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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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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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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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Spotify Audio Stuttering -> Windows 10 app

The audio is stuttering in my Windows 10 Desktop app. I have tried reinstalling Spotify, restarting my computer, everything listed in the troubleshooting list. I am not having this issue with any other audio files or with Youtube, only Spotify. I hav...

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The audio is stuttering in my Windows 10 Desktop app. I have tried reinstalling Spotify, restarting my computer, everything listed in the troubleshooting list. I am not having this issue with any oth...

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Solved!! WEB PLAYER STUCK

My web player is stuck with the repeat one song control active but I can't hit it or neither of the other controls. Basically I can't use the player anymore.

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My web player is stuck with the repeat one song control active but I can't hit it or neither of the other controls. Basically I can't use the player anymore.

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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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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 Web Player Not Working

I cannot play any music in the web player. It is just frozen. The play buttons don't work, I keep pressing them. Logging in and out, refreshing.. nothing helps. I only have spotify web player as App ain't available in my country.

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I cannot play any music in the web player. It is just frozen. The play buttons don't work, I keep pressing them. Logging in and out, refreshing.. nothing helps. I only have spotify web player as App ...

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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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Web player won't play

Hey, my Web player won't play anymore. I wasn't having issues last week. I'm on a public computer, but it's mine for work. Help! ~~Jesus Christ is Lord~~

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Hey, my Web player won't play anymore.  I wasn't having issues last week.  I'm on a public computer, but it's mine for work.  Help!  🙂  ~~Jesus Christ is Lord~~

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The Day The Music Died: a fix

I'm running Spotify from Chrome and Firefox in Windows 7. Six months ago, I could login to Spotify, navigate just fine . . . but I couldn't play any music. I would press the play arrow on any song, new or playlisted, and nothing would happen. The pla...

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I'm running Spotify from Chrome and Firefox in Windows 7.   Six months ago, I could login to Spotify, navigate just fine . . . but I couldn't play any music. I would press the play arrow on an...

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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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