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Can't play an artist's discography on the desktop app

Plan Premium Device PC / Android My Question or Issue This happened a few days ago. Normally when i clicked an Artist > Discography > Show All > And play a song, the next song was from the next album of the artist. Now, the next song is a random one ...

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Issue : no volume control in spotify when exclusive mode is activated

Premium member, France, Windows 10 64 bits updated, Focusrite Audio solo usb external soundcard updated, Desktop app updated I talk with the customer service, we try to solve my problem and they told me that it should be an issue that I have to talk ...

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MIKAAAAEL

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Black Screen (June 15 2026 install)

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceDesktop PC IntelOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueFollowed clean re-install instructions after getting black screen at startup. Installed the latest June 15 version from the Windows Store. Ran once without p...

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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 are...

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"Saved Albums Only" setting does not persist after closing Spotify

The option to "Saved Albums Only" setting does not persist after closing Spotify. It keeps turning itself off, adding an additional step to play saved albums, since I use the albums section only for full saved albums.

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The option to "Saved Albums Only" setting does not persist after closing Spotify.   It keeps turning itself off, adding an additional step to play saved albums, since I use the albums sec...

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Queue doesn't work

This occurs both on my PC and my android. Very random. Sometimes I can queue up one song, but never more than one. I am playing songs from a playlist of mine that has approximately 2000 songs in it. It tis a drag. Tried uninstalling, reinstalling, re...

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This occurs both on my PC and my android.  Very random.  Sometimes I can queue up one song, but never more than one.  I am playing songs from a playlist of mine that has approximately ...

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can't play current song

So for some reason on Spotify, specifically on the desktop app AND the web player it won't play any music. My phone is just fine but on my desktop I just keep getting the ugly blue sign "Can't play the current song". And it's happened before where if...

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So for some reason on Spotify, specifically on the desktop app AND the web player it won't play any music. My phone is just fine but on my desktop I just keep getting the ugly blue sign "Can't play t...

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Web Player Not Working

My web player will not work, I play an album or podcast it just skips around but never actually plays anything. I have cleared my cookies, done the Ctrl & F5 refresh, restarted my computer, and made sure my spotify on my phone is turned to the web pl...

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My web player will not work, I play an album or podcast it just skips around but never actually plays anything. I have cleared my cookies, done the Ctrl & F5 refresh, restarted my computer, and m...

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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.

IguanaSetup

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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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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

jackdaniels666

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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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Superuser Contribution Recently played - how show songs not albums

"Recently played" shows albums/playlists and not the individual played songs. How do I view the songs?

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"Recently played" shows albums/playlists and not the individual played songs. How do I view the 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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How to arrange all playlist in alphabetical order? not the tracks.

Would like to know if there is a way to organize all playlist in alphabetical order.Not the tracks in a playlist, but the playlists name's in order.

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Would like to know if there is a way to organize all playlist in alphabetical order. Not the tracks in a playlist, but the playlists name's in order.

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Windows 8: Spotify Installer Runs Forever

I've been trying to download Spotify on my new Windows 8 laptop , and for some reason the installer just won't work. I can download and run it fine, but it just pulls up a window that tells me it's Downloading Spotify and then runs for hours without ...

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I've been trying to download Spotify on my new Windows 8 laptop , and for some reason the installer just won't work. I can download and run it fine, but it just pulls up a window that tells me it's D...

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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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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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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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Deleting OneDrive* folder causes Spotify to crash

I have encountered a very specific bug that unfortunately have to run into a few times already. I have Spotify, OneDrive Personal, and *OneDrive for Business. When I have Spotify open and playing music, and I delete a folder in my OneDrive for Busine...

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I have encountered a very specific bug that unfortunately have to run into a few times already. I have Spotify, OneDrive Personal, and *OneDrive for Business. When I have Spotify open and playing mus...

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