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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...
When I play a album and hit the next song button. The freaking Shuffle turns itself on and the next song will be from a totaly different album. Why? This is freaking anoying!If want to shuffle songs i will hit the shuffle button myself. Every time a ...
When I play a album and hit the next song button. The freaking Shuffle turns itself on and the next song will be from a totaly different album. Why? This is freaking anoying! If want to shuffle song...
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Spotify says that I'm offline even though my wifi icon shows wifi and chrome works, I tried restarting both Spotify and my computer but it doesn't help. It just seems that Spotify does not want to connect.
Spotify says that I'm offline even though my wifi icon shows wifi and chrome works, I tried restarting both Spotify and my computer but it doesn't help. It just seems that Spotify does not wan...
Regular
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Just what the title says, the media overlay occasionally displays the wrong song. Seems to happen if you skip a few songs using the media keys. Currently on version 1.0.42.151.g19de0aa6.
Just what the title says, the media overlay occasionally displays the wrong song. Seems to happen if you skip a few songs using the media keys. Currently on version 1.0.42.151.g19de0aa6.
Music Fan
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I have the version 1.0.42.151.g19de0aa6 and Windows 7 Prof.It is only my own playlists, when I search for a play list I get only albums and songs displayed.
I have the version 1.0.42.151.g19de0aa6 and Windows 7 Prof. It is only my own playlists, when I search for a play list I get only albums and songs displayed.
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Hey,since the new update is on the bandpage of any band with concerts the city where the concert is gone.Can anybody fix it?
Hey, since the new update is on the bandpage of any band with concerts the city where the concert is gone. Can anybody fix it?
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Hi, I would suggest making the desktop overlay optional.It's really intrusive, especially when I play games. As it is fairly new, I sometimes forget it will pop up when I change songs with my keys, which has killed me several times while playing vide...
Hi, I would suggest making the desktop overlay optional. It's really intrusive, especially when I play games. As it is fairly new, I sometimes forget it will pop up when I change songs with ...
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This problem occurs when I am playing music off of my Android phone and controlling it from my Windows laptop, or vice versa. If I hit shuffle play on one device, while the other is playing, Spotify only shuffles the nearest 40 or so songs, and only ...
This problem occurs when I am playing music off of my Android phone and controlling it from my Windows laptop, or vice versa. If I hit shuffle play on one device, while the other is pl...
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a foto que aparece na playlist da descoberta da semana que não sigo é do meu perfil antigo do facebook, com meu ex, preciso trocar essa foto e nao consigo como fazer?
a foto que aparece na playlist da descoberta da semana que não sigo é do meu perfil antigo do facebook, com meu ex, preciso trocar essa foto e nao consigo como fazer?
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Yesterday I saw a add on the jome page saying I could have a chance to win premium, when i clicked it It roled and I lost but i said come back tomorrow now I cannot find it. I connected with my account.
Yesterday I saw a add on the jome page saying I could have a chance to win premium, when i clicked it It roled and I lost but i said come back tomorrow now I cannot find it. I connected with my ...
Newbie
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Is there a way to see my COMPLETE listening history?? I know you can see the last 50 songs or already.. There is a song I listened to a while back but I cant find it! Thx
Is there a way to see my COMPLETE listening history?? I know you can see the last 50 songs or already.. There is a song I listened to a while back but I cant find it! Thx
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The Spotify client app crashes immediately after opening on my Windows 10 machine. This has been happening for some time, but I was able to reinstall the Spotify app and it would work until my next PC restart. Now it will no longer open even when rei...
The Spotify client app crashes immediately after opening on my Windows 10 machine. This has been happening for some time, but I was able to reinstall the Spotify app and it would work until my n...
Casual Listener
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Hey all!I really hope you can help me, it's driving me crazy.Yesterday I downloaded my mix of the week so I can hear it offline. Now I can't find the songs anywhere. Anybody has an idea how I can find them again? I don't remember any names of the art...
Hey all! I really hope you can help me, it's driving me crazy. Yesterday I downloaded my mix of the week so I can hear it offline. Now I can't find the songs anywhere. Anybody has an idea how I can...
Casual Listener
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I had an extreme data consumption in the beginning of August. In only 24 hours my computer downstreamed 120 GB of data. I didn't do any downloads of my own, and neither my data provider nor Microsoft can say what happened exept that a program must ha...
I had an extreme data consumption in the beginning of August. In only 24 hours my computer downstreamed 120 GB of data. I didn't do any downloads of my own, and neither my data provider nor Microsoft...
Casual Listener
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I have seen a few different ways people suggest like disconnecting facebook or unfollowing friends, but neither of those methods worked for me so I went around the app trying to figure out why it would be cause such a drain on my cpu. I found that an...
I have seen a few different ways people suggest like disconnecting facebook or unfollowing friends, but neither of those methods worked for me so I went around the app trying to figure out why it wou...
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Hello! Since idk, the last update? I'm not that observant of these things, I have seen a widget appearing in the top left corner of my computer as soon as I change song on my keyboard shortcuts.Is there a way to disable it or even make it always visi...
Hello! Since idk, the last update? I'm not that observant of these things, I have seen a widget appearing in the top left corner of my computer as soon as I change song on my keyboard shortc...
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Is there anything equivalent to the "humming is fun" animation? I mean, yeah, the lyrics are gone, but you guys already had the visual stuff going on. I'd love to see some kind of animation, even if it's not synced with the music. Remember tuning int...
Is there anything equivalent to the "humming is fun" animation? I mean, yeah, the lyrics are gone, but you guys already had the visual stuff going on. I'd love to see some kind of animation, even if ...
Newbie
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Hi, believe I am supposed to report bugs here, and they will get raised by a superuser? I have recently arranged all my playlists in folders, and up until this weekend, the arrows which represent the state of the folder (collapsed / expanded) have be...
Hi, believe I am supposed to report bugs here, and they will get raised by a superuser? I have recently arranged all my playlists in folders, and up until this weekend, the arrows whic...
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Every time I open spotify (dekstop app) it stops responding, so I close it, re open it and it still isn't responding, this happens for a bit until it works, is there a fix for this?
Every time I open spotify (dekstop app) it stops responding, so I close it, re open it and it still isn't responding, this happens for a bit until it works, is there a fix for this?
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As I said in the title, my Friend Activity feed isn't showing my friends' recently played songs. I have a Windows OS and have my Spotify up to date. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? I've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling...
As I said in the title, my Friend Activity feed isn't showing my friends' recently played songs. I have a Windows OS and have my Spotify up to date. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix thi...
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Boa tarde Não consigo usar o spotify em rede Ipv6. Alguém no brasil consegiu?Estou com endereços Ipv6 em todos meus dispositivos. Acesso Google , Uol, Globo.com normalmente. mas quando vou ouvir spotify em Ipv6 ele fica off line . ou seja ele não esc...
Boa tarde Não consigo usar o spotify em rede Ipv6. Alguém no brasil consegiu? Estou com endereços Ipv6 em todos meus dispositivos. Acesso Google , Uol, Globo.com normalmente. mas quando vou...
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