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Can't play an artist's discography on the desktop app

Plan Premium Device PC / Android My Question or Issue This happened a few days ago. Normally when i clicked an Artist > Discography > Show All > And play a song, the next song was from the next album of the artist. Now, the next song is a random one ...

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Issue : no volume control in spotify when exclusive mode is activated

Premium member, France, Windows 10 64 bits updated, Focusrite Audio solo usb external soundcard updated, Desktop app updated I talk with the customer service, we try to solve my problem and they told me that it should be an issue that I have to talk ...

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MIKAAAAEL

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Black Screen (June 15 2026 install)

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceDesktop PC IntelOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueFollowed clean re-install instructions after getting black screen at startup. Installed the latest June 15 version from the Windows Store. Ran once without p...

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Windows Troubleshooting Guide

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 are...

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Can't uninstall spotify

I am unable to uninstall spotify. When I try to unistall from control panel it says I have insufficient access to uninstall. Please help me.

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I am unable to uninstall spotify. When I try to unistall from control panel it says I have insufficient access to uninstall. Please help me.

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Spotify Windows App on the Fritz

When I start playing any playlist (my own or Spotify curated) the currently playing song skips around every second or so as if it's doing some kind of scan/seek. No audio plays. Same for any playlist and same when restarting the app. This behavior st...

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When I start playing any playlist (my own or Spotify curated) the currently playing song skips around every second or so as if it's doing some kind of scan/seek. No audio plays. Same for any playlist...

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I got Virus

I downloaded spotify for Desktop, Windows and the antivirus alerted me about Trojan

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I downloaded spotify for Desktop, Windows and the antivirus alerted me about Trojan

oldFakebooker

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So we finally have a Filter option in the Saved Albums section

But why oh why it only filters by album names and doesn't show me all the albums saved by an artist if I type in the artist name. Boggles my mind.

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But why oh why it only filters by album names and doesn't show me all the albums saved by an artist if I type in the artist name. Boggles my mind.

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Hey,For a few weeks I have a little problem.If I use spotify on my computer, spotfy stopped playing music sometimes and play it on my android smartphone.What can I do?

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Hey, For a few weeks I have a little problem. If I use spotify on my computer, spotfy stopped playing music sometimes and play it on my android smartphone. What can I do?

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Podcast help

I am currently listening to the nosleep podcast on my phone, but am trying to listen to it on my computer. I cannot find it anywhere online on my computer using spotify but have no problem finding it on my phone.

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I am currently listening to the nosleep podcast on my phone, but am trying to listen to it on my computer. I cannot find it anywhere online on my computer using spotify but have no problem finding it...

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Solved!! auto start spotify

when i start up my computer it automatically starts spotify. Does anyone knon how to disable this?

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when i start up my computer it automatically starts spotify. Does anyone knon how to disable this?    

jkss

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Feedback new version of spotify

Hi! Share on right click menu is wrong i cant use "https://open.spotify.com/track"is iframe or "spotify:track:" and other social media.Why is not there to choose regular link as "https://open.spotify.com/track"? This links i can use now for new versi...

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Hi!   Share on right click menu is wrong i cant use "https://open.spotify.com/track" is iframe or "spotify:track:" and other social media.Why is not there to choose regular link as "https://o...

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Meine Bibliothek der Songs wird nicht auf meinem Desktop angzeigt

Wie schon im Thema genannt kann ich meine Songs nicht auf meinem Desktop sehen, obwohl ich sie auf mienem Iphone auswählen kann und mein desktop die dann auch abspielt. Es wird nur angezeigt das ich auf Browse ausgewählte Lieder dann unter dem Punkt ...

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Wie schon im Thema genannt kann ich meine Songs nicht auf meinem Desktop sehen, obwohl ich sie auf mienem Iphone auswählen kann und mein desktop die dann auch abspielt. Es wird nur angezeigt das ich ...

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Private Mode No Longer Hides Facebook Name/Picture?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Why spotify. Just why. I used private mode while streaming videogames online so people couldn't see my name/facebook, and now I have to risk strangers seeing my stuff?Why would you change this? Please change it back. There's zero logical reason as to...

