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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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Location of cached files

Hi, in the settings I have set this path for offline songs D:\Music\Spotify and the folder has about 7GB. But despite that, Spotify still creates a folder in C:\Users\Slavek\AppData\Local\Spotify\Data and it has about 10GB.What should I do to not let...

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Hi, in the settings I have set this path for offline songs D:\Music\Spotify and the folder has about 7GB. But despite that, Spotify still creates a folder in C:\Users\Slavek\AppData\Local\Spotif...

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Laptop

Have subscribed to premium which works fine on my devices but only the free version appears on laptop. Have reinstalled and logged in but still the same. Any ideas please?

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Have subscribed to premium which works fine on my devices but only the free version appears on laptop. Have reinstalled and logged in but still the same. Any ideas please?

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Static and pausing during one song in particular

I only have this issue when listening to Cows - Terrifique. I have high quality enabled, and hardware acceleration turned off. I don't have this issue with any other songs.

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I only have this issue when listening to Cows - Terrifique. I have high quality enabled, and hardware acceleration turned off. I don't have this issue with any other songs.

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What are the required cookies to get Account Overview working?

I block 3rd party cookies on my browser and I was adding my sister to the Spotify Premium for Family account and I kept getting an error until I allowed cookies and had to reload 3 times because new cookies kept popping up. The amount of 3rd party co...

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I block 3rd party cookies on my browser and I was adding my sister to the Spotify Premium for Family account and I kept getting an error until I allowed cookies and had to reload 3 times because new ...

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Albums are disapearing from playlists, help!

There are albums that I've had saved in my playlists for months, if not years that are disappearing. Such albums include but are not limited to Chasing Safety's "Nomad", Halestorm's "ReAniMate 3.0: The Covers Ep", and a Soul Asylum album, of which at...

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There are albums that I've had saved in my playlists for months, if not years that are disappearing. Such albums include but are not limited to Chasing Safety's "Nomad", Halestorm's "ReAniMate 3.0: T...

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Constant pausing

When I'm trying to listen to my music it pauses every few seconds and shows a banner that says Error: cannot play song at this time or something. This is really agrivating, does anyone have a solution.

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When I'm trying to listen to my music it pauses every few seconds and shows a banner that says Error: cannot play song at this time or something. This is really agrivating, does anyone have a solutio...

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Playback settings do not save

For some reason, every time I try to toggle crossfade or try to set the same volume level for all songs, both of the options revert to off upon exitting spotify. How do I fix this? This is tremendously annoying. Windows 10

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For some reason, every time I try to toggle crossfade or try to set the same volume level for all songs, both of the options revert to off upon exitting spotify.  How do I fix this? This is trem...

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Spotify & Airfoil

Hi, I'm trying to use Airfoil with Spotify. I'm required to set the spotify app as source, however I cannot locate it anywhere on my laptop... I'm running windows 10. When I search for spotify in explorer I can't find it anywhere... I need an .exe fi...

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Hi,   I'm trying to use Airfoil with Spotify. I'm required to set the spotify app as source, however I cannot locate it anywhere on my laptop... I'm running windows 10. When I search for spoti...

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AKER release firewall

What IP's and Ports have to release, for windows application to work? thank you

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What IP's and Ports have to release, for windows application to work?   thank you

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Problemas al reproducir musica

Llevo unas semanas en las que al reproducir cualquier lista o disco, me reproduce solo unos segundos de la cancion y me salta a la siguiente, haciendo exactamente lo mismo. He probado a cerrar la aplicacion en el ordenador y otros dispositivos y el p...

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Llevo unas semanas en las que al reproducir cualquier lista o disco, me reproduce solo unos segundos de la cancion y me salta a la siguiente, haciendo exactamente lo mismo. He probado a cerrar la apl...

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Solved!! WHERE DID THE FILES LAND ??

My first time use .. I downloaded the songs onto my hard drive, but don't know where they landed. Help please

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My first time use .. I downloaded the songs onto my hard drive, but don't know where they landed. Help please

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Sound fluctuating over HDMI but not over auxillary or USB

I recently started having the infamous flucuation issue but not over my headphones (what I normally use). I have my PC connected to my TV in my bedroom for when I feel like listening to music or watching youtube or the likes as I don't actually own c...

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I recently started having the infamous flucuation issue but not over my headphones (what I normally use). I have my PC connected to my TV in my bedroom for when I feel like listening to music or watc...

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Graphical Issue

For some reason when I open spotify on my Windows 10 PC I always see this. Can not figure it out to save my life. Any help would be great.

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For some reason when I open spotify on my Windows 10 PC I always see this. Can not figure it out to save my life. Any help would be great.

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Browse page doesn't work

Hello, I got a problem. When i click browse option (I'm not sure about the translation. In polish language is "przegladaj") - that page, thats shows you music by your mood (hop-hop, rock, party etc.) there is an information "an erorr" and "page not f...

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Hello,   I got a problem. When i click browse option (I'm not sure about the translation. In polish language is "przegladaj") - that page, thats shows you music by your mood (hop-hop, rock, pa...

Luke

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CPU Usage Spike from Dragging the Mouse over Spotify

I noticed that the highlighting of songs when the mouse is moving over them was pretty laggy. Turns out Spotify saturates an entire core on my i5-3330 whenever I'm moving the mouse over songs faster than two per second. Surely highlighting song title...

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I noticed that the highlighting of songs when the mouse is moving over them was pretty laggy. Turns out Spotify saturates an entire core on my i5-3330 whenever I'm moving the mouse over songs faster ...

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Spotify stops playing the moment I turn off the screen

Hi there,I've got a problem with my desktop PC and Spotify. My PC is connected to my TV because I use it as a multimedia station. So my TV is my normal screen. No problem playing music via Spotify then. But the moment I turn off the TV/Screen the mus...

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Hi there, I've got a problem with my desktop PC and Spotify. My PC is connected to my TV because I use it as a multimedia station. So my TV is my normal screen. No problem playing music via Spotify ...

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Search box on desktop

When i try to use the search box, it keeps giving me a message, "Your search did not match anything in our catalogue. Please ensure all words are spelled correctly. You could also try different or similar searches." It happens no matter what I type i...

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When i try to use the search box, it keeps giving me a message, "Your search did not match anything in our catalogue.  Please ensure all words are spelled correctly.  You could also try dif...

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Wrong track on Desktop version

One More Light - One more Light Live (Linkin Park) has wrong track on Desktop.On the mobile version it plays the normal track but on Desktop vesion it plays a different one

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One More Light - One more Light Live (Linkin Park) has wrong track on Desktop. On the mobile version it plays the normal track but on Desktop vesion it plays a different one

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