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Can't play an artist's discography on the desktop app

Plan Premium Device PC / Android My Question or Issue This happened a few days ago. Normally when i clicked an Artist > Discography > Show All > And play a song, the next song was from the next album of the artist. Now, the next song is a random one ...

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Issue : no volume control in spotify when exclusive mode is activated

Premium member, France, Windows 10 64 bits updated, Focusrite Audio solo usb external soundcard updated, Desktop app updated I talk with the customer service, we try to solve my problem and they told me that it should be an issue that I have to talk ...

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MIKAAAAEL

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Black Screen (June 15 2026 install)

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceDesktop PC IntelOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueFollowed clean re-install instructions after getting black screen at startup. Installed the latest June 15 version from the Windows Store. Ran once without p...

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Windows Troubleshooting Guide

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 are...

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why does my laptop still show premium after i cancelled it

i cancelled the 99ct subscription the day it expired.I can login on all my devices with a free account and don´t have any issues.but on one laptop it keeps showing the premium in the header and i the player says offline mode

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i cancelled the 99ct subscription the day it expired. I can login on all my devices with a free account and don´t have any issues. but on one laptop it keeps showing the premium in the header and i...

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Single click "Add To Queue"

Please add the ability to "Add To Queue" via a single click on a song, playlist, album, etc. in the desktop client, rather than hiding it as the first item under the ellipsis menu. I realize that may be a problem since the "+" symbol is already in us...

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Please add the ability to "Add To Queue" via a single click on a song, playlist, album, etc. in the desktop client, rather than hiding it as the first item under the ellipsis menu.  I realize th...

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Local file no option to download (Windows)

As you can see in the photo, I have downloaded the playlist on my desktop but the second last song will not download despite my best efforts. Any reason why? It doesn't appear on my iPhone playlist as a song although if I shuffle through the playlist...

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  As you can see in the photo, I have downloaded the playlist on my desktop but the second last song will not download despite my best efforts. Any reason why? It doesn't appear on my iPhone ...

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Media Keys no longer functioning on keyboard

Hi all,i know this has been posted about a bit already,however other peoples solutions do not work with me as i do not have good play as an extention as far as i can see.the only thing i could think of it being is either Geforce shadow play, but that...

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Hi all, i know this has been posted about a bit already, however other peoples solutions do not work with me as i do not have good play as an extention as far as i can see. the only thing i could ...

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Current Version Info

Is there an easy way to determine if there's a more recent version than what I have installed? I've looked all over and haven't found anything that will simply state "current version X.X.X.X" . . .

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Is there an easy way to determine if there's a more recent version than what I have installed? I've looked all over and haven't found anything that will simply state "current version X.X.X.X" . . .

DalhousieGuy

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Profanity filter

I hope I'm posting in the right area... I use Spotify for my desktop, and my android as well. Really my question is simple Is there a way I can turn off the censored versions of the songs? I don't believe in censorship and would rather listen to uned...

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I hope I'm posting in the right area...   I use Spotify for my desktop, and my android as well. Really my question is simple   Is there a way I can turn off the censored versions of...

humanwolf

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Solved!! Spotify Connect + Downloaded music = data usage?

My Samsung Galaxy has a bunch of downloaded/synced music on it. I can play these songs in Spotify offline mode. I want to play this same music through my computer speakers, so I found Spotify Connect. I am doing this through mobile data + mobile hots...

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My Samsung Galaxy has a bunch of downloaded/synced music on it. I can play these songs in Spotify offline mode.   I want to play this same music through my computer speakers, so I found Spotif...

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Spotify ne fonctionne plus sur windows 7 "erreur Oxc00000a5"

Hello la communauté Spotify.Premièrement je trouve dommage que l'on ne peut pas poser nos questions directement à Spotify et qu'il faille passer par ce forum... Spotify ne démarre plus depuis quelques jours sur Windows 7 (je suis en premium).J'ai le ...

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Hello la communauté Spotify. Premièrement je trouve dommage que l'on ne peut pas poser nos questions directement à Spotify et qu'il faille passer par ce forum...   Spotify ne démarre plus dep...

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Solved!! Can't sort the Playlist "dancePOP"

Hi Community, normally, I would like to sort the playlists by title, artist or something of the sort.For most playlists it works like a charm, but for this particular playlist:https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcZDD7cfEKhWit do...

