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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...
Hi,Until two weeks ago Spotify worked fine on my Win10/64 laptop with my Sony personal audio soundsystem via bluetooth. The distance between laptop and the Sony system is about 4 meters.Right now I have to place my laptop straight next to the Sony sy...
Hi, Until two weeks ago Spotify worked fine on my Win10/64 laptop with my Sony personal audio soundsystem via bluetooth. The distance between laptop and the Sony system is about 4 meters. Right now...
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A recent update to the Windows desktop application causes any current selection of tracks to be cleared by clicking the scroll bar. This is different from typical interface behavior for Windows interfaces, and it prevents me from selecting and moving...
A recent update to the Windows desktop application causes any current selection of tracks to be cleared by clicking the scroll bar. This is different from typical interface behavior for Wind...
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I'm getting popping / crackling on my Lenovo Carbon X1 laptop. Wired earbuds. Have tried re-installing Spotify, updating drivers, turning off firewalls. Still getting popping / crackling, UGH!!!!!
I'm getting popping / crackling on my Lenovo Carbon X1 laptop. Wired earbuds. Have tried re-installing Spotify, updating drivers, turning off firewalls. Still gett...
Casual Listener
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Okay, I've been looking into this for a long time and I'm really starting to get frustrated at this point because I can't seem to figure out how to do this. I have it in the settings so after a song, it plays a similiar song next, right? But how on e...
Okay, I've been looking into this for a long time and I'm really starting to get frustrated at this point because I can't seem to figure out how to do this. I have it in the settings so after a song,...
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Spotify doesn't open after install or uninstall when i install it from official offline or online installer. But does work with this different setup of spotify (which i don't want because i'm not used to it's look. it's very different, but works) so ...
Spotify doesn't open after install or uninstall when i install it from official offline or online installer. But does work with this different setup of spotify (which i don't want because i'...
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It's happened several times on the windows desktop version of Spotify. It gets to an ad, but the ad doesn't play, it gets stuck on 0:00 and i can't force it play or pause, or play any other music. Everytime I have to close and reopen spotify.
It's happened several times on the windows desktop version of Spotify. It gets to an ad, but the ad doesn't play, it gets stuck on 0:00 and i can't force it play or pause, or play any other music. Ev...
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Hello, I've made a playlist on the PC app. When I try to add the playlist to my artist profile on the artists.spotify.com website, nothing shows up when I search for the playlist in the box where it says "Choose playlists you made on Spotify to featu...
Hello, I've made a playlist on the PC app. When I try to add the playlist to my artist profile on the artists.spotify.com website, nothing shows up when I search for the playlist in the box ...
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I have this playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX0pH2SQMRXnC .The songs in that playlist are beiing auto mixed and skips the beginning of the sons. I want to hear the tracks from the beginning and not mixed together... ...
I have this playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX0pH2SQMRXnC . The songs in that playlist are beiing auto mixed and skips the beginning of the sons. I want to hea...
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When I use my keyboard button to skip a song, spotify sometimes start to automatically skip over 100 sons before stopping automatically. I cannot pause spotify or interact with spotify when this happens. What can I do to fix this? I have a Razer Blac...
When I use my keyboard button to skip a song, spotify sometimes start to automatically skip over 100 sons before stopping automatically. I cannot pause spotify or interact with spotify when this happ...
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Hi all. Today while sorting one of my playlists I noticed a couple of things:Sorting is NOT Accent-Insensitive: for example this song is LAST when ordering by TitleSorting follows English rules, which makes little sense in other languages: for exampl...
Hi all. Today while sorting one of my playlists I noticed a couple of things: Sorting is NOT Accent-Insensitive: for example this song is LAST when ordering by Title Sorting follows Engli...
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Hello - Every time Spotify updates, I have to uninstall/reinstall. Since it seems like Spotify updates at least once every couple of weeks, I have to uninstall and reinstall every couple of weeks. I have an absolute hatred for Spotify, but I can't fi...
Hello - Every time Spotify updates, I have to uninstall/reinstall. Since it seems like Spotify updates at least once every couple of weeks, I have to uninstall and reinstall ever...
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As you may guess by the subject, I'm getting the blue notification bar at the top of my program window reading, "This song is not available. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." I recently built a new desktop PC running Windows 1...
As you may guess by the subject, I'm getting the blue notification bar at the top of my program window reading, "This song is not available. If you have the file on your computer you can import it."&...
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with both app and desktop app, musics stops when my windows 10 tab enter in sleep mode. is there a way to prevent this?
with both app and desktop app, musics stops when my windows 10 tab enter in sleep mode. is there a way to prevent this?
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It has been a few months since I reported that the Windows 10 desktop client starts automatically at boot even with the correct option set appropriately. The one and only response I received from spotify was to tell me that I had to set that option, ...
It has been a few months since I reported that the Windows 10 desktop client starts automatically at boot even with the correct option set appropriately. The one and only response I received from spo...
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As you can see in the attachment, when the option is enabled, and you hold, it extends to the right instead of the left.I assume this is by mistake.
As you can see in the attachment, when the option is enabled, and you hold, it extends to the right instead of the left. I assume this is by mistake.
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Where have Discover Weekly playlist gone on Windows client (1.0.64.399.g4637b02a)? I don't see it in discover page. However it is still in Android client.
Where have Discover Weekly playlist gone on Windows client (1.0.64.399.g4637b02a)? I don't see it in discover page. However it is still in Android client.
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Reinstalled windows yesterday, before the reinstall the current track would show in the to left of the screen when using the media keys on my keyboard. After the reinstall this no longer shows. I also do not have an option related to this within Spot...
Reinstalled windows yesterday, before the reinstall the current track would show in the to left of the screen when using the media keys on my keyboard. After the reinstall this no longer shows. I als...
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Spotify Shuffle is neither a shuffle nor a randomizer.Like carlcanyon explains in his post on the matter, a randomizer picks out of a set list, giving each item the same probability every time, and does not discriminate based on any facts/statistics....
Spotify Shuffle is neither a shuffle nor a randomizer. Like carlcanyon explains in his post on the matter, a randomizer picks out of a set list, giving each item the same probability every time, and...
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Anyone know the specifics of why a local Song will or will not add to your library? When you add a local file on the Windows desktop, I see them in the "local files" section. On the right, with the .... drop down, some have "Add to your library" and ...
Anyone know the specifics of why a local Song will or will not add to your library? When you add a local file on the Windows desktop, I see them in the "local files" section. ...
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Cada vez es más habitual que se me cuelgue el PC cuando solo está funcionando Spotify. ¿Se puede saber como solucionarlo? ¿O simplemente suspendo mi suscripción?
Cada vez es más habitual que se me cuelgue el PC cuando solo está funcionando Spotify. ¿Se puede saber como solucionarlo? ¿O simplemente suspendo mi suscripción?
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