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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...
Hey y'all, I updated to the most recent version of Spotify last week, and since then I haven't been able to run it, like, at all. It shows up in Task Manager but doesn't actually open. Whenever I try and uninstall it via the Control Panel, it just tr...
Hey y'all, I updated to the most recent version of Spotify last week, and since then I haven't been able to run it, like, at all. It shows up in Task Manager but doesn't actually open. Whenever I try...
Newbie
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I'm not sure if this has happened since an update, but when i click to open Spotify up from my Window's task bar nothing happens, so i checked Task Manager and it's running as a background process. I've tried un and reinstalling, it hasn't helped...W...
I'm not sure if this has happened since an update, but when i click to open Spotify up from my Window's task bar nothing happens, so i checked Task Manager and it's running as a background process. I...
Roadie
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Every time I try to play any song, Spotify will say that the song is not available, and that i can upload the file for it. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the desktop app twice. Any ideas of what is happening and how can I solve this probl...
Every time I try to play any song, Spotify will say that the song is not available, and that i can upload the file for it. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the desktop app twice. Any ideas ...
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What can I do about this please?
What can I do about this please?
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I have a saved library of a couple hundred songs. When I browse my library on Spotify desktop, only about 15 of those songs appear, the rest do not show up. On my phone it works fine and I can see all my songs.
I have a saved library of a couple hundred songs. When I browse my library on Spotify desktop, only about 15 of those songs appear, the rest do not show up. On my phone it works fine and I can see al...
Community Legend
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Greetings - i truly need some assistance from a spotify windows developer I have been having provlems with Spotify Menus on my windows 7 64bit SP1 and I believe that if a developer was reviewing it would be an easy fix. Specifically, my edit menu onl...
Greetings - i truly need some assistance from a spotify windows developer 🙂 I have been having provlems with Spotify Menus on my windows 7 64bit SP1 and I believe that if a developer was re...
Regular
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Hey there,How does the "followers" system work on Spotify and why might I not have any? I discovered Spotify pretty early on and have been a huge fan and regular user ever since. However, I don't know if I've misunderstood how to use the features or ...
Hey there, How does the "followers" system work on Spotify and why might I not have any? I discovered Spotify pretty early on and have been a huge fan and regular user ever since. However, ...
Community Legend
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every time i try to run spotify i get a white screen and then spotify closes
every time i try to run spotify i get a white screen and then spotify closes
Community Legend
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Tried to listen to Sundancer by The Fumes and all the tracks, bar one, are silent. Not a hardware or software issue as everything else plays fine...
Tried to listen to Sundancer by The Fumes and all the tracks, bar one, are silent. Not a hardware or software issue as everything else plays fine...
Not applicable
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Hi all, I have noticed that Spotify does not have a "Stop" track function built in. My keyboard has the usual media keys i.e. Play/Pause, Stop, Skip Back, Skip Forward, but I have noticed however when I press the "Stop" media key Spotify does not ret...
Hi all, I have noticed that Spotify does not have a "Stop" track function built in. My keyboard has the usual media keys i.e. Play/Pause, Stop, Skip Back, Skip Forward, but I have notic...
Music Fan
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Why is there no way to contact Spotify? I've been looking for over an hour. All my playlists have disappeared and i can't get any help. No one has answered my question about it. Don't the people at spotify care? Don't they want to take responsibility...
Why is there no way to contact Spotify? I've been looking for over an hour. All my playlists have disappeared and i can't get any help. No one has answered my question about it. Don't the people at s...
Composer
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HELP!!!!!!! Since installing spotify on my laptop i keep getting the black screen of death. I've turned off hardwear accerlation and still getting it constantly. I even got it after uninstalling spotify!!! Help!!!!!!!!!! This is making it impossible ...
HELP!!!!!!! Since installing spotify on my laptop i keep getting the black screen of death. I've turned off hardwear accerlation and still getting it constantly. I even got it after uninstalling spot...
Community Legend
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Hi there, I have Spotify on my iPhone 6 and Windows laptop (same account). My laptop does not have much space, so when I save albms to offline mode on my phone, I want my computer to not save these albums. If I remove them from offline mode on my com...
Hi there, I have Spotify on my iPhone 6 and Windows laptop (same account). My laptop does not have much space, so when I save albms to offline mode on my phone, I want my computer to not sav...
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I Tried to reset my password by typing in my username that i used to create the account ... but the 'reset password' email is not showing up.. is it possible to reset it with a different email account?
I Tried to reset my password by typing in my username that i used to create the account ... but the 'reset password' email is not showing up.. is it possible to reset it with a different email accoun...
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A new issue has arose today and that is that while listening to a song on my computer on the application, my phone will randomly start playing a random song. I was listening to Flume and then my phone started playing Kasabian. Thus stopping the PC ap...
A new issue has arose today and that is that while listening to a song on my computer on the application, my phone will randomly start playing a random song. I was listening to Flume and then my phon...
Casual Listener
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Since today spotify automaticly lowers the volume of the song being played when it discovers a video being played in my browser.I can't seem to find a way to turn this off.Is there a way to turn this off or is there a work around since this is rather...
Since today spotify automaticly lowers the volume of the song being played when it discovers a video being played in my browser. I can't seem to find a way to turn this off. Is there a way to turn ...
Regular
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Visitor
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I opened spotify today to find that all my playlists are missing. All i have is the option to create my first playlist... They are all missing on my phone too, so it's not just the computer. tried relogging spotify. Any ideas?
I opened spotify today to find that all my playlists are missing. All i have is the option to create my first playlist... They are all missing on my phone too, so it's not just the computer. tried re...
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Simple fact. If I am struck by an urge to listen to a specific song, waiting for the Windows Desktop App has become a painfully slow experience. It is MUCH quicker for me to open a web browser, hop on youtube, do a search, rifle through results, and ...
Simple fact. If I am struck by an urge to listen to a specific song, waiting for the Windows Desktop App has become a painfully slow experience. It is MUCH quicker for me to open a web brow...
Newbie
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Recently I upgraded my Spotify account to Family Premium. I use Spotify Connect to play through a Gramofon, but the device is not available in the Windows Desktop Apps of my family members. The option is greyed out. So it looks like I only can use Sp...
Recently I upgraded my Spotify account to Family Premium. I use Spotify Connect to play through a Gramofon, but the device is not available in the Windows Desktop Apps of my family members. The optio...
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