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Desktop: Jam now available

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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2024-03-14 3:38:28 PM
2 weeks ago
James335
Casual Listener
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78 replies
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Desktop: 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. Together, the individually customizable design of these new views provides a richer experience, m...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2023-06-26 8:42:18 AM
Monday
rednblu
Roadie
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278 replies
22 likes

83198 Views
278 replies
22 likes

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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2023-04-28 8:08:45 PM
2023-04-29 10:41:16 PM
MattSuda
Spotify Star
5959 Views
1 replies
6 likes

5959 Views
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[Troubleshooting] Windows

Having trouble with the Spotify desktop app? Here’s a step-by-step guide to help get things working again. What to try first Perform a soft reset (generally rebooting the device will suffice). If that doesn’t help, try a clean reinstall. Be sure to l...

Goodman
Spotify Legend
2013-09-17 11:47:47 AM
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0 replies
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Please give us back the "Artist" column

PlanPremiumCountryUSADevice Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI'm desperate for the return of the "Artist" column, separate from the song title. Not only is the artist very difficult to read, displaced almost half the size of the bolded ...

illogicalhawk
Visitor
Plan Premium Country USA Device Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I'm desperate for the return of the "Artist" column, separate from the song title. Not only i...
2021-04-09 11:01:53 PM
2024-08-30 2:49:27 PM
Kuulintu
Regular
4144 Views
3 replies
144 likes
artist
display
UI

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Superuser Contribution Liked songs not showing as liked on artist page (ALL DEVICES, NOT JUST DESKTOP)

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceLITERALLY HAPPENING ON EVERY DEVICE I OWN (windows 10, android, ios, macbook) My Question or IssueSome artists not showing the liked tracks that are sitting in my liked tracks. Yes i've made sure it's not another album/etc.

austinthetaco
Casual Listener
Plan Premium Country USA Device LITERALLY HAPPENING ON EVERY DEVICE I OWN (windows 10, android, ios, macbook) My Question or Issue Some artists not showing the liked tracks t...
2020-01-17 8:34:48 AM
2024-08-28 2:06:01 PM
jdtemple
Gig Goer
11402 Views
32 replies
21 likes
artist
liked
liked songs

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32 replies
21 likes

Superuser Contribution Can't sort music in artist's liked songs

PlanPremiumCountryPakistanDeviceSamsung Note 8Operating SystemWindows 10, Android My Question or IssueWhen I go to the artist page and see the liked songs for that artist, I can't sort the music.

g13v6_u-n0iit
Casual Listener
Plan Premium Country Pakistan Device Samsung Note 8 Operating System Windows 10, Android My Question or Issue When I go to the artist page and see the liked songs for that artist, I...
2021-05-19 4:19:12 PM
2021-05-21 10:12:05 AM
Mihail
Spotify Legend
429 Views
2 replies
1 likes
Android
artist
liked songs

429 Views
2 replies
1 likes

Solved!!Superuser Contribution "We can't play this song until you allow this artist in the spotify phone app"

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceMobile & PCOperating SystemAndroid & Windows 10 My Question or IssueI'm trying to play music from the band "Pendulum" but whenever i press play i get a message popup saying:"Spotify We can't play this song until you allo...

user-removed
Visitor
...ress play i get a message popup saying: "Spotify We can't play this song until you allow this artist in the spotify phone app" When i try playing it on my phone nothing happens at all. I've l...
2019-04-15 9:01:26 AM
2021-04-05 3:46:00 PM
fpocs
Visitor
31969 Views
29 replies
0 likes
allow
allow this artist
artist
can't play song
spotify phone app
We can't play this song until you allow this artist in the spotify phone app

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Superuser Contribution how to change the genres of your artistpage?

