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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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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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Re: Inbox and messages

@missingrdio wrote: So, in other words, now is a great time to try out other streaming music services? No, because no other music streaming service even offers a direct messaging type of thing. Spotify was the only one that did, until now. Now no mus...

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@missingrdio wrote: So, in other words, now is a great time to try out other streaming music services? No, because no other music streaming service even offers a direct messaging type of thi...

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Superuser Contribution Cannot remove Facebook info from account

I was attempting to share a link to a song on the Spotify Windows desktop client, but I've run into a very irritating issue. I didn't use a Facebook account when signing up for Spotify, just an email address. In the share dialog, I entered my Faceboo...

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I was attempting to share a link to a song on the Spotify Windows desktop client, but I've run into a very irritating issue.   I didn't use a Facebook account when signing up for Spotify, just...

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Re: Inbox and messages

Then the direct messaging in Spotify DEFFINETLY needs to come back! 

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Then the direct messaging in Spotify DEFFINETLY needs to come back! 

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Re: Inbox and messages

You're missing the point... The messaging functionality WITHIN the app allowed you to have access to your shared music across your devices... Again, every other app has direct messaging capability. Spotify isn't going to turn around their bottom line...

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You're missing the point... The messaging functionality WITHIN the app allowed you to have access to your shared music across your devices... Again, every other app has direct messaging capability. S...

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Re: Inbox and messages

@Ashthemash wrote: You're right! Then the desktop also needs to incorporate Facebook Messenger! It can't. Facebook doesn't offer the proper hooks for Spotify to implement the required hooks in the desktop app IIRC.

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@Ashthemash wrote: You're right! Then the desktop also needs to incorporate Facebook Messenger! It can't. Facebook doesn't offer the proper hooks for Spotify to implement the required hooks ...

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Re: Inbox and messages

You're right! Then the desktop also needs to incorporate Facebook Messenger!

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You're right! Then the desktop also needs to incorporate Facebook Messenger!

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Re: Inbox and messages

@Ashthemash wrote:Yes please bring it back and update the notifications! Or put the inbox in an easier place to find! It was hidden in the app, which is why people probably didn't use it so much! Should have been easily assessable, and maybe better m...

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@Ashthemash wrote: Yes please bring it back and update the notifications! Or put the inbox in an easier place to find! It was hidden in the app, which is why people probably didn't use it so much! S...

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Trying to delete my post. **bleep**?

I just made a post but now I'd like to delete it. For some reason the Spotify forums don't let you delete your own posts. What the what?

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I just made a post but now I'd like to delete it. For some reason the Spotify forums don't let you delete your own posts. What the what?

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Lags in pausing, playing, skipping, changing tracks

My Spotify for Windows lags in playing, pausing, skipping, changing tracks. Once pause is pressed, there is a lag of around 20 seconds or so before the song will actually pause, and during this period the song progress is still moving forward in the ...

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My Spotify for Windows lags in playing, pausing, skipping, changing tracks. Once pause is pressed, there is a lag of around 20 seconds or so before the song will actually pause, and during this perio...

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Superuser Contribution My friends wont display in my friends feed, I just have a button prompting me to "find friends"

When I click the "find friends" button it just prompts me to connect to facebook. I don't have a facebook, however I do have friends on Spotify. In the past I could see these friends in the sidebar but right now the sidebar is occupied with this "fin...

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When I click the "find friends" button it just prompts me to connect to facebook. I don't have a facebook, however I do have friends on Spotify. In the past I could see these friends in the sidebar b...

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Superuser Contribution break between songs

I have the Sptify web player and I want to change the break between the songs. Is that possible and can anyone tell me how to do this?

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I have the Sptify web player and I want to change the break between the songs. Is that possible and can anyone tell me how to do this?

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Solved!! Message box won't appear

Today, I had to restart my computer, and when I did so the box I click on to check my messages will not appear. I checked my tablet and my laptop and they are having the same problem. Though this is not happening on my mother's IPhone.

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Today, I had to restart my computer, and when I did so the box I click on to check my messages will not appear. I checked my tablet and my laptop and they are having the same problem. Though this is ...

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Forced delay when attempting to resume song from Bose Bluetooth headphones

This is extremely repeatable for me, so I'm wondering if I'm the only one having this issue. I have the following bluetooth headphones which have a button on them to allow for pause, resume, skip next, and skip previous.http://worldwide.bose.com/prod...

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This is extremely repeatable for me, so I'm wondering if I'm the only one having this issue.   I have the following bluetooth headphones which have a button on them to allow for pause, resume,...

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Re: Inbox and messages

Yeah, how do you access old messages now? We could have been given some kind of notice... I had songs there that I didn't have time to move to playlists. Songs I sent yesterday that for sure were not listented by their recipents yet. And yes, inbox =...

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Yeah, how do you access old messages now? We could have been given some kind of notice... I had songs there that I didn't have time to move to playlists. Songs I sent yesterday that for sure were not...

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How to sort playlists by number of followers?

Hello, When I do a search and I go to the playlists results for the search the playlist don't seem to be ordered in any way.Does anyone know if it's possible to sort playlists by the number of followers?In other words, how can I get the most popular ...

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Hello,   When I do a search and I go to the playlists results for the search the playlist don't seem to be ordered in any way. Does anyone know if it's possible to sort playlists by the numbe...

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How to play local files (from itunes) Windows Desktop

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...

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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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Spotify Fails to Update

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...

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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 inst...

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my ads are in spanish and im in usa

hello, im in usa but im getting mexican ads pleese help

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hello,   im in usa but im getting mexican ads pleese help

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Display error on windows 10 desktop for songs that are in a time format

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.

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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. 

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[WP7] Playlist stuck on loading

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?

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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 t...

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