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Discuss Spotify for Windows
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 ...
Casual Listener
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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 ...
Music Fan
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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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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...
Have had this problem for sametime, started soon after updated my system to Creator update of Windows... I can crash my workstation simply starting Spotify desktop client and after sometime system is unresponsive... Have to reboot computer after that...
Have had this problem for sametime, started soon after updated my system to Creator update of Windows... I can crash my workstation simply starting Spotify desktop client and after sometime system is...
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I have noticed that spotify doesn't have all of the music from some artists, which I get, but then for some it doesn't even have all the songs from certain albums(songs that are in the standard album not the deluxe version) which is dissapointing, bu...
I have noticed that spotify doesn't have all of the music from some artists, which I get, but then for some it doesn't even have all the songs from certain albums(songs that are in the standard album...
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Today I started my pc and Spotify started itself without me ever enabling this option or giving Spotify permission to do so. This is outright malicious behaviour and I would like to know why Spotify is suddenly creating startup services without even ...
Today I started my pc and Spotify started itself without me ever enabling this option or giving Spotify permission to do so. This is outright malicious behaviour and I would like to know why Spotify ...
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Spotify automatically starts when loggin into computer even though in player settings it's set to DO NOT start automatically when logging in. Only way to disable Spotify auto-start is to disable it in startup task menu in Windows. This bug appeared w...
Spotify automatically starts when loggin into computer even though in player settings it's set to DO NOT start automatically when logging in. Only way to disable Spotify auto-sta...
Newbie
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I want to import my local music files from computer desktop to my playlist in Spotify. Many songs are grey in the list, so I can't play them on my amplifier downstairs. In "Files" I have no possibility to import files from Harddisk, only from Itunes ...
I want to import my local music files from computer desktop to my playlist in Spotify. Many songs are grey in the list, so I can't play them on my amplifier downstairs. In "Files" I ...
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I'm sorry but i need to post it a third time because nobody either likes to answer or nobody can answer and it seems like spotify is unaware off the problem some people have. Since 4-5 month now spotify only shows 2 songs in my local files when i hav...
I'm sorry but i need to post it a third time because nobody either likes to answer or nobody can answer and it seems like spotify is unaware off the problem some people have. Since 4-5 month...
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Whenever I open Spotify I usually go to "Browse" then I will choose the "Discover" tab and that gives me all the recommendations of different artists and albums I might like. In with all these recommendations are usually several/many artists/albums I...
Whenever I open Spotify I usually go to "Browse" then I will choose the "Discover" tab and that gives me all the recommendations of different artists and albums I might like. In with all these recomm...
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Hello, I've been trying to listen to a couple of the albums by Streetlight Manifesto.For a few tracks (Watch It Crash, Somewhere In the Between, We Are the Few, and A Better Place, a Better Time), the first 10 seconds of the song plays as normal.Afte...
Hello, I've been trying to listen to a couple of the albums by Streetlight Manifesto. For a few tracks (Watch It Crash, Somewhere In the Between, We Are the Few, and A Better Place, a Better ...
Community Legend
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Hi.tl;dr at the bottomWell, one or two years ago i set the path for the directory to a hdd to put all my local music files in spotify, which worked just fine. But now i added a seperate folder and deleted the old ones, since i don´t need it any longe...
Hi. tl;dr at the bottom Well, one or two years ago i set the path for the directory to a hdd to put all my local music files in spotify, which worked just fine. But now i added a seperate folder an...
Casual Listener
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Hello, For a large part I used Spotify as my secondary player, because I did not have premium and deleted all of my own music from the application since I used iTunes as primairy player. Since a few months I have a premium account and want to use Spo...
Hello, For a large part I used Spotify as my secondary player, because I did not have premium and deleted all of my own music from the application since I used iTunes as primairy player. Sin...
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I am using the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview and when I delete a file in Windows Explorer or even 7zip Spotify just crashes. I didn't find anything about taking a log so far... Could someone point me in the right direction? Spotify 1.0.58.573.g57...
I am using the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview and when I delete a file in Windows Explorer or even 7zip Spotify just crashes. I didn't find anything about taking a log so far... Could someone...
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Okay so, I dragged and dropped the songs onto files on my windows 10, so I went to edit-preferences-local files-add souce. So I clicked on "add source" and so I clicked the one that has all the music then clicked okay. But it still does not let me pl...
Okay so, I dragged and dropped the songs onto files on my windows 10, so I went to edit-preferences-local files-add souce. So I clicked on "add source" and so I clicked the one that has all the music...
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My Discover Weekly playlist, for a couple weeks now, has been displaying incorrectly. The first song is positioned higher than it should be; a layer under the search, and sort, ba so I can't actually select that song unless I sort the playlist anothe...
My Discover Weekly playlist, for a couple weeks now, has been displaying incorrectly. The first song is positioned higher than it should be; a layer under the search, and sort, ba so I can't actually...
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Hi there I see only "post to followers" when I try and share a playlist. The "send to" tab is not showing. Is that just me? "Post to followers" is not an option I wish to use. Thanks
Hi there I see only "post to followers" when I try and share a playlist. The "send to" tab is not showing. Is that just me? "Post to followers" is not an option I ...
Casual Listener
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One of the most annoying things about Spotify is that I'll have tracks saved to a playlist, and then all of a sudden, Spotify changes the version of that song -- for instance, from a studio version to a live version. Is there any way to prevent/corre...
One of the most annoying things about Spotify is that I'll have tracks saved to a playlist, and then all of a sudden, Spotify changes the version of that song -- for instance, from a studio version t...
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how do i download my songs on desktop i can only find download on playlist and album but i want my songs
how do i download my songs on desktop i can only find download on playlist and album but i want my songs
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Hi I was wondering why my computer uses so much RAM so I started to search and found that Spotify (1.0.57.474) uses >600MB RAM on my machine (have a look at the attached screenshot). That´s a lot for just background music while the UI is closed. Does...
Hi I was wondering why my computer uses so much RAM so I started to search and found that Spotify (1.0.57.474) uses >600MB RAM on my machine (have a look at the attached screenshot)....
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As the title says, I updated Window 10 to the latest version via the "Creators Update" update. Now the media keys on my keyboard no longer play, pause or skip tracks when pushing them. They only work if Spotify is opened and the application is the ac...
As the title says, I updated Window 10 to the latest version via the "Creators Update" update. Now the media keys on my keyboard no longer play, pause or skip tracks when pushing them. They only work...
Newbie
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There is a playlist on all of my Spotify clients called "Loading..." which I believe is a Spotify playlist I followed a long time ago. When I right click it to try and unfollow it, the "unfollow" option does nothing. The playlist is still there, and ...
There is a playlist on all of my Spotify clients called "Loading..." which I believe is a Spotify playlist I followed a long time ago. When I right click it to try and unfollow it, the "unfollow" opt...
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