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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've never had this problem before, until the last update. When I switch albums, the volume starts off WAY too LOW. To fix the issue I have to click - without sliding - the volume bar, and the volume returns to normal. Kinda annoying, but not as anno...
I've never had this problem before, until the last update. When I switch albums, the volume starts off WAY too LOW. To fix the issue I have to click - without sliding - the volume bar, and the volume...
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I'm having a very odd problem. I am unable to play Dream Theater's 2013 album called Dream Theater on the desktop application. Everything else I've tried plays fine. I am also able to listen to that album on the web player and the iPhone app. Also, t...
I'm having a very odd problem. I am unable to play Dream Theater's 2013 album called Dream Theater on the desktop application. Everything else I've tried plays fine. I am also able to listen to that ...
Casual Listener
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It's pretty simple. Nothing happens when I drag the m4a files, or whatever, over to spotify or when I specifcy the folder under preferences. I've tried reinstalling with no success. I'm using win 8.1 on a surface pro. Any help is greatly appreciated.
It's pretty simple. Nothing happens when I drag the m4a files, or whatever, over to spotify or when I specifcy the folder under preferences. I've tried reinstalling with no success. I'm using win 8.1...
Casual Listener
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After the latest Spotify update (09.10.14.g578d350b) songs sometimes play the first second of the song and then start over and play normally. I'm using Windows 8.1 (with all current updates).
After the latest Spotify update (09.10.14.g578d350b) songs sometimes play the first second of the song and then start over and play normally. I'm using Windows 8.1 (with all current updates).
Newbie
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Don't know why, but just one audio channel is playing on both my desktop and iOS app. Any solutions?
Don't know why, but just one audio channel is playing on both my desktop and iOS app. Any solutions?
Regular
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Why was my music interrupted for an advert for heating controls. I don't pay for adverts.
Why was my music interrupted for an advert for heating controls. I don't pay for adverts.
Community Legend
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hi everyone, hope you guys can help me.I have uploaded a couple of local tracks (mp3 I have on my laptop) on spotify. Each track is like 4min long but, when uploaded onto spotify, each single track becomes 30min long, since the song is repeated like ...
hi everyone, hope you guys can help me. I have uploaded a couple of local tracks (mp3 I have on my laptop) on spotify. Each track is like 4min long but, when uploaded onto spotify, each single track...
Regular
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Can I play spotify on my stereo using the airport express? I have a windows laptop...
Can I play spotify on my stereo using the airport express? I have a windows laptop...
Roadie
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Hi, I have some playlists that I made available offline, I need to free disk space, I don't know how to delete the musics that I've made available offlien so what I did is I unsubscribed to that playlist thinking that it will recover some free space ...
Hi, I have some playlists that I made available offline, I need to free disk space, I don't know how to delete the musics that I've made available offlien so what I did is I unsubscribed t...
Community Legend
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Is it possible to sync albums I've saved into my music with my PC so I can play them when I'm not on-line? I can do it with playlists by toggling the 'available offline' options but can't see the button for albums. Than ks
Is it possible to sync albums I've saved into my music with my PC so I can play them when I'm not on-line? I can do it with playlists by toggling the 'available offline' options but can't see t...
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Spotify has now updated on my computers, even though I did not request it. Spotify used to be brilliant. You used to be able to quickly list all the tracks by a particular artist or band and these would be presented to you in order of popularity. The...
Spotify has now updated on my computers, even though I did not request it. Spotify used to be brilliant. You used to be able to quickly list all the tracks by a particular artist or band and the...
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Riggght - The desktop program on my laptop (Dell studio with Win 7 64bit) keeps playing christmas songs after each selected track. Spotfy dosent do this on mobile devises or the web player. It has also done this as both a standard, and now premium us...
Riggght - The desktop program on my laptop (Dell studio with Win 7 64bit) keeps playing christmas songs after each selected track. Spotfy dosent do this on mobile devises or the web player. ...
Newbie
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Hey people, Is this happening only to me? If I try to edit my profile picture it says "Upload complete" but doesn't change the picture.
Hey people, Is this happening only to me? If I try to edit my profile picture it says "Upload complete" but doesn't change the picture.
Roadie
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Windows 8 - Is the option gone to hide Spotify on the taskbar when minimized?
Windows 8 - Is the option gone to hide Spotify on the taskbar when minimized?
Regular
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spotify wont stop trying to sync local files I now have 22 files of the same songs in locall files Help please
spotify wont stop trying to sync local files I now have 22 files of the same songs in locall files Help please
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When you reduce the central area to below 610 pixels wide, the layout breaks for Recommended Stations and Your Stations. The boxes for each station become random sizes (might be related to the resolution of the album art). This is happening on v0.9.8...
When you reduce the central area to below 610 pixels wide, the layout breaks for Recommended Stations and Your Stations. The boxes for each station become random sizes (might be related to the resolu...
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Does anybody know of a way to search for all unavailable tracks. Last time I updated Spotify some of my previously available tracks has become unavailable. For example, the track "Keith Don't Go" by Nils Lofgren, on the album "Acoustic Live" has beco...
Does anybody know of a way to search for all unavailable tracks. Last time I updated Spotify some of my previously available tracks has become unavailable. For example, the track "Keith Don't Go"...
Community Legend
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4 Weeks ago i have 286 search results for "river song", now only 100 ... is the a new limit for the search results ? Also actually i am searching for "love" ... not more than 100 ... can you please change that !!!
4 Weeks ago i have 286 search results for "river song", now only 100 ... is the a new limit for the search results ? Also actually i am searching for "love" ... not more than 100 ... can y...
Gig Goer
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a few days ago i added all of the songs i had saved on a couple of different playlists to the "your music/songs" feature. After making sure they all transferred i then deleted them from the original plalists. Now today i start up Spotify and only 39 ...
a few days ago i added all of the songs i had saved on a couple of different playlists to the "your music/songs" feature. After making sure they all transferred i then deleted them from the origina...
Roadie
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Under the "Your Music" section, there is "Songs," which lists every track whose big "+" button I've clicked. Fine. There's also a "Local Files" tab which pulled in everything I've bought on the iTunes Store. Also good. But I want to drag files from L...
Under the "Your Music" section, there is "Songs," which lists every track whose big "+" button I've clicked. Fine. There's also a "Local Files" tab which pulled in everything I'...
Newbie
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