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Can't play an artist's discography on the desktop app

Plan Premium Device PC / Android My Question or Issue This happened a few days ago. Normally when i clicked an Artist > Discography > Show All > And play a song, the next song was from the next album of the artist. Now, the next song is a random one ...

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Issue : no volume control in spotify when exclusive mode is activated

Premium member, France, Windows 10 64 bits updated, Focusrite Audio solo usb external soundcard updated, Desktop app updated I talk with the customer service, we try to solve my problem and they told me that it should be an issue that I have to talk ...

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Black Screen (June 15 2026 install)

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceDesktop PC IntelOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueFollowed clean re-install instructions after getting black screen at startup. Installed the latest June 15 version from the Windows Store. Ran once without p...

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earthbound

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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 are...

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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...

timmay0000

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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...

Eddie_E

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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...

robzim737

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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...

spideralex90

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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...

Peter__

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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...

pnc

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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.

Liam

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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...

ThePyroDemon

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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...

Peter__

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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...

Casual Listener

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...

demesm

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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...

Peter__

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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...

Peter__

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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...

fbonito

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Why is it taking so long to fix common issues with radio?

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 ...

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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...

Peter__

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Starred songs disappearing - please help!

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 ...

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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 ...

Fockhammer

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Random songs does not playing

Hi, i have problem with playing music, one week ago i could play this song. Now i can not. I have removed CACHE files, reinstalled player and still nothing. I have noticed that more often I can not play songs. Please help.

Casual Listener

Hi,   i have problem with playing music, one week ago i could play this song. Now i can not. I have removed CACHE files, reinstalled player and still nothing. I have noticed that more o...

wandrzejczak

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How do I delete music from free spotify account

I joined spotify a few years a go, and since then my taste in music has changed. How do I delete or remove songs and albums I've starred or liked on spotify from my account. ive already erased songs from my computer and playlist.

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I joined spotify a few years a go, and since then my taste in music has changed. How do I delete or remove songs and albums I've starred or liked on spotify from my account. ive already erased songs ...

Joe

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