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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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The Day the Music Died, Part 2: A Real Fix

I detailed my problems in a different thread (the play arrows no longer worked on any part of my Spotify web account), and my previous "fix" was to open a new Spotify account, then link back to all my old folders. I stumbled on a new fix, and it solv...

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I detailed my problems in a different thread (the play arrows no longer worked on any part of my Spotify web account), and my previous "fix" was to open a new Spotify account, then link back to all m...

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Add Song to playlist - playlists temporarily disappear

Hello, Got a weird little bug on the Windows app. When I first open the app and want to add a song to one of my playlists, I right click on the song as normal and navigate the menus to my folder of playlists. Weirdly, it only shows my playlists that ...

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Hello,   Got a weird little bug on the Windows app. When I first open the app and want to add a song to one of my playlists, I right click on the song as normal and navigate the menus to my fo...

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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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Identifying songs saved to my music that are not in any playlist

There seems to be no way to identify what playlist(s) a given song is part of. I use both Save save Add to Playlist but sometimes forget one or the other Identifying songs in a playlist that are not saved to my music is easy enough... there is a "plu...

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There seems to be no way to identify what playlist(s) a given song is part of. I use both Save save Add to Playlist but sometimes forget one or the other   Identifying songs in a playlist that...

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Crashing on windows 10

Hi all, I have already tried all possible solution from the posts concerning a similar problem. The problem is this: the desktopversion (both from the installer and the app from the windowsmarket) causes my laptop to freeze. I have to do a hard rease...

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Hi all,   I have already tried all possible solution from the posts concerning a similar problem. The problem is this: the desktopversion (both from the installer and the app from the windowsm...

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Local playlist sync

Local playlist wont sync between 2 PC but does sync to my mobile device.When I click to download the playlist the message that keeps showing is "waiting.."

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Local playlist wont sync between 2 PC but does sync to my mobile device. When I click to download the playlist the message that keeps showing is "waiting.."

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504 Gateway Time Out Message

My desktop version of Spotify is displaying a 504 Gateway Time Out Message. Working okay on my phone. My husband, on our family plan, is working fine on his desktop and his phone. The only one affected is my desktop.

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My desktop version of Spotify is displaying a 504 Gateway Time Out Message. Working okay on my phone. My husband, on our family plan, is working fine on his desktop and his phone. The only one a...

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Spotify UI glitch

UI glitch on *COUNTRY* TOP 50. 

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UI glitch on *COUNTRY* TOP 50.  

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Unwanted music keeps being added to my queue

I see many complaints from users about random music being added to their queues but no real answers from Spotify. I cannot play more than one or two tracks, for example on a saved playlist, without random, usually Spanish language, tracks being added...

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I see many complaints from users about random music being added to their queues but no real answers from Spotify. I cannot play more than one or two tracks, for example on a saved playlist, without r...

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People stealing other artists songs.

(Sorry if this is in the wrong part of the ''forum'' but this just angers me.) So just as the title... I've come a cross an ''artist'' called ''I n'' that had some album called ''Acisenlia'' then i realized that the cover arts had the actual name of ...

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(Sorry if this is in the wrong part of the ''forum'' but this just angers me.) So just as the title... I've come a cross an ''artist'' called ''I n'' that had some album called ''Acisenlia'...

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Spotify Won't Load

Hello, I have been using Spotify since last year I believe, and since then I have not have had any problems. Now, when I open Spotify I get the black screen with the whirring circle and I have tried uninstalling the program and re-downloading it mult...

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Hello, I have been using Spotify since last year I believe, and since then I have not have had any problems.  Now, when I open Spotify I get the black screen with the whirring circle and I have ...

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Solved!! Cannot add songs to queue

I cannot add songs to my queue.I am running Spotify 1.0.72.117.g6bd7cc73 on a Dell Latitude E6540 with Windows 7.I have already done a soft reset and a clean reinstall.Happy to answer any questions.

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I cannot add songs to my queue. I am running Spotify 1.0.72.117.g6bd7cc73 on a Dell Latitude E6540 with Windows 7. I have already done a soft reset and a clean reinstall. Happy to answer any quest...

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Wiped playlist

So my housemate thought it'd be funny to wipe my most played playlist. Playlist was set to collaborative due to me having to use another account for my family program to work. So he did this by wiping the entire 1000ish songs off the playlist, and no...

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So my housemate thought it'd be funny to wipe my most played playlist. Playlist was set to collaborative due to me having to use another account for my family program to work. So he did this by wipin...

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Low transfer speed - desktop app

I have a problem with low transfer during listening music through Spotify Windows App. This causes interrupting the music during playing. In the attachment is the screenshoot from my control panel with actual internet usage. I think the problem exist...

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I have a problem with low transfer during listening music through Spotify Windows App. This causes interrupting the music during playing. In the attachment is the screenshoot from my control panel wi...

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notification window with currently played song

Cao, do you know if spotify allow to show in small window on bottom of desktop the name of song at the time of start of playing?I remember that for example winamp had this function.ThanksPeter

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Cao,  do you know if spotify allow to show in small window on bottom of desktop the name of song at the time of start of playing? I remember that for example winamp had this function. Thanks ...

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Unwanted Music KEEPS being added.

So this this is the issue, since January 1st music has been automatically added to my spotify. It's been mostly the same kind of music, trap. Playlist were created, artists were followed, music was downloaded. I did the "Disconnect all devices" and c...

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So this this is the issue, since January 1st music has been automatically added to my spotify. It's been mostly the same kind of music, trap. Playlist were created, artists were followed, music was d...

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Unwanted Music KEEPS being added. MY CELLPHONE DATA IS BEING USED WITHOUT MY CONSENT

So this this is the issue, since January 1st music has been automatically added to my spotify. It's been mostly the same kind of music, trap. Playlist were created, artists were followed, music was downloaded. I did the "Disconnect all devices" and c...

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So this this is the issue, since January 1st music has been automatically added to my spotify. It's been mostly the same kind of music, trap. Playlist were created, artists were followed, music was d...

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