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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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[Troubleshooting] Windows

Having trouble with the Spotify desktop app? Here’s a step-by-step guide to help get things working again. What to try first Perform a soft reset (generally rebooting the device will suffice). If that doesn’t help, try a clean reinstall. Be sure to l...

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The app has quit working on Windows 8.1.

The app used to work no problems. Now it begins to open i.e. meaning the window opens with menu bar across the top but the rest of the window is black and none of the familiar interface ever loads. There is a constant chiming sound as if a error is o...

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  • The app used to work no problems. Now it begins to open i.e. meaning the window opens with menu bar across the top but the rest of the window is black and none of the familiar interface ever loads. T...
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Webplayer won't play music. Just skips song.

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.

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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 I...
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Not avaible

Hello, i got the problem that with every song its saying: Song not avaible. If you have the file on your pc, you can import it.... I really hate it. Did a reinstall, didnt work.

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  • Hello, i got the problem that with every song its saying: Song not avaible. If you have the file on your pc, you can import it.... I really hate it. Did a reinstall, didnt work. 
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All my songs and playlist disappeared

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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  • 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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freshly installed Spotify Desktop App does not work properly (and the usual steps don't help)

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...

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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 op...
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can't delete a playlist

im tryin to delete a playlist, but it's still around.

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Spotify starts automatically even thouhg its disabled HELP!

Hello, my Spotify desktop application starts automatically with my system but its turned off in the preferences. It doesnt show up in the autostart section in the task manager. What can i do? Its really annoying. I already reinstalled Spotify but the...

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  • Hello,   my Spotify desktop application starts automatically with my system but its turned off in the preferences. It doesnt show up in the autostart section in the task manager. What can i do...
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Solved!! Can't find downloaded music

I'm a new premium member. My settings specify my Offline Songs Storage is C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Spotify\Storage. I downloaded an album and it appears in my "Your Library" in the Windows Spotify app. But there's nothing more than a 2 KB index.dat fi...

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  • I'm a new premium member.  My settings specify my Offline Songs Storage is C:\Users\<my logon ID>\AppData\Local\Spotify\Storage.  I downloaded an album and it appears in my "Your Libr...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution This track is not available for all tracks

Hello. Two days ago out of the blue Spotify desktop app started showing "This track is not available" for all the tracks.I have basically tried all the tips to remedy this problem but without any success.I did:- removed sound drivers- disabled and re...

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  • Hello.     Two days ago out of the blue Spotify desktop app started showing "This track is not available" for all the tracks. I have basically tried all the tips to remedy this problem ...
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no es posible reproducir la cancion actual

Hola, me he registrado en spotify con una version de prueba de 3 meses de spotify premium. No me deja reproducir ninguna cancion y me sale el siguiente mensaje en azul arriba: no es posible reproducir la cancion actual. He reinstalado varias veces el...

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  • Hola, me he registrado en spotify con una version de prueba de 3 meses de spotify premium. No me deja reproducir ninguna cancion y me sale el siguiente mensaje en azul arriba: no es posible reproduci...
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Can't Maximise on Extended Desktop

I'm using spotify version 1.0.69.336.g7edcc575 on Windows 10. My computer is set up with an extended desktop. The main screen is smaller and I have a larger secondary monitor. When I try to resize Spotify on the second monitor, it can't get any bigge...

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  • I'm using spotify version 1.0.69.336.g7edcc575 on Windows 10. My computer is set up with an extended desktop. The main screen is smaller and I have a larger secondary monitor. When I try to resi...
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playlist

I created a playlist on desktop and it has not appeared on my iPhone app. Will it appear there or is there something I have to do?

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  • I created a playlist on desktop and it has not appeared on my iPhone app. Will it appear there or is there something I have to do?
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Clicking album cover doesn't link to correct song in with shuffle on

Hi, When I turn shuffle on and start a playlist, clicking the album cover (down in left corner) doesn't bring me to the corresponding song. In fact, Spotify acts like shuffle is off. So the first song i'm playing in shuffle could be anywhere in the p...

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  • Hi,   When I turn shuffle on and start a playlist, clicking the album cover (down in left corner) doesn't bring me to the corresponding song. In fact, Spotify acts like shuffle is off.  ...
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How to search or identify songs by genre in a Playlist?

I have a playlist of 2017 songs I enjoyed. I would like to be able to pull out all of the rap songs from that list. Can I do this through Spotify, or is there some other external site I could use to quickly locate all of the rap songs in my playlist?

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  • I have a playlist of 2017 songs I enjoyed. I would like to be able to pull out all of the rap songs from that list. Can I do this through Spotify, or is there some other external site I could use to ...
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No Download Option Available for albums

The download option to listen offline albums seems to have dissapeared from my windows spotify player. Is this a permanent feature?

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  • The download option to listen offline albums seems to have dissapeared from my windows spotify player.  Is this a permanent feature?
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No Install Option

Trying to install Spotify on new laptop. The only options I get are save and cancel. Nowehre to choose install. Ttied at least 20 times and get the same thing every time I choose to downlaoad. Any suggestiosn are appreciated.

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  • Trying to install Spotify on new laptop. The only options I get are save and cancel. Nowehre to choose install.  Ttied at least 20 times and get the same thing every time I choose to downlaoad. ...
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Recent song will not play or disappear?

Hello - A few days ago I was playing music in the web browser (Firefox). When a song stopped and I chose anoher. It does not show in the play area but the song that quit playing still shows and I cannot for the life of me figure this out, I tried a d...

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  • Hello -   A few days ago I was playing music in the web browser (Firefox).  When a song stopped and I chose anoher.  It does not show in the play area but the song that quit playing ...
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Spotify is deadly to my PC

I'm about ready to unsubscribe from my Spotify Premium service. I cannot start Spotify on my PC without it either drastically slowing down everything else that is running, or crashing the system completely (frozen screen, have to restart the PC). I h...

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  • I'm about ready to unsubscribe from my Spotify Premium service. I cannot start Spotify on my PC without it either drastically slowing down everything else that is running, or crashing the system comp...
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