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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 everybody, I have some questions about the recent Spotify's "Discover" feature: - What would be the criteria used to determine when the songs shared by my followers appears in there or not? - What's the point of spending the time by clicking on...
Hello everybody, I have some questions about the recent Spotify's "Discover" feature: - What would be the criteria used to determine when the songs shared by...
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hi, i just got a message on my spotify that someone else is logged into my account and the music keeps pausing. is it possible to check if someone's hacked into my account..? thanks, andrew
hi, i just got a message on my spotify that someone else is logged into my account and the music keeps pausing. is it possible to check if someone's hacked into my account..? th...
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For a few weeks now each time I shutdown my computer (Win 7) I have to force quit Spotify. When will this bug be fixed?
For a few weeks now each time I shutdown my computer (Win 7) I have to force quit Spotify. When will this bug be fixed?
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Does WMP need to be installed in order to import playlists? If so, given my windows 8 does not include WMP (it cannot be installed), how can I get my playlists into spotify. I have imported my music library already, but the massive missing link for m...
Does WMP need to be installed in order to import playlists? If so, given my windows 8 does not include WMP (it cannot be installed), how can I get my playlists into spotify. I have i...
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This was announced almost a year ago, and we desperately need it. Can anyone from the Spotify camp say if it's at least coming this year?
This was announced almost a year ago, and we desperately need it. Can anyone from the Spotify camp say if it's at least coming this year?
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Hi there all. So, as the subject says, how do you organise your playlists? I find spotify's ability to manage playlist incredibly subpar, and I don't believe they're about to do anything about it soon, instead focusing on crappy social features, rath...
Hi there all. So, as the subject says, how do you organise your playlists? I find spotify's ability to manage playlist incredibly subpar, and I don't believe they're about to do...
Regular
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Hello! Im using the desktop app, there are many songs that don't play. Anyone having the same problem? license issues? Greetings! Alfredo
Hello! Im using the desktop app, there are many songs that don't play. Anyone having the same problem? license issues? Greetings! Alfredo
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Hi. Why when I´m playing a song, sometimes the player doesn´t show it right in the main window?
Hi. Why when I´m playing a song, sometimes the player doesn´t show it right in the main window?
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Windows users have access to a number of idiomatic shortcuts for windows management: WindowsKey+UpArrow for Maximize, WKey+LeftArrow or +RightArrow for dock to screen edge, drag menubar to top of screen for maximize. Advanced windows users make a lot...
Windows users have access to a number of idiomatic shortcuts for windows management: WindowsKey+UpArrow for Maximize, WKey+LeftArrow or +RightArrow for dock to screen edge, drag menubar to top of scr...
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I use bluetooth headphones with my Windows 7 Dell Laptop. If I turn my headphones off while Spotify is playing music, Spotify is unable to recommence playing music when I reconnect the headphones. I have to restart Spotify before I can get it to play...
I use bluetooth headphones with my Windows 7 Dell Laptop. If I turn my headphones off while Spotify is playing music, Spotify is unable to recommence playing music when I reconnect the hea...
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I have waited all day for someone from Spotify to email me on what is going on with my service. I don't want to cancel my service. I love Spotify. But if I can't use it I have no choice but to cancel my subscription
I have waited all day for someone from Spotify to email me on what is going on with my service. I don't want to cancel my service. I love Spotify. But if I can't use it I have no choice but to cancel...
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If I open the HTTP URL then I only see the first 184 tracks of a playlist. I used the latest version of the Spotify desktop for Windows application. I copied the HTTP URL from a playlist that contains 700+ tracks. The very same problem applies for al...
If I open the HTTP URL then I only see the first 184 tracks of a playlist. I used the latest version of the Spotify desktop for Windows application. I copied the HTTP URL from a playlist t...
Newbie
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Hey guys, I noticed a whole lot of albums i was listening to dissapear (from playlists and the artist's page) which is totally not cool... But regardless I also have been encountering albums that are not possible to get to by searching the artist's p...
Hey guys, I noticed a whole lot of albums i was listening to dissapear (from playlists and the artist's page) which is totally not cool... But regardless I also have been encountering albu...
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Usually I just right click a song I want to queue and press "Q" to queue it. This has always worked and still does work, except in my friends' activity list. When I right click a song in my friends' actvity list and press "Q", the song doesn't get qu...
Usually I just right click a song I want to queue and press "Q" to queue it. This has always worked and still does work, except in my friends' activity list. When I right click a song in my friends' ...
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The spotify program completely freezes, slows, and crashes all other programs when i start it. I have updated my motherboard drivers, my audio drivers, have removed and installed spotify over and over again, and stil it crashes my computer. I have tr...
The spotify program completely freezes, slows, and crashes all other programs when i start it. I have updated my motherboard drivers, my audio drivers, have removed and installed spotify over and ove...
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I have a Spotify Premium account and every time that I try to sync my iPod Nano with a playlist, it only will sync local files. What am I doing wrong?
I have a Spotify Premium account and every time that I try to sync my iPod Nano with a playlist, it only will sync local files. What am I doing wrong?
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Hello This one has bothered me a bit and I can't figure it out. Dumb question maybe, but how does the Top 10 list by an artist work? I mean how does the numbers work that are shown below the title of a song? One song with 323,699 clicks or whatever, ...
Hello This one has bothered me a bit and I can't figure it out. Dumb question maybe, but how does the Top 10 list by an artist work? I mean how does the numbers work that are shown below t...
Casual Listener
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Does it involve everyone or only people who only used Spotify for more than 6 months? Cos I've been using it for like 2 weeks and apparently I've crossed it.
Does it involve everyone or only people who only used Spotify for more than 6 months? Cos I've been using it for like 2 weeks and apparently I've crossed it.
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Every time I shut downWindows 7 x64 (on a fast computer), I get a message saying that Spotify prevents Windows from shutting down. If I manually tries to exit Spotify, it takes just a few milliseconds, so that should not be the problem. Is it possibl...
Every time I shut downWindows 7 x64 (on a fast computer), I get a message saying that Spotify prevents Windows from shutting down. If I manually tries to exit Spotify, it takes just a few millis...
Newbie
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Hi! Found few mysterious things about spotify behaviour. While surfing people I'm following and try to find and pick some playlist, some lists don't show up. These can be lists I follow already, or user X updated Y-list in Activity bar. Of course the...
Hi! Found few mysterious things about spotify behaviour. While surfing people I'm following and try to find and pick some playlist, some lists don't show up. These can be lists I follow al...
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