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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 ar...

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Solved!! Desktop: Jam now available

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...

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Desktop: New "Now Playing View" sidebar

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...

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New Your Library sidebar

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...

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Keyboard Play/Pause Button Wont Work When Spotify is Minimised

Starting today, my play/pause button wont work when spotify is minimised, i'm pretty sure it isnt my keyboard because it works with other programs and it stopped working when i updated spotify. My keyboard is a Saitek Cyborg keyboard, when spotify is...

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Starting today, my play/pause button wont work when spotify is minimised, i'm pretty sure it isnt my keyboard because it works with other programs and it stopped working when i updated spotify. ...

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Solved!! Shuffle not working on desktop version

The shuffle function on my laptop has an odd habit of only picking the next 50 or so songs in the playlist I have selected. This however is only a problem on my computer; the iOS shuffle version works wonderfully. A comparision between the shuffled s...

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The  shuffle function on my laptop has an odd habit of only picking the next 50 or so songs in the playlist I have selected. This however is only a problem on my computer; the iOS shuffle v...

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Removal of key features

Dear Spotify community,I´m a Spotify user since around 2 years now and it really sets me of how they are dealing with us customers. There are things that are just not justifyable. THERE ARE KEY FEATURES A PROGRAMM NEEDS TO HAVE IF IT CALLS SOCIAL! Th...

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Dear Spotify community, I´m a Spotify user since around 2 years now and it really sets me of how they are dealing with us customers. There are things that are just not justifyable. THERE ARE KEY FEA...

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Spotify is constantly restarting

In practice, once or twice a minute while listening to music, the application is restarted on its own, what is the solution?

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In practice, once or twice a minute while listening to music, the application is restarted on its own, what is the solution?

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Premium account won't play any music (music unavailable error)

Hi, I've just installed Spotify on a new PC running Windows 10 and despite allowing Spotify in my Firewall settings, I can't play any music. Every track I try and play results in a blue bar popping up saying 'This song is not available. If you have t...

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Hi, I've just installed Spotify on a new PC running Windows 10 and despite allowing Spotify in my Firewall settings,  I can't play any music. Every track I try and play results in a blue bar pop...

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Con't move playlist to folder - solved I think

I notice several people have had the same problem I've had moving playlists into folders. You can drag the playlist over the folder and the + sign appears, but when you release,the playlist is just moved to the location before or after the folder, no...

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I notice several people have had the same problem I've had moving playlists into folders.  You can drag the playlist over the folder and the + sign appears, but when you release,the playlist is ...

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Solved!! Can't pause/switch song when window is minimized

I'm using the desktop app for Windows and every previous version of Spotify but the latest update has made it possible for me to switch and play/pause songs using the designated keys on my Acer SK-9621 keyboard when the program window is minimized. I...

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I'm using the desktop app for Windows and every previous version of Spotify but the latest update has made it possible for me to switch and play/pause songs using the designated keys on my Acer SK-96...

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NonRepeating Radio-- AllOfSpotify

What do you think? No repeat radio No track limits - No duplicates True shuffling - All of Spotify Automatically updated periodically I offer you AllOfSpotify_Radio >> AllOfSpotify_Radio << with No track limits-- No infuriating repeats!-- Includes pr...

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  What do you think?                      No repeat radio           No tr...

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Imported songs get their metadata changed to random and wrong information

So i imported a song to spotify so i could upload it to my phone. The song is called Still by JJThe artist JJ exist on spotify but the album my song is on iss missing.After i added the song to the local data spotify changed it to The Blood Still Work...

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So i imported a song to spotify so i could upload it to my phone.   The song is called Still by JJ The artist JJ exist on spotify but the album my song is on iss missing. After i added the s...

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F-secure freedome

HelloI'm having constant problems with my spotify connection while having f-secure freedome on.

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Hello I'm having constant problems with my spotify connection while having f-secure freedome on.

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Solved!! Playlists stop playing and interrupted by songs on my "my music" list

When I go to one of my playlists and hit the "play button" on my windows desktop version of Spotify, it will play only one song from that playlist and then start playing songs that I've saved but AREN'T part of the current playlist. This didn't start...

