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Discuss Spotify for Windows
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...
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...
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...
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...
Since a few weeks, may after an upgrade, spotify connect doesn't do what it ought to do, connecting. I have a Denon AVR X1200W and use a Samsung Galaxy S7 with the spotify app and Denon app installed. For a few weeks ago it alwys worked flawlessly, b...
Since a few weeks, may after an upgrade, spotify connect doesn't do what it ought to do, connecting. I have a Denon AVR X1200W and use a Samsung Galaxy S7 with the spotify app and Denon app installed...
Roadie
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Hello. I am not sure about other artists, but i faced this problem with this artist. I just can't find her in search, but I can do this in Google, find the song, but pressing "Play" button does nothing. Any ideas?
Hello. I am not sure about other artists, but i faced this problem with this artist. I just can't find her in search, but I can do this in Google, find the song, but pressing "Play" button does nothi...
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Hi! I upgraded to Windows 10 today and have been having an issue with the client. Everything functions properly, except when my Spotify window is open, thin blue lines appear across my screen and the screen flickers on and off. This issue ceases to e...
Hi! I upgraded to Windows 10 today and have been having an issue with the client. Everything functions properly, except when my Spotify window is open, thin blue lines appear across my scree...
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Cant find any solution for this, i want to have my playlists ontop of the interface!Is this possible in some way? Or do i need to endure the bloated features ontop of what i listen to? I run this machine on a 720 resolution for everyone to see it pro...
Cant find any solution for this, i want to have my playlists ontop of the interface! Is this possible in some way? Or do i need to endure the bloated features ontop of what i listen to? I...
Casual Listener
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I play a lot of local files on my laptop. And I want to keep doing so when I get a new one. I will transfer all local files onto the new pc. Will spotify be able to play local files as I am used to or will I have to re-add all 100+ files manually?
I play a lot of local files on my laptop. And I want to keep doing so when I get a new one. I will transfer all local files onto the new pc. Will spotify be able to play local files as I am used to o...
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Hi. I've been using spotify for over 3 months, bought premium and so on. It was working perfectly, until it asked for an update. From this point it wouldn't install. During instalation process it shows " the installer is unable to install Spotify bec...
Hi. I've been using spotify for over 3 months, bought premium and so on. It was working perfectly, until it asked for an update. From this point it wouldn't install. During instalation process it sho...
Newbie
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On both my laptop and desktop PC im able to play most of the albums/songs in my library, but not all the ones that are available in my region (Canada). On my iPhone however it works perfectly. I had this problem for a couple months - I made sure I di...
On both my laptop and desktop PC im able to play most of the albums/songs in my library, but not all the ones that are available in my region (Canada). On my iPhone however it works&nb...
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How come Spotify still hasn't a quick way to add a song in the queue? Clicking the song title with the right button, highlighting the "add to queue" and then clicking again looks simple but in fact becomes a lot tedious and not practical at all when ...
How come Spotify still hasn't a quick way to add a song in the queue? Clicking the song title with the right button, highlighting the "add to queue" and then clicking again looks simple but in fact b...
Visitor
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Hey, having trouble with my spotify randomly skipping and jumping back to previous playlist.Issue: few weeks ago I clicked a playlist. It was awful, featuring "Saucy Beats" if you want to wreck your eardrums. The problem is that my spotify keeps rand...
Hey, having trouble with my spotify randomly skipping and jumping back to previous playlist. Issue: few weeks ago I clicked a playlist. It was awful, featuring "Saucy Beats" if you want to wreck y...
Casual Listener
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I'm currently using Spotify Free. A commercial for Amazon's Echo Dot played and my player has stopped working completely. I've tried logging out and logging in several times. The playlist, track and albums will appear in my recently played list but n...
I'm currently using Spotify Free. A commercial for Amazon's Echo Dot played and my player has stopped working completely. I've tried logging out and logging in several times. The pl...
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So what happend,i download Spotify on Pc and i can lisen all songs for free without problem i connect to Facebook and i didnt pay any premium. But on Phone i must have premium to lisen songs? Whys taht will they charge me on pc somehow?
So what happend,i download Spotify on Pc and i can lisen all songs for free without problem i connect to Facebook and i didnt pay any premium. But on Phone i must have premium to lisen songs?&...
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Not sure if this is intentional or not, but I would like to be able to right click on the song that is currently playing in my queue and add it to a playlist while I listen on my Windows desktop app. I understand that I can right-click the currently ...
Not sure if this is intentional or not, but I would like to be able to right click on the song that is currently playing in my queue and add it to a playlist while I listen on my Windows desktop app....
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When I set this in the prefrences, restart the app, and go back, it's not saved. It used to work just fine. Doesn't anymore. Win 10 proLatest spotify version (how would you even turn off automatic updates?)
When I set this in the prefrences, restart the app, and go back, it's not saved. It used to work just fine. Doesn't anymore. Win 10 pro Latest spotify version (how would you even turn off a...
Casual Listener
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Hi, weird behaviour. I created a playlist with 2 albums from 1 artist. I want to shuffle this shizzle, but shuffle only shuffles between the songs of one album. After this it continues playing the next album and then shuffles only the songs from the ...
Hi, weird behaviour. I created a playlist with 2 albums from 1 artist. I want to shuffle this shizzle, but shuffle only shuffles between the songs of one album. After this it contin...
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Using Chrome and the webplayer to listen to music at work, but it won't work. When I select the top song in a playlist it just skips tracks and doesn't play anything. Tried other browsers (Edge and IE) and signed out and back in several times.
Using Chrome and the webplayer to listen to music at work, but it won't work. When I select the top song in a playlist it just skips tracks and doesn't play anything. Tried other browsers (Edge and I...
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Hello,after installing the spotify app on my new windows 10 laptop using the spotify.exe file from the website (https://www.spotify.com/de/download/windows/) the app does not work at all. When I open it, it looks like the screenshot attached! So ever...
Hello, after installing the spotify app on my new windows 10 laptop using the spotify.exe file from the website (https://www.spotify.com/de/download/windows/) the app does not work at all. When I op...
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im tryin to delete a playlist, but it's still around.
im tryin to delete a playlist, but it's still around.
Roadie
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My google home mini used to work great and when I asked for a song it would play the right one. All of a sudden now when I ask to play a song i.e."Hey Google, Play thunderstruck by ACDC" it will responed "Ok, playing thunderstruck by ACDC" But then i...
My google home mini used to work great and when I asked for a song it would play the right one. All of a sudden now when I ask to play a song i.e."Hey Google, Play thunderstruck by ACDC" it ...
Casual Listener
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Hi I’m not a private user but no one can find my name in search how do I fix that
Hi I’m not a private user but no one can find my name in search how do I fix that
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from one day to other my account automatically signed off and now that i just sign in all my songs and playlist disappeared, someone help me please
from one day to other my account automatically signed off and now that i just sign in all my songs and playlist disappeared, someone help me please
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