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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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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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Spotify Attenuation with Steam notifications - extremely annoying

Exactly as the title says. The volume is lowered with Steam notifications. I can't turn off the Steam notifications because I need them, and as far as I can tell this isn't something on Steam's side. I just noticed it a few days ago, very sure it's a...

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Exactly as the title says.  The volume is lowered with Steam notifications.  I can't turn off the Steam notifications because I need them, and as far as I can tell this isn't something on S...

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help spotify wont play songs

my spotify wont play any songs but the rest of the ui works

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my spotify wont play any songs but the rest of the ui works

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Is Spotify made by amateurs?

This is a question I seriously had to ask myself today after trying to recover a hacked account. I recently launched my spotify app and found that I was logged out. I tried to log back in and it woudn't let me so I thought maybe I will recover my acc...

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This is a question I seriously had to ask myself today after trying to recover a hacked account. I recently launched my spotify app and found that I was logged out. I tried to log back in and it woud...

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Spotify works on every other device except for desktop, including connecting to website

As of late Spotify has been offline on my desktop app.I attempted to reinstall but when I went to spotify.com it said connection timeout. I checked my Windows Firewall, nothing blocked, even made another inbound and outbound rule to allow connections...

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As of late Spotify has been offline on my desktop app. I attempted to reinstall but when I went to spotify.com it said connection timeout. I checked my Windows Firewall, nothing blocked, even made a...

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play.spotify.com link doesn't open in the desktop app

If you press on a play.spotify.com link, it doens't open inside the spotify app, it opens in your web browser (e.g. google chrome).There's no way to change the setting. This fix doesn't work anymore: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac-old/C...

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If you press on a play.spotify.com link, it doens't open inside the spotify app, it opens in your web browser (e.g. google chrome). There's no way to change the setting.   This fix doesn...

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Installation Path randomness?

So I had this issue for a while now and figured i'd aks here if any other folks have the same problems. After I installed Spotify I just Cut the Spotify Folder from C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming and paste it on to my Data Drive D:\ . At this point Sp...

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So I had this issue for a while now and figured i'd aks here if any other folks have the same problems.   After I installed Spotify I just Cut the Spotify Folder from C:\Users\User\AppDat...

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why do i have to open spotify twice on pc

Does anyone know why I have to open Spotify twice to get it to work?I'm running Windows 10 and Spotify premium.Each time I load up Spotify it brings up the screen but the menu, search, friends pane only come up when I shut it down and open again.

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Does anyone know why I have to open Spotify twice to get it to work? I'm running Windows 10 and Spotify premium. Each time I load up Spotify it brings up the screen but the menu, search, friends pa...

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Songs Screen just links to browse

Hy, when I click on Songs in the Windows client it doesn't show my songs, but just a message that I can find playlists with the 'Browse' Link.The image below shows how my 'Songs' page looks like.I am running the newest version. What can I do?

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Hy, when I click on Songs in the Windows client it doesn't show my songs, but just a message that I can find playlists with the 'Browse' Link. The image below shows how my 'Songs' page looks like. ...

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Issues With Local Files

I recently was rearranging my music in my local files and it appears to have messed it up completely. I have one song that I cannot remove from my library even though the song no longer exists at all on my computer, and I have one album that I do hav...

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I recently was rearranging my music in my local files and it appears to have messed it up completely. I have one song that I cannot remove from my library even though the song no longer exists at all...

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spotify stops resizing properly once zoomed out

After zooming out to the last 2 stages it stops resizing properly. I can force it if i change my zoom mode but . as soon as i go beyond zoom lvl 2 it starts this. I tried to disable hardware acc no change.have a Nvidia 970gtx and 378.66 but it happen...

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After zooming out to the last 2 stages it stops resizing properly. I can force it if i change my zoom mode but . as soon as i go beyond zoom lvl 2 it starts this.  I tried to disable hardware a...

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CUT THE COOOOOORD

Please, please lower the volume on the Shinedown ad. I usually keep my music at a moderate volume, so it is unpleasant that every few minutes I get to hear an ear-piercing CUT THE COOOOOOOOORDDDD!!!!No one needs an advertisement that loud. Even the F...

