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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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I can't delete a playlist.

I wanted to add some music to a playlist and chose "New Playlist". The playlist was added. However, when I clicked on "Details", nothing comes up allowing me to do so. Plus, no new music shows up in the right window. On top of that, when I go to the ...

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I wanted to add some music to a playlist and chose "New Playlist". The playlist was added. However, when I clicked on "Details", nothing comes up allowing me to do so. Plus, no new music shows up in ...

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Shuffle doesn't shuffle

When I use shuffle on any playlist, Spotify will always end up playing the same 40 songs over and over, regardless of which song I play first. How hard can it be to probably shuffle a playlist? It has been terrible for years.

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When I use shuffle on any playlist, Spotify will always end up playing the same 40 songs over and over, regardless of which song I play first. How hard can it be to probably shuffle a playlist? It ha...

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why does Spotify keep playing endlessly at the end of a track?

Hi. Sometimes Spotify just keeps playing silence at the end of a track and it never stops. I can't go to the nextsong or a previous song or play a different playlist, it just seems completely stuck and keeps playing that same track endlessly. See the...

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Hi.   Sometimes Spotify just keeps playing silence at the end of a track and it never stops. I can't go to the next song or a previous song or play a different playlist, it just seems complet...

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Spotify Click Counter

Hi there, I've been listening to unknown artists for a while, but the click counter seems to be stoped. Why? Is this a "live"-click counter? Or in which intervall, are the clicks updated on the Spotify desktop for Windows? Thx for answers

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Hi there,   I've been listening to unknown artists for a while, but the click counter seems to be stoped. Why?   Is this a "live"-click counter? Or in which intervall, are the clicks up...

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Spotify window moving on startup

This is probably the weirdest problem I've ever had with a piece of software but for some reason whenever the spotify app on my desktop launches it is roughly about 1 inch to the left of where it was when I closed it. I know this sounds insane but I ...

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This is probably the weirdest problem I've ever had with a piece of software but for some reason whenever the spotify app on my desktop launches it is roughly about 1 inch to the left of where it was...

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Any Way I can Make Binds to Play Certain Playlists

I play a lot of videogamse and sometimes need to tab out if I want to skip the music, but I don't have enough time. so I was wondering if I could set binds to make a playlist play, or skip a song. Thanks in advance.

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     I play a lot of videogamse and sometimes need to tab out if I want to skip the music, but I don't have enough time. so I was wondering if I could set binds to make a playlist...

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Solved!! No aparece opcion descargar musica sin conexion

Soy usuario premium y no aparece la opcion de descargar mi musica sin conexion, de hecho no la encuentro en ninguna biblioteca, y me gustaria hacerlo, gracias

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Soy usuario premium y no aparece la opcion de descargar mi musica sin conexion, de hecho no la encuentro en ninguna biblioteca, y me gustaria hacerlo, gracias

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Fr- Probleme de connexion a un compte Spotify

Bonjour,(Excusez moi des fautes pour les accents mais je ne pouvais en envoyer.)j'ai actuellement un probleme, je souhaiterais me connecter a un compte qui est apparemment bien existant vu que Spotify est bien "connecter avec Facebook" comme indiquer...

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Bonjour, (Excusez moi des fautes pour les accents mais je ne pouvais en envoyer.) j'ai actuellement un probleme, je souhaiterais me connecter a un compte qui est apparemment bien existant vu que Sp...

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Solved!! Clearing the play queue

I saw one post that said there was a clear button by the queue, but I can't find that anywhere, and I really don't want to go and remove each song individually. How do I clear the queue?

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I saw one post that said there was a clear button by the queue, but I can't find that anywhere, and I really don't want to go and remove each song individually. How do I clear the queue?

Kyesel

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hi not sure if this is the right section...

hi was wondering if there was any way i could download and transfer my downloaded songs to my laptop so i can put them on itunes and on my ipod please any ideas would help cause i want the songs i have on my ipod so that i can listen to them with out...

