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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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Cover art not showing for certain local files.

There is a bug that appeared in the newest version of PC Desktop Spotify (1.0.75.483) that causes the cover art to not show up on certain local files. When playing a song with cover art that doesn't work, Spotify will instead show the cover art of th...

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There is a bug that appeared in the newest version of PC Desktop Spotify (1.0.75.483) that causes the cover art to not show up on certain local files. When playing a song with cover art that doesn't ...

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Song shorter on Windows than Android

I don't know what going on. The same song is longer when I'm listening on my phone.

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I don't know what going on.  The same song is longer when I'm listening on my phone.  

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Sporatically pauses, sets itself to shuffle, changes to songs to genres i never listen to

been having this issue after i started sharing my spotify with my family.Now it changes song to generas i never listen to, pauses plays sets to shuffle changes albums, and all on its own.i havent reached the end of an album when it does this, so its ...

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been having this issue after i started sharing my spotify with my family. Now it changes song to generas i never listen to, pauses plays sets to shuffle changes albums, and all on its own. i ha...

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Spotify won't pop up in the Control Panel

I got a new harddrive a couple of days ago, and now that I have downloaded spotify, it won't pop up in the Control Panel. I'm unsure of what to do about this issue, since it does show up as an application in my Task Manager. Spotify doesn't seem to h...

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I got a new harddrive a couple of days ago, and now that I have downloaded spotify, it won't pop up in the Control Panel. I'm unsure of what to do about this issue, since it does show up as an applic...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Sporatically changes songs, pauses, sets itself to shuffle, changes to songs to genres i never liste

been having this issue after i started sharing my spotify with my family.Now it changes song to generas i never listen to, pauses plays sets to shuffle changes albums, and all on its own.i havent reached the end of an album when it does this, so its ...

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been having this issue after i started sharing my spotify with my family. Now it changes song to generas i never listen to, pauses plays sets to shuffle changes albums, and all on its own. i ha...

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Cant find a fix for the volume fluctuations

I can't seem to find a solution to fix the Spotify volume fluctuations on my Windows 10 machine. I've tried turning Beats Audio on and off, turning hardware acceleration on and off, turned "same volume level for all songs" on and off. I've tried rein...

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I can't seem to find a solution to fix the Spotify volume fluctuations on my Windows 10 machine.   I've tried turning Beats Audio on and off, turning hardware acceleration on and off, turned "...

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it's **bleep**ed

So i recently changed from Premium to Free because my phone broke and I don't really use Spotify anymore.. anyways when I do use it I will try to play a song from a specific playlist and after the song is finished, it just skips to a whole other play...

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So i recently changed from Premium to Free because my phone broke and I don't really use Spotify anymore.. anyways when I do use it I will try to play a song from a specific playlist and after the so...

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automatically cange songs

When i play a song on my computer's spotify (the song's name is "Jet"), it say me i'm plaing the same song but it start another song (start "Trapano")The link this song (jet) is this:https://open.spotify.com/track/0WqZO2B7m44ig4kwLvToYt?si=8vyFV2rDSq...

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When i play a song on my computer's spotify (the song's name is "Jet"), it say me i'm plaing the same song but it start another song (start "Trapano") The link this song (jet) is this: https://open...

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Superuser Contribution New Title Bar

It just isn't very nice. The menu now drops downwards, but is completely out of sync with the style of the rest of the Spotify app. Also why are the min/max/close buttons outlined in their own extra black box? Did the devs rollout a menu update befor...

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It just isn't very nice. The menu now drops downwards, but is completely out of sync with the style of the rest of the Spotify app. Also why are the min/max/close buttons outlined in their own extra ...

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Entire 500GB music library lost. Can I get it back on spotify?

Hello, if anyone can help with this it would be greatly appreciated. So, my itunes application, and all the library files were kept on my SSD (C:) All my music was stored on my HDD (D:). Suddenly, my entire HDD was erased and there was no backup. So:...

