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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...

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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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  • MattSuda
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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...

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Superuser Contribution I cant play any song or podcasts

PlanFreeCountryINDIADeviceAcer Extensa LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issuewhenever i am opening spotify and clicking on a song to play it says content not available and whenver i am clicking on the play button of any podcasts my cur...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Free Country INDIA Device Acer Extensa Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue whenever i am opening spotify and clicking on a song to play it says content not a...
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Superuser Contribution When I play a local song, any songs after it have no album art.

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhenever I play a local file song with no album cover, every song after will have no album cover until I restart spotify in both the bottom right and "Now Play...

  • Casual Listener
  •   Plan Premium Country United States Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Whenever I play a local file song with no album cover, every song after wil...
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Listening On Sync Issues between devices, Random Play, or Playlists

PlanPremium/FamilyCountryUSADeviceSamsung S20Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI'll often switch from my desktop to laptop. If I start a session on my Desktop, when I got to my laptop, it will correctly show listening on (desktop). Howev...

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  • Plan Premium/Family Country USA Device Samsung S20 Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue I'll often switch from my desktop to laptop.  If I start a session on my Desk...
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Superuser Contribution Appreciation post

God knows how much I can criticize Spotify sometimes, but I just gotta say how much I really love the new UI, with the big Library on the left, our current Playlist in the middle and the Now Playing on the right, with the big album cover art and a li...

  • Roadie
  • God knows how much I can criticize Spotify sometimes, but I just gotta say how much I really love the new UI, with the big Library on the left, our current Playlist in the middle and the Now Playing ...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify web player controls are greyed out and my phone is not a "device"

PlanPremiumCountry DeviceDellOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSuddenly, when I went into my Spotify web player today, the controls were all greyed out. So I went to my app on my Samsung Galaxy S8 and it doesn't show Web Player being a d...

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  • Plan Premium Country   Device Dell Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Suddenly, when I went into my Spotify web player today, the controls were all greyed out. So ...
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Superuser Contribution songs playing but no sound on airpods pro

Planfamily PremiumCountryThe NetherlandsDeviceLenovo laptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHello, I've been having issues with the spotify desktop app. When I want to play a song on my airpods, it doesnt play any sound, but when I disc...

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  •   Plan family Premium Country The Netherlands Device Lenovo laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Hello,  I've been having issues with the spotify deskt...
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Game bar spotify forces install the microsfot store version

I have spotify installed, but when I go to install the game bar widget for spotify, it forces me to install the microsoft store version which I didn't want.

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  • I have spotify installed, but when I go to install the game bar widget for spotify, it forces me to install the microsoft store version which I didn't want.
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Discover Weekly - "Couldn't find that playlist" and "This playlist has been deleted"

Hello. It seems my Discover Weekly playlist is not working, with errors.In Windows, it tries for about 20 seconds and says "Couldn't find that playlist".On Android, it says "This playlist has been deleted". I've tried a clean reinstall for my Windows...

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  • Hello. It seems my Discover Weekly playlist is not working, with errors. In Windows, it tries for about 20 seconds and says "Couldn't find that playlist". On Android, it says "This playlist has bee...
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Superuser Contribution The ordinal 380 could not be located in the dynamic link library

i have spotify set to auto run on startup and i get an error that says "The ordinal 380 could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Spotify/Spotify.exe", i can open spotify by double clicking the EXE file while the ...

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  • i have spotify set to auto run on startup and i get an error that says "The ordinal 380 could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Spotify/Spotify.exe", i can open...
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Summary of 2023 - R.E. Developers and Designers

Have been told to move this message to the "Help" section, so I am assuming it won't be 'closed' on this section - thanks. 2023 has definitely not been the year for the designers and the developers! - Now Playing button in Settings stopped working (a...

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  • Have been told to move this message to the "Help" section, so I am assuming it won't be 'closed' on this section - thanks.   2023 has definitely not been the year for the designers a...
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Superuser Contribution speaker balance messed up after driver update

After some of the drivers on my system were updated, Spotify decided to only play on the front center speaker of my 5.1 surround system. Other apps work fine on all speakers. I re-installed Spotify and it helped but it still sounds like only mono sou...

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  • After some of the drivers on my system were updated, Spotify decided to only play on the front center speaker of my 5.1 surround system. Other apps work fine on all speakers. I re-installed Spotify a...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify Wont play on desktop app

Plan: PremiumCountry: USADevice: PC Operating System: Windows 10My Question or Issue: I cannot play anything on the PC app. The scrum bar shows it playing the songs, and the lyrics follow the scrum, but no audio comes out of the speakers. I can switc...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: USA Device: PC  Operating System: Windows 10 My Question or Issue: I cannot play anything on the PC app.  The scrum bar shows it playing the songs, and ...
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Superuser Contribution Song Context Menu opening twice

It seems like this is only a minor UI bug1. Hover over a Song2. Left click the three dots that open the "Song Context Menu"-> The "Song Context Menu" should now be visible3. Right click the three dots that open the "Song Context Menu"-> Now another i...

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  • It seems like this is only a minor UI bug 1. Hover over a Song 2. Left click the three dots that open the "Song Context Menu" -> The "Song Context Menu" should now be visible 3. Right click ...
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Superuser Contribution Bug in spotify website

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueThere is an issue on website when you click right click on support heading they dont open men...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue There i...
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Superuser Contribution Too many ads on free plan

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSAOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI get the necessity of income and "free" isn't free, but my ad-to-song ratio is literally 1 to 1. It's become absurd. I use to get a reasonable series of commercials, followed b...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country USA Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I get the necessity of income and "free" isn't free, but my ad-to-song ratio is literally 1 to 1.  ...
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Can't Delete a playlist

There is a playlist that no matter if I delete it, it always says that something went wrong and even if I delete it on the website, it is never removed from the home screen

  • Casual Listener
  • There is a playlist that no matter if I delete it, it always says that something went wrong and even if I delete it on the website, it is never removed from the home screen
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Cant access undownloaded music or home

Hi. I am operating Windows 11 Pro and can only access my downloaded music. When I click on home it gives me a black screen saying Something went wrong. I also cant access / search for anything through search. I have had no issues in the past, so I ha...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi.  I am operating Windows 11 Pro and can only access my downloaded music. When I click on home it gives me a black screen saying Something went wrong.  I also cant access / search for any...
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J'ai changer d'ordinateur et je ne retrouve plus ma bibliothèque

J'ai changer d'ordinateur et je ne retrouve plus ma bibliothèque dans mon nouvel ordi. mais par contre elle demeure sur mon cellulaire ?

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  • J'ai changer d'ordinateur et je ne retrouve plus ma bibliothèque dans mon nouvel ordi. mais par contre elle demeure sur mon cellulaire ?
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Superuser Contribution Shuffle won't turn off for Liked Songs

PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI just noticed today that when I try to play the songs on my Liked Songs list, they are automatically shuffled. I do NOT have the shuffle function on, and there doesn't seem to be any way to p...

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  • Plan Premium Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I just noticed today that when I try to play the songs on my Liked Songs list, they are automatically shuffled. I do NOT hav...
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Superuser Contribution Randomly Pausing songs

When ever I'm playing a song it will run for about 10-20 seconds before it will pause on its own. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app, cleared temp caches, restarted the system, lowered the audio quality and have tried it with hardware acceler...

  • Visitor
  • When ever I'm playing a song it will run for about 10-20 seconds before it will pause on its own. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app, cleared temp caches, restarted the system, lowered the a...
  • Lyubka
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