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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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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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Release Notes/Changelog

How is there still no consolidated place for notes like these? I'm using Android and Windows. Seems like Spotify keeps changing things every week but I don't have any idea what changed except for seeing my UI shuffled around with no real changes of s...

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How is there still no consolidated place for notes like these? I'm using Android and Windows.  Seems like Spotify keeps changing things every week but I don't have any idea what changed except ...

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More RAM usage the longer spotify is open/used

Hi, Spotify will start on 150-200mb ram and will climb with usage. 30min of listening to songs not using the program for anything else will get it to 300-350mb. After 2hrs im up to about 1.5gb ram. I´ve tried the website and windows store version, wi...

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Hi,   Spotify will start on 150-200mb ram and will climb with usage. 30min of listening to songs not using the program for anything else will get it to 300-350mb. After 2hrs im up to about 1.5...

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Solved!! Spotify crashing, output devices problem..

So I badly need to be able to switch between output devices since I have speakers and headphones, and I don't wan't all my sound to go trough my speakers, only spotify. BUT. The problem was (or is) that Spotify does not have that feature implemented ...

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So I badly need to be able to switch between output devices since I have speakers and headphones, and I don't wan't all my sound to go trough my speakers, only spotify. BUT. The problem was (or is) t...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify not reading my songs

I have songs that i bought on itunes and put on my computer and I have them in my local files area but some of the songs sink with the artist and some don't like i can click on the artist name and it will bring me to the artist spotify page and the a...

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I have songs that i bought on itunes and put on my computer and I have them in my local files area but some of the songs sink with the artist and some don't like i can click on the artist name a...

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Superuser Contribution Share My Activity Button on Spotify Social is always disabled

Hi, guys. I am experiencing a problem which is quite irritating. I can see what my friends are listening to but they cannot see what i am listening to. When i look into my spotify settings, i see that my "share my activity" button is always disabled,...

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Hi, guys. I am experiencing a problem which is quite irritating. I can see what my friends are listening to but they cannot see what i am listening to. When i look into my spotify settings, i see tha...

Melody

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Proxy doesn't work !

I'm using the latest versionI try to connect Spotify with the proxy, but it doesn't work!I tested socks5 and HTTP proxymy socks5 proxy running fine on telegram desktop and mobilebut after testing about 4 proxy and too many options! (like changing ie ...

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I'm using the latest version I try to connect Spotify with the proxy, but it doesn't work! I tested socks5 and HTTP proxy my socks5 proxy running fine on telegram desktop and m...

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Ctrl+Right|Left in search field

These keyboard shortcuts should not switch music when we are in the search field. They refer to the standard for moving between words, in Windows! Thanks.

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These keyboard shortcuts should not switch music when we are in the search field. They refer to the standard for moving between words, in Windows!   Thanks.

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Can't play any song

Can't play any song on spotify on my laptop, gives error "This song is not available. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." All the same songs work fine on my iphone and ipad, issue only occured on my laptop since today.Please hel...

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Can't play any song on spotify on my laptop, gives error "This song is not available. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." All the same songs work fine on my iphone and ipad, iss...

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Can't play songs
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Spotify Crash

Spotify crashes after logging on my Premium Account, it works on web version and phone. It just doesn't work on PC, and I created another account, after I logged into that account it was working fine. It just keeps crashing after I log in to my first...

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Spotify crashes after logging on my Premium Account, it works on web version and phone. It just doesn't work on PC, and I created another account, after I logged into that account it was working fine...

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Help with Spotify API - Search API

I want to use Search API to find songs in playlists whose artist is lets say Carlos Santana. Is this doable? For example, Santana, user A has 2 playlist, playlist A has "Crazon Espinado" and "Maria Maria", playlist B has "Smooth". After that user B o...

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I want to use Search API to find songs in playlists whose artist is lets say Carlos Santana. Is this doable?   For example, Santana, user A has 2 playlist, playlist A has "Crazon Esp...

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Odd behavior with friends activity

I follow 4 of my friends on spotify and it has worked fine until recently. Now, when I open spotify only one of those friends shows up in the activity feed, and it shows him having last listend to a song 2 days ago (even though I know he has used it ...

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I follow 4 of my friends on spotify and it has worked fine until recently. Now, when I open spotify only one of those friends shows up in the activity feed, and it shows him having last listend to a ...

Sebasty

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Keyboard media launch button

I am using win 10 with a regular keyboard with media buttons (Alienware default PC keyboard, but I'm using an Asus Rog so no Alienware local programs to check). All buttons work correctly when Spotify is running so no problem there. But no matter wha...

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I am using win 10 with a regular keyboard with media buttons (Alienware default PC keyboard, but I'm using an Asus Rog so no Alienware local programs to check). All buttons work correctly when Spotif...

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Solved!! can't play the current song - win 10

I'm constantly getting this error message: "can't play the current song " and the Win10 app is not moving to the next song. I have to click on the "next song" button to continue listennig. This happens only on my Win 10 PC (with Spotify app installed...

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I'm constantly getting this error message: "can't play the current song " and the Win10 app is not moving to the next song.  I have to click on the "next song" button to continue listennig. This...

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I don't have daily mix

I uses spotify about 2 months but i don't have my daily mix, android phone and windows in pc also don't have daily mix . When i search daily mix on pc, notification : "your daily mix not available offline" but i connected in my internet and can play ...

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I uses spotify about 2 months but i don't have my daily mix, android phone and windows in pc also don't have daily mix . When i search daily mix on pc, notification : "your daily mix not available of...

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Can't Sync Local Files Anymore

I recently added 2 songs to one of my playlist from my local files, and for some unknown reason, they were gryed out. The songs are in a mp3 file format and they play fine. I snooped around the forums and saw that a re-install of the app on my phone ...

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I recently added 2 songs to one of my playlist from my local files, and for some unknown reason, they were gryed out. The songs are in a mp3 file format and they play fine. I snooped around the forum...

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Windows Notifications Pause/Plays/Skips songs on Spotify windows app

Windows notifications that have a sound connected to them sometimes pauses, plays, or skips songs (rarely) when spotify is running. Spotify isn't the active window when this occurs and it occurs randomly when a notification pops up. At first I though...

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Windows notifications that have a sound connected to them sometimes pauses, plays, or skips songs (rarely) when spotify is running. Spotify isn't the active window when this occurs and it occurs rand...

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Spotify Desktop - Black Screen

Every time I open my Desktop Spotify app on Windows 7, all that appears is a black screen. I think this might have had to do with the most recent update. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and running in compatiblity mode. I also tried turning ...

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Every time I open my Desktop Spotify app on Windows 7, all that appears is a black screen.  I think this might have had to do with the most recent update. I've tried uninstalling and reinstallin...

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Solved!! display problem for windows 8

The pict.1 is when i start my spotify. There are green shadows behind the fonts, the image has purple noise and stuffs. And the 2nd is when i go back after minimize it.... the whole font and inage turns black. what now? I use windows 8

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The pict.1 is when i start my spotify. There are green shadows behind the fonts, the image has purple noise and stuffs. And the 2nd is when i go back after minimize it.... the whole font and inage tu...

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Superuser Contribution Facebook friends are missing

I don't see my facebook friends when goto "Find Friends". Spotify says "none of your friends are on Spotify" but it's actully not true, I know some of my friends are on spotify.

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I don't see my facebook friends when goto "Find Friends". Spotify says "none of your friends are on Spotify" but it's actully not true, I know some of my friends are on spotify.  

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