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Why spotify.  Just why.  I used private mode while streaming videogames online so people couldn't see my name/facebook, and now I have to risk strangers seeing my stuff? Why would you ch...

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Share Function

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. I really don't like having to share twice in order to share to both Facebook and Twitter. What happened to being able to do both simultaneously?

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Maybe I'm doing something wrong. I really don't like having to share twice in order to share to both Facebook and Twitter. What happened to being able to do both simultaneously?

MattSuda

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Solved!! No Discover Weekly

I've been using spotify on this account for almost a month now, listening to music every day. It is premium, and I've listened to many diffirent albums, so where is it?It's been 3/² weeks of daily usage.

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I've been using spotify on this account for almost a month now, listening to music every day. It is premium, and I've listened to many diffirent albums, so where is it? It's been 3/² weeks of daily ...

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Spotify deletes my local files.

So I often will legally download free music from mediafire and such and it use to always be in my local files but now when I do this it registers it as being there and then once I reboot spotify it will have removed all of those songs from the local ...

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So I often will legally download free music from mediafire and such and it use to always be in my local files but now when I do this it registers it as being there and then once I reboot spotify it w...

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Half of the songs are not appearing in my Local Files?

Hi there, I recently noticed a new problem I have just occured. When I tried to add songs onto one folder, they do not appear into my local files. I have unistalled Spotify and reinstalled. After the Reinstallation proccess, I have gone into prefrenc...

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Hi there, I recently noticed a new problem I have just occured. When I tried to add songs onto one folder, they do not appear into my local files. I have unistalled Spotify and reinstalled. After the...

kqcusack

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Unable to play music from desktop app

I have been enjoying my playing from my desktop app for sometime, but now all of a sudden it has stopped working. Every time I try playing a song it gives me a blue error that says "The song is not available. If you have the file on your computer you...

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I have been enjoying my playing from my desktop app for sometime, but now all of a sudden it has stopped working. Every time I try playing a song it gives me a blue error that says "The song is not a...

MattSuda

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Superuser Contribution Playlists Restarting

Whenever I click play on a playlist, it restarts from song #1, no matter what # song I paused on or how far into it I was. This never happened before. Note that this is clicking on the artist from the Artists page

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Whenever I click play on a playlist, it restarts from song #1, no matter what # song I paused on or how far into it I was. This never happened before. Note that this is clicking on the artist from th...

firebuff101

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Superuser Contribution Can't Play Specific Track

I used to be able to click the little play button next to a specific track and play that specific track. That feature does not appear to be functioning. Does anyone have a solution?

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I used to be able to click the little play button next to a specific track and play that specific track. That feature does not appear to be functioning. Does anyone have a solution? 

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Superuser Contribution Constant crashing - I have Spotify Premium everytime I open it it crashes immediately

Using Windows 7 on PC. For months this has been happening, usually immediately the programme opens and always within minutes. I've uninstalled and reinstalled - no difference. Does Spotify not provide any customer service - I'm paying £10 a month for...

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Using Windows 7 on PC.    For months this has been happening, usually immediately the programme opens and always within minutes.  I've uninstalled and reinstalled - no difference....

Maria_B

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Superuser Contribution [Windows 10] Spotify rapidly pauses and unpauses

My Spotify on my laptop will not stop glitching out. If I play any song, it'll rapidly unpause and pause again like I'm holding down the spacebar, making most music I listen to downright choppy or unbearable. I also have uninstalled and reinstalled i...

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My Spotify on my laptop will not stop glitching out. If I play any song, it'll rapidly unpause and pause again like I'm holding down the spacebar, making most music I listen to downright choppy or un...

Maria_B

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Windows app fails to display album art for some local files

I've seen this issue mentioned in a few threads, but I'd like to raise another flag for it since the problem has still not been fixed. I'm running Spotify 1.0.52.725.g943b26a8 on Windows 10 and I mostly use the Spotify catalog, but I have some local ...

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I've seen this issue mentioned in a few threads, but I'd like to raise another flag for it since the problem has still not been fixed.   I'm running Spotify 1.0.52.725.g943b26a8 on Window...

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