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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...
hey ! i try to open my spotify on my laptop, but it dont want to open.it says that i have to reinstal the program.so i did it 10 times and it still dont work.. i try to delete and it is not posible
hey ! i try to open my spotify on my laptop, but it dont want to open. it says that i have to reinstal the program. so i did it 10 times and it still dont work.. i try to de...
Regular
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Spotify does not open and gives water problems : Spotify cannot find api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-2.dll . Please re- install this application . Still this error is coming when I tried to delete .
Spotify does not open and gives water problems : Spotify cannot find api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-2.dll . Please re- install this application . Still this error is coming when I trie...
Newbie
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Hi, I have a problem with my spotify on PC. Because everytime I open the app I have to redownload all the playlist that I have downloaded before. Is this a bug or I have to reinstall my spotify? I am using Windows 8 by the way. I hope there is a solu...
Hi, I have a problem with my spotify on PC. Because everytime I open the app I have to redownload all the playlist that I have downloaded before. Is this a bug or I have to reinstall my spotify? I am...
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Dear Spotify,Is it possible to share saved songs as a public playlists with other users?
Dear Spotify, Is it possible to share saved songs as a public playlists with other users?
Music Fan
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Hi, i have a galxy j7 and when i download playlists it takes a lot, a playlist of 30 songs takes like 7 hours, my internet is of 50 mb, the last week was good but now no, pls help
Hi, i have a galxy j7 and when i download playlists it takes a lot, a playlist of 30 songs takes like 7 hours, my internet is of 50 mb, the last week was good but now no, pls help
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Every time I try to sync songs from my pc to iPod touch, it says "Song Not Downloaded: If you own the song, you can sync it from your computer."I do own the song, but it won't allow me to sync it from the computer.I've tried deleting and re-installin...
Every time I try to sync songs from my pc to iPod touch, it says "Song Not Downloaded: If you own the song, you can sync it from your computer." I do own the song, but it won't allow me to sync it f...
Music Fan
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"Cannot find 'API-MS-WIN-CORE-PROCESSTHREADS-L1-1-2.DLL' Anyoine else expeiencing this? I can't run or even uninstall with out this showing up.
"Cannot find 'API-MS-WIN-CORE-PROCESSTHREADS-L1-1-2.DLL' Anyoine else expeiencing this? I can't run or even uninstall with out this showing up.
Regular
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Hi there,Spotify hasn't been working for me for over a week now. Whenever I try to start it, it opens but I get that spinning ring (or sometimes just a blank screen) and it just never goes beyond that stage (I have left it for up to an hour). To be c...
Hi there, Spotify hasn't been working for me for over a week now. Whenever I try to start it, it opens but I get that spinning ring (or sometimes just a blank screen) and it just never goes beyond t...
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Hello, I've had this issue for a few weeks now where everything I play from Spotify crackles and pops. However when I play from YouTube, I have no issues.I have premium, if that's to any help. I've cleared cache - didn't work.Tried uninstalling - did...
Hello, I've had this issue for a few weeks now where everything I play from Spotify crackles and pops. However when I play from YouTube, I have no issues. I have premium, if that's to any h...
Newbie
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I was curious what the "Stranger Things" option did, but it is not working for me when I try to use it. I went to an official stranger things playlist and the setting still did nothing after I went idle for a while
I was curious what the "Stranger Things" option did, but it is not working for me when I try to use it. I went to an official stranger things playlist and the setting still did nothing after I went i...
Newbie
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When im listening to music on spotify, ill get these crackles and pop sounds that ruins the listening experince. I get these on pretty much every song. this doesnt happen on anyweb broswers, but I did check and it is happeninbg on iTunes. Ive tried, ...
When im listening to music on spotify, ill get these crackles and pop sounds that ruins the listening experince. I get these on pretty much every song. this doesnt happen on anyweb broswers, but I di...
Casual Listener
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Hi,As outlined here : https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/spotify-radio/There is no 'radio' menu on my desktop app, and when I right click a Song/Album/Artist/Playlist, there is no option to go to radio.I see the opion in the web pl...
Hi, As outlined here : https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/spotify-radio/ There is no 'radio' menu on my desktop app, and when I right click a Song/Album/...
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Hi everyone So I recently got Spotify Premium (The $1 for 3 months deal) and whenever I try and log into the desktop app through email and facebook, it does nothing. No notifications or popups, it just either does nothing or just freezes. The android...
Hi everyone So I recently got Spotify Premium (The $1 for 3 months deal) and whenever I try and log into the desktop app through email and facebook, it does nothing. No notifications or popu...
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I'm using a Windows 10 laptop and when I leave a song paused for a minute or two, when I press play there is no audio. Not muted, I can toggle volume controls, but it's just dead silence. Help?
I'm using a Windows 10 laptop and when I leave a song paused for a minute or two, when I press play there is no audio. Not muted, I can toggle volume controls, but it's just dead silence. Help?
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I have some Turtle beach headphones and when I play path of exile, it restarts my headphones (really annoying). The game recovers and just picks a random device which is usually the wrong one (again annoying). I can just disable that device and its f...
I have some Turtle beach headphones and when I play path of exile, it restarts my headphones (really annoying). The game recovers and just picks a random device which is usually the wrong one (again ...
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I'm new to Spotify. As I was looking for songs for my first playlist, I came across one I'd been searching for that was listed with gray instead of white text. When I added it to my playlist, it didn't show up, but if I try to add it again, it says t...
I'm new to Spotify. As I was looking for songs for my first playlist, I came across one I'd been searching for that was listed with gray instead of white text. When I added it to my playlist, it didn...
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Hi, each time I try to play a song, i get a blue bar across the top of the screen telling me can't play the current song. I have re-installed Spotify and reset everything but still have the problem. This happens a lot lately.
Hi, each time I try to play a song, i get a blue bar across the top of the screen telling me can't play the current song. I have re-installed Spotify and reset everything but still have the pro...
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cannot run it today. and pop up the window ask me to reinstall the program, but it doesnt work...
cannot run it today. and pop up the window ask me to reinstall the program, but it doesnt work...
Community Legend
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I'm trying to change over to the Desktop App, but the WinStore App will NOT uninstall no matter how many times I've clicked Uninstall.
I'm trying to change over to the Desktop App, but the WinStore App will NOT uninstall no matter how many times I've clicked Uninstall.
Community Legend
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I had problems with my dsound.dll for some reason. every time I started Spotify (and any other program that used dsound.dll) it would come up with an error message saying that "dsound.dll is not designed to run on windows or contains an error" etc., ...
I had problems with my dsound.dll for some reason. every time I started Spotify (and any other program that used dsound.dll) it would come up with an error message saying that "dsound.dll is not desi...
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