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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...
I have read dozens of posts from 2012 onwards and tried many solutions but non of them work for meI have my itunes playlists visible in Spotify and have 2 different cases1. The song artist and album is greyed out. A right mouse click gives a menu wit...
I have read dozens of posts from 2012 onwards and tried many solutions but non of them work for me I have my itunes playlists visible in Spotify and have 2 different cases 1. The song artist and al...
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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...
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hello, im in usa but im getting mexican ads pleese help
hello, im in usa but im getting mexican ads pleese help
Casual Listener
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Interesting bug shows the time of this song 12:34 as a full timestamp "1899.12.30 12:34:00" instead of it's actual name "12:34". This doesn't seem to affect the web player.
Interesting bug shows the time of this song 12:34 as a full timestamp "1899.12.30 12:34:00" instead of it's actual name "12:34". This doesn't seem to affect the web player.
Regular
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Hello, I wanted to copy a playlist from an old account. The internet connection stopped and then this happened: http://prntscr.com/ec69b2 I can't remove the playlist. Any idea how to fix this?
Hello, I wanted to copy a playlist from an old account. The internet connection stopped and then this happened: http://prntscr.com/ec69b2 I can't remove the playlist. Any idea how t...
Music Fan
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I cannot sort my playlist. I like to move my music for my fitness classes around and clicked on something and it locked it up. Please help.
I cannot sort my playlist. I like to move my music for my fitness classes around and clicked on something and it locked it up. Please help.
Newbie
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Hi, I have a work laptop. My company is happy for me to install the Spotify application, but I cannot stream music while at work, as this is against company policy in order to maintain bandwidth. Is there a way to listen to my downloaded playlists of...
Hi, I have a work laptop. My company is happy for me to install the Spotify application, but I cannot stream music while at work, as this is against company policy in order to maintain...
Casual Listener
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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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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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Spotify Star
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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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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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When I first downloaded Spotify there was an icon on my taskbar & I could open it when I wanted. Recently it started automatically opening on a start or restart. Under advanced setting I have selected NO where is asks me if I want it to do that. The ...
When I first downloaded Spotify there was an icon on my taskbar & I could open it when I wanted. Recently it started automatically opening on a start or restart. Under advanced setting I have sel...
Casual Listener
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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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Recently I noticed that every one of my saved albums only seem to have one or two tracks listed (as if I've only saved those tracks, which is not the case), despite the fact that the whole albums are available to play. I'm not sure what logic it is u...
Recently I noticed that every one of my saved albums only seem to have one or two tracks listed (as if I've only saved those tracks, which is not the case), despite the fact that the whole albums are...
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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 ...
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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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So first of all, I did search and found topics about this, but none of them seemed to be exactly the situation that I have here. I got Spotify today, and started playing around with it. When I got the Desktop app, I saw it was recognizing the music I...
So first of all, I did search and found topics about this, but none of them seemed to be exactly the situation that I have here. I got Spotify today, and started playing around with it. When...
Casual Listener
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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'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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