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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 ar...

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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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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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Solved!! All but one song disappeared from a playlist

Hello,I just realized as I launched the Spotify app on my PC that one of my playlists is almost empty. There's no way I would have knowingly emptied it as it is my "favorite songs" playlist (playlist:0xYegJZOBxo4YQQ6NEbpGp)Is it possible to get some ...

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Hello, I just realized as I launched the Spotify app on my PC that one of my playlists is almost empty. There's no way I would have knowingly emptied it as it is my "favorite songs" playlist (p...

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Cant delete Local Files

Hey guys, so i have an issue where i have "songs" in my Local files on Spotify (half of them arent even songs, theyre sound effects ?!) which i didn't even add (or dont remember adding), i deleted the .bnk in %appdata% but it didnt do anything and th...

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Hey guys,   so i have an issue where i have "songs" in my Local files on Spotify (half of them arent even songs, theyre sound effects ?!) which i didn't even add (or dont remember adding), i d...

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Superuser Contribution How can I move my full Apple 'iTunes in the Cloud' library to Spotify?

Hi, after having Apple music/iTunes for many years, my iTunes library includes all music that I have ripped of my own music, digital downloads from many sources and music added to my library from Apple Music. All my library is only held in the Apple ...

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Hi, after having Apple music/iTunes for many years, my iTunes library includes all music that I have ripped of my own music, digital downloads from many sources and music added to my library from App...

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Superuser Contribution Unable to exit out of ads so i can brows

This is a problem that needs to be fixed by the programmers. When i get even a simple still image ad, I cant get to the x because the bar with the minimize, fullscreen and close program blockes you from clicking off of the ad

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This is a problem that needs to be fixed by the programmers. When i get even a simple still image ad, I cant get to the x because the bar with the minimize, fullscreen and close program blockes you f...

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Song cannot be played

Hello CommunityOn my windows desktop PC i have a problem. Sometimes i cannot play songs and then the clue, Song not available, you can download it, comes on. Has anyone a answer to this problem?

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Hello Community On my windows desktop PC i have a problem. Sometimes i cannot play songs and then the clue, Song not available, you can download it, comes on. Has anyone a answer to this problem?

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Privacy settings revert when I close Spotify

Hi, I'm using the desktop app on Windows 10. I've disabled the option for making new playlists automatically public, but every time I re-start Spotify, this option reverts back to public. I have the same problem with the "show my current top artists"...

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Hi, I'm using the desktop app on Windows 10. I've disabled the option for making new playlists automatically public, but every time I re-start Spotify, this option reverts back to public. I have the ...

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Songs play TWICE without being in the queue twice

Songs manually chosen in QueueNo shuffleMost songs play twice but do not show up as being twice in the queue This is a problem both on PC Windows 10 and Android and could be a reason to swith to another provider.

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Songs manually chosen in Queue No shuffle Most songs play twice but do not show up as being twice in the queue   This is a problem both on PC Windows 10 and Android and could be a reason to ...

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Destop Music is not Sync with Music on the Phone

I have been using my phone to save and add music to my playlists and etc. But when i look on my PC most of the song dont apear to be in either of them at all., but when i go to my phone however they all seem to be there. I can stream then to my pc bu...

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I have been using my phone to save and add music to my playlists and etc. But when i look on my PC most of the song dont apear to be in either of them at all., but when i go to my phone however they ...

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Where is Glen Hansard album Didn't He Ramble? :(

It was here. Now, it is not. That is the best album, I've ever heard. It is not fair

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It was here. Now, it is not. That is the best album, I've ever heard. It is not fair

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Missing Daily Mix 3-6

The app on my phone has 6 Daily mixesThe desktop client has only 2 (same for the web player) Am I missing something?

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The app on my phone has 6 Daily mixes The desktop client has only 2 (same for the web player)   Am I missing something?  

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web player not working

the web player just won't play songs for me, i've tried reloading, logging out and logging back in, and even turning off my computer and back on, songs just won't play

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the web player just won't play songs for me, i've tried reloading, logging out and logging back in, and even turning off my computer and back on, songs just won't play

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Can’t get rid of volume side bar on windows screen

How do I get rid of the volume side bar on my screen? I already have the display option, “show desktop overlay when using media keys” turned off.

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How do I get rid of the volume side bar on my screen? I already have the display option, “show desktop overlay when using media keys” turned off. 

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Spotify cant not transfer data error

Hi, when I start up Spotify I get an error message.Spotify can not transfer all data whats wrong?

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Hi, when I start up Spotify I get an error message. Spotify can not transfer all data    whats wrong?

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Solved!! No option to disable normalization?

Forgive me if I've overlooked any recents threads about this. Is there no normalization setting in the desktop app? There's actually three different settings in the iOS app. That's weird. Desktop apps are usually more full featured than their mobile ...

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Forgive me if I've overlooked any recents threads about this.   Is there no normalization setting in the desktop app? There's actually three different settings in the iOS app. That's weird. De...

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Followed Artists show only few songs

Hey PeopleI've noticed a small but annoying change for me.some of my Followed Artist show the usual artist page with the popular songs and related artist and on (which i like).. and some followed artists show only a list of sings, a playlist. here ar...

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Hey People I've noticed a small but annoying change for me. some of my Followed Artist show the usual artist page with the popular songs and related artist and on (which i like).. and some followed...

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Solved!! Switching over from Google Play Music

so im considering switching over from google play music who ive been paying for their subscription service for almost a year, is there anyway to switch the songs that are in my library over to spotify, i have like 500 songs or so, so im not going to ...

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so im considering switching over from google play music who ive been paying for their subscription service for almost a year, is there anyway to switch the songs that are in my library over to spotif...

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Ability to View All Playlist Followers

How can I select more than one song and then move them to playlist?

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How can I select more than one song and then move them to playlist?              

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Ability to View All Playlist Followers

Come posso selezionare piu di una canzone alla volta ,per trasferirle tutte nella playlist?

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Come posso selezionare piu di una canzone alla volta ,per trasferirle tutte nella playlist?

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Ads dont play

so i just got spotify so am pretty new to iti uninstalled and reinstalled, logged out and in, and rebooted my system still the ads still dont play is getting annoying i dont want to having to keep logging in and out all time am not expect any spotify...

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so i just got spotify so am pretty new to it i uninstalled and reinstalled, logged out and in, and rebooted my system  still the ads still dont play    is getting annoying i dont w...

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Superuser Contribution Duplicate songs able to be added to a playlist if there's more than 1 version of the album available

I noticed when I was creating a playlist today that I was able to add duplicate songs without the 'Duplicate Song' warning appearing if they appeared on different albums (for example, I was able to add the song 'Too Much' by Drake off of the 'Nothing...

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I noticed when I was creating a playlist today that I was able to add duplicate songs without the 'Duplicate Song' warning appearing if they appeared on different albums (for example, I was...

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