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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...
so im trying to download spotify on my windows 7 tablet. nothing works. does anyone have a link or idea to get it to work?
so im trying to download spotify on my windows 7 tablet. nothing works. does anyone have a link or idea to get it to work?
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Hello,i´m using spotify free and thinking about an upgrade. BUT in the last time the music has an very poor quality. The stream is hitting and stumbling like an old record player when I´m using ist on desktop. On Android its no problem in some networ...
Hello, i´m using spotify free and thinking about an upgrade. BUT in the last time the music has an very poor quality. The stream is hitting and stumbling like an old record player when I´m using ist...
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I have a giant list of songs in my computer. How to put all these songs in spotify but without importing from my computer. I would like to download them inside the spotify, to have all with great quality and with all the correct names (artist, album,...
I have a giant list of songs in my computer. How to put all these songs in spotify but without importing from my computer. I would like to download them inside the spotify, to have all with great qua...
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The strange about this is that I can't only edit this specific playlist, all other my playlist is possible to edit. It's like I'm not the owner of the playlist but I can add songs, but I can't drag the songs to change the order.
The strange about this is that I can't only edit this specific playlist, all other my playlist is possible to edit. It's like I'm not the owner of the playlist but I can add songs, but I can't drag t...
Newbie
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missing check marksWhy are there missing check marks on saved songs?
missing check marksWhy are there missing check marks on saved songs?
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I have a premium account and both versions are up to date, any help?
I have a premium account and both versions are up to date, any help?
Newbie
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When I heart a song on daily mix, it adds the song to my library. I don't want to add songs to my library as I use it solely for albums I like, not individual songs, which I put into playlists instead. So after I click the heart button on daily mix, ...
When I heart a song on daily mix, it adds the song to my library. I don't want to add songs to my library as I use it solely for albums I like, not individual songs, which I put into playlists instea...
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Hi When I click pause I can't get Spotify to play the track I was listening to. I have to go back to the last track and then forward to the track I was listening to. Which means I have to listen to the song from the beginning. Is anyone else having t...
Hi When I click pause I can't get Spotify to play the track I was listening to. I have to go back to the last track and then forward to the track I was listening to. Which means I have to li...
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Hi all, I created a playlist for my aunt's birthday. I wish to share it with my cousins so we can all modify it and add songs, but I'm unable to do so. - I created the playlist- Clicked on "Collaborative playlist" on the three dots- But when I want t...
Hi all, I created a playlist for my aunt's birthday. I wish to share it with my cousins so we can all modify it and add songs, but I'm unable to do so. - I created the playlis...
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I installed Spotify on my work computer today. When I got home, I tried to play some music on my home computer using the installed Spotify app for Windows. I could see the song was playing, but I could hear anything, despite the fact that mt speakers...
I installed Spotify on my work computer today. When I got home, I tried to play some music on my home computer using the installed Spotify app for Windows. I could see the song was playing, but ...
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I can still play songs, and when I hover over the spotify app on my task bar I can play songs, but the app itself just doesn't display on my screen. Also my computer runs Windows 10 for those wondering.
I can still play songs, and when I hover over the spotify app on my task bar I can play songs, but the app itself just doesn't display on my screen. Also my computer runs Windows 10 for thos...
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Been using Spotify 3 years now virtually no problems. But in the last couple days have had problems with the sound being distorted and garbled streaming from the Windows Spotify app through Airfoil. Happened last week and a reboot fixed it. Now reboo...
Been using Spotify 3 years now virtually no problems. But in the last couple days have had problems with the sound being distorted and garbled streaming from the Windows Spotify app through Air...
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Hi! As a Premium user for many years I have experienced many stupid changes over the years. Changes for the worse i might add, and all of them were surprising to say the least. But this..this is problebly the stupidest one of them all. The inbox wasn...
Hi! As a Premium user for many years I have experienced many stupid changes over the years. Changes for the worse i might add, and all of them were surprising to say the least. But this..this is prob...
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Hey Guys, I wanted to sync some local files from my pc to my phone, but the only message I get when I want to sync the files is "waiting for download". I already tried reinstalling the app and the pc client and turning off my firewall. Didn't work at...
Hey Guys, I wanted to sync some local files from my pc to my phone, but the only message I get when I want to sync the files is "waiting for download". I already tried reinstalling the app a...
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Okay so here's what's happening. Almost every time I play a song, or a playlist goes to the next song in queue, it begins to play in the desktop app but sound doesn't actually come out of my speakers for a random amount of time. Sometimes it's 10 sec...
Okay so here's what's happening. Almost every time I play a song, or a playlist goes to the next song in queue, it begins to play in the desktop app but sound doesn't actually come out of my...
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I have downloaded several songs to listen on spotify. When these songs are to be played next on the queue and they come, the error "can't play current song" comes up. I can play the song by doubleclicking them without any problems. I have turned off ...
I have downloaded several songs to listen on spotify. When these songs are to be played next on the queue and they come, the error "can't play current song" comes up. I can play the song by doublecli...
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I've downloaded songs that arent on spotify so i can listen ton them. When such song is to be played next on queue it shows error "can't play current song." But when i play the song by double clicking it it plays just fine. What could be wrong?
I've downloaded songs that arent on spotify so i can listen ton them. When such song is to be played next on queue it shows error "can't play current song." But when i play the song by double clickin...
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In my local files I changed the folder that should be displayed but I still get mp3 files that are in an unselected folder (study files, and there are more than thousand files..., hard to get a clear music library) What can I do?
In my local files I changed the folder that should be displayed but I still get mp3 files that are in an unselected folder (study files, and there are more than thousand files..., hard to g...
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Hello, any ideas on how to resolve Spotify not starting properly? Once I open the app it just shows the attached image. I have tried uninstalling etc but to no avail. Thanks.
Hello, any ideas on how to resolve Spotify not starting properly? Once I open the app it just shows the attached image. I have tried uninstalling etc but to no avail. Thanks.
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Whenever I start spotify and go to my songs, it doesn't display all the songs I have saved. I've had this for a while now and normally I could fix it by skipping to other tabs such as playlists. Today, I couldn't. I tried restarting but It didn't wor...
Whenever I start spotify and go to my songs, it doesn't display all the songs I have saved. I've had this for a while now and normally I could fix it by skipping to other tabs such as playlists. Toda...
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