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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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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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Spotify on Windows Phone

Is there anyway I can install Spotify on my Windows Phone without going to the App Store? It's not available in the Windowsphone App Store in my country. Thank you!

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Is there anyway I can install Spotify on my Windows Phone without going to the App Store? It's not available in the Windowsphone App Store in my country.   Thank you!

Peter__

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Solved!! No minimized mode on startup

Spotify opens on startup, but not in minimized mode as it's set. Any idea? (win 7 32bit)

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Spotify opens on startup, but not in minimized mode as it's set. Any idea? (win 7 32bit)

Akos

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Unable to minimize Spotify on Win7 x64

I jus installed Spotify .9.7.16 on Windows 7 x64 with dual monitors. I'm not able to minimize the Spotify window. By that I mean the full Spotify window with the main/apps/your music window refuses to minimize to the task bar. If I click on the minim...

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I jus installed Spotify .9.7.16 on Windows 7 x64 with dual monitors. I'm not able to minimize the Spotify window. By that I mean the full Spotify window with the main/apps/your music window refuses t...

Peter__

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Solved!! Can't search for playlists or friends?

Coming back to spotify after a few months and I'm clearly just missing something but I can't seem to search for playlists or facebook friends. I go to "follow" which seems to be the only sensible option but this brings up only a top bunch of friends ...

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Coming back to spotify after a few months and I'm clearly just missing something but I can't seem to search for playlists or facebook friends. I go to "follow" which seems to be the only sensible o...

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Solved!! spotify Connect

Good morning or afternoon I just want to use spotify-connect! How do set it up? I'm just trying to connect it to a desktop which is connected to my speakers, so if other words what do I need to do to make that work. I also have spotify premium. I'm r...

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Good morning or afternoon   I just want to use spotify-connect! How do set it up? I'm just trying to connect it to a desktop which is connected to my speakers, so if other words what do I ne...

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Can no longer view my friends current play queue

I have searched high and low and I cannot find a solution on how to view what my friends are listening to. This used to appear on the right hand side of my spotify screen on a PC. Please help.

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I have searched high and low and I cannot find a solution on how to view what my friends are listening to.  This used to appear on the right hand side of my spotify screen on a PC.  Please ...

Peter__

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Gapless Playback and Max Richter - Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, the Four Seasons

This Album doesn't do Gapless playback, while it should. Is this a feature or a problem of Spotify?

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This Album doesn't do Gapless playback, while it should. Is this a feature or a problem of Spotify?

robzim737

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Getting Local File Names to Show in a Shared Playlist

Ok this is a weird question, but I understand why Spotify won't allow someone else to play my local files on a playlist I share with them, but I wonder if there is a way for at least the title of the song to show up on their end? I ask because I use ...

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Ok this is a weird question, but I understand why Spotify won't allow someone else to play my local files on a playlist I share with them, but I wonder if there is a way for at least the title of the...

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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?

Peter__

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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,...

Peter__

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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...

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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...

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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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