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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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[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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Media Controls

Is there a fix to use the Play/Pause, Next, or Previous controls on my keyboard yet?

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  • Is there a fix to use the Play/Pause, Next, or Previous controls on my keyboard yet?
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Blank White Screen

I was having trouble loading the web player, so I cleared all spotify cookies. When trying to revisit spotify, I got a screen that looks like this: I made special allowances for [*.]spotify.com in the cookies and the Unsandboxed Plugins section in th...

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  • I was having trouble loading the web player, so I cleared all spotify cookies. When trying to revisit spotify, I got a screen that looks like this:   I made special allowances for [*.]s...
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Can't ReInstall Spotify Windows 10

I'm so frustrated... I was listening to a podcast earlier today, and it kept stopping. At the top i would get the blue bar that said, "Cannot play this song". EVERY time I tried to restart spotify, and play the podcast again like I always do, except ...

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  • I'm so frustrated... I was listening to a podcast earlier today, and it kept stopping. At the top i would get the blue bar that said, "Cannot play this song". EVERY time I tried to restart spotify, a...
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Lot of disappearing songs in library

Hello,I had recently recently issues with disapearing playlists (that I recovered from the website a few times) and I suspected someone using unwillingly my spotify account so I disconnected from everywhere and change my facebook logging infos.but no...

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  • Hello, I had recently recently issues with disapearing playlists (that I recovered from the website a few times) and I suspected someone using unwillingly my spotify account so I disconnected from e...
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Monitor compatibility. Full screen not working.

The program doesn't upscale to fill my 22" Monitor. It gets stuck in a 720p ratio. And on my 19" full screen works just fine.

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  • The program doesn't upscale to fill my 22" Monitor. It gets stuck in a 720p ratio. And on my 19" full screen works just fine.
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Solved!! Playlist Suddenly Empty

All my playlists I created by importing my iTunes playlists are suddenly empty. They were working fine yesterday. When I load the iOS app they show fine and play, but Windows shows empty. I uninstalled/reinstalled with no change.

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  • All my playlists I created by importing my iTunes playlists are suddenly empty. They were working fine yesterday. When I load the iOS app they show fine and play, but Windows shows empty. I uninstall...
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Can't play music

cursor turns to arrow whenever I hover on any album or song, I click repetedly but nothing happens, this has been going on for a couple of days now, I've tried logging out and back in again and on both Opera and Chrome, which are both of an adequate ...

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  • cursor turns to arrow whenever I hover on any album or song, I click repetedly but nothing happens, this has been going on for a couple of days now, I've tried logging out and back in again and on bo...
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Can't accecpt updated TOS 1/11/18

So the other day i got home from work and turned on my pc and got the new updated tos pop us and I clicked the "not now" button by mistake and I could find a way to go back to accecpt. After I clicked no it said that if I didn't accecpt within 30 day...

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  • So the other day i got home from work and turned on my pc and got the new updated tos pop us and I clicked the "not now" button by mistake and I could find a way to go back to accecpt. After I clicke...
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Cannot Get Spotify Web or Windows Program to work

I have used Spotify's web player at work for two and half years and did not have a problem until recently. As of late I cannot get the web player to play any music. The site is accessible and I am able to click on everything, but music will not play....

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  • I have used Spotify's web player at work for two and half years and did not have a problem until recently. As of late I cannot get the web player to play any music. The site is accessible and I am ab...
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Solved!! Crackling, shuttering, distortion noises during playback. I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING, just fix it already

This started a couple of months ago. It's been extremely annoying but I've signed up for the year long subscription or else I would not use this anymore. I suspect that it has something to do with Windows 10, but everyone has that now so why doesn't ...

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  • This started a couple of months ago. It's been extremely annoying but I've signed up for the year long subscription or else I would not use this anymore. I suspect that it has something to do with Wi...
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The Release Radar playlist new releases

Hey! It has been a few weeks that my Release Radar playlist comes with unwanted songs of mine, songs with a totally different style and genre. I would be rad if there was a button which I could use to send a "dislike" for that song/artist in my playl...