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Please, please lower the volume on the Shinedown ad. I usually keep my music at a moderate volume, so it is unpleasant that every few minutes I get to hear an ear-piercing    CUT THE COOO...

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Severe sound issues

Dear Sir/Madam, I hope you can help, I’m at my wits end! If I am playing Spotify desktop it distorts playback audio crackling, it buzzes and distorts, stutters playback. I have updated all drivers and updated Spotify and even applied a new sound card...

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Dear Sir/Madam,   I hope you can help, I’m at my wits end! If I am playing Spotify desktop it distorts playback audio crackling, it buzzes and distorts, stutters playback. I have updated ...

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spotify keeps pauzing itself

hey can someone help?when i play a song wichever song it just keeps pauzing itself after a few secondstried to change password and everything just in case someone is using my accbut it keeps on doing this..

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hey can someone help? when i play a song wichever song it just keeps pauzing itself after a few seconds tried to change password and everything just in case someone is using my acc but it keeps on...

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download to mp3

Hi everyone , i'm not allowed to have a phone in my workplace but i can have an mp3 . How do I go about downloading my playlists to an mp3 if i'm a premium member. thanks for any help

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Hi everyone , i'm not allowed to have a phone in my workplace but i can have an mp3 . How do I go about downloading my playlists to an mp3 if i'm a premium member. thanks for any help

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settings are gone

So I just joined Spotify today, and I found my favorite songs, but they are a different version. I wanted my favorite version and could not find it.Everyone is talking about a settings area to import 'local files' but I cant find these settings. Afte...

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So I just joined Spotify today, and I found my favorite songs, but they are a different version. I wanted my favorite version and could not find it. Everyone is talking about a settings area to impo...

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Full screen cropped

I use windows 10, with 2 monitors, one vertical and one horizontalwhen using spotify on the vertical monitor, sometimes it does full screen, other times it's cropped verticallyI tried to set the veritcal one and the horizontal one as my primary scree...

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I use windows 10, with 2 monitors, one vertical and one horizontal when using spotify on the vertical monitor, sometimes it does full screen, other times it's cropped vertically I tried to set ...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify not working unless I have the computer hooked to my secondary monitor.

Hello,Having a weird issue with Spotify not playing songs. I have premium and I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and nothing helps. When my laptop is NOT connected to anything, I press play on any song and I get the error: "This song is unava...

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Hello, Having a weird issue with Spotify not playing songs. I have premium and I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and nothing helps. When my laptop is NOT connected to anything, I press play...

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Solved!! Como controlar Spotify con las teclas multimedia del teclado

Buenas; Tengo Windows 10, uso la app de escritorio de toda la vida y, además, tengo Spotify Premium. Hace tiempo podía controlar Spotify con las teclas multimedia de mi teclado sin tener que abrir la aplicación, pero desde hace tiempo que ya no puedo...

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Buenas;   Tengo Windows 10, uso la app de escritorio de toda la vida y, además, tengo Spotify Premium.    Hace tiempo podía controlar Spotify con las teclas multimedia de mi teclad...

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Solved!! Problem with songs search engine

Hi,Sorry for my english, I can't do searches in spotify with my laptor. When I want to find any song, the searcher don't do anything... The autocomplete does not work either. I don't know what I can do. Thanks!

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Hi, Sorry for my english, I can't do searches in spotify with my laptor. When I want to find any song, the searcher don't do anything... The autocomplete does not work either. I don't know what I ca...

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Is it possible to create a playlist from a list of song url's?

Hi,I have a text file with 1500 song urls. Like this:https://open.spotify.com/track/5kMKx1ohvu9tuRjVjoVPxXhttps://open.spotify.com/track/06zh28PcYIFvNOAz5Wq2Xb...is there an easy way to make a playlist out of it?

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Hi, I have a text file with 1500 song urls. Like this: https://open.spotify.com/track/5kMKx1ohvu9tuRjVjoVPxX https://open.spotify.com/track/06zh28PcYIFvNOAz5Wq2Xb ... is there an easy way to mak...

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