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Desktop: Jam now available

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...

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Desktop: New "Now Playing View" sidebar

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...

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New Your Library sidebar

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...

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[Troubleshooting] Windows

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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Removing Spotify from my computer

When going to my Control panel, add-remove programs, I cannot remove Spotify. Anyone know why? I do not use it. Perhaps I neeed to first "close" my account?

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  • When going to my Control panel, add-remove programs, I cannot remove Spotify.  Anyone know why?  I do not use it.  Perhaps I neeed to first "close" my account?  
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Can't download songs

Hey guys, I have a Premium account but the problem is I can't find how to download all of my songs on Windows. There is no "Download" button in the "Songs" tab from "My Music". The only solution I can find is to add every song to a playlist and downl...

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  • Hey guys,   I have a Premium account but the problem is I can't find how to download all of my songs on Windows. There is no "Download" button in the "Songs" tab from "My Music". The only solu...
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CRUMBLING/CRACKLING SOUNDS DURING PLAYBACK

PLEASE REFER TO VIDEO ( BELOW ) FOR EVIDENCE. This issue started happening out of no where this morning. Never had this issue before today. Tried uninstalling client and re installing, as well as a clean install of audio drivers. I have had Spotify o...

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  • PLEASE REFER TO VIDEO ( BELOW ) FOR EVIDENCE.   This issue started happening out of no where this morning.   Never had this issue before today. Tried uninstalling client and re installi...
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Solved!! Black screen

Hi guys,Last week I downloaded the new version of Spotify and now every time I open the program on my work computer the screen is completely black and I have no access to my music at all. I have tried a few things - checked latest drivers on my graph...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi guys, Last week I downloaded the new version of Spotify and now every time I open the program on my work computer the screen is completely black and I have no access to my music at all. I have tr...
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Spotify black screen (Windows 7)

Hi since yesterday I've been having this problem. Every time I open Spotify on my computer the thing just goes black. I've searched for a solution online but it's just not working for me. You should know that it worked for a while yesterday. But toda...

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  • Hi since yesterday I've been having this problem. Every time I open Spotify on my computer the thing just goes black. I've searched for a solution online but it's just not working for me. You should ...
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Spotify attempts, and fails, to update every time I run it - can't uninstall either

Every time I start up my PC Spotify attempts to update. Every time, it fails, citing a lack of permissions (which is insane, because I have all the permissions). I tried to uninstall, and I don't have permission for that either. So Spotify doesn't wo...

  • Visitor
  • Every time I start up my PC Spotify attempts to update.  Every time, it fails, citing a lack of permissions (which is insane, because I have all the permissions).  I tried to uninstall, and...
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Only showing two friends

I'm sure this has been seen before, but my spotify is only showing two of the ~10 people I'm following. All 10 are very active users. It doesn't even lump them into a "more friends" category, they're being followed but don't exist outside of that opt...

  • Casual Listener
  • I'm sure this has been seen before, but my spotify is only showing two of the ~10 people I'm following. All 10 are very active users. It doesn't even lump them into a "more friends" category, they're...
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Songs not available

I have a very annoying problem. Everytime I want to play a song it switches to the next immediately and then to the next again and so on.The problem is, I don't even hear the music. They tell me that the song is not available and that if I want to li...

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  • I have a very annoying problem. Everytime I want to play a song it switches to the next immediately and then to the next again and so on. The problem is, I don't even hear the music.  They tel...
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Loading takes minutes every time

It's taking literally minutes (around 5) for Spotify to load. I've uninstalled, rebooted, re-installed and rebooted to no avail. It takes 2-3 minutes for the menu options Playback and Help to appear. Then I'm presented with a black content screen. Se...

  • Casual Listener
  • It's taking literally minutes (around 5) for Spotify to load. I've uninstalled, rebooted, re-installed and rebooted to no avail.   It takes 2-3 minutes for the menu options Playback and Help t...
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Playlist sorting problems

Hi everyone! My main playlist that I use won't let me move any of my songs. I have checked other playlists and they all let me move my songs around. The playlist that is having problems has a total of 876 songs on it and 52 hrs and 46 min worth of mu...

