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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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  • MattSuda
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[Troubleshooting] Windows

Having trouble with the Spotify desktop app? Here’s a step-by-step guide to help get things working again. What to try first Perform a soft reset (generally rebooting the device will suffice). If that doesn’t help, try a clean reinstall. Be sure to l...

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Song crossfade does not work

The option to crossfade songs is only working with shuffle mode. Is there any reason for this? I love crossfade because it makes listening to music one long stream of endless music instead of seperate songs. Even if the genre is compeletely different...

  • Regular
  • The option to crossfade songs is only working with shuffle mode. Is there any reason for this? I love crossfade because it makes listening to music one long stream of endless music instead of seperat...
  • tomriddle
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Solved!! Spotify Mini Player Concept

So the Spotify app decided to update itself, but when I clicked the close button there was another tab that said it was aborting. The problem was that that tab is still there after a day. I tried closing it but it doesn't work.

  • Regular
  • So the Spotify app decided to update itself, but when I clicked the close button there was another tab that said it was aborting. The problem was that that tab is still there after a day. I tried clo...
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Solved!! Where did icons go?

I liked those icons, I like visuals They were making the navigation easier. Now its just a green stick moving up and down :{ For what reason you guys wanted to remove all those icons... Also all other icons/buttons got smaller (it's harder to click y...

  • Casual Listener
  • I liked those icons, I like visuals  😕   They were making the navigation easier. Now its just a green stick moving up and down :{   For what reason you guys wanted to remove all t...
  • gareth8
  • Roadie
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Album list disappeared

I signed in today and my list of saved albums is gone. If I search an artist, it still shows albums that I saved previously as saved. How do I get my album list back?

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  • I signed in today and my list of saved albums is gone. If I search an artist, it still shows albums that I saved previously as saved. How do I get my album list back?
  • Catee
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Allow the user to put playback buttons on the left side of the window

I'm not the biggest fan of the new U.I. in the new Spotify desktop version update, specifically how all the playback buttons were moved to the center of the window. I find it to be much more efficient to have the playback buttons at the left side of ...

  • Casual Listener
  • I'm not the biggest fan of the new U.I. in the new Spotify desktop version update, specifically how all the playback buttons were moved to the center of the window. I find it to be much more efficien...
  • Catee
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Solved!! Audio from music video / songs cut off

So...I don't know whats happening, but I listen to Spotify on my PC and some of the songs seem to play the audio from the music video. What I mean by that is if there is something that happens in the video, like someone speaking before the song or so...

  • Casual Listener
  • So... I don't know whats happening, but I listen to Spotify on my PC and some of the songs seem to play the audio from the music video. What I mean by that is if there is something that happens in t...
  • crematedman
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App Login Failed

So I was trying to log into the app on my PC but it tells me my password is wrong. If I login to spotfiy on the normal website it works perfectly fine. Any fix to this?

  • Visitor
  • So I was trying to log into the app on my PC but it tells me my password is wrong. If I login to spotfiy on the normal website it works perfectly fine. Any fix to this?
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64 Bit Version on Windows soon?

Is there going to be an 64 Bit version for Windows any time soon?

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  • Is there going to be an 64 Bit version for Windows any time soon?
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Solved!! My windows client will not import windows media player playlists. Nothing happens when I click.

Does WMP need to be installed in order to import playlists? If so, given my windows 8 does not include WMP (it cannot be installed), how can I get my playlists into spotify. I have imported my music library already, but the massive missing link for m...

  • Visitor
  • Does WMP need to be installed in order to import playlists?   If so, given my windows 8 does not include WMP (it cannot be installed), how can I get my playlists into spotify.  I have i...
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Solved!! View my friends playlists

I can't find the list with all my firends where i can view theire playlists, where do i find this now?

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  • I can't find the list with all my firends where i can view theire playlists, where do i find this now?
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Solved!! Error 412

I have searched these forums for an answer but nothing seems to have worked. Every time I try to log in I keep getting the 412 Error http://i.imgur.com/b5mMMM7.png I have uninstalled/reinstalled about four times now. Restarted between them, cleared l...

