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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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Cannot download anything other than playlists

Sincerest apolgies if there is already a thread on this, but I was unable to find a relevant/solved one. I am currently trying to download all my albums/saved songs onto my Windows 10 laptop, via the desktop app. However, I am unable to. I only have ...

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Sincerest apolgies if there is already a thread on this, but I was unable to find a relevant/solved one. I am currently trying to download all my albums/saved songs onto my Windows 10 laptop, via the...

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All songs from my library are gone.

Hey, guys after the last Win10 update ALL songs from my library are now gone! I never bothered to create a playlist - when I found a song that I like I always chose add to my library option. However now after the latest update all my songs are gone! ...

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Hey, guys after the last Win10 update ALL songs from my library are now gone! I never bothered to create a playlist - when I found a song that I like I always chose add to my library option. However ...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify app for Windows 10 - Kein Internet Fehlercode 4

Hallo, ich bekomme immer wieder das Problem Fehlercode 4, keine Internet der Fehler laesst sich nur duch eine neuinstallation der APP beheben, starte ich den Rechner neu habe ich das problem wieder!! Kann jemand helfen???

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Hallo, ich bekomme immer wieder das Problem Fehlercode 4, keine Internet   der Fehler laesst sich nur duch eine neuinstallation der APP beheben, starte ich den Rechner neu habe ich das problem...

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Spotify keeps skipping back to the 1st track in the playlist

I have a large playlist with tracks I add on to it as I go along, sometimes I add whole albums of an artist and then if I do not like one of those tracks, I delete it from the playlist as it plays. I play my music on an ipod connected to a stereo amp...

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I have a large playlist with tracks I add on to it as I go along, sometimes I add whole albums of an artist and then if I do not like one of those tracks, I delete it from the playlist as it plays. I...

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Spotify Connect not working between Windows PC & Android Phone

Hi, I have Spotify on a Windows 10 PC and also on my Samsung Android phone. Both have the latest versions of Spotify. The 'Connect to a device' feature used to work just fine, but stopped working a few weeks ago. Both my phone and the PC don't show a...

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Hi,   I have Spotify on a Windows 10 PC and also on my Samsung Android phone.   Both have the latest versions of Spotify. The 'Connect to a device' feature used to work just fine, but s...

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Album filtering in my library does not work correctly

hello, i ve just find out that i am not be to find albums in my library using filtering feature. It might to do something with indexing, but some of the albums that i cant find using filter are there for some time… Thank you!

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hello,   i ve just find out that i am not be to find albums in my library using filtering feature. It might to do something with indexing, but some of the albums that i cant find using filter ...

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Create playlist folder?

Just updated spotify and create playlist folder feature is gone. So how i ad album to playlist? Drag and drop dont work anymore

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Just updated spotify and create playlist folder feature is gone. So how i ad album to playlist? Drag and drop dont work anymore

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[BUG][WINDOWS] Can only play certain songs from an album. None are greyed out.

I'm trying to listen to the "Soon It Will Be Cold Enough" album by Emancipator, but can only play tracks #4, 11, 12. The rest yield the following error:"This song is not available. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." None of the...

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I'm trying to listen to the "Soon It Will Be Cold Enough" album by Emancipator, but can only play tracks #4, 11, 12. The rest yield the following error: "This song is not available. If you have...

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Where do I see actualy history of played songs?

Under history I only see recently played playlists, but I need specific songs.

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Under history I only see recently played playlists, but I need specific songs.

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spotify won't show song playing

Version 1.0.75.483.g7ff4a0dc Wont' show up on my twitch get song extention and won't show up on discord. Only reason why I subbed is for a way for people to see my music outside of iTunes. If this doesn't fix itself soon I won't be using spotify.I ha...

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Version 1.0.75.483.g7ff4a0dc   Wont' show up on my twitch get song extention and won't show up on discord.   Only reason why I subbed is for a way for people to see my music outsid...

