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Jam now available on Desktop

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...

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New "Now Playing View" sidebar

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. The Now Playing View in the right sidebar shows the album art and info of the current song or pod...

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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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Solved!! Spotify free: Music stops on MAC

Edited: Thank you very much everyone for helping! Finally I managed to correct the error and the steps are those that DerpyNerd offered and highlighted as a solution. Hi! I have a MacBook Pro, and for a week now I have a problem with the desktop app....

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[Mac] Troubleshooting Spotify

Having trouble with Spotify on your Desktop app? Here’s what to try first. Search the Community Someone might have asked your question on the Community before. So type your issue into the search box and have a look. Tip: Don't forget to check our Spo...

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Superuser Contribution Shuffle should not repeat individual songs

In a playlist of mine that is more than 6 hours long, shuffle often plays songs twice or three times within 30 minutes. I know there are a few posts about this already, but there isn't a recent one and this problem still exists. It is obviously not d...

  • Casual Listener
  • In a playlist of mine that is more than 6 hours long, shuffle often plays songs twice or three times within 30 minutes.   I know there are a few posts about this already, but there isn't a r...
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Superuser Contribution Forced Smart Shuffle

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceMacbook Pro 2023Operating SystemSonoma 14.4.1 My Question or IssueSmart shuffle keeps getting forced onto my playlists. The shuffle button has the 3 options (no shuffle, smart shuffle, remove smart shuffle), but it only ...

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  • Plan Premium Country Canada Device Macbook Pro 2023 Operating System Sonoma 14.4.1   My Question or Issue Smart shuffle keeps getting forced onto my playlists. The shuffle button has t...
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Shuffle does not actually shuffle the whole content

Plan: premium Country: Brazil DeviceMacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)Operating SystemMac OS Catalina The current shuffle algorithm is a travesty. It only shuffles a subset of the playlist or liked songs, leading to it playing the same 20 songs or so over a...

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  • Plan: premium  Country: Brazil    Device MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) Operating System Mac OS Catalina   The current shuffle algorithm is a travesty. It only shuffles a s...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution [BUG] When shuffle is enabled, wrong music is highlighted when clicking the song display image.

DeviceMacbook Pro 15 inch 2019 Operating SystemMacOS 10.15.5 Spotify Version1.1.33.569.gced9e0f5 If shuffle is enabled, the wrong music in the list is highlighted when clicking the song image. Shuffle Enabled (highlighted the currently playing song) ...

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  • Device Macbook Pro 15 inch 2019   Operating System MacOS 10.15.5   Spotify Version 1.1.33.569.gced9e0f5   If shuffle is enabled, the wrong music in the list is highlighted w...
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Shuffle on specific (large) Spotify playlist

Plan: PremiumCountry: the Netherlands Device: MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)Operating System: MacOS Catalina 10.15.4 (19E287) Hi, I'm not getting the Shuffle to work on the Mac Spotify app (or iPhone 11 pro for that matter) for ...

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  • ...bsp; I'm not getting the Shuffle to work on the Mac Spotify app (or iPhone 11 pro for that matter) for this playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWWQRwui0ExPn?si=Q...
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shuffle

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueThis is just for Mac per se. I have over 3000 songs "liked", why does the shuffle feature onl...

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  • ...s just for Mac per se.  I have over 3000 songs "liked", why does the shuffle feature only seem to play a portion of them?  I hear the same songs over and over.  And sometimes in my c...
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Shuffle is broken for one specific playlist

EDIT: Shuffle is working again. See reply. Plan: PremiumCountry: Netherlands Device: MacbookOperating System: MacOS Mojave 10.14.5 My Question or Issue: The "Shuffle" functionality seems to be broken for one specific playlist: Techno Bunker. It's a S...

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  • EDIT: Shuffle is working again. See reply.   Plan: Premium Country: Netherlands   Device: Macbook Operating System: MacOS Mojave 10.14.5   My Question or Issue: The "Shuffle...
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Shuffle Button on Desktop

The shuffle button has dissapeared from the whole of my app on my mac, i cannot literally find this on the new update as of course last time it was down next to the 'thumbs up' now. How am i meant to rectify this situation?

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  • The shuffle button has dissapeared from the whole of my app on my mac, i cannot literally find this on the new update as of course last time it was down next to the 'thumbs up' now.  How am i m...
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