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Solved!! How to permanently turn off smart shuffle?

PlanPremiumCountryPolandOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI just noticed that a new "smart shuffle mode" putting unwanted "smart recommendations" in my queue was added to my desktop app. How to turn it off permanently or at least make th...

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Solved!! Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I try to play a song I get the following error message "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it"I have tried all t...

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Solved!! Disable Video on desktop app

There no X or way to close or stop a video on Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.64.408.g0a9b557c

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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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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 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

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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...

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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?

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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?

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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...

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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 ...

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Gapless Playback still not 100%

Gapless playback is essential for many Live albums and Classical concerts, as well as lots of other "concept" albums. Looking back over various forum posts and Help pages, it seems Gaplesss Playback was implemented a few years ago, and originally it ...

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Gapless playback is essential for many Live albums and Classical concerts, as well as lots of other "concept" albums.   Looking back over various forum posts and Help pages, it seems Gaplesss ...

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The volume is 50% lower in the desktop spotify Windows player, webplayer volume 100%

The volume is 50% lower in the desktop spotify Windows player, and on the web spotify player i have 100% volume, everything in the volumemixer is on 100% That why i use still the web spotify player and not the desktop spotify Windows player sound is ...

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The volume is 50% lower in the desktop spotify Windows player, and on the web spotify player i have 100% volume, everything in the volumemixer is on 100%   That why i use still the&n...

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Solved!! Trying to get the Win32 Client

Refreshed my computer and looking to reinstall Spotify. It appears that the legacy Windows client is gone and only the Store version is available. Is that true? Or is there somewhere I can install the non-Store version?

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Refreshed my computer and looking to reinstall Spotify.  It appears that the legacy Windows client is gone and only the Store version is available.    Is that true?  Or is there...

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Playlists losing songs

I am a premium member on the family plan. Just noticed today that Spotify on my desktop has lost songs on some of my playlists. One of my playlists that had 39 songs now has zero. Others have gone from over 30 songs to only 2. The Spotify on my phone...

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I am a premium member on the family plan.  Just noticed today that Spotify on my desktop has lost songs on some of my playlists.  One of my playlists that had 39 songs now has zero.  O...

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Solved!! Where is musics downloaded by Spotify Windows 10 App?

It's not in AppData folder anymore, I checked both Roaming and Local folder.

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It's not in AppData folder anymore, I checked both Roaming and Local folder.

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Disturbing commercial clash

Hey Spotify,I would just like to semi complain about the commercial(s). I have no problem hearing most of them but when I am in the middle of an very nice upbeat, Big Band jazz/swing playlist I follow and then suddenly hear a talentless, so called hi...

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Hey Spotify, I would just like to semi complain about the commercial(s). I have no problem hearing most of them but when I am in the middle of an very nice upbeat, Big Band jazz/swing playlist I fol...

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[Desktop] Spotify freezes/irresponsive when local files locations are updated

Hi there I wanted to report problems with local files in Spotify. I've seen similar reports about issues, but I thought I'd add info about my situation. Spotify becomes unresponsive and/or freezes when folders are added/changed in "local files" via P...

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  Hi there   I wanted to report problems with local files in Spotify. I've seen similar reports about issues, but I thought I'd add info about my situation.   Spotify becomes unre...

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playlist image blank

I have a playlist on spotify but the cover image won't show up on my desktop or mobile version. i have multiple other playlists, some with my own imported images as a cover, and some tiled with the four first album images. i want the tiled album cove...

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I have a playlist on spotify but the cover image won't show up on my desktop or mobile version. i have multiple other playlists, some with my own imported images as a cover, and some tiled with the f...

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Imported Apple Music Playlists are Empty...

I just switched from Apple Music and I thought it succeeded in transferring all my playlists since there's a heading with "iTunes" and all my playlist titles imported to Spotify...but when I click on the playlists they all say "This playlist is curre...

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I just switched from Apple Music and I thought it succeeded in transferring all my playlists since there's a heading with "iTunes" and all my playlist titles imported to Spotify...but when I click on...

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Solved!! Dislike button has no effect on radio playlist

I'm noticing that songs that I've marked as disliked, keeps popping up again after a while. Shouldn't those songs that are marked as disliked, be avoided for all future in any or all radio playlists?

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I'm noticing that songs that I've marked as disliked, keeps popping up again after a while. Shouldn't those songs that are marked as disliked, be avoided for all future in any or all radio playlists?

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Spotify not saving the queue after restarting the PC

After restaring the PC and lauching Spotify it is playing a song that I listened to a long time ago and even has the entire album containing that song in the queue.

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After restaring the PC and lauching Spotify it is playing a song that I listened to a long time ago and even has the entire album containing that song in the queue.

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Spotify not saving current song/settings after shutdown

Whenever I shut down my pc while Spotify is open it doesn't save the current song, volume, etc. When I turn on the pc again, it goes back to the last time I manually closed the app.

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Whenever I shut down my pc while Spotify is open it doesn't save the current song, volume, etc. When I turn on the pc again, it goes back to the last time I manually closed the app.

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