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Hello, if anyone can help with this it would be greatly appreciated.   So, my itunes application, and all the library files were kept on my SSD (C:)   All my music was stored on my...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify premium missing from window title bar

Hi, I have just updated to the latest version of spotify (non windows store version) & have noticed that it no longer says spotify premium on the title bar, no I have to click the drop down next to username & then click account which then opens in de...

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Hi,   I have just updated to the latest version of spotify (non windows store version) & have noticed that it no longer says spotify premium on the title bar, no I have to click the drop d...

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Superuser Contribution How Can I Add 500 Songs To My Library At A Time

Hello! So, I had a 1500 song playlist I wanted to add to my own library. However, I read online that adding more than 500 songs at once will cause bugs and that's what happened. The songs won't get added in the order they were added (by date). Theref...

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Hello! So, I had a 1500 song playlist I wanted to add to my own library. However, I read online that adding more than 500 songs at once will cause bugs and that's what happened. The songs won't get a...

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Cross country listening restrictions

Hello, I use spotify pretty much everyday and I use discord to link up mine and my girlfriends music so we can listen together, she lives in the US and im from the UK some songs just arent avaliable for her is there anyway she can get past the countr...

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Hello, I use spotify pretty much everyday and I use discord to link up mine and my girlfriends music so we can listen together, she lives in the US and im from the UK some songs just arent avaliable ...

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Daily Mix

Why won't any of my Daily Mix playlists load? I get an error message for every one of my 6 Daily Mix playlists.

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Why won't any of my Daily Mix playlists load?  I get an error message for every one of my 6 Daily Mix playlists.

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Playlist Discrepancy Between App and Browser Spotify

Hello, I have a public playlist called "Honorable Mentions" that has 86 songs. In the software it shows it by that name in the menu on the left sidebar, but then I click on it and it instantly switches back to its former name "Runner- Ups" and drops ...

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Hello,   I have a public playlist called "Honorable Mentions" that has 86 songs.  In the software it shows it by that name in the menu on the left sidebar, but then I click on it and it ...

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Devices do not have the same songs in Spotify

I use Spotify on my work laptop, my phone and my private laptop.Work and phone are all good, I added several new songs recently. Coming home, I notice that the last 10 songs I added are nowhere to be found in my list of added songs, any ways to fix t...

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I use Spotify on my work laptop, my phone and my private laptop. Work and phone are all good, I added several new songs recently.   Coming home, I notice that the last 10 songs I added are no...

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When did Spotify start counting the amount of plays for each song?

Spotify has existed for 10 years and I have a hard time believing that they tracked the amount of plays for each song as early as that given how many songs that were really popular 5-8 years ago seems to have way too few listens when they were that p...

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Spotify has existed for 10 years and I have a hard time believing that they tracked the amount of plays for each song as early as that given how many songs that were really popular 5-8 years ago seem...

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Restore playlist from URL's of tracks

In an attempt to shuffle a playlist of all my favorite artists, somehow all the songs in that playlist were deleted. Luckily however before that happened, I copied the shuffled list of track URL's to a notepad file. How do I copy the contents of this...

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In an attempt to shuffle a playlist of all my favorite artists, somehow all the songs in that playlist were deleted.  Luckily however before that happened, I copied the shuffled list of track UR...

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Spotify (PC and Android) Starts playing last weeks Discover playlist on Startup

Hey, When Spotify starts up on my computer and phone, it starts with one specific song from last weeks discover playlist. It shows that it is playing the discover playlist, but when I go into the Current Discover playlist, the song that is playing is...

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Hey,   When Spotify starts up on my computer and phone, it starts with one specific song from last weeks discover playlist. It shows that it is playing the discover playlist, but when I go int...

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Spotify is skipping every song

I restared my Computer and now Spotify is skipping every song and says: "This Song is not aviable. If the song is on your Computer, you can import it." or "Current song can not be played"I have the newest Windows 10 Spotify App via the StoreMy Pc Dri...

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I restared my Computer and now Spotify is skipping every song and says: "This Song is not aviable. If the song is on your Computer, you can import it." or "Current song can not be played" I have t...

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