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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...
Having trouble with the Spotify desktop app? Here’s a step-by-step guide to help get things working again. What to try first Perform a soft reset (generally rebooting the device will suffice). If that doesn’t help, try a clean reinstall. Be sure to l...
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Hi Today I have decided to try the Spotify premium. I paid, the software switched to premium and since than - i am unable to listen to any music, any sound without stuttering.. If i want to listen to my mp3 files, with winamp it is also stuttering.. ...
Hi Today I have decided to try the Spotify premium. I paid, the software switched to premium and since than - i am unable to listen to any music, any sound without stuttering.. If i...
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On the windows spotify app you can save songs to the "songs" playlit under "your library". The problem for me is that you arent able to download that specific playlist, which i find inconvenient! In the Android version og the app i do have this optio...
On the windows spotify app you can save songs to the "songs" playlit under "your library". The problem for me is that you arent able to download that specific playlist, which i find inconvenient!&nbs...
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I can play playlists and individual songs fine. When I try to play an album or any songs within it the thumbnail does not show in the bottom left corner and the track remains at 0:00. If I play the album/song on my phone it immediately starts on the ...
I can play playlists and individual songs fine. When I try to play an album or any songs within it the thumbnail does not show in the bottom left corner and the track remains at 0:00. If I play ...
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Spotify usually plays 1-3 commercials at a time which is fine with me. But earlier my Spotify played 6 commercials in a row. 6! Please tell me this was just a glitch and not some new thing you are starting. This is the first time this has happened. A...
Spotify usually plays 1-3 commercials at a time which is fine with me. But earlier my Spotify played 6 commercials in a row. 6! Please tell me this was just a glitch and not some new thing you are st...
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Hello, Whenever a playlist is sorted by album, it intermingles two or more albums of the same name but different artists. This is a recent issue and was not always the case. I think if you sorted a playlist by album the order would be: Original: Albu...
Hello, Whenever a playlist is sorted by album, it intermingles two or more albums of the same name but different artists. This is a recent issue and was not always the case. I think if you s...
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Hi,I had two spotify accounts: one with facebook and one with my mail-id. I had all my playlists saved in my facebook account. I logged in spotify app through my mail id and connected to facebook in setting. And now I lost my playlists. I disconnecte...
Hi, I had two spotify accounts: one with facebook and one with my mail-id. I had all my playlists saved in my facebook account. I logged in spotify app through my mail id and connected to facebook i...
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Question revisited for 2017 to get current status: What exactly does it mean to 'follow' an artist? I understand that if I go to My Music > Artists they will show up in a list there. Will I get updates somewhere for artists that I follow?
Question revisited for 2017 to get current status: What exactly does it mean to 'follow' an artist? I understand that if I go to My Music > Artists they will show up in a list there...
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Feature RequestWhen I'm listening to Spotify, I'm usually coding. I hear a song that I like and I crank the volume and jam out. I almost never stop my coding to switch screens to like the screen. This unfortunately means that my ML model doesn't get ...
Feature Request When I'm listening to Spotify, I'm usually coding. I hear a song that I like and I crank the volume and jam out. I almost never stop my coding to switch screens to like the scre...
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Hello community! I was having trouble opening my messages, and I saw in a post about that to reinstall Spotify. Now that I've reinstalled it, though, I can't click on anything. The clicks aren't registering when I click "log in with facebook." I can ...
Hello community! I was having trouble opening my messages, and I saw in a post about that to reinstall Spotify. Now that I've reinstalled it, though, I can't click on anything. ...
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I have just about 1.000 songs in total in "Songs", however, I can't drag anything else to any of my playlists... And it's been a couple of months like this... What to do? Thanks!!!
I have just about 1.000 songs in total in "Songs", however, I can't drag anything else to any of my playlists... And it's been a couple of months like this... What to do? Thanks!!!
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Hi everybody ! I've looked around on internet and on this forum but so far I haven't found anything that helps me, so I'm posting here. I try to upload my local files from my computer to my cell-phone. The problem is that once on my phone I can actua...
Hi everybody ! I've looked around on internet and on this forum but so far I haven't found anything that helps me, so I'm posting here. I try to upload my local files from my comput...
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Hi,I noticed that when i open the Spotify app on Windows 10, it "shortcuts" the mouse and it become impossible to click in virtual machines.The only way to prevent this problem is to close Spotify.
Hi, I noticed that when i open the Spotify app on Windows 10, it "shortcuts" the mouse and it become impossible to click in virtual machines. The only way to prevent this problem is to close Spotif...
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Hi,I can't see or play music from d:\onedrive\music\ If I copy a file to c: I can see and play it. Please help me...
Hi, I can't see or play music from d:\onedrive\music\ If I copy a file to c: I can see and play it. Please help me...
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I have a premium account on windows 10. I created a playlist and via ... "Edit > Preferences > Local Files > Add A Source" added several hundred mp3 music files from the drive on the same computer.Displaying the playlist in spotify shows some files h...
I have a premium account on windows 10. I created a playlist and via ... "Edit > Preferences > Local Files > Add A Source" added several hundred mp3 music files from the 😧 drive...
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Hello, I been having a problem the last few days: the thing is I have a live version of Ariana Grande "Dangerous Woman" in my local files but everytime I try and play the studio version, every song that´s in my local files folder get played instead. ...
Hello, I been having a problem the last few days: the thing is I have a live version of Ariana Grande "Dangerous Woman" in my local files but everytime I try and play the studio version, every song t...
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Hello, Recently I subscribed to Spotify Premium and I downloaded the app for Windows 10.Everything was running fine excepting that the Download option is not appearing for any album, song nor playlist and I would like to have that option because I pl...
Hello, Recently I subscribed to Spotify Premium and I downloaded the app for Windows 10. Everything was running fine excepting that the Download option is not appearing for any album, song ...
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Right now the artist Aether released a new EP (about two hours ago) but I cant play it.Help please.Btw im from Colombia just so you know if its something with the location.https://open.spotify.com/album/3TJsPqAC5UnImF0o568jQA
Right now the artist Aether released a new EP (about two hours ago) but I cant play it. Help please. Btw im from Colombia just so you know if its something with the location. https://open.spo...
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This is not an audio issue. I can use Spotify Web Player connected to my Spotify Desktop and it plays just fine. The problem is that when I click the play button on a track, it does not load it into the "play bar" (or whatever that bottom part of the...
This is not an audio issue. I can use Spotify Web Player connected to my Spotify Desktop and it plays just fine. The problem is that when I click the play button on a track, it does not load it into ...
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I'm running Windows XP and I've recently uninstalled Spotify to get a clean install... Grabbed the latest downloader and tried to install and am getting an Error 18: "The installer is unable to install Spotify because the files to write are in use by...
I'm running Windows XP and I've recently uninstalled Spotify to get a clean install... Grabbed the latest downloader and tried to install and am getting an Error 18: "The installer is ...
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So after I updated Spotify I loaded it up and everything (my songs, playlists and friends) had gone. I don't understand what happened someone help.
So after I updated Spotify I loaded it up and everything (my songs, playlists and friends) had gone. I don't understand what happened someone help.
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