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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...
PlanPremiumDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 22H2 My Question or IssueSince yesterday, this thing shows whenever I open the profile menuAnd whenever I click the "unable to update" option it shows me this(in Polish, couldn't catch an English screensh...
Plan Premium Device PC Operating System Windows 10 22H2 My Question or Issue Since yesterday, this thing shows whenever I open the profile menu And whenever I click the "unable to...
Newbie
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The playlist "Hotline Maimi Soundtrack (1 & 2)" has a fairly, but not entirely, consistent issue: when I play it on my computer, about forty five seconds before the end of the song "Frantic Aerobics," spotify suddenly ends that track and starts "Elec...
The playlist "Hotline Maimi Soundtrack (1 & 2)" has a fairly, but not entirely, consistent issue: when I play it on my computer, about forty five seconds before the end of the song "Frantic Aerob...
Regular
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Why You Can't See Hidden Songs On Spotify Desktop anymore in search ? I even have saved hidden song in playlist and can only find them there.. and now even the option is gone.
Why You Can't See Hidden Songs On Spotify Desktop anymore in search ? I even have saved hidden song in playlist and can only find them there.. and now even the option is gone.
Music Fan
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PlanFreeCountryUKDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueReally just the title. I can't seem to find a solution for this.
Plan Free Country UK Device PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Really just the title. I can't seem to find a solution for this.
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Plan: PremiumCountry : IndiaDevice: Lenovo Legion LaptopOperating System: Windows My Question or Issue: Spotify is taking up way too much memory. All the sudden my computer froze and when I checked the task manager and I found that it was using 1.3GB...
Plan: Premium Country : India Device: Lenovo Legion Laptop Operating System: Windows My Question or Issue: Spotify is taking up way too much memory. All the sudde...
Roadie
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None of the below information is required. However, the more you provide the easier it will be for us to try and help.PlanPremiumCountrySlovakiaDeviceDell InspironOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIt is a long issues. Both on Spotify's w...
None of the below information is required. However, the more you provide the easier it will be for us to try and help. Plan Premium Country Slovakia Device Dell Inspiron Operating System Wind...
Moderator
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For years I've been using an Audioengine USB DAC. Suddenly, Spotify sound only comes out of my bad laptop speakers. Windows Media Player, JRiver Media Center, etc all can be heard through the DAC. There is no "Spotify" showing in my Volume Mixer. If ...
For years I've been using an Audioengine USB DAC. Suddenly, Spotify sound only comes out of my bad laptop speakers. Windows Media Player, JRiver Media Center, etc all can be heard through the DAC. ...
Roadie
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryNew ZealandDeviceDesktopOperating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10, etc.) My Question or Issue
Plan Free/Premium Country New Zealand Device Desktop Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10, etc.) My Question or Issue
Moderator
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Plan: PremiumCountry: USAOperating System: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit My Question or Issue: Starting today (7/1/2021), when using the scroll wheel on my mouse, instead of it either scrolling a page up/down or - in my weather app - it zooms the radar map...
Plan: Premium Country: USA Operating System: Windows 10 Home, 64-bit My Question or Issue: Starting today (7/1/2021), when using the scroll wheel on my mo...
Newbie
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When you click on an artists bio, the monthly listeners doesnt have an s on the end and reads monthly listtener.
When you click on an artists bio, the monthly listeners doesnt have an s on the end and reads monthly listtener.
Moderator
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On the Now Playing screen or the bottom of the desktop app, on the left you see how far into a song you are, then a song progress bar, then the total time for the track being played. In the past, you could click or tap on that right-hand number (whic...
On the Now Playing screen or the bottom of the desktop app, on the left you see how far into a song you are, then a song progress bar, then the total time for the track being played. In the ...
Moderator
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PlanI am a paying customer.CountrySwedenDeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueClick on what's new (the bell up/right)Click on "Music".Click on an album in the listBackupThe choice "Music" is now wrongly restored to music and podc...
Plan I am a paying customer. Country Sweden Device Laptop Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue Click on what's new (the bell up/right) Click on "Music". Click ...
Casual Listener
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songs play on pc speaker, not the external speakers attached to the PC
songs play on pc speaker, not the external speakers attached to the PC
Moderator
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PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSince earlier today, Spotify has begun refusing to play songs. I hit play, and it immediately stops playing.I have tried the standard troubleshooting steps in t...
Plan Premium Country Australia Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Since earlier today, Spotify has begun refusing to play songs. I hit play, and it im...
Regular
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Only way to l can load Spotify on my office is to go to the web site
Only way to l can load Spotify on my office is to go to the web site
Moderator
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I use downloaded Spotify Premium, not the pre-installed Spotify with Windows 10. I have Spotify on a portrait mode 1080p monitor and sometimes when it is full-screen a white bar appears on my main 1440p landscape monitor. If I unmaximize the window a...
I use downloaded Spotify Premium, not the pre-installed Spotify with Windows 10. I have Spotify on a portrait mode 1080p monitor and sometimes when it is full-screen a white bar appears on my main 14...
Moderator
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So I'm connecting my laptop to my TV, and I cannot get the sound from Spotify to play through the TV and just comes out of my laptop speakers as though the HDMI cable isn't plugged in at all. Youtube, DVD's, everything else plays the sound through th...
So I'm connecting my laptop to my TV, and I cannot get the sound from Spotify to play through the TV and just comes out of my laptop speakers as though the HDMI cable isn't plugged in at all. Youtube...
Visitor
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Can my friend in my private collaborative playlist as a collaborator see that playlist on their library as you can see on the screenshot?
Can my friend in my private collaborative playlist as a collaborator see that playlist on their library as you can see on the screenshot?
Moderator
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In the past I was able to send tracks/playlist to a specifc friend/follower. In the curent Windows Desktop version, I'm only be able to share songs/tracks/playlists throug thrid party messangers like Facebook Messanger, Telegramm... or at last but no...
In the past I was able to send tracks/playlist to a specifc friend/follower. In the curent Windows Desktop version, I'm only be able to share songs/tracks/playlists throug thrid party messangers like...
Visitor
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PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueWhen shuffle is engaged, attempting to play the first song in the Liked Songs playlist will return the error: "Spotify can't play this right now. etc..."Bug ReductionIs...
Plan Premium Country UK Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue When shuffle is engaged, attempting to play the first song in the Liked Songs playlist will return ...
Moderator
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