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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2024-03-14 3:38:28 PM
2 weeks ago
ipanasenko
Newbie
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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2023-06-26 8:42:18 AM
4 weeks ago
cour10e22
Regular
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268 replies
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268 replies
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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2023-04-28 8:08:45 PM
2023-04-29 10:41:16 PM
MattSuda
Spotify Star
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1 replies
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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...

Goodman
Spotify Legend
2013-09-17 11:47:47 AM
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Superuser Contribution Spotify will not work

I have never had problems with spotify, like ever, but today I logged on and I was getting ready to listen to my playlist, and I'm pretty sure my premium subsciption ran out but oh well, and I double click on the playlist and it doesn't play any song...

KruzMerrill
Newbie
I have never had problems with spotify, like ever, but today I logged on and I was getting ready to listen to my playlist, and I'm pretty sure my premium subsciption ran out but oh well, and I double...
2018-03-23 1:49:14 AM
2018-03-25 4:23:10 PM
SergioDavid
Roadie
374 Views
1 replies
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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

sh4tter
Newbie
It was here. Now, it is not. That is the best album, I've ever heard. It is not fair
2018-03-25 11:11:31 AM
2018-03-25 1:53:40 PM
MauriceMV
Spotify Star
446 Views
1 replies
3 likes

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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.

ronsal
Newbie
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 ...
2018-03-25 12:19:55 PM
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0 replies
1 likes

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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...

Vataga961
Casual Listener
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 ...
2018-03-25 12:04:02 PM
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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?

Rispig
Casual Listener
The app on my phone has 6 Daily mixes The desktop client has only 2 (same for the web player) Am I missing something?
2018-03-25 10:03:49 AM
2018-03-25 10:27:58 AM
Rispig
Casual Listener
690 Views
1 replies
1 likes

690 Views
1 replies
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Songs not playing...

Songs won't play on Spotify. Have tried reinstalling, messing with local files, updating drivers, and installing old version. None of these work. Please help.

HighPlainsDrift
Newbie
Songs won't play on Spotify. Have tried reinstalling, messing with local files, updating drivers, and installing old version. None of these work. Please help.
2018-03-21 9:02:16 AM
2018-03-25 4:09:50 AM
Alfredo
Roadie
428 Views
1 replies
1 likes

428 Views
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1 likes

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.

Rachels1414
Newbie
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.
2018-03-24 4:58:31 PM
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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?

HenrikPorali
Regular
Hi, when I start up Spotify I get an error message. Spotify can not transfer all data whats wrong?
2018-03-24 3:15:08 PM
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Desktop player gets stuck on ads

It's happened several times on the windows desktop version of Spotify. It gets to an ad, but the ad doesn't play, it gets stuck on 0:00 and i can't force it play or pause, or play any other music. Everytime I have to close and reopen spotify.

raijania
Newbie
It's happened several times on the windows desktop version of Spotify. It gets to an ad, but the ad doesn't play, it gets stuck on 0:00 and i can't force it play or pause, or play any other music. Ev...
2017-10-03 7:08:32 AM
2018-03-24 2:32:37 PM
TNTiger_
Newbie
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1 replies
3 likes
Windows

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Move to begin of a word in search field, doesn't work with ctrl-left/right arrow

Move to begin of a word in search field, doesn't work with ctrl-left/right arrow.Standard Windows use is to move to the biginning of a word in a field is to use ctrl-arrow combination.Unfortunately when you do this, there is a shift in the playlist. ...

edwindekuiper
Casual Listener
Move to begin of a word in search field, doesn't work with ctrl-left/right arrow. Standard Windows use is to move to the biginning of a word in a field is to use ctrl-arrow combination. Unfortunate...
2018-03-18 12:40:39 PM
2018-03-24 2:21:47 PM
dklfjglkdfjgdl
Casual Listener
390 Views
1 replies
2 likes

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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 ...

