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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...
Spotify, shame of you. Deleting posts that are critical of you is a bad business to be in. Yesterday i created this community account and i posted one message. Today that message is gone and i am unable to find it. It was critical of your latest upda...
Spotify, shame of you. Deleting posts that are critical of you is a bad business to be in. Yesterday i created this community account and i posted one message. Today that messag...
Community Legend
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In the new version, it's not easily identifiable which playist is playing versus one which is being looked at. I see the Speaker icon to the right of the playlist, but it would be better to have more. Such as italics the playing list or change the co...
In the new version, it's not easily identifiable which playist is playing versus one which is being looked at. I see the Speaker icon to the right of the playlist, but it would be better to have...
Community Legend
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Spotify update: We've posted a workaround to this issue here. Thanks for hanging in there - we're working on a permanent solution. Hi there, I'm a Premium user since 3 years and a half. The first couple of years I was super happy with the whole exper...
Spotify update: We've posted a workaround to this issue here. Thanks for hanging in there - we're working on a permanent solution. Hi there, I'm a Premium user since 3 year...
Casual Listener
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If I'm in the "Your Music"->"Albums" view and I click into an album, I can't select any of the tracks in that view
If I'm in the "Your Music"->"Albums" view and I click into an album, I can't select any of the tracks in that view
Community Legend
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This one is a bit tricky: Description: I opened Lionel Richies profile on Spotify. I scrolled 7 albums down to Live (2007) and selected song number 13 out of 14, All Night Long - Live from Bercy Arena. Spotify on the other hand, thought that I rather...
This one is a bit tricky: Description: I opened Lionel Richies profile on Spotify. I scrolled 7 albums down to Live (2007) and selected song number 13 out of 14, All Night Long - Live fr...
Community Legend
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idk if it's just a my problem but i can't find any solutions, online and on my brother's desktop for the same songs there aren't any problems but on the program they are wrong, really different songs or with voices not of the songs like 'six degrees ...
idk if it's just a my problem but i can't find any solutions, online and on my brother's desktop for the same songs there aren't any problems but on the program they are wrong, really different songs...
Community Legend
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Hi, Sorry I'm new. I realise this problem has already been posted before, but I've not found the answer that I'm looking for! Basically I've double clicked a song instead of adding it to the play queue. This has now added the whole back catalogue to ...
Hi, Sorry I'm new. I realise this problem has already been posted before, but I've not found the answer that I'm looking for! Basically I've double clicked a song instead ...
Not applicable
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29 replies
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Hey everyone, Spotify has recently stopped working on my windows 8.1.1 64bit. When I try to open spotify I get a standard error message (screencap as attachment) which includes this information: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Applica...
Hey everyone, Spotify has recently stopped working on my windows 8.1.1 64bit. When I try to open spotify I get a standard error message (screencap as attachment) which includes this inform...
Community Legend
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After updating Spotify to the latest version (The dark ages version) version 0.9.8.296.g91f68827 I notice a very high CPU load on spotify.exe *32 when moving the Spotify window, about 10-25%. The same thing happens if I move another window ontop of t...
After updating Spotify to the latest version (The dark ages version) version 0.9.8.296.g91f68827 I notice a very high CPU load on spotify.exe *32 when moving the Spotify window, about 10-25%. The sam...
Community Legend
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SometimesI have difficulty finding a certain album when I start with looking up the artist and listing the albums of that artist. F.i. the album 'Operators Manual' by 'The Buzzcocks'. If I look up the Buzzcocks it's not mentioned in their list of alb...
SometimesI have difficulty finding a certain album when I start with looking up the artist and listing the albums of that artist. F.i. the album 'Operators Manual' by 'The Buzzcocks'. If I look up th...
Community Legend
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Hi all, I've just installed the new version (0.9.8.226). I have about 800 playlists (1 album = 1 playlist). I am interested about the new "my music" section, but is there a way ton add all them by one clic ? If i have to drag each playlist to the "ti...
Hi all, I've just installed the new version (0.9.8.226). I have about 800 playlists (1 album = 1 playlist). I am interested about the new "my music" section, but is there a wa...
Community Legend
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Hey guys. Do any of you have the previous installation? Can you upload it somewhere? This 0.9.8 should be killed with fire. Thanks in advance!
Hey guys. Do any of you have the previous installation? Can you upload it somewhere? This 0.9.8 should be killed with fire. Thanks in advance!
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Hey Spotify peeps. I've been enjoying my month trial of premium and love it, expect for one huge, major and unexcusable problem which has me deciding to not continue with premium - and that is the dreaded "Stuck in Offline mode" issue. Spotify works ...
Hey Spotify peeps. I've been enjoying my month trial of premium and love it, expect for one huge, major and unexcusable problem which has me deciding to not continue with premium - and tha...
Community Legend
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This is for the windows version of the desktop app: I get some notifications but not all. I just happened to find a new album that came out on from an artist that I follow but I didn't recieve a notification. This isn't the first time it has happened...
This is for the windows version of the desktop app: I get some notifications but not all. I just happened to find a new album that came out on from an artist that I follow but I d...
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In the new version of Spotify, playlists list the number of followers each playlist has, but not who is following it. In the previous version there were thumbnails of three followers, but there was no way to see more (very annoying). Now it seems tha...
In the new version of Spotify, playlists list the number of followers each playlist has, but not who is following it. In the previous version there were thumbnails of three followers, but there was n...
Regular
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106 replies
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So, way, WAY back in 2011~ish playlists did not have dates by which you could sort, so when you added them to a playlist there would simply be nothing there. Then around march 2012 Spotify added dates, and every song you added AFTER that had a date a...
So, way, WAY back in 2011~ish playlists did not have dates by which you could sort, so when you added them to a playlist there would simply be nothing there. Then around march 2012 Spotify added date...
Community Legend
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After the new update I have a slot for songs, albums and artists. I have found how to save a song (the plus sign) how to save albums (go to the album page and click save) but how on earth do you save artists?
After the new update I have a slot for songs, albums and artists. I have found how to save a song (the plus sign) how to save albums (go to the album page and click save) but how on earth do you save...
Music Fan
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Retracted. I figured it out on my own.
Retracted. I figured it out on my own.
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Hello everyone,I know there's already a topic about this, but it doesn't really answer to my question: in that other topic, it is explained that you can't make a playlist collaborative AND public. However, I noticed that two of my collaborative playl...
Hello everyone, I know there's already a topic about this, but it doesn't really answer to my question: in that other topic, it is explained that you can't make a playlist collaborative AND public...
Newbie
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So every once in a while i will have spotify crash out on me while playing music, and will not restart. after rebooting computer it will load occasionally. more often it will load the process and not show the log in screen. on top of this if i get it...
So every once in a while i will have spotify crash out on me while playing music, and will not restart. after rebooting computer it will load occasionally. more often it will load the process and not...
Gig Goer
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