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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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Solved!!Superuser Contribution How to view downloaded songs on the Spotify desktop app?

When using the Spotify desktop app, I am unable to locate a section or folder where it has all of my downloaded songs. I have to scroll through my numerous playlists in order to find those marked with the green downloaded indicator. Am I missing some...

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When using the Spotify desktop app, I am unable to locate a section or folder where it has all of my downloaded songs. I have to scroll through my numerous playlists in order to find those marked wit...

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Superuser Contribution win10,brave browser frontend

PlanFreeCountryindia Device(brave,windows)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or Issueon opening the home page the class name are also shown along the button namesimilar issue with user profile buttonsissue is same with and without brave shieldt...

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Plan Free Country india   Device (brave,windows) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue on opening the home page the class name are also shown along the button name...

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Superuser Contribution Playlists aren't downloading on pc

My Question or IssueNone of my playlists will download anymore and I don't know why. I tried disabling my firewall, changing the offline storage folder, uninstalling and reinstalling and clearing the cache and nothing is working. I also can't play an...

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My Question or Issue None of my playlists will download anymore and I don't know why. I tried disabling my firewall, changing the offline storage folder, uninstalling and reinstalling and clearing t...

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Superuser Contribution How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?

PlanPremiumDeviceAndroid and PC My Question or IssueHow do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ?Why are we able to like everything so quickly but not able to dislike them ? There is no option to hide/ban the song when I click the 3 dot or right click.I...

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Plan Premium Device Android and PC   My Question or Issue How do I hide/dislike/ban specific songs ? Why are we able to like everything so quickly but not able to dislike them ?   ...

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Superuser Contribution Not sorting podcasts properly

PlanPremiumCountryIrelandDevice(Samsung Galaxy Book Go)Operating System(Windows 11.) My Question or IssueSpotify doesn't properly sort my podcasts by recently added. The one at the end was last uploaded yesterday and one of them in the middle was Mar...

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  Plan Premium Country Ireland Device (Samsung Galaxy Book Go) Operating System (Windows 11.)   My Question or Issue Spotify doesn't properly sort my podcasts by recently added. ...

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Refuses to play any songs on Desktop Win10

PlanPremium FamilyCountryUSDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I try to open any of my playlists/library/liked songs, it shows a loading icon for ~30 seconds and then "Something went wrong while loading your albums." I can sea...

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Plan Premium Family Country US Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue When I try to open any of my playlists/library/liked songs, it shows a loading icon for ~30 ...

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Solved!! spotify doesnt play music unless its in a playlist

PlanPremiumCountryU.SDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSpotify doesn't play music unless its in a playlist. I can't just search up a song and listen, I have to add it to a playlist first. It has become very annoying. Is there a f...

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Plan Premium Country U.S Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Spotify doesn't play music unless its in a playlist. I can't just search up a song and listen, I h...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Why was the playlist manual ordering feature removed?!

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10Today 2023-03-24 I woke up to my spotify meticulously 300+ ordered playlists completely changed.The only ordering options offered are:Recent (the playlists you played recently)Recently AddedAl...

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Plan Premium Country Canada Device PC Operating System Windows 10 Today 2023-03-24 I woke up to my spotify meticulously 300+ ordered playlists completely changed. The only ordering optio...

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Superuser Contribution The desktop app lies to you when hiding a song on the release radar

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueFor over a year now my release radar has been including unknown artists that I never listen to. So I use the included "hide" feature which displays the following mess...

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Plan Premium Country Canada Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue For over a year now my release radar has been including unknown artists that I never liste...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify keeps increasing the volume of all media open

When I open the Spotify app on my computer, the audio of any media playing from my web browser is doubled. Spotify doesn't change the volume on my computer, it remains at the level I set it at, but is considerably louder without changing the number. ...

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When I open the Spotify app on my computer, the audio of any media playing from my web browser is doubled. Spotify doesn't change the volume on my computer, it remains at the level I set it at, but i...

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Superuser Contribution Songs out of order/missing from Liked Playlist

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceDell LaptopOperating SystemWindows My Question or IssueHi all, The songs in my "Liked Songs" are displayed out of order or missing. When I click on a song to play, it plays the correct song, but when I look at the unshuffl...

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Plan Premium Country USA   Device Dell Laptop Operating System Windows   My Question or Issue Hi all,   The songs in my "Liked Songs" are displayed out of order or missing...

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app wont work

app keeps saying Spotify can't play this right now if you have the file in your computer you can import it. The app was working perfectly fine yesterday morning then I started it last night and all it does is give me the same message. yes i have unin...

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app keeps saying Spotify can't play this right now if you have the file in your computer you can import it. The app was working perfectly fine yesterday morning then I started it last night and all i...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify just stops playing my songs

On PC, Spotify just stops playing songs. When pressing play, it starts a random song. It`s been an ongoing issue in resent months. It appears on multiple pc`s not on my mobile app

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On PC, Spotify just stops playing songs. When pressing play, it starts a random song. It`s been an ongoing issue in resent months. It appears on multiple pc`s not on my mobile app

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Superuser Contribution Shuffle playlist in the desktop app is broken

Some o the songs in the shuffle playslist aren't there, in its place there a blank song with no name, no artist, no album, no nothing. And when the play list get to that song, spotify just stop playing completely.

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Some o the songs in the shuffle playslist aren't there, in its place there a blank song with no name, no artist, no album, no nothing. And when the play list get to that song, spotify just stop playi...

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Windows Desktop Program Won't Play

My desktop app on Windows will not play. It says that I need to turn off "Offline Mode" in order to play a song. However, Offline Mode is already disabled. Separately, when I double click on certain songs, it says "this content is not available". On ...

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My desktop app on Windows will not play. It says that I need to turn off "Offline Mode" in order to play a song. However, Offline Mode is already disabled. Separately, when I double click on certain ...

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Solved!! Songs don't play from the artist's page/albums on the desktop app (windows)

Hey,If I try to play songs from the artist page/album they won't play. But If I add those songs to a playlist, they work, but only through the specific playlist. This problem appears only on the desktop app.I tried to clear the cache. update and rein...

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Hey, If I try to play songs from the artist page/album they won't play. But If I add those songs to a playlist, they work, but only through the specific playlist. This problem appears only on th...

kaworu_bloodpaw

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