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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...
Hello! Id like to start by saying, i am a heavy gamer and spend all my spotify time while playing games. Because of this i require macros in place to change pause music ect. I have managed to get a next, play/pause, and previous button bound to the b...
Hello! Id like to start by saying, i am a heavy gamer and spend all my spotify time while playing games. Because of this i require macros in place to change pause music ect. I ...
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Hallo ich hab folgendes Problem:Ich hab 3 Playlisten auf 2 Laptops offline verfügbar gemacht, weil ich an dem Standort kein Internet hab. Nun hab ich aber bei einem Laptop das Problem, wenn ich ein Lied weiterschalte oder es automatisch weitergeht, n...
Hallo ich hab folgendes Problem: Ich hab 3 Playlisten auf 2 Laptops offline verfügbar gemacht, weil ich an dem Standort kein Internet hab. Nun hab ich aber bei einem Laptop das Problem,...
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There have been dozens upon dozens of posts relating to the dreaded 'error code 17' and equally dozens of proposed solutions.One that stands out is written by one of Spotify's own, Peter, titled '[Tutorial][Windows] How to Fix Error 17 (Installer)'.I...
There have been dozens upon dozens of posts relating to the dreaded 'error code 17' and equally dozens of proposed solutions. One that stands out is written by one of Spotify's own, Peter, titled '[...
Newbie
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Hi I use spotify to stream music for our office via squeezebox player. Playlists and searched artists/albums play fine but a couple of months (maybe longer now) all the radio stations stopped working. Now when I try and play a station I just get a tr...
Hi I use spotify to stream music for our office via squeezebox player. Playlists and searched artists/albums play fine but a couple of months (maybe longer now) all the radio stations stopped working...
Casual Listener
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When I use Xbox Music, it downloads the songs in an available fashion that I can go in and add my songs to a different music player, which makes it very easy for me because I have a mixture of FLAC files that I copied from CDs that I own, but of cour...
When I use Xbox Music, it downloads the songs in an available fashion that I can go in and add my songs to a different music player, which makes it very easy for me because I have a mixture of FLAC f...
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Hello, I know there is another thread open about this, but I'm opening a new one because this is a VERY BIG ISSUE: WE CAN'T SEARCH FOR OUR OWN PLAYLISTS ANY MORE SINCE THE LAST UPDATE! SPOTIFY IS BASED ON PLAYLISTS, SO TAKING AWAY THE SEARCH FEATURE ...
Hello, I know there is another thread open about this, but I'm opening a new one because this is a VERY BIG ISSUE: WE CAN'T SEARCH FOR OUR OWN PLAYLISTS ANY MORE SINCE THE LAST UPDATE...
Regular
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Afternoon all, Can someone please explain to me how the restrictions on certain songs work and if/how/when they can be lifted. Understand that it's up to record companies to decide to add albums and tracks to Spotify, but I see no value in restrictin...
Afternoon all, Can someone please explain to me how the restrictions on certain songs work and if/how/when they can be lifted. Understand that it's up to record companies to dec...
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I've had a problem in the past where Spotify will say 'unknown reply from server' next to where the last.fm login details are, and if I was already listening to music it'll queue those songs and scrobble them later when the sign in is restored. Howev...
I've had a problem in the past where Spotify will say 'unknown reply from server' next to where the last.fm login details are, and if I was already listening to music it'll queue those songs and scro...
Regular
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If I search for an artist then click it, it shows the artist's albums in Overview in reverse chronological order. If I decide I want to listen to their entire discography in chronological order (you know, the way they produced it), how do I order tha...
If I search for an artist then click it, it shows the artist's albums in Overview in reverse chronological order. If I decide I want to listen to their entire discography in chronological order (you ...
Newbie
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Hi at all,I want research particular Artist (example The Engagement), when I click on search I get results where not always I have like Artist The Engagement. Instead I find The Engagement on Title of song too.How can I find only results that have on...
Hi at all, I want research particular Artist (example The Engagement), when I click on search I get results where not always I have like Artist The Engagement. Instead I find The Engagement on Title...
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You can only try it once per account, and I've already tried it. Please stop advertising it to me. It's a waste of time for the both of us.
You can only try it once per account, and I've already tried it. Please stop advertising it to me. It's a waste of time for the both of us.
Community Legend
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When listening to the radio i will thumbs down the same song 4 or 5 times in a 4 hour period. I'm used to the same songs repeating on the radio stations but it just seems like if I thumb down a song once, let alone 4 or 5 times a day, IT WOULD STOP P...
When listening to the radio i will thumbs down the same song 4 or 5 times in a 4 hour period. I'm used to the same songs repeating on the radio stations but it just seems like if I thumb down a...
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Hi, I'm new here. Just want to ask a few question about the sound quality difference between desktop app and web player. From what I'm listening the sound on the web player has a deeper sound compared to the desktop app. I don't know the jargon used ...
Hi, I'm new here. Just want to ask a few question about the sound quality difference between desktop app and web player. From what I'm listening the sound on the web player has a deeper sound compare...
Casual Listener
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Today I logged onto Spotify to find that my playlist 'Epic Songs' Had been deleted. I instantly go to the forums to see if there is a way to fix the problem. There is. I go to the playlist recovery section and its not there. I had over 600 songs on t...
Today I logged onto Spotify to find that my playlist 'Epic Songs' Had been deleted. I instantly go to the forums to see if there is a way to fix the problem. There is. I go to the playlist recovery s...
Casual Listener
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is there a way to publish a spotify playlist by "added" date? So when someone opens the playlist or starts playing it starts from the newest song rather then the oldest song? Thanks in advance for your help,
is there a way to publish a spotify playlist by "added" date? So when someone opens the playlist or starts playing it starts from the newest song rather then the oldest song? Th...
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I have songs I added to playlists/starred track list via the web player and they are not syncing with my desktop client so I can then connect my phone to the wifi and sync it from there. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Spotify twice and it still isn...
I have songs I added to playlists/starred track list via the web player and they are not syncing with my desktop client so I can then connect my phone to the wifi and sync it from there. I've uninsta...
Newbie
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For the last couple of days I've been having trouble with my spotify account. I run on a windows 7, and have premium. The sound quality have become TERRIBLE and there is a vague but audiable static-hissing noise behind several frequencies that weren'...
For the last couple of days I've been having trouble with my spotify account. I run on a windows 7, and have premium. The sound quality have become TERRIBLE and there is a vague but audiab...
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I made a radio station based on a playlist, but the results are nothing like the playlist in question. To give you an example, imagine having a playlist consisting of Coldplay and ending up with Pitbull as your results. Is this a bug or intented beha...
I made a radio station based on a playlist, but the results are nothing like the playlist in question. To give you an example, imagine having a playlist consisting of Coldplay and ending up with...
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It seems like the thumbs-down-forgeting issue on songs coming up from radio, as well as the issue of like-forgetting have been problems for several months, or even longer than a year. Why is it taking so long for these to get fixed, since it doesn't ...
It seems like the thumbs-down-forgeting issue on songs coming up from radio, as well as the issue of like-forgetting have been problems for several months, or even longer than a year. Why is it...
Community Legend
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Hi! I just purchased spotify premium and made new account for it. Now i kind of have 2 accounts and when i connected the new one to the Facebook, Im losing all my starred songs. So at the moment, every time i logout from spotify and log back in, all ...
Hi! I just purchased spotify premium and made new account for it. Now i kind of have 2 accounts and when i connected the new one to the Facebook, Im losing all my starred songs. So at the ...
Casual Listener
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