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Solved!! Disable the Mini-Player on the Web-Version

Hi GuysI switched on my Windows 10 from the Desktop-Version to the Browser-Version. It works, but now I get/see every time a Mini-Player in the left upper corner for about 5 seconds when I press Pause/Play or e.g. if I change the volume. How can I de...

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Solved!! Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I try to play a song I get the following error message "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it"I have tried all t...

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Solved!! Disable Video on desktop app

There no X or way to close or stop a video on Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.64.408.g0a9b557c

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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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Missing Playlist

My playlist "no...no nonono" or something disappeared. And instead my old playlist that i deleted came up when i logged in. What's happening?

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My playlist "no...no nonono" or something disappeared.  And instead my old playlist that i deleted came up when i logged in. What's happening?

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Troubles finding playlists

Dear Spotify, I love to make playlists of a specific genre, the problem is nobody can find my playlists. I also tryed to searche for the playlist of my friends (who are public) and could find them eigther. Do you know the solusion for this problem, I...

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Dear Spotify,   I love to make playlists of a specific genre, the problem is nobody can find my playlists. I also tryed to searche for the playlist of my friends (who are pu...

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Ability to delete radio stations

Please please please PLEASE let us delete radio stations! I have a slight form of OCD and love to clean up my music folders, playlists, etc and I have several radio stations that didn't work and I hate how they still show up. I've read many similar r...

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Please please please PLEASE let us delete radio stations! I have a slight form of OCD and love to clean up my music folders, playlists, etc and I have several radio stations that didn't work and I ha...

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Playlist wechsel beim Song weiterschalten

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...

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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,...

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Add to Play Queue with Keyboard Shortcut

Surely there has to be a keyboard shortcut to add a song to the Play Queue? Either I have glaringly missed it or there surely needs to be a keyborad shortcut added? CTRL + Q on Windows seems like a logical option in my mind if there isn't already one

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Surely there has to be a keyboard shortcut to add a song to the Play Queue?   Either I have glaringly missed it or there surely needs to be a keyborad shortcut added?   CTRL + Q on ...

Peter__

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Explicit songs are playing as clean....???

Lots of songs on my playlists that are marked as explicit have magically started playing their clean counterparts and its quite annoying. I am an adult and I don't want to listen to listen to clean songs. This started about a week ago. What's going o...

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Lots of songs on my playlists that are marked as explicit have magically started playing their clean counterparts and its quite annoying. I am an adult and I don't want to listen to listen to clean s...

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*Macro* An alt-tab free way of favorite songs.

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...

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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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Radio channels no longer stream through my Squeezebox player

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...

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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...

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How to import spotify songs to another music player?

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...

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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 f...

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Keeps Signing Me Out Of Last.fm

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...

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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 scro...

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Solved!! Duplicate tracks in library

Hey, I have an odd issue. In my library, some of the tracks are duplicated. However, one can see from this picture that both versions of each track are present locally. When I right-click and tell it to show the file in windows explorer, it opens to ...

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Hey, I have an odd issue. In my library, some of the tracks are duplicated. However, one can see from this picture that both versions of each track are present locally. When I right-click and te...

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Country-based Restrictions

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...

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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 dec...

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Search for Artist

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...

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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...

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Spotify Premium Free Trial

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.

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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.

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Playlist deleted is no longer in recover section.

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...

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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 s...

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is there a way to publish a spotify playlist by added date?

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,

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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?   Th...

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Can't play the current track

First let me say that this form of support is horrendus for a product this widely used, we should be able to chat directly with a human for issues like this. This is the same issue I've read about in many other posts on here; hit play, will play a fe...

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First let me say that this form of support is horrendus for a product this widely used, we should be able to chat directly with a human for issues like this.   This is the same issue I've re...

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Bad sound & playlists disappearing.

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'...

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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 audiab...

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Radio based on playlist not actually using songs similar to the playlist

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...

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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...

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how to substitute a local files playlist with stream version?

hello, i had a big playlist in itunes and used spotify to play those local files. recently my computer died... so i lost all of my local files, but in stotify i still have the playlists for all of those files, the problem is that the files are no lon...

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hello,   i had a big playlist in itunes and used spotify to play those local files.   recently my computer died... so i lost all of my local files, but in stotify i still have the p...

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