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Solved!! 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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  • notworking117
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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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  • whatintheworldisthis
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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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  • MattSuda
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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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The shuffle function is broken for my playlist

As most of you might know, Post Malone just dropped a new album B&B. I love Stoney (his previous album) and B&B, so I decided to make a playlist with all the songs from B&B and Stoney so that I could listen to all of Post's stuff. Making the playlist...

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  • As most of you might know, Post Malone just dropped a new album B&B. I love Stoney (his previous album) and B&B, so I decided to make a playlist with all the songs from B&B and Stoney so ...
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very poor sound quality on premium

Hello everyone, May I ask you for help? The sound on Spotify Premium is very bad at each start of a song whatever the list I play, on my laptop. The settings are turned to "high quality" on parameters, the network works well . Any idea to help me wit...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello everyone,    May  I ask you for help? The sound on Spotify Premium is very bad at each start of a song whatever the list I play, on my laptop. The settings are turned to "high ...
  • Sebasty
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Freezing up before ads play

Using desktop on Windows 7 (yeah, I know- but it's a work computer) and everytime an ad tries to play an ad I get nothing. Here's a capture of the ad it displays. The music stops, the ad won't play and I have to shut the whole thing down and restart ...

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  • Using desktop on Windows 7 (yeah, I know- but it's a work computer) and everytime an ad tries to play an ad I get nothing. Here's a capture of the ad it displays. The music stops, the ad won't play...
  • Raven1111
  • Roadie
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Solved!! [windows 8 desktop] fast forward with mouse not working

Hi, Recently i noticed that i can't fast forward songs by clicking on the "playing bar". Also dragging the white dot doesn't do anything. How can i fix this? I know that i can shift + left/right arrow, but when i'm browsing songs, i want to fast forw...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi,   Recently i noticed that i can't fast forward songs by clicking on the "playing bar". Also dragging the white dot doesn't do anything. How can i fix this?   I know that i can shift...
  • Killian88
  • Casual Listener
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Spotify on Windows 10 - Problem with auto-start

I am experiencing an issue where Spotify on Windows 10 is launching even when auto-launch after logon is turned off, AND even when it is blocked by Windows 10 Task Manager! Have a look at screenshots attached to this post.PS: I am using latest versio...

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  • I am experiencing an issue where Spotify on Windows 10 is launching even when auto-launch after logon is turned off, AND even when it is blocked by Windows 10 Task Manager! Have a look at screenshots...
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Where is the Queue???

What I REALLY want to do is play one song. That's it. Choose a song and play it. Too much to ask? A bizarre request? Well, not to me.Someone advised right-clicking to "Add to Queue". Ok - then what? Where is this "Queue"?For a world-conquering outfit...

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  • What I REALLY want to do is play one song. That's it. Choose a song and play it. Too much to ask? A bizarre request? Well, not to me. Someone advised right-clicking to "Add to Queue". Ok - then what...
  • Sebasty
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1.0.80.474.gef update and now see Error 4 (no internet) on corporate computer

After the update, Spotify is offline and can find no internet. Did the update switch ports? Any ideas on resolution? It's a Win 7 64 machine. Thank you

  • Newbie
  • After the update, Spotify is offline and can find no internet.  Did the update switch ports?  Any ideas on resolution?  It's a Win 7 64 machine.   Thank you
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Local files from PC catalogue suddenly empty, all local tracks in playlists grayed out?

Used to work great, but today when I wanted to add a new track to a playlist, it's empty. Already tried deleting local cahce. Help!

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  • Used to work great, but today when I wanted to add a new track to a playlist, it's empty. Already tried deleting local cahce.   Help!
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Spotify connect device (Sonos play 1)

Hi, I use two Sonos Play 1 speakers (set as a stereo pair and labelled 'Kitchen') to play spotify through (via the spotify app, not the sonos app) and have never had any problems connecting/disconnecting previously. Unfortunately, as of yesterday, Sp...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi,   I use two Sonos Play 1 speakers (set as a stereo pair and labelled 'Kitchen') to play spotify through (via the spotify app, not the sonos app) and have never had any problems connecting/...
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Solved!! Crashing on startup

Spotify crashes as soon as I open it. I tried reinstalling it, and then it lets me login, but as soon as I'm logged in it crashes again. I tried using the windows 10 app, same result.One thing that I noticed is when I delete the cache or manually sto...