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  • Hey!   It has been a few weeks that my Release Radar playlist comes with unwanted songs of mine, songs with a totally different style and genre. I would be rad if there was a button ...
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Local files not importing properly

So I just downloaded Spotify and I need some help. I have all of my songs in a folder on my pc, the files have the album and artist information in it and when inport them into itunes there is no issue. I just imported them into spotify and maybe 10% ...

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  • So I just downloaded Spotify and I need some help. I have all of my songs in a folder on my pc, the files have the album and artist information in it and when inport them into itunes there is no issu...
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spotify freezes my computer (Win10)

when an song ends and the publicity came out mi pc freezes, any solution?

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  • when an song ends and the publicity came out mi pc freezes, any solution?
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Incorrect songs playing after a skip

When I play an album from the artist page and then hit skip on desktop, the song that plays after is from a completely different album. I have the setting on that loops music from the album as well, but not that one that replays the song. It also hap...

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  • When I play an album from the artist page and then hit skip on desktop, the song that plays after is from a completely different album.  I have the setting on that loops music from the album as ...
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Gapless playback local files

I'm on windows 10 64-bit desktop and this doesn't work. There is a noticeable gap between each track.My spotify version is 1.0.69.336.g7edcc575

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  • I'm on windows 10 64-bit desktop and this doesn't work. There is a noticeable gap between each track. My spotify version is 1.0.69.336.g7edcc575
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If I unsave songs but keep them in my playlist, will that negatively influence my Discover Weekly?

I've converted from using the Songs section to mainly playing from a few separate playlists, and I want to clear out my saves. If I unsave songs, would Spotify see me as not liking those songs anymore and change my taste profile to accomadate that, o...

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  • I've converted from using the Songs section to mainly playing from a few separate playlists, and I want to clear out my saves. If I unsave songs, would Spotify see me as not liking those songs anymor...
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Solved!! Delete a folder but not the playlist??

I created a folder after seeing it in a Spotify article just to try it out, thinking I could easily undo it after. I can't find anywhere how to delete the folder without getting rid of my playlists I have inside. Please help!!

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  • I created a folder after seeing it in a Spotify article just to try it out, thinking I could easily undo it after. I can't find anywhere how to delete the folder without getting rid of my playlists I...
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Spotify Shorting Out All Audio

I'm running Spotify on a Dell PC Windows 10 running audio from a Dell Dock WD15, and about every 5-10 minutes while listening to Spotify my audio cuts out all of my audio on my computer. I get the error on Spotify "Cannot Play Current Song", Youtube ...

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  • I'm running Spotify on a Dell PC Windows 10 running audio from a Dell Dock WD15, and about every 5-10 minutes while listening to Spotify my audio cuts out all of my audio on my computer. I get the er...
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lokaal bestand

Hallo, waarom is het niet mogelijk om een lokaal bestand die je van je eigen pc hebt toegevoegd niet afspelen als je verbonden bent met een ander apparaat?Ik heb bijvoorbeeld een nummer toegevoegd die niet voorkomt in de spotify data base en heb hem ...

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  • Hallo,    waarom is het niet mogelijk om een lokaal bestand die je van je eigen pc hebt toegevoegd niet afspelen als je verbonden bent met een ander apparaat? Ik heb bijvoorbeeld een num...
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(Error code 13) The installer is unable to install Spotify because the nessecary files... Windows 10

My Desktop Spotify freezed on me after an update so I uninstalled the application then when I tried to re-install it this error showed up. The installer is unable to install Spotify because the neccessary files could not be created. (Error code: 13)I...

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  • My Desktop Spotify freezed on me after an update so I uninstalled the application then when I tried to re-install it this error showed up.  The installer is unable to install Spotify because ...
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