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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, I'm wondering if it's possible to control the music volume my desktop when the music is streamed from my android phone to my Chromecast. When I open the desktop app, it sees which song is playing and I can pause, resume and even switch to other s...
Hi, I'm wondering if it's possible to control the music volume my desktop when the music is streamed from my android phone to my Chromecast. When I open the desktop app, it sees wh...
Regular
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My old crappy computer used to play spotify fine when playing full-screen online games. Upgraded my rig last week and now a few days ago I noticed it starts stuttering when I start playing a game and now it not only stutters but also makes the game l...
My old crappy computer used to play spotify fine when playing full-screen online games. Upgraded my rig last week and now a few days ago I noticed it starts stuttering when I start playing a game and...
Newbie
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I've just signed up to Premium and now my spotify is going crazy. It will play a few songs and then come up with one of several problems: 1) It just says 'Can't play song' at the top2) It says I should import the file if I have it on my computer 3) I...
I've just signed up to Premium and now my spotify is going crazy. It will play a few songs and then come up with one of several problems: 1) It just says 'Can't play song' at the top 2) It sa...
Roadie
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I create playlists out of albums so I can listen to them later. I used to make folders to organize them. I just tried making a folder and it will only let me organize music from the "browse" subcategory. This is making for an awful experience as I ha...
I create playlists out of albums so I can listen to them later. I used to make folders to organize them. I just tried making a folder and it will only let me organize music from the "browse" subcateg...
Community Legend
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When I try to open Spotify from the shortcut the loading icon pops up on my cursor then goes away after a couple seconds, then nothing happens.When I try to uninstall Spotify through control panel it says "Please wait until the current program is fin...
When I try to open Spotify from the shortcut the loading icon pops up on my cursor then goes away after a couple seconds, then nothing happens.When I try to uninstall Spotify through control pan...
Roadie
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When i add one local file on one computer, why can't i download it on my second computer ?
When i add one local file on one computer, why can't i download it on my second computer ?
Community Legend
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Spotify! Please please please add Bluetooth support. Life would be soooo much better if you did! Thanks for staying with me through that long message. Just needed to get that out of my system
Spotify! Please please please add Bluetooth support. Life would be soooo much better if you did! Thanks for staying with me through that long message. Just needed to get that out of my system
Casual Listener
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On my windows 10 laptop songs marked explicit are skipped but when I stream these songs from my laptop to another device they do play on the oher device, even on an other laptop with windows 10.Any one any idea how to change settings so I can also pl...
On my windows 10 laptop songs marked explicit are skipped but when I stream these songs from my laptop to another device they do play on the oher device, even on an other laptop with windows 10. Any...
Roadie
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i had a big problem today for using a spotify, i simply cant hear 7/10 of my song, when i play a song, it basically gave me a notification saying that "This song is not available. if you have the file on your computer you can import it", i've double ...
i had a big problem today for using a spotify, i simply cant hear 7/10 of my song, when i play a song, it basically gave me a notification saying that "This song is not available. if you have the fil...
Music Fan
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hey, if I add someone who has already primiumwill stop invoices automatically?
hey, if I add someone who has already primium will stop invoices automatically?
Roadie
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My Spotify for Windows lags in playing, pausing, skipping, changing tracks. Once pause is pressed, there is a lag of around 20 seconds or so before the song will actually pause, and during this period the song progress is still moving forward in the ...
My Spotify for Windows lags in playing, pausing, skipping, changing tracks. Once pause is pressed, there is a lag of around 20 seconds or so before the song will actually pause, and during this perio...
Casual Listener
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I use Spotify Premium both on my Android and Windows. For at least past 6 months I'm unable to download my playlists at Windows app. When I toggle "download" it works fine, but when Windows restarts it resets and all playlists get back to Online mode...
I use Spotify Premium both on my Android and Windows. For at least past 6 months I'm unable to download my playlists at Windows app. When I toggle "download" it works fine, but when Windows ...
Moderator
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Hello, I'm spotify user for 1 year. Can you have a BI Data of my playlists and music preferences? Can you stop to send me playlists with "not-preferred musics"? Please, collect all data possible and show me only playlists with "preferred musics"!!
Hello, I'm spotify user for 1 year. Can you have a BI Data of my playlists and music preferences? Can you stop to send me playlists with "not-preferred musics"? Please, collect all ...
Community Legend
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Dear all,I understand that the free service is a great opportunity, and I can happily deal with audio advertising The "problem" comes with the "visual" advert, a.k.a. the popups that appears on the (Windows) desktop client.It wouldn't be a problem to...
Dear all, I understand that the free service is a great opportunity, and I can happily deal with audio advertising 🙂 The "problem" comes with the "visual" advert, a.k.a. the popups that ap...
Community Legend
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I have been getting 5-10 songs in languages I don't understand for the last couple of months in my discover weekly. I listen to Russian and English songs but these songs are in some weird languages that I don't recognize. How do I get rid of them?
I have been getting 5-10 songs in languages I don't understand for the last couple of months in my discover weekly. I listen to Russian and English songs but these songs are in some weird languages t...
Newbie
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When I click the "find friends" button it just prompts me to connect to facebook. I don't have a facebook, however I do have friends on Spotify. In the past I could see these friends in the sidebar but right now the sidebar is occupied with this "fin...
When I click the "find friends" button it just prompts me to connect to facebook. I don't have a facebook, however I do have friends on Spotify. In the past I could see these friends in the sidebar b...
Casual Listener
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Every time I have installed Spotify on my computer, it doesn't work. It skips songs, plays a whole 10 seconds, then switches to another song or it will just not play any sound but show the song like it is playing. I have done everything that has been...
Every time I have installed Spotify on my computer, it doesn't work. It skips songs, plays a whole 10 seconds, then switches to another song or it will just not play any sound but show the song like ...
Not applicable
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Whenever I scroll with mouse wheel, sptify volume banner shows up and controlling the volume. I couldn't use my house wheel for regular scrolling/zooming features in my PC anymore. I tried disabling in the preferences => show desktop overlay when usi...
Whenever I scroll with mouse wheel, sptify volume banner shows up and controlling the volume. I couldn't use my house wheel for regular scrolling/zooming features in my PC anymore. I tried disabling ...
Newbie
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EDIT: The latest download from the Spotify web site installed properly and the Windows 10 desktop program is now working again with no issues. If this doesn't work for you, sorry - I've seen that many people have this problem and that there are numer...
EDIT: The latest download from the Spotify web site installed properly and the Windows 10 desktop program is now working again with no issues. If this doesn't work for you, sorry - I've seen that man...
Newbie
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Hey guys, every time I want to go on the playlists of the charts it says that there is a problem and the playlist is not shown. So I can't see the songs and click on them. What can I do?
Hey guys, every time I want to go on the playlists of the charts it says that there is a problem and the playlist is not shown. So I can't see the songs and click on them. What can I do?
Casual Listener
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