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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...
Bonjour, Depuis la mise à jour 1.0.49.xxx de spotify j'ai remarqué que les touches multimédia du clavier ne fonctionnent plus ( pour mettre en pause ou passer à la musique suivante par exemple ). J'ai testé sur deux ordinateurs différents et le probl...
Bonjour, Depuis la mise à jour 1.0.49.xxx de spotify j'ai remarqué que les touches multimédia du clavier ne fonctionnent plus ( pour mettre en pause ou passer à la musique suivante par ...
Casual Listener
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Lets say i want to listen to Sgt Peppers album by The Beatles (thru the PC app/software)It skips the first song, goes to the second (the blue notification bar appears saying the track is not available).I press next, it skips ten songs saying the same...
Lets say i want to listen to Sgt Peppers album by The Beatles (thru the PC app/software) It skips the first song, goes to the second (the blue notification bar appears saying the track is not availa...
Casual Listener
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As title - work around is to manually open and minimize spotify.
As title - work around is to manually open and minimize spotify.
Visitor
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There is a bug I believe in the spotify desktop version, where sometimes, the program just won't change the output to the output device you chose. Sometimes if I restard Spotify and switch playback devices, it does actually work, sometimes it doesn't...
There is a bug I believe in the spotify desktop version, where sometimes, the program just won't change the output to the output device you chose. Sometimes if I restard Spotify and switch playback d...
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For some reason, recently i can't get a single song to play on my downloaded Spotify for my computer. It's worked like a charm for months past, but recently, it just keeps skipping song after song in each of my playlists. I am a Premium user and am v...
For some reason, recently i can't get a single song to play on my downloaded Spotify for my computer. It's worked like a charm for months past, but recently, it just keeps skipping song after song in...
Casual Listener
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you know the drill; I added some mp3's to the "local files" portion of spotify through what should have been the normal method of adding mp3 files to a program, this was the smooth part. Obviously the not so smooth part is when all of my songs become...
you know the drill; I added some mp3's to the "local files" portion of spotify through what should have been the normal method of adding mp3 files to a program, this was the smooth part. Obviously th...
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I have the Sptify web player and I want to change the break between the songs. Is that possible and can anyone tell me how to do this?
I have the Sptify web player and I want to change the break between the songs. Is that possible and can anyone tell me how to do this?
Moderator
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After zooming out to the last 2 stages it stops resizing properly. I can force it if i change my zoom mode but . as soon as i go beyond zoom lvl 2 it starts this. I tried to disable hardware acc no change.have a Nvidia 970gtx and 378.66 but it happen...
After zooming out to the last 2 stages it stops resizing properly. I can force it if i change my zoom mode but . as soon as i go beyond zoom lvl 2 it starts this. I tried to disable hardware a...
Newbie
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This has happened twice now: I go off for lunch and hear reports when I'm back from colleagues that music would randomly burst from speakers. The first time, I did not play spotify from my phone, the second time I did. So no clear correlation. In all...
This has happened twice now: I go off for lunch and hear reports when I'm back from colleagues that music would randomly burst from speakers. The first time, I did not play spotify from my p...
Regular
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I am trying to add some music to Spotify using local files but I am having a problem with it identifying the songs incorrectly, despite the files having the correct metadata. This is happening with an album from Amanda Palmer with a similar name to o...
I am trying to add some music to Spotify using local files but I am having a problem with it identifying the songs incorrectly, despite the files having the correct metadata. This is happening ...
Casual Listener
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Spotify Star
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I ripped some CD's yesterday onto Windows Media Player. I have set preferrences in settings to WMP, c drive playlists, my music, etc. I have set WMP as my import from in files. Notghing is showing up in Local Files or Windows Media Player. PLEASE HEL...
I ripped some CD's yesterday onto Windows Media Player. I have set preferrences in settings to WMP, c drive playlists, my music, etc. I have set WMP as my import from in files. Notg...
Music Fan
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Hey all! Just wanted to post this quick tutorial I made to show others how to add users on Spotify without connecting Facebook! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nqQqc1QPY Enjoy!
Hey all! Just wanted to post this quick tutorial I made to show others how to add users on Spotify without connecting Facebook! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nqQqc1QPY ...
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Listened Friday, today I go to my artist tab and all of the albums are gone from under each artist, only popular (like 4 songs) appear under the artist. Windows 10 Desktop.
Listened Friday, today I go to my artist tab and all of the albums are gone from under each artist, only popular (like 4 songs) appear under the artist. Windows 10 Desktop.
Casual Listener
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Hello. Every time I start my spotify, it ask me "it's already on your computer would you like to do it anyway" or similar. EVERY TIME i start my PC. On top of that, most of the time it's full of bugs and mostly when I play music it shows the song i p...
Hello. Every time I start my spotify, it ask me "it's already on your computer would you like to do it anyway" or similar. EVERY TIME i start my PC. On top of that, most of the time it's full of bugs...
Casual Listener
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We have a Dell computer that came with a partitioned hard drive - a smaller C: drive for core files and a larger drive we presume for dowloads and content etc. The problem we have always had is everything download wants to automatically go to C: driv...
We have a Dell computer that came with a partitioned hard drive - a smaller C: drive for core files and a larger 😧 drive we presume for dowloads and content etc. The problem we have always ...
Casual Listener
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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...
Regular
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I have been shuffling on my "Songs" section which currently contains around 1,200 songs. sometimes when listening to them on shuffle it gets stuck only playing songs starting in a range of letters.First it was songs starting with A - D but after remo...
I have been shuffling on my "Songs" section which currently contains around 1,200 songs. sometimes when listening to them on shuffle it gets stuck only playing songs starting in a range of letters. ...
Newbie
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Hi, a song that is available on Spotify which I used to be able to play does not play anymore. Whenever I select it, it states, "This song is not available." but I know it's available since I can play it on the web player. This is really frustrating;...
Hi, a song that is available on Spotify which I used to be able to play does not play anymore. Whenever I select it, it states, "This song is not available." but I know it's available since I can pla...
Regular
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I click on a play list to download it then where dose it go? like can i save it to my desktop?
I click on a play list to download it then where dose it go? like can i save it to my desktop?
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