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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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Song skips after playing 8 seconds

PlanPremiumCountryUKDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueBeen using the installed app for years and years never had any problems suddenly about a week ago after playing 8 seconds of a song it skips to the next continously, have trie...

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  Plan Premium Country UK Device PC Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue Been using the installed app for years and years never had any problems suddenly about a we...

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Superuser Contribution Audio quality keeps changing mid-song despite settings

PlanPremiumCountryTaiwanDeviceLenovo ThinkpadOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueI recently bought proper headphones (Audio Technica M40x) and noticed how Spotify audio quality changes within the same song; it usually starts off crisp but t...

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Plan Premium Country Taiwan Device Lenovo Thinkpad Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I recently bought proper headphones (Audio Technica M40x) and noticed how Spotify audio qu...

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desktop playlist/album scroll preview limited to 20 songs?

PlanPremiumCountryBrazil Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI recently noticed that the desktop version now has the preview feature, but whenever i use it, it always stops me 20 songs in. this doesnt happen on my phone, i can listen to 20...

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Plan Premium Country Brazil   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I recently noticed that the desktop version now has the preview feature, but whenever i use it, it ...

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Superuser Contribution recently played section gone again

Since the last update the "Recently Played" section is missing again. Will it be fixed soon?

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Since the last update the "Recently Played" section is missing again. Will it be fixed soon?

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution How to disable auto play when you search for a song?

Since the version (1.1.57.443.ga029a6c4-a) when you search for a song and no song is being played (even when you just have paused the current song), spotify automatic play the song you found on the search... The big problem is that this operation ove...

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Since the version (1.1.57.443.ga029a6c4-a) when you search for a song and no song is being played (even when you just have paused the current song), spotify automatic play the song you found on the s...

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Superuser Contribution How to disable autoplay after album ends?

Whenever I click play on an album, after the last song, Spotify just moves on to something similar instead of ending play. I want it to stop at the end of the album. I'm not seeing any way to stop this other than adding the album to its own playlist,...

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Whenever I click play on an album, after the last song, Spotify just moves on to something similar instead of ending play. I want it to stop at the end of the album. I'm not seeing any way to stop th...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution spotify can not play this right now. if you have the file on your computer you can import it.

PlanFreeCountryEgyptDevicedesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueSpotify can not play this right now. if you have the file on your computer you can import it. This happens with the Windows app while using computer speakers or headphone...

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Plan Free Country Egypt Device desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Spotify can not play this right now. if you have the file on your computer you can import it. ...

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Quick way to queue song

How come Spotify still hasn't a quick way to add a song in the queue? Clicking the song title with the right button, highlighting the "add to queue" and then clicking again looks simple but in fact becomes a lot tedious and not practical at all when ...

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How come Spotify still hasn't a quick way to add a song in the queue? Clicking the song title with the right button, highlighting the "add to queue" and then clicking again looks simple but in fact b...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Desktop app wont use headset as output device.

I've been reading through multiple posts about this issue but I haven't been able to find the answer. I'm on the desktop app and I get the "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." message when I tr...

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I've been reading through multiple posts about this issue but I haven't been able to find the answer. I'm on the desktop app and I get the "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on ...

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Change Playback Device BETA

yesterday i saw that there was a beta and now its gone i dont know if my client is broken or its being pulled back for further testing but my question is does anyone know where it went?

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yesterday i saw that there was a beta and now its gone i dont know if my client is broken or its being pulled back for further testing but my question is does anyone know where it went?

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Superuser Contribution Integration with LCARS System 3

Hello. I know this is off topic for most threads here. As a music fan and a Star Trek fan, I have converted my Windows desktop to the interactive LCARS System 3 skin for Rainmeter. The LCARS skin has a built in media player integration which supposed...

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Hello.  I know this is off topic for most threads here.  As a music fan and a Star Trek fan, I have converted my Windows desktop to the interactive LCARS System 3 skin for Rainmeter.  ...

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Superuser Contribution Music keeps pausing when Spotify is open on two devices

PlanPremiumCountrySwitzerlandDeviceXiaomi Pocophone F1 & Lenovo Thinkpad T14Operating SystemAndroid 10 & Windows 10 My Question or IssueI do not know exactly what is causing my problem. It seems when I have my wireless earbuds (Jabra 65t) connected v...

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Plan Premium Country Switzerland Device Xiaomi Pocophone F1 & Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Operating System Android 10 & Windows 10   My Question or Issue I do not know exactly what is ...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Disable Video on desktop app

There no X or way to close or stop a video on Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.64.408.g0a9b557c

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There no X or way to close or stop a video on Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.64.408.g0a9b557c

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Hovering the cursor over artist name in the Now Playing bar shows tooltip with song title

PlanPremiumOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueThis affects songs with multiple artists, where the complete list of artists is too long to fit in the respective field of the Now Playing bar. One would expect that hovering over the name of ...

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Plan Premium Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue This affects songs with multiple artists, where the complete list of artists is too long to fit in the respective field of t...

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Solved!! Disable the smart shuffle.

PlanPremiumCountryTaiwanDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWin11 64bit My Question or IssueCould you please disable the smart shuffle feature? This is the worst feature since I started using Spotify nine years ago.Could you add a toggle button in the setti...

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Plan Premium Country Taiwan Device Desktop Operating System Win11 64bit   My Question or Issue Could you please disable the smart shuffle feature? This is the worst feature since I sta...

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Superuser Contribution Track number column is all of a sudden missing

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueAll of a sudden today, the column number that shows the track has disappeared. There are no podcasts in my playlists. All of my playlists are missing this very helpfu...

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Plan Premium Country USA Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue All of a sudden today, the column number that shows the track has disappeared. There are n...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify resumes from pause automatically after around 50 seconds

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceDell Pro Max 16Operating SystemWindows 11 Enterprise My Question or IssueThis is a newly provided work laptop (which I have admin rights on) with a fresh install of Spotify. For some reason, when I pause my music (to leave t...

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Plan Premium Country UK Device Dell Pro Max 16 Operating System Windows 11 Enterprise   My Question or Issue This is a newly provided work laptop (which I have admin rights on) with a ...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify Keeps Writing Cache to C:\ drive, even though Changed in properties to F:\

Not sure if this is per design, but I had changed the offline Songs cache folder in Advanced settings to F:\ , but my C:\ drive is still being filled up with the same .File **bleep** -These are the 2 offending folders -C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\Local\Pa...

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Not sure if this is per design, but I had changed the offline Songs cache folder in Advanced settings to F:\ , but my C:\ drive is still being filled up with the same .File **bleep** - These are the...

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