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hi was wondering if there was any way i could download and transfer my downloaded songs to my laptop so i can put them on itunes and on my ipod please any ideas would help cause i want the songs i ha...

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Replace missing streamable songs with locals

Hi,I used to listen to some songs that once were on Spotify (for example the French band Tetes Raides or Peter Gabriel) and that are now missing (because of label choices, I assume). I would like to replace these missing songs with local files on my ...

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Hi, I used to listen to some songs that once were on Spotify (for example the French band Tetes Raides or Peter Gabriel) and that are now missing (because of label choices, I assume). I would like t...

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Will I know if my follower is playing the song i am currently listening to?

I notice our friend could see our activity through the desktop version of Spotify. However, will I be notified if they click play on my current playing song?

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I notice our friend could see our activity through the desktop version of Spotify. However, will I be notified if they click play on my current playing song?

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Discover tab nerfed

Discover-tab (a great feature, might I add) suddenly got cut down - it now only contains New Releases (no problem there) and a selection of localized pop music playlists that I never listen. "Top recommended albums" and "Albums like X artists" have a...

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Discover-tab (a great feature, might I add) suddenly got cut down - it now only contains New Releases (no problem there) and a selection of localized pop music playlists that I never listen. "Top rec...

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ID tags missing on some songs

hey hows it going? I have some springsteen tracks i bought from a show i went to this year. I have FINALLY found all the shows by searching 2017 in local files, but SOME of the track listings are wrong. spotify has taken it upon it's self to find me ...

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hey hows it going? I have some springsteen tracks i bought from a show i went to this year. I have FINALLY found all the shows by searching 2017 in local files, but SOME of the track listings are wro...

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Solved!! Cannot play any track in Spotify "This song is not available"

I have just gotten an issue in Spotify which I have never seen happen before, but essentially I have had Spotify open for well over 3 hours now, not being used, just loaded in the background of my Windows 8.1 machine (I know that Windows 10 had some ...

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I have just gotten an issue in Spotify which I have never seen happen before, but essentially I have had Spotify open for well over 3 hours now, not being used, just loaded in the background of my Wi...

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duplicates in playlist

Hi, So I have this one playlist of >1600 songs. It's like my music library and I consider these to be the my favorite of all time. But sometimes im not quite sure which songs are included in the list when I stumble upon a lost classic.Up untill about...

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Hi,   So I have this one playlist of >1600 songs. It's like my music library and I consider these to be the my favorite of all time. But sometimes im not quite sure which songs are included...

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Spotify keeps opening on start up

On the app itself, I've disabled the setting where Spotify would open up during start up and on task manager I disabled anything with Spotify, but it still starts up for some reason. On Windows 10.

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On the app itself, I've disabled the setting where Spotify would open up during start up and on task manager I disabled anything with Spotify, but it still starts up for some reason.  On Windows...

olivia_garth

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shuffle turns itself off after skipping a song

since a few weeks my spotify desktop client turn the shuffle function off after skipping a song manually. I tried a few things myself first:completely remove spotify dekstop client (also remaining appdata files and such)skip the song through another ...

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since a few weeks my spotify desktop client turn the shuffle function off after skipping a song manually. I tried a few things myself first: completely remove spotify dekstop client (also remaining...

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Unable to Install

I use Spotify on my phone and absolutely adore it, but whenever I try to put it on my computer I get the same error message again and again. Talking about a Bad Image and that the file is not designed to run on windows. Then it tells me to get in con...

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I use Spotify on my phone and absolutely adore it, but whenever I try to put it on my computer I get the same error message again and again. Talking about a Bad Image and that the file is not designe...

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Getting rid of "See what your friends are playing"

I'm just a bit flustered because I only have a few friends (without facebook) on Spotify and I can't see what they're listening to due to this "See what your friends are playing" ad that's right on top of the activity feed. I don't want to hide the w...

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I'm just a bit flustered because I only have a few friends (without facebook) on Spotify and I can't see what they're listening to due to this "See what your friends are playing" ad that's right on t...

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