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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 ar...

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Solved!! 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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Solved!! Spotify keeps closing/crashing randomly?

Hi Spotify forums, Just today i've been having problems with spotify, I start to listen to some music and a minute or so in the program decides to close randomly.... as a result I have started using spotify in my web browser. As far as I am aware im ...

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Hi Spotify forums,   Just today i've been having problems with spotify, I start to listen to some music and a minute or so in the program decides to close randomly.... as a result I have sta...

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Spotify team, please give an official Statement - when can we expect an new version?

Dear Spotify team, a lot of users have complained about the new user interface. Main points are: - Huge waste of space - Colors far too dark - Stars have gone - No possibilty to customize the design Please give an official statement: Will there be an...

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Dear Spotify team,   a lot of users have complained about the new user interface. Main points are:   - Huge waste of space - Colors far too dark - Stars have gone - No possibi...

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Spotify Radio Station Population

I decided to give Spotify radio a try and transitioning off of Pandora. I can see that I can start a radio station based on a playlist of songs. My question is, if you add songs to that playlist does the new songs help add to the radio selection, or ...

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I decided to give Spotify radio a try and transitioning off of Pandora. I can see that I can start a radio station based on a playlist of songs. My question is, if you add songs to that playlist does...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution yo I need to sort songs after popularity

In the "old" version of spotify I could search for songs and then sort them after popularity - why can't I do that anymore? It was the way I heard music all day - searching for artist and just listen to the top songs (and not the top songs on their "...

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In the "old" version of spotify I could search for songs and then sort them after popularity - why can't I do that anymore? It was the way I heard music all day - searching for artist and just listen...

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Suddenly change playlist

Hi, I often use my Spotify Premium account on my work computer running Win 8.1 latestes update etc. Spotify version 0.9.8.... (why don't you take the step and make a version 1??) Today I have at least 4 times experinced that the playlist I was listni...

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Hi,   I often use my Spotify Premium account on my work computer running Win 8.1 latestes update etc. Spotify version 0.9.8.... (why don't you take the step and make a version 1??)   ...

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Spotify plays the wrong track

Marc Almond & Gene Pitney – Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart Marc Almond & Gene Pitney – Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart Both play "Would I lie to you?" by some early 90ies one hit wonder instead of the correct song.

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Marc Almond & Gene Pitney – Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart Marc Almond & Gene Pitney – Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart   Both play "Would I lie to you?" by some early 90ie...

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Local Files not showing up in search

Whenever I search the name of an artist that I have in iTunes but is not on spotify their music doesn't show up in the search. I can go to local files and find the songs that way but I can't search my local files through spotify. For example in the p...

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Whenever I search the name of an artist that I have in iTunes but is not on spotify their music doesn't show up in the search. I can go to local files and find the songs that way but I can't search m...

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Starred list gone on PC

My starred song list is gone on my PC but is still there on my mobile versions. What happened? how do i get it back? Very annoying

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My starred song list is gone on my PC but is still there on my mobile versions. What happened? how do i get it back? Very annoying

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Solved!! All of my playlists completely gone after 0.9.8.296g update - Resolved!

What's going on? I have Windows 8.1 running on my desktop and I was right in the middle of a song when Spotify kicked me out and updated without asking. Very disappointed! I read a bit, and went to recover deleted playlists in case they would be ther...

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What's going on? I have Windows 8.1 running on my desktop and I was right in the middle of a song when Spotify kicked me out and updated without asking. Very disappointed!   I read a bit, an...

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Want your Starred interface back? Here's how.

I wrote a guide a while back, here's the link. Re: To divide my tracks in albums - is that possib... - Page 2 - The Spotify Community Note that Spotify has the ability to kill this fix any time they feel like it. And has once in the past.

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I wrote a guide a while back, here's the link.   Re: To divide my tracks in albums - is that possib... - Page 2 - The Spotify Community   Note that Spotify has the ability to kill t...

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Spotify desktop randomly starts playing when paused for a while

Hi ive got a very anoying problem I leave my computer on a lot and when going to sleep or out I will pause spotify, but after a while it will randamly start playing this can be when im out or in the mdiidle of the night. if i cant fix this problem im...

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Hi ive got a very anoying problem I leave my computer on a lot and when going to sleep or out I will pause  spotify, but after a while it will randamly start playing this can be when im out or i...

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Library!

Where do i find the library in the new release?The library was the only feature where i could see all my new added songs (of 20 different playlists) in one overview.

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Where do i find the library in the new release? The library was the only feature where i could see all my new added songs (of 20 different playlists) in one overview. 

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Spotify crashes, is it worth persisting?

Hi, I'm on a month's free trial of Premium. For the first couple of days I struggled with the common iOS issues on my phone, losing playlists, random connection problems and crashes even using wi-fi. Now my PC version has crashed, can't play any song...

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Hi, I'm on a month's free trial of Premium. For the first couple of days I struggled with the common iOS issues on my phone, losing playlists, random connection problems and crashes even using wi-fi....

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Public collaborative playlist

I understand we can't make our collaborative playlist into public. But I think it would be a good idea if we can.Perhaps user permissions can be added so no one can just hi-jack the playlist.Anyway, is there a possibility that a feature like this is ...

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I understand we can't make our collaborative playlist into public. But I think it would be a good idea if we can. Perhaps user permissions can be added so no one can just hi-jack the playlist. An...

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New playlists not visible on user profiles on latest version

Only top 50 playlist are visible on the users profile. This way if you have more than 50 playlists any new ones will never be visible!? I have shared my latest monthly playlist on music communities on FB and it have now reached as many subscribers to...

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Only top 50 playlist are visible on the users profile. This way if you have more than 50 playlists any new ones will never be visible!? I have shared my latest monthly playlist on music communit...

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Solved!! Browse Feature stuck loading

I have an Asus WIndows 7 laptop and I have the latest version of spotify. When I click Browse, then genres/moods. and then pick a genre nothing loads except this how do I fix this. PLEASE HELP

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I have an Asus WIndows 7 laptop and I have the latest version of spotify. When I click Browse, then genres/moods. and then pick a genre nothing loads except this   how do I fix this. PLEAS...

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Newer Music on playlist missing

I logged in this morning and all of the music I've added to my playlists since August of 2013 is missing. My account is due to renew in a few days and everything I've checked on my profile is correct. I don't have any way of recreating what I've down...

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I logged in this morning and all of the music I've added to my playlists since August of 2013 is missing. My account is due to renew in a few days and everything I've checked on my profile is correct...

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Why is there a 10k total offline song limit?

We can only download 9,999 songs to devices whereas other services such as Rdio manage to give their paying customers (for the same price) unlimited offline songs. What is the reason for keeping this limit? Is it just 'something we do' and won't be c...

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We can only download 9,999 songs to devices whereas other services such as Rdio manage to give their paying customers (for the same price) unlimited offline songs.   What is the reason for k...

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Bug or "feature"? 60min + songs length format

Hi, Songs over 60 minutes seams to appear truncated. This is not a showstopper But its abit annoying. An example is Sleep - Dopesmoker 63m34s length. In old version all is fine. New version shows 1:03. This is correct, but its not realy informative. ...

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Hi, Songs over 60 minutes seams to appear truncated.  This is not a showstopper 😛 But its abit annoying.   An example is Sleep - Dopesmoker 63m34s length. In old version all is fin...

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