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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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Solved!! Ubicación canciones descargadas

Hola. Quisiera saber la ubicación en la que spotify guarda las canciones descargadas para escuchar offline de manera predeterminada desde la aplicación de windows, y si es posible mover esta carpeta a otra unidad como en el caso de la memoria sd en l...

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Hola. Quisiera saber la ubicación en la que spotify guarda las canciones descargadas para escuchar offline de manera predeterminada desde la aplicación de windows, y si es posible mover esta carpeta ...

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Folders - Cant add first playlist, can only add playlists to existing folders

Wondering if anybody else is having trouble adding playlists to folders. I am able to add playlists to existing folders, but when I create a new folder I cannot add the first playlist to it. Dragging and dropping etc... I am not incompetant, but I se...

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Wondering if anybody else is having trouble adding playlists to folders. I am able to add playlists to existing folders, but when I create a new folder I cannot add the first playlist to it. Dragging...

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Music Searching Not Working

does anybody know why spotify keeps saying error try again after trying to look for music? spotify needs to update itself

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does anybody know why spotify keeps saying error try again after trying to look for music? spotify needs to update itself

crematedman

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Why is the play queue cleared if I rearrange the order while an ad is playing?

If I make any changes to the play queue while an advertisement is playing, the whole play queue is cleared, which I find very annoying. I am a big fan of the play queue and often find myself rearranging the order of songs that will be played next. I ...

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If I make any changes to the play queue while an advertisement is playing, the whole play queue is cleared, which I find very annoying.  I am a big fan of the play queue and often find myself re...

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[Win 10] Sporadic pausing of music in desktop client.

Over the past week audio has started to pause itself for no apparently reason. It happens when Spotify is the only application running and while other apps are running (example gaming). During gaming, when it pauses, it will sometime randomly resume ...

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Over the past week audio has started to pause itself for no apparently reason.  It happens when Spotify is the only application running and while other apps are running (example gaming). During...

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Spotify leaks over to second monitor

It seems to happen when I use the windows "snap" feature but do so while some of the window's still on the primary monitor, here's a gif : https://gfycat.com/DaringWickedBeardeddragon As you can see I've also included a small portion of my primary mo...

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It seems to happen when I use the windows "snap" feature but do so while some of the window's still on the primary monitor, here's a gif : https://gfycat.com/DaringWickedBeardeddragon   A...

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spotify.com does not work. proxy not found...

Whats wrong? i checked my firewall and anti-virus so that they are not blocking the site.

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Whats wrong? i checked my firewall and anti-virus so that they are not blocking the site.

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Can't download local data

Hello, I started using Spotify Premium on my Windows PC and Iphone5 today. I am not able to download random files of my local data. I put them in a playlist. Some work, others don't. When I restart the download sometimes some of the files work but I ...

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Hello,   I started using Spotify Premium on my Windows PC and Iphone5 today. I am not able to download random files of my local data. I put them in a playlist. Some work, others don't. When I ...

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This track is not available on some albums.

A lot of the music I listen to on spotify seems to suddenly be saying "this track in not available". To give some specific examples some of these albums are. Ben Howard "I forget where we were". Aphex twin, loads of stuff, but "druqks" isn't there. R...

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A lot of the music I listen to on spotify seems to suddenly be saying "this track in not available". To give some specific examples some of these albums are. Ben Howard "I forget where we were". Aphe...

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Skipping every song.

Spotify just keeps skipping every song without stoping for some reason. I have tried reinstalling the app, reinstailling my sound drivers, updating java. I have seen alot of threads with the same problem but from like months/years ago, and nothing in...

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Spotify just keeps skipping every song without stoping for some reason. I have tried reinstalling the app, reinstailling my sound drivers, updating java. I have seen alot of threads with the same pro...

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"Esta canción no está disponible"

Hola. Hace unos días, cambié el país de mi cuenta de Spotify, y resulta ser que desde entonces no sólo varias canciones que sé que sí están disponibles en el nuevo país me aparecen como si no lo estuvieran, sino que también al intentar reproducir alg...

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Hola. Hace unos días, cambié el país de mi cuenta de Spotify, y resulta ser que desde entonces no sólo varias canciones que sé que sí están disponibles en el nuevo país me aparecen como si no lo estu...

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Solved!! can people following a public playlist still listen after it's made private?

hey there! i have a couple of playlists on my spotify that used to be public, but since i gained a few followers i decided to make them private. one of my close friends is following these playlists and i don't mind her seeing or listening to them, bu...

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hey there! i have a couple of playlists on my spotify that used to be public, but since i gained a few followers i decided to make them private. one of my close friends is following these playlists a...

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My songs library doesn't show all of my saved songs

After the last update I noticed a ton of songs went missing in my library even though I didn't unsave them. This really sucks because I like to shuffle my library which usually has 5000+ songs in it, but after adding them all to a playlist it only sh...

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After the last update I noticed a ton of songs went missing in my library even though I didn't unsave them. This really sucks because I like to shuffle my library which usually has 5000+ songs in it,...

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My Songs Problem

Usually when I click on 'Songs' under the 'Your Music' tab, it shows all of my saved songs, now when I click on it I get redirected to 'Browse'. Problem only appears on desktop.

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Usually when I click on 'Songs' under the 'Your Music' tab, it shows all of my saved songs, now when I click on it I get redirected to 'Browse'. Problem only appears on desktop. 

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Song Bar on PC / Win 8.1

Hello,when i switch between Spotiy and a game (or the browser, Word or whatever), the Song Bar (left: cover, middle: skip, shuffle, play/pause etc, right hand side: volume control) freezes in the current state. This means that it freezes in the state...

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Hello, when i switch between Spotiy and a game (or the browser, Word or whatever), the Song Bar (left: cover, middle: skip, shuffle, play/pause etc, right hand side: volume control) freezes in the c...

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Solved!! Pornographic banners on Spotify free for pc desktop windows 8.1

Hi, I have Spotify free and in the lower part of my spotify always appear pornographic banners, does not respect my privacy, please how can I prevent it?Thanks to everybody

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Hi, I have Spotify free and in the lower part of my spotify always appear  pornographic banners, does not respect my privacy, please how can I prevent it? Thanks to everybody

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Spotify stops playing after 1 second

Hey everybody,I have a big problem. Every time i choose a song it only plays 1 second and than I don't hear sound anymore. What can I do? I tried re-installing spotify and I tried something with the cache but it didn't work. And everytime I changed t...

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Hey everybody, I have a big problem. Every time i choose a song it only plays 1 second and than I don't hear sound anymore. What can I do? I tried re-installing spotify and I tried something with th...

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Spotify skips the songs and stops playing after 2 seconds

hi!from this evening on my spotify player skips most of the songs and the few songs that start playing, stop again in 2 seconds... actually a reinstalled, cleared the cache, etc.... but nothing helped.i tried spotify on my iphone too and the problem ...

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hi! from this evening on my spotify player skips most of the songs and the few songs that start playing, stop again in 2 seconds... actually a reinstalled, cleared the cache, etc.... but nothing hel...

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Spotify keeps crashing over and over again, has ceased to be usable

I have been using Spotify premium on a desktop computer (Windows 7 64-bit) for years, with no major issues. However, in the past 2 days, every time I log into the program and play a song, within about 5-10 seconds of the song starting to play, it sto...

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I have been using Spotify premium on a desktop computer (Windows 7 64-bit) for years, with no major issues. However, in the past 2 days, every time I log into the program and play a song, within abou...

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