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Solved!! Disable the Mini-Player on the Web-Version

Hi GuysI switched on my Windows 10 from the Desktop-Version to the Browser-Version. It works, but now I get/see every time a Mini-Player in the left upper corner for about 5 seconds when I press Pause/Play or e.g. if I change the volume. How can I de...

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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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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?

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The app on my phone has 6 Daily mixes The desktop client has only 2 (same for the web player)   Am I missing something?  

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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.

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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.     

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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.

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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. 

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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?

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Hi, when I start up Spotify I get an error message. Spotify can not transfer all data    whats wrong?

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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.

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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...

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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. ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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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