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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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  • MattSuda
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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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  • MattSuda
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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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  • MattSuda
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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....

  • Casual Listener
  • bfteach
  • Regular
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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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What happened to the cache limit setting on Mac desktop player?

In the desktop player for Mac we used to be able to set a limit for the size of the cache. Recently, opening up my Spotify player became incredibly slow so I was looking around my settings and noticed that the cache storage size limit option had been...

  • Newbie
  • In the desktop player for Mac we used to be able to set a limit for the size of the cache. Recently, opening up my Spotify player became incredibly slow so I was looking around my settings and n...
  • blackketter
  • Newbie
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  • Cache
    cache clearing
    cache problems
    Cache Removal
    Mac Desktop
    Mac Desktop App
    slow spotify
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Spotify super slow to load on MacBook Pro

After several years suffering the *frustration of the very slow load time on my MacBook Pro 2012 Spotify now works like it should and I am very pleased with myself. "Why?" I hear you ask - well I installed a SSD is all. The MacBook is very happy and ...

  • Casual Listener
  • After several years suffering the *frustration of the very slow load time on my MacBook Pro 2012 Spotify now works like it should and I am very pleased with myself. "Why?" I hear you ask - well I ins...
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  • laggy
    Slow search results
    slow spotify
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Spotify takes minutes to load results on Mac desktop

Hi, I used to have a fix for this but the thread has since been either removed or I no longer have access to it - either way the page now says I cannot access it. The previous URL was: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/Spotify-is-laggy-slo...

  • Newbie
  • Hi,   I used to have a fix for this but the thread has since been either removed or I no longer have access to it - either way the page now says I cannot access it.    The previous...
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  • Desktop
    Mac
    slow search
    slow spotify
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