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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...
Same track on PC plays 1 track and on phone plays a different one. Whats wrong how can I fix that?
Same track on PC plays 1 track and on phone plays a different one. Whats wrong how can I fix that?
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My Spotify App downloaded to my PC keeps logging me out?? I can maybe be on the app for 1-5 seconds after I log in when it immediately kicks me out, I can log in to the web player but the Spotify app just wont work! It tells me in the app that I have...
My Spotify App downloaded to my PC keeps logging me out?? I can maybe be on the app for 1-5 seconds after I log in when it immediately kicks me out, I can log in to the web player but the Spotify app...
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Repeatadly seeing my screen do this - Any ideas? Maybe a feature?
Repeatadly seeing my screen do this - Any ideas? Maybe a feature?
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Hello, A recurring problem I'm having on my PC is the play queue. I will look to add 10-15 songs to the queue, but only a handful, maybe 4-5, actually end up in the queue, so I know it works sometimes, but not every time. To my knowledge I have the m...
Hello, A recurring problem I'm having on my PC is the play queue. I will look to add 10-15 songs to the queue, but only a handful, maybe 4-5, actually end up in the queue, so I know it works...
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I haven't emailed you. I've jumped on a discussion which is still very popular. If you don't like it, remove your post.
I haven't emailed you. I've jumped on a discussion which is still very popular. If you don't like it, remove your post.
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Hi. I posted my disappointment over the inbox like hundreds of other people- several months ago. Why are you emailing me today?
Hi. I posted my disappointment over the inbox like hundreds of other people - several months ago. Why are you emailing me today?
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Seriously? You have never even signed up to Spotify and had one little conversation in the inbox and you're mad? I can understand those who utilized this function for years.Talk about jumping on the bandwagon.
Seriously? You have never even signed up to Spotify and had one little conversation in the inbox and you're mad? I can understand those who utilized this function for years.Talk about jumping on the ...
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To workaround the 10000 songs limit cap in my Songs section, I move them all to a playlist, so that my Songs section can be deleted, so that I can fill up the Songs section again, with another 10000 songs. So I copy and paste all of my 10000 songs to...
To workaround the 10000 songs limit cap in my Songs section, I move them all to a playlist, so that my Songs section can be deleted, so that I can fill up the Songs section again, with another 10000 ...
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So I've had Premium for almost a year now, and this is the 3rd or 4th time this has happened. I opened up my laptop this morning to start playing music. I have poor internet, so it says there's no internet connection. Sweet, no problem, Spotify has o...
So I've had Premium for almost a year now, and this is the 3rd or 4th time this has happened. I opened up my laptop this morning to start playing music. I have poor internet, so it says ther...
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Don't get me wrong, I love the show and I binged it all within 48 hours. But can anyone tell me how to disable the overlay in the desktop client? It's choking my PC at work. 100% CPU load. It's not cool. Thanks!
Don't get me wrong, I love the show and I binged it all within 48 hours. But can anyone tell me how to disable the overlay in the desktop client? It's choking my PC at work. 100% CPU load. It's not c...
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whenever I try to open the app it gives me a message saying i have an invalid user profile
whenever I try to open the app it gives me a message saying i have an invalid user profile
Casual Listener
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In the mobile app (iOS), the Download switch is available for all Songs in Your Library. Why isn't the same option available for the Windows 10 app? I just bought a Surface Pro that I plan to bring on flights quite often. I don't organize all of my m...
In the mobile app (iOS), the Download switch is available for all Songs in Your Library. Why isn't the same option available for the Windows 10 app? I just bought a Surface Pro that I p...
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How is the future for the legacy Spotigy application? Will you continue to add features to both or only to the Store-App? Is the legacy application "discontinued"? Thx...
How is the future for the legacy Spotigy application? Will you continue to add features to both or only to the Store-App? Is the legacy application "discontinued"? Thx...
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I have found some posts related to this, but would still like to point out my current problem: Playing "My Songs" with shuffle results in a very limited number of songs being shuffled - every time the same! I have 3600 songs and would like to have an...
I have found some posts related to this, but would still like to point out my current problem: Playing "My Songs" with shuffle results in a very limited number of songs being shuffled - every time th...
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Spotify no longer opens, when I click to open it nothing happens. I've tried unistalling it and reinstalling and even loading my laptop in safe mode but nothing has made any difference. Also when I reinstall I get an error code 57 . Any help would be...
Spotify no longer opens, when I click to open it nothing happens. I've tried unistalling it and reinstalling and even loading my laptop in safe mode but nothing has made any difference. Also when I r...
Roadie
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For years I used the built in app on the Onkyo received for listening to Spotify premium. Now Spotify yanked it and I cannot find a suitable streaming unit the connects and still retains the hi bitrate that I had with my received and premium account....
For years I used the built in app on the Onkyo received for listening to Spotify premium. Now Spotify yanked it and I cannot find a suitable streaming unit the connects and still retains the hi...
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Kinda just like the title says... Spotify crashes on my desktop for about the last month and a half immediately as I open the program. It started after an update around mid-September. I have been able to successfully uninstall and reinstall it, altho...
Kinda just like the title says... Spotify crashes on my desktop for about the last month and a half immediately as I open the program. It started after an update around mid-September. I have been abl...
Roadie
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Hello, Since 3-4 weeks (or maybe a bit longer) playlist names are displayed in incorrect language. My preffered language is English (I live in Poland) and at work - where I listed to Spotify the most - I connect to the internet through company VPN lo...
Hello, Since 3-4 weeks (or maybe a bit longer) playlist names are displayed in incorrect language. My preffered language is English (I live in Poland) and at work - where I lis...
Casual Listener
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I was playing some video games and wanted to change music during this. I got the app open on a 2nd screen, but when I ALT-TAB out and try to click it, it doesn't work. It seems as if the window isn't there at all, because if I try to close it and the...
I was playing some video games and wanted to change music during this. I got the app open on a 2nd screen, but when I ALT-TAB out and try to click it, it doesn't work. It seems as if the window isn't...
Newbie
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This morning afer I logged in all my stuff (all my playlists, all my songs) where gone. I had 4 years of activity on Spotify, now all is lost!I could recover the playlists from my account webpage (they appear as been deleted today), but I can't recov...
This morning afer I logged in all my stuff (all my playlists, all my songs) where gone. I had 4 years of activity on Spotify, now all is lost! I could recover the playlists from my account webpage (...
Spotify Star
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