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Connect To Facebook

I'm unable to link my Spotify account to FB when I click on it nothing pops up and when I logout and am signed in on my brower I get a 1003 error. I did have an older account I don't use anymore linked to an old FB account but have since opened up a ...

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I'm unable to link my Spotify account to FB when I click on it nothing pops up and when I logout and am signed in on my brower I get a 1003 error. I did have an older account I don't use anymore link...

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songs wont play

i am a spotify premium user and when try play songs on my spotify app on my laptop (its in windows 7 and i have the latest version of spotiy) the songs will only play for 6-10 seconds and only a few will play the full length but will stop and not shu...

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i am a spotify premium user and when try play songs on my spotify app on my laptop (its in windows 7 and i have the latest version of spotiy) the songs will only play for 6-10 seconds and only a few ...

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Latest version disabled my volume on my keyboard

So the latest version for Windows disables my volume knob on my keyboard when it is the active window. i find this to be un acceptible so I uninstalled and installed and old version. Why mess with something that was working just fine?

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So the latest version for Windows disables my volume knob on my keyboard when it is the active window. i find this to be un acceptible so I uninstalled and installed and old version. Why mess with so...

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Volume/mute keys not working when Spotify is the active window on Windows 7 64-bit

I am experiencing this exact issue, so I will just add my own details. I think it's worth noting that I've been using the Spotify desktop client since January this year, and the volume/mute keys on my keyboard have been working up until a day or two ...

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I am experiencing this exact issue, so I will just add my own details. I think it's worth noting that I've been using the Spotify desktop client since January this year, and the volume/mute keys on m...

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Shuffle only plays a few artists at a time

I often like to listen to my music on shuffle when I'm not entirely sure what I feel like listening to, it helps me decide. However, Spotify's shuffle algorithm is so frustrating because it only plays a handfull of artists at a time. For example, I j...

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I often like to listen to my music on shuffle when I'm not entirely sure what I feel like listening to, it helps me decide. However, Spotify's shuffle algorithm is so frustrating because it only play...

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auto song skip

i looked into this,and this kindof thing happened before. but it will fully skip every song, not one bit is played

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i looked into this,and this kindof thing happened before. but it will fully skip every song, not one bit is played

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Play Queue appends songs after selected album??

I will try to be brief and provide all relevant information. Using the premium service, and using the latest Windows app downloaded from the web site. I have Auto-Play turned off (ie. "Autoplay similar songs when your music ends" is unselected). When...

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I will try to be brief and provide all relevant information. Using the premium service, and using the latest Windows app downloaded from the web site. I have Auto-Play turned off (ie. "Autoplay simil...

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Song skips

Hello.I downloaded spotify on my PS4 a couple of months ago and now I'm in 'free mode'.There seemed to be nothing wrong, so I downloaded it on my computer to make playlists. Everything was normal until yesterday. I can't listen to any of the songs I'...

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Hello. I downloaded spotify on my PS4 a couple of months ago and now I'm in 'free mode'. There seemed to be nothing wrong, so I downloaded it on my computer to make playlists. Everything was normal...

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Spotify Desktop Visible for all devices in network.

Is it possible to set up a Spotify Client on a PC and let it show up in the Spotify Connect List on other devices in the network? This would be great for a Media PC in the living room, so you dont always have to manually login into your personal acco...

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Is it possible to set up a Spotify Client on a PC and let it show up in the Spotify Connect List on other devices in the network? This would be great for a Media PC in the living room, so you dont al...

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Songs Skip Immediately

Im using Sopitfy Web Player on Windows 7 with good internet and headphones.I was using Spotify fine w no problem until this morning when it kept skipping songs immediately as soon as I clicked on one until it skips about 5 songs then it plays an Ad j...

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Im using Sopitfy Web Player on Windows 7 with good internet and headphones. I was using Spotify fine w no problem until this morning when it kept skipping songs immediately as soon as I clicked on...

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