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Discuss Spotify for Windows
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...
Hi, Iv recently installed spotify on my windows 10 desktop computer and while in the process of installing it crashed my network, when trying to repair the network connection through windows it crashed my computer, when it restarded back into windows...
Hi, Iv recently installed spotify on my windows 10 desktop computer and while in the process of installing it crashed my network, when trying to repair the network connection through wind...
Roadie
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I added local files to my songs section of "your music". At some point I deleted the files from my computer intentionally. Now those songs are greyed out in the songs section. I also want to remove them from the songs list. Which is not possible. Now...
I added local files to my songs section of "your music". At some point I deleted the files from my computer intentionally. Now those songs are greyed out in the songs section. I also want to remove t...
Casual Listener
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Dear Users, I have experienced freezes on my Win 10 PC when starting Spotify. I found also the root of the issue: My Windows Music-Library (where my local music resides) refers to a NAS(Network-Assisted Storage) device. Deleting the local-files.bnk C...
Dear Users, I have experienced freezes on my Win 10 PC when starting Spotify. I found also the root of the issue: My Windows Music-Library (where my local music resides) refers to a NAS(Netw...
Casual Listener
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Sure this has been beat to death but I'm a drummer so we'll beat it some more. I listened to all of my songs in order, took a long time. Now that I've done that I'd like to listen randomly. As I recall that used to mean play songs across my list, wel...
Sure this has been beat to death but I'm a drummer so we'll beat it some more. I listened to all of my songs in order, took a long time. Now that I've done that I'd like to listen randomly. As I reca...
Casual Listener
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Per Rorey's message here, please could you at least create an Inbox playlist for me to retrieve what's possible? I started a thread here asking if there was a plan to be able to retrieve that valuable data - https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-M...
Per Rorey's message here, please could you at least create an Inbox playlist for me to retrieve what's possible? I started a thread here asking if there was a plan to be able to retrieve th...
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I have a BEM Mojo bluetooth speaker, and Spotify (basic, playing online) has taken possession of it and won't let go. I have instructed my PC laptop to disconnect and to forget the speaker, and then reconnected, and it is still tied to Spotify so tha...
I have a BEM Mojo bluetooth speaker, and Spotify (basic, playing online) has taken possession of it and won't let go. I have instructed my PC laptop to disconnect and to forget the speaker, and then ...
Casual Listener
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Hi. Gang, I really don't want to cancel spotify, but it's useless if it doesn't actually play on anything but my phone to me. My account must be okay, its working on my phone ... but i can't get it to play anything on desktop anymore,,, this started ...
Hi. Gang, I really don't want to cancel spotify, but it's useless if it doesn't actually play on anything but my phone to me. My account must be okay, its working on my phone ... but i can't...
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In the windows web player, there is a column when you play a song that says "plays".Sometimes, it says 1,123,400 plays. Or some other number.How is this calculated? Every month? every day? Every week?Its impressive, but it seems to be a number withou...
In the windows web player, there is a column when you play a song that says "plays". Sometimes, it says 1,123,400 plays. Or some other number. How is this calculated? Every month? every day?&...
Music Fan
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Hey all -whats the difference when between the spotify app's (android) "Heart" and the desktop "check mark". Both seem to have some sort of "Save" functionality. Question may be very simple, thanks for your help,
Hey all - whats the difference when between the spotify app's (android) "Heart" and the desktop "check mark". Both seem to have some sort of "Save" functionality. Question may be very...
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When using Snap Assist in Windows 10 (drag to an edge and window snaps to half screen, quarter screen, etc.), the Spotify desktop app will create a small gap along the side and top of the window instead of actually snapping flush with the edge of the...
When using Snap Assist in Windows 10 (drag to an edge and window snaps to half screen, quarter screen, etc.), the Spotify desktop app will create a small gap along the side and top of the window inst...
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Why cannot i click the + icon to like the song on an imported playlist? I can understand it if the song and album were really obscure but the song and album in question are very available. Song: Rumor Has ItArtist: AdeleAlbum: 21 See attachment
Why cannot i click the + icon to like the song on an imported playlist? I can understand it if the song and album were really obscure but the song and album in question are very available. ...
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I live in the US. I don't use a proxy. My account location says United States. My language in the program and app is set to English. Despite ALL of this, http://www.spotify.com/ still redirects to .com/de/ against my best efforts to prevent it. I can...
I live in the US. I don't use a proxy. My account location says United States. My language in the program and app is set to English. Despite ALL of this, http://www.spotify.com/ still redirects to .c...
Newbie
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I was playing a song from my playlist using the desktop app when suddenly a blue bar appeared at the top of the screen and it says "Cannot play current song". I have internet connection though and I'm on premium. It's not really a big deal but I'm ju...
I was playing a song from my playlist using the desktop app when suddenly a blue bar appeared at the top of the screen and it says "Cannot play current song". I have internet connection though and I'...
Roadie
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I use the Windows desktop player set to the Espanol (International Spanish) language. Any Album/EP/Single that I view shows the correct translation except with what I can imagine is a formatting error. In short, I see curly braces for any Album/EP/Si...
I use the Windows desktop player set to the Espanol (International Spanish) language. Any Album/EP/Single that I view shows the correct translation except with what I can imagine is a format...
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Would it be possible to get the play queue on desktop to mimic that of the apps?For instance, instead of a list of songs up next, a side scrolling view with the album art which the app versions implement? Thanks, Nathan.
Would it be possible to get the play queue on desktop to mimic that of the apps? For instance, instead of a list of songs up next, a side scrolling view with the album art which the app versions imp...
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I want to uninstall Spotify once and for all. I already tried on the Control Panel > Programs and Features but it just won't work. I've searched for other solutions in forums but none would work. Can someone help me? I'm totally not satisfied with th...
I want to uninstall Spotify once and for all. I already tried on the Control Panel > Programs and Features but it just won't work. I've searched for other solutions in forums but none would work. ...
Casual Listener
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As seen to the left, the mouseover ability does not display the player preview (music is still playing). Note that you can still use |<, play, >| buttons as they poke out from the bottom of the missing image.
As seen to the left, the mouseover ability does not display the player preview (music is still playing). Note that you can still use |<, play, >| buttons as they poke out from the...
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Songs keep disappearing from my library. It's been happening for quite a while now. It's cool.....got plenty more to get me by LOL.But seriously, what's up with the missing songs?Keep up the good work Spotify.....and I'm ready for lossless!Thanks.
Songs keep disappearing from my library. It's been happening for quite a while now. It's cool.....got plenty more to get me by LOL. But seriously, what's up with the missing songs? Keep up the ...
Roadie
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how do i get tracks to play agaoin after ad supposedly ends... ad has stoppe everything,
how do i get tracks to play agaoin after ad supposedly ends... ad has stoppe everything,
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