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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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MattSuda

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Radio - Add function to vote on songs that have played

This isn't a question but more of a gripe I have about spotify radio. When liking or disliking a song, it completely updates the next 4 songs queued. Its frustrating when trying to narrow down a station to a certain few bands or sound, and seeing an ...

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This isn't a question but more of a gripe I have about spotify radio. When liking or disliking a song, it completely updates the next 4 songs queued. Its frustrating when trying to narrow down a stat...

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Get away from me Jake Bug!

How many times do I have to click on thumbs down before Spotify radio understands that I don't want to listen to Jake Bug? I swear I've clicked it 50 times and there are only 18 tracks on his album. I know because I checked. I mean wtf is the thumbs ...

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How many times do I have to click on thumbs down before Spotify radio understands that I don't want to listen to Jake Bug?  I swear I've clicked it 50 times and there are only 18 tracks on his a...

Joe

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Spotify app on Windows 7

Hi eveybody, I'm new and I apologize in advance for my english because I'm Italian. When I open the App on my pc, the pages browse, discover, radio, follow, messages and seach, I can't view. I view only black pages. I uninstall the app and install th...

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Hi eveybody, I'm new and I apologize in advance for my english 😞 because I'm Italian. When I open the App on my pc, the pages browse, discover, radio, follow, messages and seach, I can't vi...

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possible new bug?

Hi, I just updated to 0.9.11.27 and now it pauses up to a second when I press the next or previous button. I used this old version this morning with the message to restart in order to upgrade. before upgrade I did not have this issue. I press next, c...

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Hi, I just updated to 0.9.11.27 and now it pauses up to a second when I press the next or previous button. I used this old version this morning with the message to restart in order to upgrade. before...

honcho

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Friend activity not showing

Hi I recently updated my spotify and now can no longer view friends activity on the right sidebar... any solutions?

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Hi  I recently updated my spotify and now can no longer view friends activity on the right sidebar... any solutions?

giuliana_leone

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Lost playlist

Hi, I deleted by mistake the spotify application on my facebook account. Since then I lost all my playlist and my starred playlist. I used the recover option but it says I haven't any deleted playlist. Can someone help me ? Thanks a lot

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Hi, I deleted by mistake the spotify application on my facebook account. Since then I lost all my playlist and my starred playlist. I used the recover option but it says I haven't any deleted playl...

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doesnt show the song playing in the album after playlist

i found a error in spotify desktop and we player, when i select a song of a playlist, whole playing i click on the artist of the song and when it redirect to the artist and the album where is included the song it doesnt show the song playing in the a...

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i found a error in spotify desktop and we player,   when i select a song of a playlist, whole playing i click on the artist of the song and when it redirect to the artist and the album where...

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Issues with playlist

I'm having some issues with my playlist. Not the one that you can make from spotify, but ones that you can transfer from either itunes and windows media. For the past month or two, the 3 playlist that I have from itunes have either gone completely ou...

Gig Goer

I'm having some issues with my playlist. Not the one that you can make from spotify, but ones that you can transfer from either itunes and windows media. For the past month or two, the 3 playlist tha...

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How to manually organise Spotify playlists

My current issue is that I am trying to organise my playlists into genres i.e. hip-hop, pop etc, but I don't want to drag my playlists one by one. I had the clever idea that I could export my playlists, edit it the way I wanted then import it back, s...

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My current issue is that I am trying to organise my playlists into genres i.e. hip-hop, pop etc, but  I don't want to drag  my playlists one by one. I had the clever idea that I could expor...

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Spotify not playing through center speakers/subwoofer

About two weeks ago, Spotify stopped playing music through my center speakers/subwoofer channel, though it still plays music fine through the front stereo speakers. The problem is not with the system settings, as all of my local files (various formas...

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About two weeks ago, Spotify stopped playing music through my center speakers/subwoofer channel, though it still plays music fine through the front stereo speakers. The problem is not with the s...

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How do I reset personalization?

