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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...
Odd thing that just started happening on my laptop, I was playing songs from the 'Bass Face' playlist and whenever I select to play a song, or a song finishes and goes on to the next one it will more often than not start the song anywhere from 30 sec...
Odd thing that just started happening on my laptop, I was playing songs from the 'Bass Face' playlist and whenever I select to play a song, or a song finishes and goes on to the next one it will more...
Casual Listener
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Hi All, I have a subscription on the 'Martin Garrix House Party'-playlist and the 'Hardwell's House Party'-playlist. Both are created by Spotify. I have two questions:On my iPhone the play perfectly and the tracks are very nicely mixed together. But,...
Hi All, I have a subscription on the 'Martin Garrix House Party'-playlist and the 'Hardwell's House Party'-playlist. Both are created by Spotify. I have two questions: On my iPhone the pla...
Newbie
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Hello community,I have a working Sophos UTM9 proxy. THe clients get the proxy configuration via gpo and authenticate against the proxy with SSO. That's work fine. Except spotify dekstop app. It cannot connect using Auto detect settings (which means u...
Hello community, I have a working Sophos UTM9 proxy. THe clients get the proxy configuration via gpo and authenticate against the proxy with SSO. That's work fine. Except spotify dekstop app. It can...
Roadie
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Ich kann mich schon seit Monaten nicht unter Windows 10 Anmelden, unter Windows 7 hat es Problemlos geklappt. Ich drücke auf den Facebook anmelde Button, er öffnet erfolgreich die Spotify Seite und sagt mir "you may now close the Window", nur leider ...
Ich kann mich schon seit Monaten nicht unter Windows 10 Anmelden, unter Windows 7 hat es Problemlos geklappt. Ich drücke auf den Facebook anmelde Button, er öffnet erfolgreich die Spotify Se...
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Hello, I have a home computer that acts as a spotify server that I can control and play music through. It is windows 10 and I have spotify always running on it. I am logged in with my account and it works great. The problem is that my wife cannot see...
Hello, I have a home computer that acts as a spotify server that I can control and play music through. It is windows 10 and I have spotify always running on it. I am logged in with my accoun...
Casual Listener
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After working completely fine for half a year, the Spotify desktop application did not start since today. It appears in my taskmanager when I try to open it, but only as a background process.I tried to uninstall/reinstall Spotify, but wasn't able to ...
After working completely fine for half a year, the Spotify desktop application did not start since today. It appears in my taskmanager when I try to open it, but only as a background process. I trie...
Roadie
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Hello,I tryit to start spotify ... but nothing happends. then i close the process spotify.exe and i try it again. nothing happends a new spotfy.exe process started. i close spotify.exe and webhelper.... .exe. and i've try it again but again nothing h...
Hello, I tryit to start spotify ... but nothing happends. then i close the process spotify.exe and i try it again. nothing happends a new spotfy.exe process started. i close spotify.exe and webhelpe...
Casual Listener
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Depuis deux jours sur mon pc principal sous windows 10 spotify ne marche plus, j'ai essayé de le retélécharger, de le réinstaller, de redémarrer l'ordinateur... rien n'y fait, le programme ne démarre tout simplement pas. Il tourne néanmoins puisqu'on...
Depuis deux jours sur mon pc principal sous windows 10 spotify ne marche plus, j'ai essayé de le retélécharger, de le réinstaller, de redémarrer l'ordinateur... rien n'y fait, le programme ne démarre...
Roadie
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Hey guys, I'm a new spotify user and I really enjoy having a good sound when I listen to music. I have high impedance sennheiser headphones and got an asus strix headphone amp for these. It comes with the sonic studio software to fiddle with the soun...
Hey guys, I'm a new spotify user and I really enjoy having a good sound when I listen to music. I have high impedance sennheiser headphones and got an asus strix headphone amp for these. It ...
Casual Listener
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In ver 1.0.47, the Windows Taskbar controls for Prev, Play/Pause, and Next are no longer displayed. I think this was removed several versions ago, but then put back after multiple [justifiable] complaints. Anyone know when this feature might be put b...
In ver 1.0.47, the Windows Taskbar controls for Prev, Play/Pause, and Next are no longer displayed. I think this was removed several versions ago, but then put back after multiple [justifiable]...
Casual Listener
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Hi allAfter 10-15 minutes listening music with premium spotify. A blue pop-up shows up above with this message: "Can't play the current song" This is only happening on my laptop and it started this morning, my other devices are working fine. I've uni...
Hi all After 10-15 minutes listening music with premium spotify. A blue pop-up shows up above with this message: "Can't play the current song" This is only happening on my laptop and it sta...
Roadie
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Hi there! I've recently sent a public playlist to a friend (whom I'm friends with on Facebook) but Spotify did not notify her that she was sent the playlist. - There was no notification by email or any sort of notification within the desktop app on t...
Hi there! I've recently sent a public playlist to a friend (whom I'm friends with on Facebook) but Spotify did not notify her that she was sent the playlist. - There was no not...
Casual Listener
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music randomly deleted off of phone, app crashes everytime it tries to redownload songs, and then it starts over every time i open the app back up. stuck in a loop. I'm not sure if it's my dinosaur iPhone 4s or the Spotify app itself but there seems ...
music randomly deleted off of phone, app crashes everytime it tries to redownload songs, and then it starts over every time i open the app back up. stuck in a loop. I'm not sure if it's my d...
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Why are the like/upvote buttons opposite for the radio and daily mixes? Daily mix like is on the left and radio upvote is on the right. It results in a lot accidental liked/disliked songs. Please fix.
Why are the like/upvote buttons opposite for the radio and daily mixes? Daily mix like is on the left and radio upvote is on the right. It results in a lot accidental liked/disliked songs. Please fix.
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When I click to open spotify, my cursor changes into the loading cursor, and that's it. The same thing happens when I try to uninstall spotify. I've tried practically everything from posts similar to mine, but nothing has worked so far. Please help! ...
When I click to open spotify, my cursor changes into the loading cursor, and that's it. The same thing happens when I try to uninstall spotify. I've tried practically everything from posts similar to...
Casual Listener
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i downloaded it before and it worked, but then it stopped working (wouldn't open) so i deleted it and tried to re-download it. now each time i have tried it says that spotify is already running so it won't work - any suggestions?
i downloaded it before and it worked, but then it stopped working (wouldn't open) so i deleted it and tried to re-download it. now each time i have tried it says that spotify is already running so it...
Roadie
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Hi, Since this weekend my spotify won't start on Windows 7.Can't even uninstall the software. Processes get started but seems to hang and take 25% CPU power constantly. Spotify version: 1.0.47.13.gd8e05b1f Does any one have an idea how to resolve thi...
Hi, Since this weekend my spotify won't start on Windows 7. Can't even uninstall the software. Processes get started but seems to hang and take 25% CPU power constantly. S...
Casual Listener
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So I recently had a very annoying problem in Spotify and I find myself not able to see spotify launched. First I opened Task Manager and I found a spotify app running in the backround I tried to close it and open Spotify after that I went to Spotify'...
So I recently had a very annoying problem in Spotify and I find myself not able to see spotify launched. First I opened Task Manager and I found a spotify app running in the backround I tried to...
Casual Listener
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My Spotify hasn't been opening for the last few days. So today I tried installing Spotify off a setup file I already had from a year ago. It worked! But I wanted the latest vesion again (last update before the problem was when the daily mixes came ou...
My Spotify hasn't been opening for the last few days. So today I tried installing Spotify off a setup file I already had from a year ago. It worked! But I wanted the latest vesion again (last update ...
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