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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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Desktop app shuffle button not changing

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueOn the desktop app I will try to switch between smart shuffle, shuffle, or no shuffle. The icon changes for a split second only to change back to the previous one i...

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Plan Premium Country United States Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue On the desktop app I will try to switch between smart shuffle, shuffle, or no shuffle. T...

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Superuser Contribution Lyrics stop scrolling when Your Library is collapsed/hidden

Spotify for Windows (64 bit)1.2.65.255.g85e641b4Cache was cleared and app was reloaded from troubleshooting menu. App data was also reset and the app restarted from the troubleshooting menu. After Spotify automatically updated to the above version, s...

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Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.65.255.g85e641b4 Cache was cleared and app was reloaded from troubleshooting menu. App data was also reset and the app restarted from the troubleshooting menu. &n...

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Superuser Contribution Different queue with smart connect

PlanPremiumCountryUkraineDeviceSamsung S23 Ultra/PCOperating SystemAndroid/Windows When I connect PC to play I see different queue song on the phone and on the pc My Question or Issue

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Plan Premium Country Ukraine Device Samsung S23 Ultra/PC Operating System Android/Windows     When I connect PC to play I see different queue song on the phone and on the pc &nbs...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Why is my Spotify so slow ?

Hey everyone ! Since the last 2or 3 updates, my Spotify is running so slow, it feels like I'm using a very old PC with like 1 MB of RAM Every other program on my PC is working just fine, but opening a playlist, navigating through them, switching back...

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Hey everyone !   Since the last 2or 3 updates, my Spotify is running so slow, it feels like I'm using a very old PC with like 1 MB of RAM 😅 Every other program on my PC is working just ...

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Full screen artwork broken at high resolutions with scaling

PlanPremium DeviceWindows / macOS desktop apps (tested on both) My Question or IssueWhen using a 4k display with scaling enabled on both windows and mac the artwork is not visible in full screen mode until the app is manually scaled up using ctrl/cmd...

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Plan Premium   Device Windows / macOS desktop apps (tested on both)   My Question or Issue When using a 4k display with scaling enabled on both windows and mac the artwork is not vis...

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Superuser Contribution None of the content in my playlists are available

This problem started this morning: None of the content in my playlists are available. I can add them to liked songs and they're then suddenly playable. I did the steps of deleting data and restarting program, enabling and disabling hardware accelerat...

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This problem started this morning: None of the content in my playlists are available. I can add them to liked songs and they're then suddenly playable. I did the steps of deleting data and restar...

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BUG: odd extra entries in recent listening history & more ads played

PlanFreeCountryNetherlandsDevicePC HP - intel 3th gen processorOperating SystemWindows 10 Home My Question or Issuesee image. The 3 arrows on the right point to tracks not listened to nor skipped, they were added by Spotify without interaction from m...

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Plan Free Country Netherlands Device PC HP - intel 3th gen processor Operating System Windows 10 Home   My Question or Issue see image. The 3 arrows on the right point to tracks not li...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify doesnt play the next song on the playlist

PlanPremiunCountryNorwayDeviceAcer Aspire laptopOperating SystemWindows 11 Home My Question or IssueHiSo it seems you have changed the way playlists function. When I search for a song in a playlist (please see the attached screenshot), and I press pl...

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  Plan Premiun Country Norway Device Acer Aspire laptop Operating System Windows 11 Home   My Question or Issue Hi So it seems you have changed the way playlists function. When ...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify can't play, nor log me in on desktop

PlanIndividual PremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI have a group of issues with my Spotify Desktop app - the main one being that there are random songs in my playlists that the app refuses to play (...

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Plan Individual Premium Country United States Device Desktop Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue I have a group of issues with my Spotify Desktop app - the main one bein...

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Superuser Contribution Can't log in to my Windows App, getting "Illegal scope" when forwarded to the website

I did a clean re-install of Spotify because I had issues with it not being able to play songs at all, after that - BAM, I can't physically log in anymore!

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I did a clean re-install of Spotify because I had issues with it not being able to play songs at all, after that - BAM, I can't physically log in anymore!