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When I go to one of my playlists and hit the "play button" on my windows desktop version of Spotify, it will play only one song from that playlist and then start playing songs that I've saved but ARE...

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Spotify stops updating, shows the same song all the time.

Hello.I´m having a problem with the w10 Spotify. The feed to the right, showing song name and album, stops updating so it´s always the first song I played that I played that keeps showing. Anyone else having this problem?

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Hello. I´m having a problem with the w10 Spotify. The feed to the right, showing song name and album, stops updating so it´s always the first song I played that I played that keeps showing. Anyone e...

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Künstler folgen Spotify free

Hallo zusammenWenn ich auf meinem Spotify free Account auf den Button "Künstler folgen" drücke, gehe ich davon aus, dass ich diesem Künstler nun folge. Nach wenigen Minuten merke ich, dass ich dem Künstler doch nicht mehr folge und den Button erneut ...

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Hallo zusammen Wenn ich auf meinem Spotify free Account auf den Button "Künstler folgen" drücke, gehe ich davon aus, dass ich diesem Künstler nun folge. Nach wenigen Minuten merke ich, dass ich dem ...

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I can not import my Itunes playlist on Spotify - Nothing Happens

Hello, Everything is in the title. I can't manage to import my Itunes playlist on my Spotify Prenium application in my PC. I have already made the following steps : Went to my itunes -> Files -> preferences -> advanced -> checked the box "share the X...

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Hello,  Everything is in the title. I can't manage to import my Itunes playlist on my Spotify Prenium application in my PC. I have already made the following steps :  Went to my itunes -&...

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music file half blank

Listening Flowers in the snow - Park Hyosin. It does play but no music in the middle. After 2:38, the arrow still moves till the end with silent, then goes to the next song. i assmue the musci file itself is half blank somewhat.

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Listening Flowers in the snow - Park Hyosin. It does play but no music in the middle. After 2:38, the arrow still moves till the end with silent, then goes to the next song. i assmue the musci f...

Bittencourt

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"This song is not available" error

I have had this problem for some days now, Spotify will not play anything on my laptop, it keeps saying "This song is not available". I've uninstalled the app and reinstalled it, I've tried turning it off and back on again but still not working. On m...

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I have had this problem for some days now, Spotify will not play anything on my laptop, it keeps saying "This song is not available". I've uninstalled the app and reinstalled it, I've tried turn...

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"Song is not availible"

Every time I try to play a song on spotify, the same message always appears at the top of the screen and hilighted in blue: "This song is not availible. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." Any song that I try to play on my deskt...

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Every time I try to play a song on spotify, the same message always appears at the top of the screen and hilighted in blue: "This song is not availible. If you have the file on your computer you can ...

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Desktop won't let me play any music at all

I've been using Spotify on my old laptop for months. I just got a new one, and it worked for the first day of using it. And now it wont let me play any music whatsoever, and I don't know what to do. Any time I click on a song to play, a notification ...

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I've been using Spotify on my old laptop for months. I just got a new one, and it worked for the first day of using it. And now it wont let me play any music whatsoever, and I don't know what to do. ...

Bittencourt

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Solved!! Do iTunes files affect playback/downloading of songs?

I used to primarily use iTunes, but it's such a pain in the **bleep** after a while, having to buy all the songs I want, and download the others that I couldn't find on iTunes. I noticed that after switching to spotify, I played some songs that I kne...

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I used to primarily use iTunes, but it's such a pain in the **bleep** after a while, having to buy all the songs I want, and download the others that I couldn't find on iTunes. I noticed that after s...

kirashi

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Spotify pauses after every song

Spotify on my Windows 8.1 machine pauses after playing one song. It is super annoying and only does it on this device. Luckily I have and auto hot key script that lets me skip to the next song and it will begin to play. I have to do this every time I...

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Spotify on my Windows 8.1 machine pauses after playing one song. It is super annoying and only does it on this device. Luckily I have and auto hot key script that lets me skip to the next song and it...

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