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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...
Description My media keys used to work to play, pause, skip forward/backward, etc. in Spotify, and other applications when Spotify is running. Suddenly, my media keys have no effect. A more detailed description, using numbered steps 1. Open Spotify 2...
Description My media keys used to work to play, pause, skip forward/backward, etc. in Spotify, and other applications when Spotify is running. Suddenly, my media keys have no effect. A m...
Newbie
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Hello guys, after an automatic starting update I'm not able to see my playlists on my notebook. Using my ipad, all my playlist are still avaiable. I logged out and logged back in to spotify on my notebook, still the same: no playlists! Can anyone hel...
Hello guys, after an automatic starting update I'm not able to see my playlists on my notebook. Using my ipad, all my playlist are still avaiable. I logged out and logged back in to spotif...
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I tried removing Spotify from my Facebook account and it deleted my Spotify account entirely. When I tried to sign into Spotify solo, not using facebook, it created a new account and my playlist is no longer there. Any way I can have my old account b...
I tried removing Spotify from my Facebook account and it deleted my Spotify account entirely. When I tried to sign into Spotify solo, not using facebook, it created a new account and my playlist is n...
Casual Listener
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Seems that when I'm listening to an artist radio and I get bored and want to go to something else, I can use the "create new station" function. But if I don't know what I want to listen to and go to Discover, if I select artist radio from anywhere el...
Seems that when I'm listening to an artist radio and I get bored and want to go to something else, I can use the "create new station" function. But if I don't know what I want to listen to and go to ...
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Morning all, I am wanting to create a playlist, that I share with three friends. If, once I have shared the playlist with them, add more music to the playlists, will this new music automatically appear in the playlist on their PC, or do they need to ...
Morning all, I am wanting to create a playlist, that I share with three friends. If, once I have shared the playlist with them, add more music to the playlists, will this new mu...
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I am having problems searching when off line. This has all started to happen since the last update - no 'library' to search in. Any thoughts before I leave Spotify and find something else?
I am having problems searching when off line. This has all started to happen since the last update - no 'library' to search in. Any thoughts before I leave Spotify and find something else?
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Not sure if this has been reported. I have found a small bug under Your Music in Songs. What happens If you adjust the column width and then log out, close the app, log back in and let the browse load fully, the position a user moved the column width...
Not sure if this has been reported. I have found a small bug under Your Music in Songs. What happens If you adjust the column width and then log out, close the app, log back in and let the...
Community Legend
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Ok so i tried removing facebook from spotify and spotify freaked out and bacically made a new account, now my old account is just numbers. i have tried using just the numbers as the name but that doesnt work, any ideas?
Ok so i tried removing facebook from spotify and spotify freaked out and bacically made a new account, now my old account is just numbers. i have tried using just the numbers as the name but that doe...
Community Legend
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Hi Spotify developers Your last "upgrade" that removed the actiivity feed was nothing short of a massive downgrade. A quick browse of the posts in this community will show that yoiur decision to remove the activity feed is not popular. In fact, many ...
Hi Spotify developers Your last "upgrade" that removed the actiivity feed was nothing short of a massive downgrade. A quick browse of the posts in this community will show tha...
Spotify Star
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I made a radio station but when it appeared it appeared twice. I am able to delete one but not the other. When I click on the one I can't delete it just goes into an infinite loading cycle. Anyone have an idea of what's going on?
I made a radio station but when it appeared it appeared twice. I am able to delete one but not the other. When I click on the one I can't delete it just goes into an infinite loading cycle. Anyone ha...
Casual Listener
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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...
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 ...
Newbie
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I'm very happy that the playlist time was added back into Spotify, but it doesn't seem to give the correct time, at least for large playlists. I don't know when the time starts to fail, but I'm currently playing through a list with around 4,000 songs...
I'm very happy that the playlist time was added back into Spotify, but it doesn't seem to give the correct time, at least for large playlists. I don't know when the time starts to fail, but I'm curre...
Newbie
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Hi I recently updated my spotify and now can no longer view friends activity on the right sidebar... any solutions?
Hi I recently updated my spotify and now can no longer view friends activity on the right sidebar... any solutions?
Casual Listener
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A few weeks ago I saw that Josh Pyke had created a playlist and I foolishly didn't follow it, thinking I could find it again by going back to his artist page, but it's not there. Any ideas?
A few weeks ago I saw that Josh Pyke had created a playlist and I foolishly didn't follow it, thinking I could find it again by going back to his artist page, but it's not there. Any ideas?
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I have been having this problem for sometime now, on multiple updates. It is quite random though, meaning that it doesn't always happen. Basically Spotify will start up like normal and it will allow me to play music for about a minute then the music ...
I have been having this problem for sometime now, on multiple updates. It is quite random though, meaning that it doesn't always happen. Basically Spotify will start up like normal and it will allow ...
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Hi Guys, I meant to send a song to a friend and it contained a long message I didnt want the public seeing. I know you can't delete it but it still sits atop the "discover" page a week later. I really want this gone. Can anyone help me? I deleted it ...
Hi Guys, I meant to send a song to a friend and it contained a long message I didnt want the public seeing. I know you can't delete it but it still sits atop the "discover" page a week later. I r...
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I have 4 visible playlist on my profile that has been deleted a while ago, but they are still available for everyone to see, and I can't re-delete them. I read some posts and I saw that you re-assigned the playlist to the user so he could re-delete t...
I have 4 visible playlist on my profile that has been deleted a while ago, but they are still available for everyone to see, and I can't re-delete them. I read some posts and I saw that you re-assign...
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Steps to reproduce the issue: Windows 7 Pro, Spotify 0.9.10.14.g578d350b Have an app such as Skype installed along with Spotify. listen to Spotify. Pause Spotify. Make a Skype call. return to Spotify Expected result - Playback normal Actual result - ...
Steps to reproduce the issue: Windows 7 Pro, Spotify 0.9.10.14.g578d350b Have an app such as Skype installed along with Spotify. listen to Spotify. Pause Spotify. Make a Sky...
Newbie
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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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