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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...
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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The pict.1 is when i start my spotify. There are green shadows behind the fonts, the image has purple noise and stuffs. And the 2nd is when i go back after minimize it.... the whole font and inage turns black. what now? I use windows 8
The pict.1 is when i start my spotify. There are green shadows behind the fonts, the image has purple noise and stuffs. And the 2nd is when i go back after minimize it.... the whole font and inage tu...
Casual Listener
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I have spotify premium, and i have it on my xbox,phone, and i just got it on my laptop. it works great on my phone and xbox, however, I have encuntered a probem. At first, it was working great, but after about 30 minutes, all of my music stopped work...
I have spotify premium, and i have it on my xbox,phone, and i just got it on my laptop. it works great on my phone and xbox, however, I have encuntered a probem. At first, it was working great, but a...
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Have all of a sudden had issues with running spotify from my desktop (windows) . I usually log on via my facebook account but now getting error codes 126/16. Have tried using the troubleshooting tips described on forums. 1. turning off firewall has n...
Have all of a sudden had issues with running spotify from my desktop (windows) . I usually log on via my facebook account but now getting error codes 126/16. Have tried using the troubl...
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I'm trying to create a playlist for our school halloween disco and I've created a playlist. How can I get this music onto my laptop so I can burn to a disc?Help!!!
I'm trying to create a playlist for our school halloween disco and I've created a playlist. How can I get this music onto my laptop so I can burn to a disc? Help!!!
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Are you still able to restore this? I'd love a playlist of songs and albums that were in my messages.
Are you still able to restore this? I'd love a playlist of songs and albums that were in my messages.
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Just switched back to Spotify, and correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure on the desktop version you used to be able to click the cover of playlists to change the picture to one from your computer. Is this not possible any more? Is there a diffe...
Just switched back to Spotify, and correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure on the desktop version you used to be able to click the cover of playlists to change the picture to one from your comput...
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So I have several albums in my local files that feature unique artwork on each individual song, however Spotify displays them as one singular artwork per album. Windows Media Player shows them correctly, as well as tag viewers display them. Yes, the ...
So I have several albums in my local files that feature unique artwork on each individual song, however Spotify displays them as one singular artwork per album. Windows Media Player shows them correc...
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I play the music for high school sports. Is there a way to edit playlists to include snip its of songs vs the entire song?
I play the music for high school sports. Is there a way to edit playlists to include snip its of songs vs the entire song?
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and also, oddly enough, music i sure do not own, is showing up in my music.where did that go?all my music was bought years ago, music i own and saved to my computer yet only some of it shows up in spotify.i was using groove, but since that is going a...
and also, oddly enough, music i sure do not own, is showing up in my music. where did that go? all my music was bought years ago, music i own and saved to my computer yet only some of it shows up i...
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When browsing an artist's albums on their artist page, I cannot sort the songs within their albums by popularity, time, etc. This has always been something that has bothered me and I have wondered when it will be fixed. I know that search results are...
When browsing an artist's albums on their artist page, I cannot sort the songs within their albums by popularity, time, etc. This has always been something that has bothered me and I have wondered wh...
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I just switched from groove to spotify, after moving my music.but groove was getting all my music from a location different from where spotify wants to go looking for it.so in preferences, i see i can add a new location for spotify to go looking for ...
I just switched from groove to spotify, after moving my music. but groove was getting all my music from a location different from where spotify wants to go looking for it. so in preferences, i see ...
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I am having an issue that just started today as far as I can tell. I play the Wonder Woman sountrack on my Windows laptop and it works fine. Then when I ask it to cast to the Google Assistant, suddenly some playlist comes on but with no sound. If I s...
I am having an issue that just started today as far as I can tell. I play the Wonder Woman sountrack on my Windows laptop and it works fine. Then when I ask it to cast to the Google Assistant, s...
Casual Listener
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Ciao, è da qualche tempo che mi è impossibile riprodurre i pezzi dell'album SXM di Sangue Misto. E' un problema che riguarda solo me o non si possono più ascoltare questi pezzi su Spotify? Grazie in anticipo
Ciao, è da qualche tempo che mi è impossibile riprodurre i pezzi dell'album SXM di Sangue Misto. E' un problema che riguarda solo me o non si possono più ascoltare questi pezzi su Spotify? Gra...
Newbie
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I have tried EVERYTHING people have suggested for this problem. NOTHING has worked. The weird thing is, it has worked on the same computer, just days before. I deleted it and now I can't download it again
I have tried EVERYTHING people have suggested for this problem. NOTHING has worked. The weird thing is, it has worked on the same computer, just days before. I deleted it and now I can't download it ...
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Hi i cant seem to be able to post a profile picture on my account. i have googled it looked at the spotify communtiy and tried on my mac, windows and iPhone and it just wont let me do it.
Hi i cant seem to be able to post a profile picture on my account. i have googled it looked at the spotify communtiy and tried on my mac, windows and iPhone and it just wont let me do it.
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I recently moved from Groove (sadness) to Spotify and initially Cortana worked for opening the app and playing music. But after turning off Groove integration with Cortana, suddenly I can't get Cortana and Spotify to work. I've enabled Spotify in Cor...
I recently moved from Groove (sadness) to Spotify and initially Cortana worked for opening the app and playing music. But after turning off Groove integration with Cortana, suddenly I can't get Corta...
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I love the Spotify app and its music, and I was wondering if the app takes up more processing than the webpage because I want to listen to my music while using applications that take up at least half of my processing power, making most other applicat...
I love the Spotify app and its music, and I was wondering if the app takes up more processing than the webpage because I want to listen to my music while using applications that take up at least half...
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I'm trying to add a song I made to local files, however whenever I try to add a source, it won't show up. How every, every other sound file will show up in local files even though I haven't added them in any way. Any advice? P.S. the song file is an ...
I'm trying to add a song I made to local files, however whenever I try to add a source, it won't show up. How every, every other sound file will show up in local files even though I haven't adde...
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