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Discuss Spotify for Windows
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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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 ...
Music Fan
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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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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...
Brief description of the issue:Crossfade does not work for specific artists (Tennis) and the setting doesn't save once I leave the settings page. Steps I took:First I turned on the crossfade option (12 seconds). Tried to play Tennis songs - crossfade...
Brief description of the issue: Crossfade does not work for specific artists (Tennis) and the setting doesn't save once I leave the settings page. Steps I took: First I turned on th...
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Currently, I don't see a way to make my playback settings retained (eg Shuffle, Repeat) between updates. What ends up happening is I expect a playlist to be on repeat from previous use but updates reset the playback settings to default (No shuffle, n...
Currently, I don't see a way to make my playback settings retained (eg Shuffle, Repeat) between updates. What ends up happening is I expect a playlist to be on repeat from previous use...
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I'm trying to download it and right as it gets to the point of running the installer it says "the installer is unable to install Spotify because the necessary files could not be created (error code 13) I've tried everything I know how to do, apparent...
I'm trying to download it and right as it gets to the point of running the installer it says "the installer is unable to install Spotify because the necessary files could not be created (error code 1...
Newbie
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The download button is missing from my PC
The download button is missing from my PC
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I just got Spotify Premium but never used Spotify before. I know some of my friends use Spotify, but for some reason they are not showing up. I would love to connect with them on Spotify. Please help.
I just got Spotify Premium but never used Spotify before. I know some of my friends use Spotify, but for some reason they are not showing up. I would love to connect with them on Spotify. Pl...
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Hi! My Name is Ezequiel and I currently have some trouble when I close the program in my Windows and the moment I want to open it again, it suddlenly starts "intalling spotify" like the first time I downloaded it. This time the program won't install ...
Hi! My Name is Ezequiel and I currently have some trouble when I close the program in my Windows and the moment I want to open it again, it suddlenly starts "intalling spotify" like the first time I ...
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Hi, I have seven playlists that Spotify won't load and cannot be deleted by me. The left hand Spotify playlist panel just shows "Loading...: . I have tried the same Spotify account on a Windows 10 Mobile Phone and on two Windows 10 PCs, and I have th...
Hi, I have seven playlists that Spotify won't load and cannot be deleted by me. The left hand Spotify playlist panel just shows "Loading...: . I have tried the same Spotify account on a Wind...
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I realize this has been talked about alot previously. But I have not heard anything new for almost 2 years. It is such a pain to scour through playlists for songs without this feature Any chance we'll be getting this back in the near future?Or is it ...
I realize this has been talked about alot previously. But I have not heard anything new for almost 2 years. It is such a pain to scour through playlists for songs without this feature  ...
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Hi guys I have had my computer for a couple of weeks. No problem until now when I realised that Spotify creates troubles with the Dolby Audio program (Windows 10). It works fine when I click on the "custom setting" - Dolby Audio has "movie, music, ga...
Hi guys I have had my computer for a couple of weeks. No problem until now when I realised that Spotify creates troubles with the Dolby Audio program (Windows 10). It works fine when I click...
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Hello fellow music listeners,Whenever I am listening using the desktop client, and google chrome is the active window and I press one of my media keys (play, stop, next, previous song) on my keyboard, it opens the web version of spotify. Is there any...
Hello fellow music listeners, Whenever I am listening using the desktop client, and google chrome is the active window and I press one of my media keys (play, stop, next, previous song) on my keyboa...
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Holding the skip keys on my keyboard causes a softlock where the application will not allow for playing any song except the song that was playing when the softlock occured, problem only fixed by closing and restarting the application.
Holding the skip keys on my keyboard causes a softlock where the application will not allow for playing any song except the song that was playing when the softlock occured, problem only fixed by clos...
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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 Windows 8.1 machine (I know that Windows 10 had some ...
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...
Newbie
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The artist page from the library sometimes shows a weird track list (see attached Adele track list as example).I tried restarting the Spotify desktop app with no success. The track order changes a little after each restart but is still weird. Besides...
The artist page from the library sometimes shows a weird track list (see attached Adele track list as example).I tried restarting the Spotify desktop app with no success. The track order changes a li...
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Under preferences local_file, I try to attach a source, my NAS network drive where all my music is but it doesn't appear under my Network. I can see it the drive in File Explorer on my computer.
Under preferences local_file, I try to attach a source, my NAS network drive where all my music is but it doesn't appear under my Network. I can see it the drive in File Explorer on my computer...
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From laptop, or phone, or tablet playing Spotify and connecting to the digital tuner Hama DIT2000 it works ok for a while. Then suddenly the music stops playing, although it continues on the phone, laptop, tablet. So you can't push the playbutton on ...
From laptop, or phone, or tablet playing Spotify and connecting to the digital tuner Hama DIT2000 it works ok for a while. Then suddenly the music stops playing, although it continues on the phone, l...
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Where are they? Under Settings>Music Quality I see Download options on both my iPad and iPhone. However, on my Windows (10) PC I only see Streaming options. Do not require "extreme" (near lossless) but would like to download and play high bit rate tr...
Where are they? Under Settings>Music Quality I see Download options on both my iPad and iPhone. However, on my Windows (10) PC I only see Streaming options. Do not require "extreme" (near lossless...
Community Legend
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Cant find any solution for this, i want to have my playlists ontop of the interface!Is this possible in some way? Or do i need to endure the bloated features ontop of what i listen to? I run this machine on a 720 resolution for everyone to see it pro...
Cant find any solution for this, i want to have my playlists ontop of the interface! Is this possible in some way? Or do i need to endure the bloated features ontop of what i listen to? I...
Casual Listener
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So I moved my PC from my house to another house, but now all of a sudden my whole Spotify isn't working and it says something like: Can't install because the required files can't be made, error 13 -> Something like that, I'm Dutch and the translation...
So I moved my PC from my house to another house, but now all of a sudden my whole Spotify isn't working and it says something like: Can't install because the required files can't be made, error ...
Newbie
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Buenas a todos. Tengo un problema hace dias solo en la App de la PC. Soy User Premium y no puedo ver ni reproducir mi playlist "Mis Canciones" porqué hacerlo salta lo siguiente teniendo casi 150/200 músicas guardadas:Al darle doble click se reproduce...
Buenas a todos. Tengo un problema hace dias solo en la App de la PC. Soy User Premium y no puedo ver ni reproducir mi playlist "Mis Canciones" porqué hacerlo salta lo siguiente teniendo casi 150/200 ...
Newbie
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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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