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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...
@missingrdio wrote: So, in other words, now is a great time to try out other streaming music services? No, because no other music streaming service even offers a direct messaging type of thing. Spotify was the only one that did, until now. Now no mus...
@missingrdio wrote: So, in other words, now is a great time to try out other streaming music services? No, because no other music streaming service even offers a direct messaging type of thi...
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So, in other words, now is a great time to try out other streaming music services?
So, in other words, now is a great time to try out other streaming music services?
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Then the direct messaging in Spotify DEFFINETLY needs to come back!
Then the direct messaging in Spotify DEFFINETLY needs to come back!
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You're missing the point... The messaging functionality WITHIN the app allowed you to have access to your shared music across your devices... Again, every other app has direct messaging capability. Spotify isn't going to turn around their bottom line...
You're missing the point... The messaging functionality WITHIN the app allowed you to have access to your shared music across your devices... Again, every other app has direct messaging capability. S...
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@Ashthemash wrote: You're right! Then the desktop also needs to incorporate Facebook Messenger! It can't. Facebook doesn't offer the proper hooks for Spotify to implement the required hooks in the desktop app IIRC.
@Ashthemash wrote: You're right! Then the desktop also needs to incorporate Facebook Messenger! It can't. Facebook doesn't offer the proper hooks for Spotify to implement the required hooks ...
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You're right! Then the desktop also needs to incorporate Facebook Messenger!
You're right! Then the desktop also needs to incorporate Facebook Messenger!
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@Ashthemash wrote:Yes please bring it back and update the notifications! Or put the inbox in an easier place to find! It was hidden in the app, which is why people probably didn't use it so much! Should have been easily assessable, and maybe better m...
@Ashthemash wrote: Yes please bring it back and update the notifications! Or put the inbox in an easier place to find! It was hidden in the app, which is why people probably didn't use it so much! S...
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Yes please bring it back and update the notifications! Or put the inbox in an easier place to find! It was hidden in the app, which is why people probably didn't use it so much! Should have been easily assessable, and maybe better marketing to show e...
Yes please bring it back and update the notifications! Or put the inbox in an easier place to find! It was hidden in the app, which is why people probably didn't use it so much! Should have been easi...
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I just made a post but now I'd like to delete it. For some reason the Spotify forums don't let you delete your own posts. What the what?
I just made a post but now I'd like to delete it. For some reason the Spotify forums don't let you delete your own posts. What the what?
Music Fan
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I'm with every one of you guys - even +1'd all your comments I was also incensed at Spotify's insensitive handling of - and lack of response to - the situation; maybe I'm an idealist but, surely, this much negative feeling from a community should be ...
I'm with every one of you guys - even +1'd all your comments 🙂 I was also incensed at Spotify's insensitive handling of - and lack of response to - the situation; maybe I'm an idealist but,...
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Hola, estoy teniendo problemas con mi Spotify PC, descargue hace una semana varias playlist y en el dia de hoy ingrese al modo offline para escucharlas y no estaban. ¿Puede ser que se esten borrando? ¿O no estoy encontrandolas? gracias!Hi!, I'm havin...
Hola, estoy teniendo problemas con mi Spotify PC, descargue hace una semana varias playlist y en el dia de hoy ingrese al modo offline para escucharlas y no estaban. ¿Puede ser que se esten borrando?...
Casual Listener
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I can create radio stations, and play the playlist of "Liked From Radio", but no way to view the list of the three or four radio stations I have already created.On the left pane in the main page, I have "Browse" and "Your Music".Inside of "Your Music...
I can create radio stations, and play the playlist of "Liked From Radio", but no way to view the list of the three or four radio stations I have already created. On the left pane in the main page, I...
Roadie
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Yeah, how do you access old messages now? We could have been given some kind of notice... I had songs there that I didn't have time to move to playlists. Songs I sent yesterday that for sure were not listented by their recipents yet. And yes, inbox =...
Yeah, how do you access old messages now? We could have been given some kind of notice... I had songs there that I didn't have time to move to playlists. Songs I sent yesterday that for sure were not...
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Yeah this is just really disappointing, no way around it. Hard to understand how something seemingly so simple could be deemed too expensive to maintain. What about people who used messages with friends to archive certain music that they had shared w...
Yeah this is just really disappointing, no way around it. Hard to understand how something seemingly so simple could be deemed too expensive to maintain. What about people who used messages with frie...
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Today, I had to restart my computer, and when I did so the box I click on to check my messages will not appear. I checked my tablet and my laptop and they are having the same problem. Though this is not happening on my mother's IPhone.
Today, I had to restart my computer, and when I did so the box I click on to check my messages will not appear. I checked my tablet and my laptop and they are having the same problem. Though this is ...
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Very disappointing. It was a great feature. People would have used it more if you had enabled a notification system for new messages, as many times requested in the community. Now youre forcing people to use or sign up for other social media... What ...
Very disappointing. It was a great feature. People would have used it more if you had enabled a notification system for new messages, as many times requested in the community. Now youre forc...
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Last few versions of Spotify fail to install the latest update. Once the update is downloaded I get the blue arrow in the top right-hand corner suggesting that I restart Spotify to install the update but when it reloads it has not installed. The only...
Last few versions of Spotify fail to install the latest update. Once the update is downloaded I get the blue arrow in the top right-hand corner suggesting that I restart Spotify to inst...
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Hello, When I do a search and I go to the playlists results for the search the playlist don't seem to be ordered in any way.Does anyone know if it's possible to sort playlists by the number of followers?In other words, how can I get the most popular ...
Hello, When I do a search and I go to the playlists results for the search the playlist don't seem to be ordered in any way. Does anyone know if it's possible to sort playlists by the numbe...
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I have read dozens of posts from 2012 onwards and tried many solutions but non of them work for meI have my itunes playlists visible in Spotify and have 2 different cases1. The song artist and album is greyed out. A right mouse click gives a menu wit...
I have read dozens of posts from 2012 onwards and tried many solutions but non of them work for me I have my itunes playlists visible in Spotify and have 2 different cases 1. The song artist and al...
Community Legend
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Interesting bug shows the time of this song 12:34 as a full timestamp "1899.12.30 12:34:00" instead of it's actual name "12:34". This doesn't seem to affect the web player.
Interesting bug shows the time of this song 12:34 as a full timestamp "1899.12.30 12:34:00" instead of it's actual name "12:34". This doesn't seem to affect the web player.
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