  • Regular
  • Spotify crashes as soon as I open it. I tried reinstalling it, and then it lets me login, but as soon as I'm logged in it crashes again. I tried using the windows 10 app, same result. One thing that...
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Album art is obscured by commercial banner

Today I noticed that some ad banners at the bottom obscure album art on the bottom left. See the attachment.

  • Regular
  • Today I noticed that some ad banners at the bottom obscure album art on the bottom left. See the attachment.
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Scrobbling not working

After updating desktop PC to 1.0.80.474.gef6b503e version last.fm stopped saving scrobbled tracks.

  • Casual Listener
  • After updating desktop PC to 1.0.80.474.gef6b503e version last.fm stopped saving scrobbled tracks.
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Volume turns off

I was listening to an album on Spotify, with volume at 100%. Midway through the album, the ads came, and I turned off the Spotify volume while they lasted. After the ads, I tried to turn on the volume again, but the volume button wasn't working: noth...

  • Casual Listener
  • I was listening to an album on Spotify, with volume at 100%. Midway through the album, the ads came, and I turned off the Spotify volume while they lasted. After the ads, I tried to turn on the volum...
  • XSCB
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Cover Art

It's kind of bother me that the cover art doesn't show up. At first, I thought it's because my internet connection. Then I checked it, but it's working just fine. And I tested it to my local files, and the cover art is show up. Do I need to re-instal...

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  • It's kind of bother me that the cover art doesn't show up. At first, I thought it's because my internet connection. Then I checked it, but it's working just fine. And I tested it  to my local fi...
  • Soundofus
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Search function doesn't work

I've been having some issues with the Spotify search function recently on my PC. Most of the time it doesn't show anything, only my recent search results. When I restart Spotify, I don't have this problem for like the first 1-2 things I search for, b...

  • Newbie
  • I've been having some issues with the Spotify search function recently on my PC. Most of the time it doesn't show anything, only my recent search results. When I restart Spotify, I don't have this pr...
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Songs are different in android and PC

Hello, I have this issue.I found at least 3 songs which are different in android and PC, while I switch between these two playback devices.In phone it sounds like original song, but in PC is some kind of remix Here is video https://photos.app.goo.gl/...

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  • Hello, I have this issue. I found at least 3 songs which are different in android and PC, while I switch between these two playback devices. In phone it sounds like original song, but in PC is some...
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Song Volume Fades to Nothing

The volume of my songs playing fades out until cannot be heard at all. This only happens at a low volume. So if I want to have songs playing in the background at a low volume I can't. It happens when Spotify volume is at about 20-30% Any help with th...

  • Casual Listener
  • The volume of my songs playing fades out until cannot be heard at all. This only happens at a low volume. So if I want to have songs playing in the background at a low volume I can't. It happens...
  • Agentbunz07
  • Casual Listener
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Favorited songs list is losing songs

Hi,I've been suspecting a while that my songs list has been losing songs because there were songs that I know I loved from the daily mix that I favorited in order to come back to them later, and I can't find most of them. Yesterday I was playing musi...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi, I've been suspecting a while that my songs list has been losing songs because there were songs that I know I loved from the daily mix that I favorited in order to come back to them later, and ...
  • BCZ
  • Casual Listener
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Scrobbling doesn't work after update

I've just updated Spotify to version 1.0.80 and noticed that scrobbling to last.fm doesn't work anymore. I can see the song currently played but it disappears from my list of recent played titles afterwards.

  • Roadie
  • I've just updated Spotify to version 1.0.80 and noticed that scrobbling to last.fm doesn't work anymore. I can see the song currently played but it disappears from my list of recent played titles aft...
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