  • Regular
  • I have searched these forums for an answer but nothing seems to have worked.   Every time I try to log in I keep getting the 412 Error http://i.imgur.com/b5mMMM7.png   I have u...
  • Juli3n_b
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Support for High-DPI screens Windows

This was posted two months ago by someone else, but I feel that it is too important to be ignored. I have a QHD resolution Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop, and I use Spotify almost constantly. However, I almost never use the desktop app; with DPI scaling, t...

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  • This was posted two months ago by someone else, but I feel that it is too important to be ignored. I have a QHD resolution Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop, and I use Spotify almost constantly. However, I al...
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Solved!! No puedo abrir Spotify

Hola gente Lo primero dar las gracias por el soporte y la ayuda que prestáis. Quisiera informaros de que desde hace unos días no puedo abrir mi Spotify, pruebo pero se queda cargando y finalmente deja de cargar y no abre el programa. Pense en desinst...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hola gente Lo primero dar las gracias por el soporte y la ayuda que prestáis. Quisiera informaros de que desde hace unos días no puedo abrir mi Spotify, pruebo pero se queda cargando y finalmente...
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Solved!! SpotifyWebHelper has stopped working

Everyday, I get this error message about 12 times everyday and it's very annoying... Is there anyway to fix this or stop it from coming up? Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: SpotifyWebHelper.exe Application Version: 0....

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  •  Everyday, I get this error message about 12 times everyday and it's very annoying... Is there anyway to fix this or stop it from coming up?     Problem signature: Problem...
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Spotify only plays one song from my playlist and stops

Does anyone else have this issue? I queue up a playlist (or right click on it and press play) and only one song from my playlist will play, then spotify stops playing. The player shows that it is not paused or stopped, but it will not advance to the ...

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  • Does anyone else have this issue? I queue up a playlist (or right click on it and press play) and only one song from my playlist will play, then spotify stops playing. The player shows that it is not...
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Make all my playlists secret

Hi, I just reinstalled spotify and started working on a whole new system for arranging my music. It now looks like this: Seventies--- Seventies Rock--- Seventies Disco / Soul--- --- Abba - Gold--- Seventies Singer songwriterEightiesNineties- Nineties...

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  • Hi,   I just reinstalled spotify and started working on a whole new system for arranging my music. It now looks like this:   Seventies --- Seventies Rock --- Seventies Disco / Soul -...
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Why do tracks from albums by Various Artists save to Various Artists rather than to their artists?

I'm curious as to why saved music is dependent on the album creator rather than the track creator in Your Music > Artists. I can understand why, if you saved the entire album, you'd want it to appear under Various Artists rather than making a mess of...

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  • I'm curious as to why saved music is dependent on the album creator rather than the track creator in Your Music > Artists. I can understand why, if you saved the entire album, you'd want it to app...
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Can't add local files to "your music"

Realizing that neither of these scenarios work... 1)I go to "local files" then try to click and drag songs into "your music->songs" 2)I go to a playlist that has local files and click the "plus" sign next to any local files (the plus sign just stays ...

  • Music Fan
  • Realizing that neither of these scenarios work...   1)I go to "local files" then try to click and drag songs into "your music->songs" 2)I go to a playlist that has local files and click...
  • luk99
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Unread message notification will not go away

I've had a message in my Spotify inbox for about 4 months now. No matter how many times I open the message(or listen to the track inside) it continue to say I have 1 new message. This happens on all three computers that I have Spotify installed on. T...

  • Roadie
  • I've had a message in my Spotify inbox for about 4 months now. No matter how many times I open the message(or listen to the track inside) it continue to say I have 1 new message. This happens on all ...
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SpotifyWebHelper continuously crashing with new update

I am running desktop Spotify ver 0.9.15.27 on Windows 7 and ever since I updated I keep getting messages saying SpotifyWebHelper has crashed. I'll close the program, but it will launch again and the cycle starts once more. Every so often clicking on ...

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  • I am running desktop Spotify ver 0.9.15.27 on Windows 7 and ever since I updated I keep getting messages saying SpotifyWebHelper has crashed. I'll close the program, but it will launch agai...
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