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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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Main Menu Always Appears

When i select a song within a album or even just a single song, minutes later the main menu screen appears. i think this is a bug but don't know if it is actually one.

  • Casual Listener
  • When i select a song within a album or even just a single song, minutes later the main menu screen  appears. i think this is a bug but don't know if it is actually one. 
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Opening Spotify on Windows 7 makes my screen go weird

Hey guys, I wanted to write this to talk about what happens when I open spotify. I linked the picture down below. This never used to happen but now every time I open the Spotify app, my screen goes all crazy on me. Weird colors and messed up sizes. I...

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  • Hey guys, I wanted to write this to talk about what happens when I open spotify. I linked the picture down below. This never used to happen but now every time I open the Spotify app, my screen goes a...
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Spotify turns off on Sleep mode (SP4)

Hello, This is a really annoying issue.When the screen goes to sleep -- by closing the cover, pressing the power button or, the most common one, after a few minutes as defined in the power saving settings -- Spotify stops playing. Now I understand th...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello,   This is a really annoying issue. When the screen goes to sleep -- by closing the cover, pressing the power button or, the most common one, after a few minutes as defined in the power...
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Discover weekly does not refresh without restart

I have noticed that every Monday if I have left the Spotify app open (which I often do on my work computer) my Discover Weekly list will be stale unless I exit the application entirely and return to it

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  • I have noticed that every Monday if I have left the Spotify app open (which I often do on my work computer) my Discover Weekly list will be stale unless I exit the application entirely and return to ...
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Shuffle

When I put my playlist on shuffle, it only plays songs that are within 20 or so songs of the originally played song. For example, if I play song number 670 ( I have 731 songs in this playlist) It will only shuffle songs 650-690.

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  • When I put my playlist on shuffle, it only plays songs that are within 20 or so songs of the originally played song. For example, if I play song number 670 ( I have 731 songs in this playlist) It wil...
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Solved!! Discovered on info disappeared

Since the update of the desktop app today, the "Discovered on" on an artist about page is gone. This was a really good way to find Spotify curators that's not owned by the big labels and I wonder if it's possible to find this function somewhere else.

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  • Since the update of the desktop app today, the "Discovered on" on an artist about page is gone. This was a really good way to find Spotify curators that's not owned by the big labels and I wonder if ...
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Off line storage location cannot be changed why?

Hello i have tried to change my location for the "off line mode"by default it's in C://users appdata folders i tried to change it to my other drive and got the message "you need to restart spotify so this change will take effect" so i did, but when i...

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  • Hello i have tried to change my location for the "off line mode" by default it's in C://users appdata folders  i tried to change it to my other drive and got the message "you need to rest...
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Create similar playlist

Don't think a lot of people actually noticed this update, and since it's pretty awesome (and actually works very good, yes looking at you Radio) I thought I'd share it. There now is a "Create Similar Playlist" option in the context menu of playlists....

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  • Don't think a lot of people actually noticed this update, and since it's pretty awesome (and actually works very good, yes looking at you Radio) I thought I'd share it.   There now is a "...
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Spotify crashes after undocking laptop

Hey! I work with a docked laptop at work, and whenever I undock the computer, Spotify crashes. Since this happens a few times a day, it has become quite annoying. I've seen a few other posts mentioning this, and there seems to be no official comment ...

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  • Hey! I work with a docked laptop at work, and whenever I undock the computer, Spotify crashes. Since this happens a few times a day, it has become quite annoying. I've seen a few other posts mentioni...
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Local Files don't play. Removed ones still show up

Hi, I tried adding new local files today, they do show up in "Local Files" but when I press play I get the message "This song is not available. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." Additionally some files I unchecked in the setti...

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  • Hi,   I tried adding new local files today, they do show up in "Local Files" but when I press play I get the message "This song is not available. If you have the file on your computer you can ...
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Ads overplaying?

I am a long time user of Spotify, but recently on my computer, I am getting a ridiculous amount of ads. I get that I am being pushed to buy premium but I am getting about 3 of my songs, maybe 7-10 minutes of music, and then around 3-5 ads, 15-30 seco...

