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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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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...

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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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Some songs being added to my library

( warning : bad english )Hey guys, i have a weird problem. Whenever i log into my account I see some songs in my library that i didn't add. After I saw them, I delete them and the next time i log into my account they are back in there. I'm using my a...

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( warning : bad english 😕 ) Hey guys, i have a weird problem. Whenever i log into my account I see some songs in my library that i didn't add. After I saw them, I delete them and the next time i lo...

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Spotify starts a song, plays it for 0.01 seconds and then restarts the song

And that repeats all the time. It was working perfectly just a few weeks ago. Now it's unusable. It sometimes plays the song for 1 second and then restarts that song and repeats. So you hear like "Ah..... Ah.... Ah...." the beginning of the song over...

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And that repeats all the time. It was working perfectly just a few weeks ago. Now it's unusable. It sometimes plays the song for 1 second and then restarts that song and repeats. So you hear like "Ah...

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Cache Harddrive issues?

Hey I've been reading online that Spotify keeps writing on your harddrive. Since it goes onto the system harddrive (my SSD) I heard that it can be bad. true or false?

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Hey I've been reading online that Spotify keeps writing on your harddrive. Since it goes onto the system harddrive (my SSD) I heard that it can be bad. true or false?

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Music only playing for 2 seconds

I was listening to music all morning with no problem and then the player paused the song. Now when I hit play, it only plays the song for 2 seconds and pauses it again.

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I was listening to music all morning with no problem and then the player paused the song. Now when I hit play, it only plays the song for 2 seconds and pauses it again. 

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Sharp buzzing during playback?

I'm using Windows 10 to stream Spotify and just took them up on the offer of premium for 99 cents, but thinking about canceling and never using them again, and I have been using them on my cellphone also, problems there also, the problems on the desk...

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I'm using Windows 10 to stream Spotify and just took them up on the offer of premium for 99 cents, but thinking about canceling and never using them again, and I have been using them on my cellphone ...

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