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Superuser Contribution spotify is not working

PlanPremiumCountryUSADevice(PC)Operating System(Windows) My Question or Issue I recently ran into a problem that the spotify on my PC stopped working, nothing was playing, music was not playing, I cleaned the cache, but nothing helped

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Plan Premium Country USA Device (PC) Operating System (Windows)   My Question or Issue  I recently ran into a problem that the spotify on my PC stopped working, nothing was playin...

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Superuser Contribution 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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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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Superuser Contribution Re: Spotify Web Player Auto Logs-out After Closing Browser

if this was meant to be fixed it isn't. Still being asked to log in every time I open in browserthere's no remember me option and logging in requires an email code which is ridiculous. And no I'm not going to use the app.What is spotify thinking maki...

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if this was meant to be fixed it isn't. Still being asked to log in every time I open in browser there's no remember me option and logging in requires an email code which is ridiculous. And no I'm n...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify unable to play any songs

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueNo matter what song I pick I get the “Spotify is unable to play this right now.” Message. I have tried doing a clean reinstall, restarting my device, logging out and back...

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  Plan Premium Country USA Device Laptop Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue No matter what song I pick I get the “Spotify is unable to play this right now.” Messa...

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Solved!! Illegal Scope, Spotify Web loading long, Play Button dont work in web, App doesnt work at all

My spotify is completly Broken On Phone everything works perfectly fine but on PC (WINDOWS 10) its all Broken and nothing works (at the time of writing this i have spent about 3 hours googling and using chat gpt and other stuff)

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My spotify is completly Broken On Phone everything works perfectly fine but on PC (WINDOWS 10) its all Broken and nothing works   (at the time of writing this i have spent about 3 hours googli...

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Spotify icon not showing on desktop

Hello, recently I have a reaccuring issue that I can't seem to solve. The spotify icon on my desktop keeps turning into a white blank page. I tried many different things, just throwing it into the trash and placing it on my desktop again, reinstallli...

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Hello,   recently I have a reaccuring issue that I can't seem to solve. The spotify icon on my desktop keeps turning into a white blank page. I tried many different things, just throwing it in...

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Superuser Contribution Volume is too low.

I'm using my Windows 11 PC and all other apps play at the same level that I'm used to. That means I can play everything at 30% of max volume and the level sounds great. Spotify sounds like it's almost half the volume of the other apps.

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I'm using my Windows 11 PC and all other apps play at the same level that I'm used to. That means I can play everything at 30% of max volume and the level sounds great. Spotify sounds like it's almos...

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Spotify crashing laptop

Spotify randomly crashes on my laptop. And not only does it crash, it takes the whole laptop with it. Everything freezes and it goes black screen. Cannot reset or restart with ctrl-Alt-Del. I always have to do a hard reset with the power button. Plan...

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Spotify randomly crashes on my laptop. And not only does it crash, it takes the whole laptop with it. Everything freezes and it goes black screen. Cannot reset or restart with ctrl-Alt-Del. I always ...

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Disable animations or switch to a minimum

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceDesktop PC CPU: Intel Core i7 8700 - 3.19 GHzRAM 16,0 GBSpotify and Windows run on a SSD Samsung 870GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (12 GB) Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Hey guys! I saw in the Task-Manager,...

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Plan Premium Country Germany Device Desktop PC   CPU: Intel Core i7 8700 -  3.19 GHz RAM 16,0 GB Spotify and Windows run on a SSD Samsung 870 GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (12 GB) ...

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Superuser Contribution Not possible to scroll in artist view

When using Spotify web player, entering an artist page, I cannot scroll in the view. No scrollbar is present, and scrolling on mouse does nothing. PlanPremiumCountryDenmarkDeviceLenovo Thinkpad (PC) Windows 11/Chrome My Question or IssueWhen using Sp...

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When using Spotify web player, entering an artist page, I cannot scroll in the view. No scrollbar is present, and scrolling on mouse does nothing.  Plan Premium Country Denmark Device Leno...

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