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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...
I created a new Facebook profile recently, and made a new Spotify account and subscription by signing up with my email, THEN conecting my Facebook account. I am able to use the app to share tracks to my timeline, so I know it is connected. However, I...
I created a new Facebook profile recently, and made a new Spotify account and subscription by signing up with my email, THEN conecting my Facebook account. I am able to use the app to share tracks to...
Newbie
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Brief description of the issue:I use the Win10 desktop app in the morning. At lunch time I take android spotify with me when I'm out. When i return to my desktop spotify shows a green bar (spotify connect?) along the bottom which says i am listening ...
Brief description of the issue: I use the Win10 desktop app in the morning. At lunch time I take android spotify with me when I'm out. When i return to my desktop spotify shows a green bar (spo...
Gig Goer
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Reports can't play song. Need to start task manager and close any spotify apps. Then restart to get it working. Win10 Surface Pro 4.
Reports can't play song. Need to start task manager and close any spotify apps. Then restart to get it working. Win10 Surface Pro 4.
Casual Listener
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So i was listening to some podcasts on my phone, but when I'm at home I use Spotify on my computer. I can't seem to find the podcasts that I follow on my computer though. The only way I could do so is starting it on my phone and then connecting it to...
So i was listening to some podcasts on my phone, but when I'm at home I use Spotify on my computer. I can't seem to find the podcasts that I follow on my computer though. The only way I could do so i...
Casual Listener
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First you devs should now that not everyone likes it. I am one of those ppl. My operating system Windows never had such feature and I am absolutely used to standard scrolling everywhere. But now you implemented it. There should be option to turn off ...
First you devs should now that not everyone likes it. I am one of those ppl. My operating system Windows never had such feature and I am absolutely used to standard scrolling everywhere. But now you ...
Newbie
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I've exhausted most options to fix the issue and nothings worked. I've gone through 3 different similiar posts and none of those solutions worked. I've tried:- Restarting PC- Logging out and reinstalling- Flipping between offline and online mode (tho...
I've exhausted most options to fix the issue and nothings worked. I've gone through 3 different similiar posts and none of those solutions worked. I've tried: - Restarting PC - Logging out...
Casual Listener
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Earlier today I tried to play a song, and the blue notifcation is starting This song is not available. if you have the file on your computer you can import it. It worked fine yesterday. I reinstalled spotify to no avail.Im on windows 10, and I have a...
Earlier today I tried to play a song, and the blue notifcation is starting This song is not available. if you have the file on your computer you can import it. It worked fine yesterday. I r...
Newbie
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We hebben hier Spotify Premium (via KPN) met een goede internet verbinding en Windows 10. Na 1,5 nummer stopt het nummer ermee en krijgen we de melding: Het huidige nummer kan niet worden afgespeeld. We hebben al wat gegoogled, maar het enige wat we ...
We hebben hier Spotify Premium (via KPN) met een goede internet verbinding en Windows 10. Na 1,5 nummer stopt het nummer ermee en krijgen we de melding: Het huidige nummer kan niet wor...
Newbie
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9 replies
1 likes
Hello, I bought Spotify Premium, but i can't play any songs. On my phone everything works fine. I get this error: Translated in my bad English it says: This song isn't available. If this data is on your desktop, you can import it. Maybe someone is ab...
Hello, I bought Spotify Premium, but i can't play any songs. On my phone everything works fine. I get this error: Translated in my bad English it sa...
Newbie
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2 replies
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Hey Community! Just a heads up that our Lyrics feature on desktop is currently unavailable as we're making some big improvements to the feature. We'll share more updates soon. We can also confirm our partnership with Musixmatch is ending. It was a gr...
Hey Community! Just a heads up that our Lyrics feature on desktop is currently unavailable as we're making some big improvements to the feature. We'll share more updates so...
Newbie
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1005 replies
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Simple, the lyrics will not show when I press the button while using the Desktop App for Windows 10. it just shows a gray screen. I reonnected to the internet, restarted my computer, reinstalled spotify and tried everything in other trouble shooting ...
Simple, the lyrics will not show when I press the button while using the Desktop App for Windows 10. it just shows a gray screen. I reonnected to the internet, restarted my computer, reinstalled spot...
Newbie
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Hi, How do I get total play count for this song? https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/2Ub01ptSMqI6iBvq1E2Pji I want to know how many times this track has been played (global play count by all spotify users) to date since the beginning of time. Which Spo...
Hi, How do I get total play count for this song? https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/2Ub01ptSMqI6iBvq1E2Pji I want to know how many times this track has been played (glo...
Newbie
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The content in the browse section of the desktop app no longer refreshes and there is no way to force a reload. The only thing you can do is close spotify and re-open it. This is with regard to the playlist rotator. This morning, it had music suggest...
The content in the browse section of the desktop app no longer refreshes and there is no way to force a reload. The only thing you can do is close spotify and re-open it. This is wi...
Newbie
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3 replies
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HI So theres in-app notifications in the bottom left of the Web Player, along with my profile, settings and messages. However, in my desktop app (I'm using Windows 10) I can't seem to find it? I have messages next to my profile (top right) , but no n...
HI So theres in-app notifications in the bottom left of the Web Player, along with my profile, settings and messages. However, in my desktop app (I'm using Windows 10) I can't...
Newbie
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19 replies
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Spotify creates oddly balanced shuffle queues when playing from an 800 song playlist, controled from another machine. To recreate the issue, try this for yourself: Start by listening to any song, in this example. "Lateralus" by Tool. The playlist is ...
Spotify creates oddly balanced shuffle queues when playing from an 800 song playlist, controled from another machine. To recreate the issue, try this for yourself: Start by listenin...
Regular
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I have a problem with the Shuffle function. Spotify 1.0.28.87 on Windows 10. My problem is that I have a queue that I want to shuffle, eg. I'm adding some random albums to my queue that I would like to listen to today. Then I hit the shuffle button, ...
I have a problem with the Shuffle function. Spotify 1.0.28.87 on Windows 10. My problem is that I have a queue that I want to shuffle, eg. I'm adding some random albums to ...
Newbie
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46 replies
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I have an album of 17 songs, MP3, all work fine with Windows Media Player. I added them to my Spotify local files (I'm used to how to do this properly) but only the first two songs can be played through Spotify. The third one is appearantly automatic...
I have an album of 17 songs, MP3, all work fine with Windows Media Player. I added them to my Spotify local files (I'm used to how to do this properly) but only the first two songs can...
Newbie
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7 replies
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I can open the local files tab but if I leave it to try parse all my music (around 25,000 files) spotify will just crash, this never happened in older versions and has only begun to happen recently.The quickest workaround I can think of is to give us...
I can open the local files tab but if I leave it to try parse all my music (around 25,000 files) spotify will just crash, this never happened in older versions and has only begun to happen recently. ...
Not applicable
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I was just logged into my spotify on my android device an hour ago. Got home went to open spofity desktop (windows 10) and I got a The Username or Password is incorrect (Error code: 3) Went back to my phone and was logged out of there as well and cou...
I was just logged into my spotify on my android device an hour ago. Got home went to open spofity desktop (windows 10) and I got a The Username or Password is incorrect (Error code: 3...
Newbie
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9 replies
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Muy buenas, tengo un pequeño problema, justo hoy me he dado de alta en spotify premium y he puesto mis listas de reproducion en modo offline. El problema es que las canciones se guardan en el disco duro C, que en mi caso es un disco duro solido de ta...
Muy buenas, tengo un pequeño problema, justo hoy me he dado de alta en spotify premium y he puesto mis listas de reproducion en modo offline. El problema es que las canciones se guardan en e...
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