I've created a playlist of tunes that I like to hear...probably about half of them I brought over from my Pandora "likes". The more I personalized Spotify radio (I primarily listen to the "alternative" radio station), the more it just plays the same ...

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I've created a playlist of tunes that I like to hear...probably about half of them I brought over from my Pandora "likes".  The more I personalized Spotify radio (I primarily listen to the "alte...

Peter__

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Solved!! Several Songs start on iphone but not on desktop?!

Hey there, i've got a problem since more than a week and i dont know what to do. i want to listen to the new album "cro - melodie" and i can find and start the first 2/3 songs. when i want to hear the songs from "erinnerung" up to the end of the albu...

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Hey there, i've got a problem since more than a week and i dont know what to do. i want to listen to the new album "cro - melodie" and i can find and start the first 2/3 songs. when i want to hear th...

ck9

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Spotify doesnt start, no error, so splash

Hello, since i had some grafic driver problems (they are all fixed now) spotify doesnt start anymore. It doesnt even show the splash. The only thing that happens is that one "SpotifyWebHelper" task opens. What ive already tried: -Start Spotify.exe as...

Music Fan

Hello,   since i had some grafic driver problems (they are all fixed now) spotify doesnt start anymore. It doesnt even show the splash. The only thing that happens is that one "SpotifyWebHel...

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Can't Search/Clicking on Artist's Name Does Nothing

Since I upgraded to the newest Spotify about a week ago (0.9.10.22.gf8788f9), I've been having problems searching and clicking on band's names. Everything works just fine for about five minutes, then all of a sudden when I try and search, I just get ...

Music Fan

Since I upgraded to the newest Spotify about a week ago (0.9.10.22.gf8788f9), I've been having problems searching and clicking on band's names. Everything works just fine for about five minutes, then...

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Keyboard Play/Pause button no longer functioning since last update

I have a Microsoft keyboard with 4 multimedia buttons: 1. play/pause 2. volume down 3. volume up 4. mute The play/pause button had always worked in Spotify, but now it doesn't. I just updated to version 0.9.10.22.gf87988f9.

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I have a Microsoft keyboard with 4 multimedia buttons: 1. play/pause 2. volume down 3. volume up 4. mute   The play/pause button had always worked in Spotify, but now it doesn't. &nb...

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When will the songs on Maroon 5s album Overexposed be available in Sweden?

Since nobody can really explain to me why an album's that have been available for at least a year suddenly stops being available, while I might add the commentary on the songs are still available, I'd like to know when the whole album - songs and com...

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Since nobody can really explain to me why an album's that have been available for at least a year suddenly stops being available, while I might add the commentary on the songs are still available, I'...

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Solved!! Do activity sharing preferences affect statistics on your profile?

If I change my preferences so that I'm not sharing my activity with Spotify followers, will the statistics on my profile (top artists, playlists) still change to reflect my current music taste, or will they just remain static or disappear after a whi...

Music Fan

If I change my preferences so that I'm not sharing my activity with Spotify followers, will the statistics on my profile (top artists, playlists) still change to reflect my current music taste, or wi...

Joe

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Recently Played empty

I have looked been searching for a resolution to my problem, but can't find anything. 1) There is not any content under my Recently Played Artists and my activity is not showing up in feeds. My settings are set for my activity to show, but nothing is...

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I have looked been searching for a resolution to my problem, but can't find anything.   1) There is not any content under my Recently Played Artists and my activity is not showing up in...

Joe

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Starring Songs with TuneWiki

Use the tunewiki app click the tiny star next to the song title and it will move automatically to your starred folder

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Use the tunewiki app click the tiny star next to the song title and it will move automatically to your starred folder  

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Premium account hacked

Somebody has hacked my spotify account and changed my email address to their own and changed my password. I can't change the password back because it keeps asking me for current password (i do not know this because the hacker set it) and sending a pa...

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Somebody has hacked my spotify account and changed my email address to their own and changed my password. I can't change the password back because it keeps asking me for current password (i do not kn...

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