adding Songs That are not on Spotify

So I have a large amount of songs on my computer at home but I am on my phone, at work, or with someone else and want them to play some music but some songs are not there for anyone except me. Is there a work around for this? 1. Can I recommend addin...

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  • So I have a large amount of songs on my computer at home but I am on my phone, at work, or with someone else and want them to play some music but some songs are not there for anyone except me. Is the...
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Struggling to Scrobble/last.fm from spotify

Hello, I noticed my scrobbler for last.fm wasn't recording my tracks a few days ago and I was wondering if anyone else is having this issue too? I checked a few other threads that suggested trying to put spotify in private mode, offline mode, signing...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello, I noticed my scrobbler for last.fm wasn't recording my tracks a few days ago and I was wondering if anyone else is having this issue too?   I checked a few other threads that suggested ...
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Web Player don't work

Hi everyone, when I load the web page of Spotify web player, it become black/grey and every button disappears... as if it had not loaded the page...Someone else with the same problem? What happen? Thx all for the support.

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  • Hi everyone, when I load the web page of Spotify web player, it become black/grey and every button disappears... as if it had not loaded the page... Someone else with the same problem? What happen? ...
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Sorting algorithm fault an inconsistent between desktop and android

It seem not possible to open an issue any longer so I post here instead. I would like to bump the following issue that is closed for some reason.https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Sorting-algorithm-faulty-on-desktop/idc-p/4366157#M67093 ...

  • Roadie
  • It seem not possible to open an issue any longer so I post here instead. I would like to bump the following issue that is closed for some reason. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Sort...
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Editing playlist details does not grab the whole keyboard any longer

As of 1.0.77.338.g758ebd78 something the function for editing playlist details "Edit Details" has changed. While editing, if I press for example Shift-Left arrow to select text or Control-Left arrow to jump one word, spotify will instead skip to the ...

  • Roadie
  • As of 1.0.77.338.g758ebd78 something the function for editing playlist details "Edit Details" has changed. While editing, if I press for example Shift-Left arrow to select text or Control-Left a...
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Spotify is STILL opening at startup no matter what you do, FIX IT

Why is this so hard to fix? Or are you just trying to get rid of all of your customers? It's been ongoing issue for YEARS. Get your priorities together ffs. No matter what you do, no matter what settings you change, spotify will always start when win...

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  • Why is this so hard to fix? Or are you just trying to get rid of all of your customers? It's been ongoing issue for YEARS. Get your priorities together ffs. No matter what you do, no matter what sett...
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equalizer

i need a sound equalizer on the desktop version... only that

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Local Files

how do get my local files on my computer that are already in playlists to play on my phone

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  • how do get my local files on my computer that are already in playlists to play on my phone
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Web Player plays one song at a time and stops

I can't even just click over and press play either...it doesn't work. I have to refresh the page and then press play. Every song, what the heck?

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  • I can't even just click over and press play either...it doesn't work.  I have to refresh the page and then press play.  Every song, what the heck?
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Dailly Mix on Desktop not available offline

I have the issue that Your Daily Mix Not Available Offline but my connection is still online. I can listen music but cant run Daily Mix. I search on Internet and its say that i need to open port but how can i do in win 7? Can you help? Thank you.

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  • I have the issue that Your Daily Mix Not Available Offline but my connection is still online. I can listen music but cant run Daily Mix. I search on Internet and its say that i need to open port but ...
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Queue gets stuck

Windows 10, Spotify Desktop v1.0.77.338.g758ebd78 This has been happening for quiet some time and I couldn't really be bothered reporting it because I haven't had a great experience with doing that in the past..... Every so often I can be happily que...

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  • Windows 10, Spotify Desktop v1.0.77.338.g758ebd78   This has been happening for quiet some time and I couldn't really be bothered reporting it because I haven't had a great experienc...
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The hated forced install

When Spotify forces an install, without asking, and it takes an extra 5 minutes to start my computer and listen to music, it is a really miserable customer experience. Why can't I choose when to install? So it's not Monday morning when I'm sitting do...

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  • When Spotify forces an install, without asking, and it takes an extra 5 minutes to start my computer and listen to music, it is a really miserable customer experience. Why can't I choose when to inst...
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Windows 10 Spotify Connect Teul Raumfeld

Hello,My setup looks like thisMS Surface Book 2 Win10 1803 Teufel Raumfeld Stereo L (wired to Router)multiple iOS devices (WLAN) Streaming from iOS to the Raumfeld Stereo L works perfectly fine. But the Raumfeld Stereo L doesn't appear in the Spotify...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello, My setup looks like this MS Surface Book 2 Win10 1803  Teufel Raumfeld Stereo L (wired to Router) multiple iOS devices (WLAN)   Streaming from iOS to the Raumfeld Stereo L work...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Windows 10, Bluetooth headset PLAY/PAUSE button not working

Hi,I've seen similar thread, but it's Mac.I'm on Windows 10 PC, Spotify v1.0.19.106.gb8a7150f.My Bluetooth headset's Play/Pause button doesn't work with Spotify even when on-focus. Prev/Next button works fine.Everything works well with Windows Media ...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi, I've seen similar thread, but it's Mac. I'm on Windows 10 PC, Spotify v1.0.19.106.gb8a7150f. My Bluetooth headset's Play/Pause button doesn't work with Spotify even when on-focus. Prev/Nex...
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Allow over proxy

Hello My company use proxy to allow users to reach the Internet.The IT checked and they cannot find any official articlle about IP needed to be whitelisted (or domain)They see in the logs about traffic to 104.199.64.0 but nothing documented.

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  • Hello   My company use proxy to allow users to reach the Internet. The IT checked and they cannot find any official articlle about IP needed to be whitelisted (or domain) They see in the log...
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Can't search cyrillic songs

Hi,When I try to search cyrillic songs in my playlist, they don't appear. However, they seem to appear when searching on the main bar. Which happens on my phone, too. I can find them only by sorting my 1k playlist. That makes them impossible to find ...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi, When I try to search cyrillic songs in my playlist, they don't appear. However, they seem to appear when searching on the main bar. Which happens on my phone, too. I can find them only by s...
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Spotify for Windows permanently skips to the next song

I am running Spotify on Windows 10 with the latest update and when I want to play music, the app just constantly skips to the next song instead of playing one. No error message or the like appears.

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  • I am running Spotify on Windows 10 with the latest update and when I want to play music, the app just constantly skips to the next song instead of playing one.  No error message or the like app...
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offline problem waiting for connection

my spotify at deskopt cant download any song and while ago all my downloaded songs are deleted and cant download i reinstall the program few times but my problem still continues how can i solve this problem

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  • my spotify at deskopt cant download any song and while ago all  my downloaded songs are deleted and cant download i reinstall the program few times but my problem still continues how can i ...
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Sound cuts out

It keeps happening to me where the sound just stops and the track continues to play. It happens when a new track is started. If I go into the volume mixer, spotify is not muted. But if I mute it and then unmute it, the sound comes back.Spotify is the...

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  • It keeps happening to me where the sound just stops and the track continues to play. It happens when a new track is started. If I go into the volume mixer, spotify is not muted. But if I mute it and ...
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