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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, and welcome to another won't open post. I've seached through many of these threads for a solution, but none exactly match my specs and or problem I'm experiencing. Basically it either crashes right as its opening, or I get "Spotify has stopped...
Hello, and welcome to another won't open post. I've seached through many of these threads for a solution, but none exactly match my specs and or problem I'm experiencing. Basically it either cras...
Newbie
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I've discovered an interesting bug in the desktop version of Spotify in Windows 8. I've only had the chance to test it from there so far, so I don't know if this affects other OS's or not. Anyway, I've found that if I listen to music in a private ses...
I've discovered an interesting bug in the desktop version of Spotify in Windows 8. I've only had the chance to test it from there so far, so I don't know if this affects other OS's or not. Anyway, I'...
Community Legend
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I think there should be a thread where the community of Spotify can suggest ways to improve the Service so hopefully moderators will have a singular thread to read sort of like a suggestion box. I think that spotify for PC should be able to -Delete r...
I think there should be a thread where the community of Spotify can suggest ways to improve the Service so hopefully moderators will have a singular thread to read sort of like a suggestion box. I th...
Newbie
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I'm using version 0.8.5. You know that sidebar that shows what your friends are listening to? I'd like to know this: if I start clicking on a whole bunch of songs one after another, will this end up spamming their sidebars with me? Because I tend to ...
I'm using version 0.8.5. You know that sidebar that shows what your friends are listening to? I'd like to know this: if I start clicking on a whole bunch of songs one after another, will t...
Community Legend
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Hi guys, I've been having this issue for a little while now. Whenever I try to browse the Blogs by Genre Tab on the Hype Machine app, I get the red bar right under the banner with the message "There was a problem communicating with the Hype Machine!"...
Hi guys, I've been having this issue for a little while now. Whenever I try to browse the Blogs by Genre Tab on the Hype Machine app, I get the red bar right under the banner with the message "Th...
Community Legend
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My husband deleted some playlists from his phone, and it was deleted from my PC as well. Is there anyway to recover this?
My husband deleted some playlists from his phone, and it was deleted from my PC as well. Is there anyway to recover this?
Community Legend
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I was wanting to know if I can sync my downloaded playlists on my desktop player to my Spotify iOS app? Is this possible and if so, how do I go about accomplishing this? Thank you.
I was wanting to know if I can sync my downloaded playlists on my desktop player to my Spotify iOS app? Is this possible and if so, how do I go about accomplishing this? Thank you.
Community Legend
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I have created a playlist by right-clicking an album title and then choosing "Add to..." / "New Playlist". In my local files there are live versions of the tracks on the album. Playing this playlist plays the live version from my local files instead ...
I have created a playlist by right-clicking an album title and then choosing "Add to..." / "New Playlist". In my local files there are live versions of the tracks on the album. ...
Newbie
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Every time my playlist reaches songs from this album, the prosses bar on the player disapears, the song wont play but I may change to another song and it continues as reuglar, anny reason why? I run this on a Windows 7 x64 Spotify account type: Unlim...
Every time my playlist reaches songs from this album, the prosses bar on the player disapears, the song wont play but I may change to another song and it continues as reuglar, anny reason why? &nbs...
Community Legend
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Hey there guys! Long time listener, gladly first-time poster. Now, I am having a slight problem with my Spotify right now as my account was apparently switched over to the new model forcibly, as all others were... The problem being, this is the first...
Hey there guys! Long time listener, gladly first-time poster. Now, I am having a slight problem with my Spotify right now as my account was apparently switched over to the new model forcibly, as all ...
Regular
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Hi all, one mounth ago I found on main page the top playlist followed by users. Now I can't find it anymore. On main page I have only suggest music based on my listening and in top listened area I can find only artist, track or album but not playlist...
Hi all, one mounth ago I found on main page the top playlist followed by users. Now I can't find it anymore. On main page I have only suggest music based on my listening and in top listened area ...
Casual Listener
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I've hit the dislike button about 5 times now on Red Hot Chili Pepper's "Higher Ground" and still it's showing up in my radio for my main playlist. I'm pretty sure this shouldn't be happening.
I've hit the dislike button about 5 times now on Red Hot Chili Pepper's "Higher Ground" and still it's showing up in my radio for my main playlist. I'm pretty sure this shouldn't be happen...
Community Legend
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I use spotify on 2 PCs and an Android phone. A while ago (weeks) I noticed playlists didn't sync between PC and Android, but I guessed from PC to Android might take a while (even though the devices were on the same wifi network). Lately (days) playli...
I use spotify on 2 PCs and an Android phone. A while ago (weeks) I noticed playlists didn't sync between PC and Android, but I guessed from PC to Android might take a while (even though th...
Visitor
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Hello, just today I got an ad in spotify that was a fake windows security window (in the ad box) and said my computer was infected. I know virus fake that and am not saying my computer is infected. At first I just dismissed it cause it disappeared an...
Hello, just today I got an ad in spotify that was a fake windows security window (in the ad box) and said my computer was infected. I know virus fake that and am not saying my computer is infected. A...
Spotify
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Having some weird behavior with v0.9.1.57.ge7405149 When Spotify is not focused, clicking on an element in the application doesn't perform the action that element normally would, but instead raises the application only. For example, clicking a track ...
Having some weird behavior with v0.9.1.57.ge7405149 When Spotify is not focused, clicking on an element in the application doesn't perform the action that element normally would, but inste...
Community Legend
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Hi,I had a playlist called "Bas låtar" which was my bass guitar songs that I used to practice to. I stopped playing so I deleted the playlist and now that I've picked up playing again I really miss that playlist and I wonder if it's possible somehow ...
Hi, I had a playlist called "Bas låtar" which was my bass guitar songs that I used to practice to. I stopped playing so I deleted the playlist and now that I've picked up playing again I really mi...
Community Legend
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This seems to be a fairly common problem. Spotify's web and desktop player having perfect sound, until the vocals either do kick in or doesn't show up at all. To me this happened with the same settings, same headphones, same everything. Can anyone he...
This seems to be a fairly common problem. Spotify's web and desktop player having perfect sound, until the vocals either do kick in or doesn't show up at all. To me this happened with the same settin...
Community Legend
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Hi, I've Googled this problem a few times, trying each solution people have put forward. Changing password/enabling hardware acceleration Still, I cannot seem to get Spotify to work. Before I upgraded to Premium, it worked fine. Songs would buffer pr...
Hi, I've Googled this problem a few times, trying each solution people have put forward. Changing password/enabling hardware acceleration Still, I cannot seem to get ...
Community Legend
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For like 5 minutes, one of my playlists listed the wrong artists in the "Including artists:" thing on the top of the page. The artists that it listed were classical music composers and stuff, but my playlist has absolutely NO classical music in it. B...
For like 5 minutes, one of my playlists listed the wrong artists in the "Including artists:" thing on the top of the page. The artists that it listed were classical music composers and stuff, but my ...
Community Legend
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While I'm browsing for new music, and change songs quickly, spotify stops and I have to wait a while for spotify to begin to play the song. This happens very often. how to fix it? - Windows 7 - Spotify version 0.9.1.57.ge7405149
While I'm browsing for new music, and change songs quickly, spotify stops and I have to wait a while for spotify to begin to play the song. This happens very often. how to fix it? -...
Music Fan
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