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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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No se pueden eliminar canciones de otras fuentes

Hola, tengo un problema relacionado a las canciones que sincronicé de archivos de iTunes. Quiero eliminar todo las canciones (Descargadas de Spotify y de archivos locales), para fines de organizar desde cero mi cuenta. Actualmente ya descativé todas ...

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Hola, tengo un problema relacionado a las canciones que sincronicé de archivos de iTunes. Quiero eliminar todo las canciones (Descargadas de Spotify y de archivos locales), para fines de organizar de...

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Superuser Contribution Shuffle mode stuck on certain range of letters

I have been shuffling on my "Songs" section which currently contains around 1,200 songs. sometimes when listening to them on shuffle it gets stuck only playing songs starting in a range of letters.First it was songs starting with A - D but after remo...

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I have been shuffling on my "Songs" section which currently contains around 1,200 songs. sometimes when listening to them on shuffle it gets stuck only playing songs starting in a range of letters. ...

Wombcombo7

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dooesnt work volume control

my phone connect pc but dooesnt work volume control in 3 days ! (im premium user)

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my phone connect pc but dooesnt work volume control in 3 days ! (im premium user)

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How does spotify know who my facebook friends are?

I've never connected my facebook profile with my spotify account (I signed up before it was mandatory) yet today I noticed that my facebook friends were listed on the right in the activity log. How did you get access to this info if I've never connec...

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I've never connected my facebook profile with my spotify account (I signed up before it was mandatory) yet today I noticed that my facebook friends were listed on the right in the activity log. How d...

vologya

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Desktop Display

Just purchased a new PC with Windows 10 and want to have the Spotify icon permanently shown on my desktop display. I managed to somehow do that with my old PC but don't recall how I accomplished it. Any suggestions?

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Just purchased a new PC with Windows 10 and want to have the Spotify icon permanently shown on my desktop display. I managed to somehow do that with my old PC but don't recall how I accomplished it. ...

Sebasty

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Spotify using wrong meta-data

Using windows 10 I was playing around with the details of my local files, I added titles to them before realizing that Spotify used that as a substitute for the name, so I deleted the titles and it continued to ignore the name and left me with a bunc...

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Using windows 10   I was playing around with the details of my local files, I added titles to them before realizing that Spotify used that as a substitute for the name, so I deleted the titles...

IguanaSetup

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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update problems

I'm experiencing some difficulties after the most recent Windows update.... All carried out using an Administrator account. After un/reinstalling the desktop app, I get the opportunity to log in, at which point it simply hangs and does nothing. I can...

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I'm experiencing some difficulties after the most recent Windows update....   All carried out using an Administrator account.   After un/reinstalling the desktop app, I get the opportun...

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How to disable the pop up website oh Spotify?

Whenever I turn on my laptop, it always pop up a website from my browser saying "log in spotify", and I don't reallyt like that.Is there any way to disable that?Or it would be better if I simply uninstall the app?

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Whenever I turn on my laptop, it always pop up a website from my browser saying "log in spotify", and I don't reallyt like that.Is there any way to disable that?Or it would be better if I simply unin...

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The Web Interface is unusable, Windows interface is unusable

I cannot use either the Web Interface or the Windows 10 app interface. They only present large icon pictures of 'My Albums'. I cant see them all on one page or in folders/files etc. This is total **bleep**. I cannot believe how dumbed down the design...

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I cannot use either the Web Interface or the Windows 10 app interface. They only present large icon pictures of 'My Albums'.  I cant see them all on one page or in folders/files etc. This is to...

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Differenti numeri di playlist da Spotify Web alle applicazioni sia su Pc che Smartphone

Buongiorno, ho notato una cosa e mi servirebbe una spiegazione gentilmente: il profilo di Spotify sulla sua app è diverso se aperto tramite Spotify Web con l'applicazione, praticamente le playlist presenti su Spotify Web sono gargantuescamente maggio...

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Buongiorno, ho notato una cosa e mi servirebbe una spiegazione gentilmente: il profilo di Spotify sulla sua app è diverso se aperto tramite Spotify Web con l'applicazione, praticamente le playlist pr...

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Playing on Phone and Computer at the same time

Why does my computer and cellphone link when I am playing on my computer. Is this using up my data on my phone while I am trying to just listen through my computer. How do I stop them from both linking and concurrently playing at the same time. I usu...

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Why does my computer and cellphone link when I am playing on my computer. Is this using up my data on my phone while I am trying to just listen through my computer. How do I stop them from both linki...

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Changing the cover of currently played song to the playlist picture instead of the album's?

I'm pretty sure I made the title insanely complicated, but I think the pictures explain clearly what I mean. Is there any way to make it so that this cover: Displays as this cover: ?

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I'm pretty sure I made the title insanely complicated, but I think the pictures explain clearly what I mean. Is there any way to make it so that this cover:     Displays as this cove...

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Cant launch spotify

I am running on windows 10 and the app says that the windows store version is installed even though it isn't installed. plz help

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I am running on windows 10 and the app says that the windows store version is installed even though it isn't installed. plz help

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Solved!! Only one channel of audio is playing (desktop and iOS)

Don't know why, but just one audio channel is playing on both my desktop and iOS app. Any solutions?

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Don't know why, but just one audio channel is playing on both my desktop and iOS app. Any solutions?

drewhinkle

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My playlist sometimos don’t charge

Since i update my playlist sometimes dont charge when i have no wifi.i have a premium plan. What can i do?

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Since i update my playlist sometimes dont charge when i have no wifi. i have a premium plan. What can i do?

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Windows Unable to play current song

Using Windows desktop player and am routinely told that Spotify cannot play current song about 6-7 seconds into the song. Ive tried all the other troubleshooting for this issue:Logged out of everywhereReinstalled fresh apprebooted computermessed with...

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Using Windows desktop player and am routinely told that Spotify cannot play current song about 6-7 seconds into the song.  Ive tried all the other troubleshooting for this issue: Logged out of...

mdavis6

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Spotify stopped posting the music I'm listing to on Facebook

Hello, Ever since Septmeber, Spotify has stopped displaying the music I'm listeing to on Facebook. How can I fix this? Thanks!

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Hello,    Ever since Septmeber, Spotify has stopped displaying the music I'm listeing to on Facebook. How can I fix this?   Thanks!

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PC <-> Mobile sync of off line playlists.

Hello,Syncing of Playlists work just fine, but my question is whether syncing of musical data is supposed to work as well, so as to not use the dataplan to download the music twice, once it's been downloaded to either of the two, i.e., either the des...

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Hello, Syncing of Playlists work just fine, but my question is whether syncing of musical data is supposed to work as well, so as to not use the dataplan to download the music twice, once it's been ...

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Solved!! Spotify keeps connecting to other devices that are not mine. Should I worry?

This happened the other day and it happened again a few minutes ago. My spotify shows the "Playing on X device" green bar at the bottom and starts playing music that is not anything I listen to. The devices are not something I have and use as well. I...

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This happened the other day and it happened again a few minutes ago. My spotify shows the "Playing on X device" green bar at the bottom and starts playing music that is not anything I listen to. The ...

IguanaSetup

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Dragging songs to the end of the queue makes them disappear

DemoSee https://youtu.be/Rnju1ly3HNoSteps to reproduceStart playing an albumSelect another album, right click it and choose: "Add to Queue"Open the QueueSelect all songs of the just queued albumDrag them to the end of the queueExpected BehaviourThe s...

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Demo See https://youtu.be/Rnju1ly3HNo Steps to reproduce Start playing an album Select another album, right click it and choose: "Add to Queue" Open the Queue Select all songs of the ju...

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