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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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Adding Local Files to Playlist

Hello! I've been having a little trouble adding local files into a playlist to make them available for listening offline. I know I've added the source successfully because when I search the specific album name from my local files the search gives two...

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Hello!   I've been having a little trouble adding local files into a playlist to make them available for listening offline. I know I've added the source successfully because when I search the ...

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Ed Sheeran Not Playing

Hi, I just started having this issue tonight and it's making me frustrated. On my Surface Pro 4, my Spotify app won't play any songs at all from Ed Sheeran. (I've been listening to him on repeat for the past week or so. Don't judge.) Basically, I cho...

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Hi,   I just started having this issue tonight and it's making me frustrated. On my Surface Pro 4, my Spotify app won't play any songs at all from Ed Sheeran. (I've been listening to him on re...

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Spotify on surface pro 4 skips next song

When playing spotify on my Microsoft surface pro 4 instead of following the songs of the album, it skips to another one.

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When playing spotify on my Microsoft surface pro 4 instead of following the songs of the album, it skips to another one.

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Albums and playlists keep restarting

For the last month or so, my albums and playlists have been randomly restarting, sometimes after as little as one song. This never happens in the middle of the song, but usually what will happen is that after a song in the middle of the album finishe...

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For the last month or so, my albums and playlists have been randomly restarting, sometimes after as little as one song. This never happens in the middle of the song, but usually what will happen is t...

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Solved!! open.spotify.com content won't play through spotify premium app

I was searching for content with google and found many albums that couldn't be found through the search function of the app that came with my premium memberships. The premium app works well with content found through it. I tried Chrome, Firefox and E...

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I was searching for content with google and found many albums that couldn't be found through the search function of the app that came with my premium memberships. The premium app works well with cont...

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All Music Deleted

I've been a Spotify Premium user for 2-3 years, with one account. Yesterday, while I was in the middle of using the app on my iphone, I was logged out and when I logged back in every single song and playlist I'd made had been deleted. I'm hoping ther...

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I've been a Spotify Premium user for 2-3 years, with one account.  Yesterday, while I was in the middle of using the app on my iphone, I was logged out and when I logged back in every single son...

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Solved!! Converting local MP3 playlists to Spotify playlists?

Hi From the "old days" I have some MP3 music files on my computer, from which I'd like to create a matching Spotify playlist, so I could delete the local MP3 files and use only Spotify. Is this technically possible somehow? For example in WinAmp you ...

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Hi   From the "old days" I have some MP3 music files on my computer, from which I'd like to create a matching Spotify playlist, so I could delete the local MP3 files and use only Spotify. Is t...

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Solved!! What is a good alternative to Spotify ?

I've been using Spotify for years, both on my PC and on my different mobile phones, paying a Premium subscription every month, but how they could force upon us this "new" unfinished piece of crap is beyond me o.O So, just out of general principle, I'...

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I've been using Spotify for years, both on my PC and on my different mobile phones, paying a Premium subscription every month, but how they could force upon us this "new" unfinished piece of crap is ...

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Win10: Spotify stops, when screensaver starts

Hi there,Spotify stops when my screensaver starts. How can I fix this without deactivating the Screensaver. Thx 4 help- Tobi

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Hi there, Spotify stops when my screensaver starts. How can I fix this without deactivating the Screensaver. Thx 4 help - Tobi

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Windows 10 Freezing after starting Spotify.

Hello,It's been a while since I've experienced this problem.I've already seen that many people has this same problem.So, let's explain what's happening.My laptop has Windows 10. And it completely freezes after starting Spotify I tried everything. Cle...

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Hello, It's been a while since I've experienced  this problem. I've already seen that many people has this same problem.So, let's explain what's happening. My laptop has Windows 10. And it co...

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Spotify is now working on Windows 10

My pc is windows 10 (build number 16299.15) it's not working. and get freeze the striming. even spotify web player. but my Mac spotify is working very well. no freeze but only windows 10 have freeze in the striming even i disable the hardware accelat...

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My pc is windows 10 (build number 16299.15) it's not working. and get freeze the striming. even spotify web player. but my Mac spotify is working very well. no freeze but only windows 10 have freeze ...

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extremly slow downloading of app

hi ! been having trouble installing spotify on my pc. its really taking a long time. dunno what is up. im on 50mbps fiber connection by the way and it says it will take nearly an hour to finished downloading.

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hi ! been having trouble installing spotify on my pc. its really taking a long time. dunno what is up. im on 50mbps fiber connection by the way and it says it will take nearly an hour to finished dow...

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I can't control the volume from Spotify connected to my chromecast in Windows 10? On my previous device (Gramofon) there was a volume control so it must be possible

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I can't control the volume from Spotify connected to my chromecast in Windows 10?   On my previous device (Gramofon) there was a volume control so it must be possible 

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Spotify causes BSOD (Eats RAM)

Hello, For the past 3 or 4 months i have had bluescreens 1 - 3 times per day. I have tried all kinds of things that you would try obviously, changeing hardware,drivers,sleepless nights, yaddayadda. And i came up with a top 3 suspects,(Reason ive star...

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Hello, For the past 3 or 4 months i have had bluescreens 1 - 3 times per day. I have tried all kinds of things that you would try obviously, changeing hardware,drivers,sleepless nights, yaddayadda. A...

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When you want add a song to your playlist, it's limited.

In the last update of the windows app, when you try to add some song to your playlist, on the list you can see just a few items and you can't add the song to a playlist that you want. It was work well but in the latest update, this stopped working we...

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In the last update of the windows app, when you try to add some song to your playlist, on the list you can see just a few items and you can't add the song to a playlist that you want. It was wor...

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Solved!! How can I keep this from automatically starting up??

I just installed this and it starts up automatically and i would rather it not, because it also does not shut down when i am trying to close my computer. how do i do this???? thankis

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I just installed this and it starts up automatically and i would rather it not, because it also does not shut down when i am trying to close my computer.  how do i do this????  thankis

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Unable to sign in through Facebook on Spotify desktop app (Windows Vista)

It was working well up until a few days ago. I accidentally signed out and it hasn't let me sign back in since. I've tried rebooting the PC, which is Windows Vista, and reinstalling the current version of Spotify. Spotify works fine on my iPhone and ...

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It was working well up until a few days ago. I accidentally signed out and it hasn't let me sign back in since. I've tried rebooting the PC, which is Windows Vista, and reinstalling the current versi...

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cannot start or uninstall Spotify on Windows 7 64

I am running Windows 7 64 bit on two different computers and after some updates I found I was unable to open Spotify or uninstall it. In both cases, simply nothing happens. I tried uninstalling using control panel>>uninstall program, and using CMD or...

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I am running Windows 7 64 bit on two different computers and after some updates I found I was unable to open Spotify or uninstall it. In both cases, simply nothing happens. I tried uninstalling using...

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