Dommedagsprofet
Gig Goer
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...
2018-03-24 11:22:20 AM
2018-03-24 12:10:35 PM
Luke
Spotify Star
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3 replies
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Last.FM keeps scrobbling while private and when logged out in Spotify

Hi there! Since I have Spotify premium, all my songs played in a private session are scrobbled to last.fm and that didn't happened before! Besides, even when I disconnect last.fm from my spotify, it keeps scrobbling. It's very annoying.Do you have so...

rubencteixeira
Newbie
Hi there! Since I have Spotify premium, all my songs played in a private session are scrobbled to last.fm and that didn't happened before! Besides, even when I disconnect last.fm from my spo...
2018-01-18 10:56:41 PM
2018-03-24 10:14:34 AM
hypes86
Casual Listener
5068 Views
3 replies
4 likes

5068 Views
3 replies
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Spotify is not responding even though it is working just fine

So just recently, whenever I shut my computer down and boot it back up and all the apps that are set to start during os startup like chrome and spotify, I get this message from spotify, which is actually a windows error window with no error code, tha...

alexcouch
Casual Listener
So just recently, whenever I shut my computer down and boot it back up and all the apps that are set to start during os startup like chrome and spotify, I get this message from spotify, which is actu...
2018-03-21 6:23:48 AM
2018-03-24 8:24:32 AM
alexcouch
Casual Listener
875 Views
3 replies
1 likes

875 Views
3 replies
1 likes

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...

Rubin150
Newbie
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...
2018-03-24 7:51:04 AM
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Ability to View All Playlist Followers

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

LucaColus
Casual Listener
How can I select more than one song and then move them to playlist?
2018-03-23 10:30:26 PM
2018-03-23 10:57:56 PM
phan_times
Community Legend
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2 replies
0 likes

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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...

Csat
Newbie
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...
2018-03-23 10:11:13 PM
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Superuser Contribution Can no longer see friends under Monthly Listeners

For some reason, today the friends that appeared under the "Monthly Listeners" statistic on every artists' page have suddenly disappeared and I can't see them for any artist whatsoever. Has this feature been taken off? Zach

ayoofilipino
Newbie
For some reason, today the friends that appeared under the "Monthly Listeners" statistic on every artists' page have suddenly disappeared and I can't see them for any artist whatsoever. Has this...
2018-02-22 11:05:56 AM
2018-03-23 8:59:40 PM
dnb37
Casual Listener
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6 replies
11 likes

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Repeat one song

Since I have multiroom speakers, I cant repeat a song anymore. To activate the button "repeat one" doesnt work anymore. To me its an essential feature, so whats going wrong here?

thomack
Newbie
Since I have multiroom speakers, I cant repeat a song anymore. To activate the button "repeat one" doesnt work anymore. To me its an essential feature, so whats going wrong here?
2018-03-23 8:28:46 PM
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0 replies
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Certain songs in playlist not available (not local files)

I recently got a new computer and I have two playlists. One with ~300 songs and another with ~650. I noticed that it was skipping a lot of songs saying that they weren't available. I turned on shows unplayable songs and it shows about 90 songs as unp...

KenPham
Newbie
I recently got a new computer and I have two playlists. One with ~300 songs and another with ~650. I noticed that it was skipping a lot of songs saying that they weren't available. I turned on shows ...
2018-03-23 6:34:57 PM
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0 replies
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Desktop
Song Unavailable

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Spotify desktop client just stopped working on corporate network company wide

When I investigated the firewall, I saw port 4070 being dropped outbound. To test I opened up that port and Spotify began working again. We've never had 4070 allowed outbound and I was under the impression that the desktop client is designed to attem...

kpwern
Newbie
When I investigated the firewall, I saw port 4070 being dropped outbound. To test I opened up that port and Spotify began working again. We've never had 4070 allowed outbound and I was un...
2018-03-23 6:34:43 PM
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