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Desktop: New Your Library sidebar

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...

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Introducing Smart Shuffle!

Introducing Smart Shuffle! We know that our users love creating their own playlists to capture key moments in time – in fact, playlists created by users often become their most-streamed playlist for the first several months but listening to these pla...

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The Heart button is being replaced with a (+) Plus button

Starting in March 2023, the ♡ Heart button will start being replaced with a (+) Plus button for saving things to Your Library. Things that have been saved to Your Library will now show a green ✔ Check icon instead of a green Heart icon. This change w...

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Superuser Contribution Delete shared playlist, but not for others

I created a playlist and shared it with others. Now, I want to delete this playlist, since I’m not using it anymore. However, my friends who are also in the playlist, want to keep it. How can I make them the administrator or make sure that it doesn’t...

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  • I created a playlist and shared it with others. Now, I want to delete this playlist, since I’m not using it anymore. However, my friends who are also in the playlist, want to keep it. How can I make ...
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Superuser Contribution Bluetooth not working properly with some artist's Popular song list.

Plan: Premium StudentCountry: USDevice: Google Pixel 5A + Bluetooth connected to PS5Operating System: Android 13Bluetooth does not behave properly with certain artist's Popular songs list: 1) Bluetooth will refuse to connect if a song is playing from...

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  • Plan: Premium Student Country: US Device: Google Pixel 5A + Bluetooth connected to PS5 Operating System: Android 13 Bluetooth does not behave properly with certain artist's Popular songs list: ...
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Superuser Contribution why dislike songs come come back in daily mix playlist every week? how to stop it?

PlanPremiumCountryItalyDeviceiPhone 8Operating SystemWindows 10,etc. My Question or Issueboth weekly discovery & daily mix playlists are constantly play songs that I "dislike", some more than ten times.It’s becoming extremely frustrating. thanks

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  • Plan Premium Country Italy Device iPhone 8 Operating System Windows 10,etc.   My Question or Issue both weekly discovery & daily mix playlists are constantly play songs that I...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify won't play songs unless they are saved to my library.

PlanPremiumCountryUKDevicePC Operating SystemWin 10 My Question or IssueA while ago Spotify stopped playing some songs on my PC. When I hit play it would just sit there and the play area at the bottom would be blank. If I added the song to my library...

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  • Plan Premium Country UK Device PC  Operating System Win 10   My Question or Issue A while ago Spotify stopped playing some songs on my PC. When I hit play it would just sit there ...
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Liked songs

Cannot sort my liked songs with Spotify’s new genre and mood Store is USLanguage is English My friend has on top “hip/hop, trance and so on”not me

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  • Cannot sort my liked songs with Spotify’s new genre and mood  Store is US Language is English  My friend has on top “hip/hop, trance and so on” not me 
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Superuser Contribution One of my “Top Mixes” shown on someone else’s account

I was looking at an old friend’s spotify account and noticed that one of my top mixes was shown on their profile. I didn’t believe that that information was public since I didn’t even have it downloaded to my public profile. How is this possible?

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  • I was looking at an old friend’s spotify account and noticed that one of my top mixes was shown on their profile.  I didn’t believe that that information was public since I didn’t even have it d...
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Superuser Contribution Downloaded local file wont play on phone iOS

My Question or IssueI have a lot of local files in my playlists and they all have been working for years. But now recently there is just one song that appears to be unavailable, even though it had been in my playlist since 2017. Out of nowhere I can’...

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  • My Question or Issue I have a lot of local files in my playlists and they all have been working for years. But now recently there is just one song that appears to be unavailable, even though it had ...
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Superuser Contribution Unwanted song in local files

PlanFree/PremiumCountryPolandDeviceXiaomi Redmi Note 8TOperating SystemAndroid 11 My Question or IssueI have 2 .mp3 files somewhere on my phone and i can't find them anywhere so i could delete them and they would not show up on my playlist but as i s...

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  •   Plan Free/Premium Country Poland Device Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T Operating System Android 11   My Question or Issue I have 2 .mp3 files somewhere on my phone and i can't find them ...
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Superuser Contribution STILL randomly deleting songs in playlists

HiThis is a well-known but so frustrating problem. Songs i add in my playlists gets taken away randomly. And no its not because they are unavailable due to licensing, they just mysteriously gets removed from my playlist....? This has been going on fo...

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  • Hi This is a well-known but so frustrating problem. Songs i add in my playlists gets taken away randomly.   And no its not because they are unavailable due to licensing, they just mysteriousl...
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Superuser Contribution unable to download local files

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceiPhone 13Operating System16.0 My Question or IssueI cannot get local files to even attempt to download on my iPhone. I have logged into my account on other devices and it downloads just fine on all of those, but i...

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  • Plan Premium Country United States Device iPhone 13 Operating System 16.0   My Question or Issue I cannot get local files to even attempt to download on my iPhone. I have logged into m...
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Playlist no longer discoverable to anyone but myself

I am having trouble with a playlist of mine no longer being discoverable for anyone but myself. It is not even available when directly sharing the link. I have made it public and added it to my profile, but no matter what, it is only visible when I a...

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  • I am having trouble with a playlist of mine no longer being discoverable for anyone but myself. It is not even available when directly sharing the link. I have made it public and added it t...
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Superuser Contribution Unliked a song by accident. Is there any way to recover it?

PlanFreeCountryPhilippinesOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHello, so as the subject title says, I accidentally unliked a song in my Liked Songs playlist, and I'm just wondering if anybody knows how to recover it? It was done in a flash,...

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  • Plan Free Country Philippines Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Hello, so as the subject title says, I accidentally unliked a song in my Liked Songs playlist, and I'm ju...
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Sort playlist

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Superuser Contribution Prevent certain songs from making it into your Wrapped playlist

I'm on a Premium account. I recently had a child, so I've been playing a lot of lullabies from Spotify (one album in particular) to put her to sleep. How can I prevent these songs from making it into my Wrapped?

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  • I'm on a Premium account.  I recently had a child, so I've been playing a lot of lullabies from Spotify (one album in particular) to put her to sleep.  How can I prevent these songs from ma...
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Superuser Contribution Local files removal for android

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(Samsung Galaxy S20fE)Operating SystemAndroid My Question or IssueHow can I remove local files in my library permanently?

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (Samsung Galaxy S20fE) Operating System Android   My Question or Issue How can I remove local files in my library permanently?
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Superuser Contribution Empty playlists on mobile app after reinstalling Spotify on mobile device

PlanPremiumCountryBelgiumDeviceSamsung Galaxy A10Operating SystemAndroid After performing a restore of factory settings on my mobile device, my playlists on my mobile app are empty. They are not empty on the webbrowser app. I already did a clean rein...

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  •   Plan Premium Country Belgium Device Samsung Galaxy A10 Operating System Android       After performing a restore of factory settings on my mobile device, my play...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution I am new - how does Spotify work? Download and save music for future use?

PlanPremiumFree/PremiumCountryAustralia Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating Systemwindows 10 laptop(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueGoing on a cruise, no WiFi - I wantto take another laptop an...

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  • PlanPremium Free/Premium CountryAustralia   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating Systemwindows 10 laptop (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) &nbs...
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Hiding the Date Added bar on playlists

Is that possible not showing the "date added"? Make them a "secret" feature just like it's possible to make with playlist itself? Don't want to people to see when I added a song or not to a playlist. Cheers,

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  • Is that possible not showing the "date added"? Make them a "secret" feature just like it's possible to make with playlist itself?   Don't want to people to see when I added a song or not ...
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