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  • I am a long time user of Spotify, but recently on my computer, I am getting a ridiculous amount of ads. I get that I am being pushed to buy premium but I am getting about 3 of my songs, maybe 7-...
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Only half the Audio Book available. Is that intended?

Hey guys, maybe you can help me. I was listening to that Audio Book called "Totenfang" by Simon Beckett (german version) and after half of the tracks it just stopped. So I looked it up and apparently there are only half the tracks available, and the ...

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  • Hey guys,    maybe you can help me. I was listening to that Audio Book called "Totenfang" by Simon Beckett (german version) and after half of the tracks it just stopped. So I looked it up...
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Remove all Facebookdata from Spotifyprofile

Hi all, I tested connecting my Spotifyprofile with my Facebookacoount and I now want to not just disconnect these two again, I do want to remove all Facebookdata from my Spotifyprofile. Like picture, name etc. How does this work? Thanks in advance!

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  • Hi all,   I tested connecting my Spotifyprofile with my Facebookacoount and I now want to not just disconnect these two again, I do want to remove all Facebookdata from my Spotifyprofile. Like...
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How do I get back to the orginal spotify radio selection?

Hi, I was just wondering if there was any way to go back to the original radio mix after it has reloaded a new selection of songs? I wanted to listen to the Radio Genre Soul, but after a certain amount of songs it reloaded with a whole new selection....

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  • Hi, I was just wondering if there was any way to go back to the original radio mix after it has reloaded a new selection of songs? I wanted to listen to the Radio Genre Soul, but after a certain amou...
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Spotify Premium is skipping like a scratched CD.

Isn't my hardware, already checked for that with youtube. Already cleared my cache. Already turned off connection to facebook. Have already tried toggling hardware acceleration. Don't know if this is a general issue people have or if there is a quick...

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  • Isn't my hardware, already checked for that with youtube.   Already cleared my cache.  Already turned off connection to facebook.   Have already tried toggling hardware acceleration...
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Solved!! Can't play local files

I installed Spotify yesterday and I can't play any local file in it.I saw the problem and some 'solution' here on the forum, but nothing works for me.I reinstalled. My quicktime player says its uptodate.I checked the mixer thru the icon in my systray...

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  • I installed Spotify yesterday and I can't play any local file in it. I saw the problem and some 'solution' here on the forum, but nothing works for me. I reinstalled. My quicktime player says its u...
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ctrl+f not working, even after a clean reinstall in Windows 7 64bit

I run Windows 7 64bit program version (not webplayer). I already looked in FAQ, and googled for a solve everywhere but I can't seem to fix this. It is very tilting to be unable to search within a playlist that has thousands of songs, I'm at a point w...

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  • I run Windows 7 64bit program version (not webplayer).   I already looked in FAQ, and googled for a solve everywhere but I can't seem to fix this. It is very tilting to be unable to searc...
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Surface (windows) Goes to Sleep, Stops Spotify

I've got a Surface Book (Windows 10) and music stops playing everytime the screen goes to sleep, I'm sure the screen should just turn off without Spotify stopping as well. As soon as I wake it up Spotify resumes playing. This shouldn't happen and NO,...

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  • I've got a Surface Book (Windows 10) and music stops playing everytime the screen goes to sleep, I'm sure the screen should just turn off without Spotify stopping as well. As soon as I wake it u...
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[Desktop] [Windows] Missing Some Friend Activity

I have been experiencing an "issue" for some months now, where the Friend Activity pane on the Windows desktop application is only showing and updating only 1 followed user's listening activity.I follow 3 users that I wish to get listening activity f...

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  • I have been experiencing an "issue" for some months now, where the Friend Activity pane on the Windows desktop application is only showing and updating only 1 followed user's listening activity....
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Win10 Platform EQ

When will the Win10 platform have an EQ? It's a little pathetic that a media player service in 2017, specificallly focused on playing music alone, doesn't have a user-adjustable equalizer.

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  • When will the Win10 platform have an EQ? It's a little pathetic that a media player service in 2017, specificallly focused on playing music alone, doesn't have a user-adjustable equalizer.
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