  • Newbie
  • Hi everyone! My main playlist that I use won't let me move any of my songs. I have checked other playlists and they all let me move my songs around. The playlist that is having problems has a total o...
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Spotify Playlist "Martin Garrix House Party" not playing (takes about a minute to start)

Hi All, I have a subscription on the 'Martin Garrix House Party'-playlist and the 'Hardwell's House Party'-playlist. Both are created by Spotify. I have two questions:On my iPhone the play perfectly and the tracks are very nicely mixed together. But,...

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  • Hi All,   I have a subscription on the 'Martin Garrix House Party'-playlist and the 'Hardwell's House Party'-playlist. Both are created by Spotify. I have two questions: On my iPhone the pla...
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Solved!! Non realistic Top Artists List

Hey you all out there , love Spotify and find it great at all but I'm quite bored that the top artists that are on my profile DO NOT represent at all my taste. How can I manage it ? There should be the possibility to update it based on what are my re...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hey you all out there , love Spotify and find it great at all but I'm quite bored that the top artists that are on my profile DO NOT represent at all my taste. How can I manage it ? There should be t...
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Solved!! Spotify is already running, but not responding. Please close it and try again.

I keep getting this "already running" message when I try to open spotify. It is listed as a process in Windows Task Manager, but it won't close when I try to force end the process. I've been having this same issue many times over the past month. Any ...

  • Casual Listener
  • I keep getting this "already running" message when I try to open spotify.  It is listed as a process in Windows Task Manager, but it won't close when I try to force end the process.  I've b...
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Saving long play queue to playlist doubles size

This is a weird one: I use a long play queue as a songs I need to listen to list. And due to the play queue resetting without warning with the forced spotify updates the queue is cleared. Therefore each time I finish listening for the day I save the ...

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  • This is a weird one:   I use a long play queue as a songs I need to listen to list. And due to the play queue resetting without warning with the forced spotify updates the queue is cleared. Th...
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Superuser Contribution Laptop plays music from speakers when I'm away (even with headphones plugged in)

This has happened twice now: I go off for lunch and hear reports when I'm back from colleagues that music would randomly burst from speakers. The first time, I did not play spotify from my phone, the second time I did. So no clear correlation. In all...

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  • This has happened twice now: I go off for lunch and hear reports when I'm back from colleagues that music would randomly burst from speakers.   The first time, I did not play spotify from my p...
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Playlists being cleaned without confirmation

Guys, Today I lost my entire playlist in just a few seconds when I sharing it on Tweeter.For my luck, I found on my smartphone a list of the music of my cleaned playlist, because It was offline and didn't synchronize with your servers.So, in that mom...

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  • Guys, Today I lost my entire playlist in just a few seconds when I sharing it on Tweeter. For my luck, I found on my smartphone a list of the music of my cleaned playlist, because It was offlin...
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Solved!! Certain local files not available

I have an album of 17 songs, MP3, all work fine with Windows Media Player. I added them to my Spotify local files (I'm used to how to do this properly) but only the first two songs can be played through Spotify. The third one is appearantly automatic...

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  • I have an album of 17 songs, MP3, all work fine with Windows Media Player.    I added them to my Spotify local files (I'm used to how to do this properly) but only the first two songs can...
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Songs Liked From Radio Showing Up Only in Saved Songs and not "Liked From Radio" Playlist

When I like a song from radio using the heart button it is saved in my library rather than to the "Liked from Radio" playlist. It was previosly routing these correctly, but recently stopped. Is there a way to fix this?

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  • When I like a song from radio using the heart button it is saved in my library rather than to the "Liked from Radio" playlist.  It was previosly routing these correctly, but recently stopped. &n...
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Error Code 13

I had Spotify installed on my new laptop running Windows 8. But the last time I logged in, it was not working. I tried to reinstall it and I keep getting an Error Code 13, that the files can't be found. I tried deleting the files off my computer, als...

  • Casual Listener
  • I had Spotify installed on my new laptop running Windows 8.  But the last time I logged in, it was not working.  I tried to reinstall it and I keep getting an Error Code 13, that the files ...
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spotify for windows 10 and error code 11

I cannot get this figured out. I have tried everything on the all the message boards. I cant get spotify to download. I have windows 10 and it gives me error 11 which says i have no space which isnt true. and then when I dont do the full set up it gi...

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  • I cannot get this figured out. I have tried everything on the all the message boards. I cant get spotify to download. I have windows 10 and it gives me error 11 which says i have no space which isnt&...
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