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Hi Community,   normally, I would like to sort the playlists by title, artist or something of the sort. For most playlists it works like a charm, but for this particular playlist: https://op...

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Spotify on more than one Windows profile

Our family have four WIndows profiles on the same computer and one premium membership. I don't want to upgrade to Premium for Family, but use the same Spotify profile on all the windows profiles (on the same computer). But as I can see it now, that m...

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Our family have four WIndows profiles on the same computer and one premium membership. I don't want to upgrade to Premium for Family, but use the same Spotify profile on all the windows profiles (on ...

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Can't Sort by Album or Artist Anymore

In some recent update the ability to arrange my saved music properly by clicking on the Album or Artist tabs at the top of the screen has disappeared. Now saved songs can only be listened to in the order they were saved in, so if I want to listen to ...

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In some recent update the ability to arrange my saved music properly by clicking on the Album or Artist tabs at the top of the screen has disappeared.   Now saved songs can only be listened to...

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No Daily Mix

I have had Spotify for almost three years (I had a gap where I switched to Apple music for a year) and I don't have a daily mix.

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I have had Spotify for almost three years (I had a gap where I switched to Apple music for a year) and I don't have a daily mix.

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Spotify for Windows won't play local files

I have two albums saved locally on my laptop which I'd like to play through Spotify. One of them plays just fine every time, whether from the "Local Files" section or when in a playlist. In the other album, however, no songs will play and Spotify dis...

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I have two albums saved locally on my laptop which I'd like to play through Spotify. One of them plays just fine every time, whether from the "Local Files" section or when in a playlist. In the ...

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Solved!! Can't log into desktop app using XP

I've just upgraded to Premium and Spotify works fine for me in Chrome on XP. It invited me me to download the desptop app which I did, but when I start the app it says I'm not logged in. When open the app it invites me to "Log In With Facebook" (even...

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I've just upgraded to Premium and Spotify works fine for me in Chrome on XP.   It invited me me to download the desptop app which I did, but when I start the app it says I'm not logged in. Whe...

MikeBoilerman

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Back-up saves?

Hello, I know you can back-up your playlists, but I'd like to back up my saves. Now I've tried putting my saves in a playlist, and it worked, but then I can't see the date on which I saved the songs. Does someone know how I can back-up (export to exc...

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Hello,   I know you can back-up your playlists, but I'd like to back up my saves. Now I've tried putting my saves in a playlist, and it worked, but then I can't see the date on which I saved t...

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Como puedo ver la letra de las canciones en mi pc windows 8

Alguien sabe comover la letra de las canciones en mi pc windows 8, que instaloi, donde lo consigo, como lo enlazo a mi spotify?

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Alguien sabe comover la letra de las canciones en mi pc windows 8, que instaloi, donde lo consigo, como lo enlazo a mi spotify?

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Spotify Crashes when trying to open Local Files

I can open the local files tab but if I leave it to try parse all my music (around 25,000 files) spotify will just crash, this never happened in older versions and has only begun to happen recently.The quickest workaround I can think of is to give us...

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I can open the local files tab but if I leave it to try parse all my music (around 25,000 files) spotify will just crash, this never happened in older versions and has only begun to happen recently. ...

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error code: 4

Hi,Please helo me, suddenly my spotify is not working. I've tried to uninstalled and installed it again, check the firewalls, restart my PC and none of them works. It said that there is no internet connection but my internet works fine so i don't kno...

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Hi, Please helo me, suddenly my spotify is not working. I've tried to uninstalled and installed it again, check the firewalls, restart my PC and none of them works. It said that there is no internet...

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Latest update I can't scroll playlist nor resize window downwards

Seems UI in the latest update is proper broken; Windows Platform. I can't scroll playlist window on the left, nor can I resize window downwards.

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Seems UI in the latest update is proper broken;   Windows Platform.   I can't scroll playlist window on the left, nor can I resize window downwards.

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Add a specific artist to Daily Mix

I mean artists that have never showed up in the Daily Mix, so I can't click the heart button for them. And I don't mean artists that I have accidentially 'disliked' in the playlist. I have clicked add to library on a majority of said artists albums, ...

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I mean artists that have never showed up in the Daily Mix, so I can't click the heart button for them. And I don't mean artists that I have accidentially 'disliked' in the playlist.  I have clic...

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