Busy looking around for 30 minutes and not idea where to post this or where to find an answer.through everynoise.com I found out my own band is labeled in only 1 very specific genre. This is not correct as we are much broader and not even countryspec...

ce5s97p
Casual Listener
...ite that similar bands as ours are tagged in much more genres. How can we as artist change this? Search through google learns us that a lot of artists have s...
2020-03-01 5:46:19 AM
2020-12-13 12:52:09 PM
Danpatra
Regular
9811 Views
5 replies
1 likes
artist

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5 replies
1 likes

Superuser Contribution Artists and Albums removed!

Premium New Zealand HP Spectre, Samsung A51Windows 10, Android Nearly all my artists are missing. Only 5 show in the desktop App and the Android App.Nearly all my albums are missing. Only 6 show in the desktop App.However maybe most but at least over...

narrowneck
Newbie
Premium New Zealand HP Spectre, Samsung A51 Windows 10, Android Nearly all my artists are missing. Only 5 show in the desktop App and the Android App. Nearly a...
2020-09-25 5:25:39 PM
2020-10-21 2:26:26 PM
Mihail
Spotify Legend
674 Views
1 replies
0 likes
album list
Albums
artist
Missing Albums
missing artists

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How does spotify count streams in beta group session?

PlanPremiumCountryUSADevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueIf I play a song in group session and other people listened to it, how many streams will the art...

Dee191991
Casual Listener
...ong in group session and other people listened to it, how many streams will the artist/song acquire? Please answer considering different device users(mac, windows)
2020-08-10 4:12:45 AM
2020-08-10 4:34:32 AM
Billy-J
Spotify Star
2389 Views
1 replies
0 likes
artist

2389 Views
1 replies
0 likes

Artist/Recently played

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceSamsung Galaxy S9+, DesktopOperating SystemAndroid, Windows 10 My Question or IssueHello, I have been a premium Spotify user for a little over 5 years and I never really had a problem with the platform until these last coup...

Skyos
Visitor
...ears and I never really had a problem with the platform until these last couple of months. Whenever I click "artists" I get nothing that comes up. Before this update, I would either click "recently p...
2020-06-30 12:46:19 PM
2020-06-30 2:44:29 PM
Emilia_8
Community Legend
424 Views
1 replies
0 likes
artist
Recently Played
Recently played artists not updating

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What happened to "appears on" on desktop!?!?

PlanPremium (Students)CountryUnited States Device(MacBook Air)Operating System(MacOS Sierra) My Question or IssueI know this has been a thing on the app for awhile, but I usually just use desktop so it wasn't the end of the world for me. But now the ...

snalty1
Casual Listener
...ut I usually just use desktop so it wasn't the end of the world for me. But now the "appears on" section is gone from from artist's pages on desktop! I almost exclusively use artist pages to find new m...
2020-05-28 11:11:10 PM
2020-05-30 4:05:40 PM
EthanS1
Community Legend
605 Views
1 replies
2 likes
appears on
artist
artist page
classical
Desktop

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[SOLVED] Songs under artist that are not liked

PlanPremiumCountryCzech RepublicDeviceHP Probook, Xiaomi Redmi 4XOperating SystemWindows 8, Android My Question or Issue If I choose Artists I can see a lot of songs by some artists even though I have not liked so many songs of that artist. When I cl...

0105408530
Regular
Plan Premium Country Czech Republic Device HP Probook, Xiaomi Redmi 4X Operating System Windows 8, Android My Question or Issue If I choose Artists I can see a lot of songs b...
2019-07-26 11:08:17 PM
480 Views
0 replies
0 likes
artist

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0 replies
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Bring Back My Saved Artist

When I save music to my library it should be as simple as storing a list of the artist, albums, and songs I have saved and then having the option to sort through those and further see them organized alphabetically. I have seen this function in other ...

Skyout47
Casual Listener
When I save music to my library it should be as simple as storing a list of the artist, albums, and songs I have saved and then having the option to sort through those and further see them o...
2019-06-25 5:09:56 AM
595 Views
0 replies
8 likes
artist
Layout
saved
UI

595 Views
0 replies
8 likes

Update of Spotify...is downgrade

Operating SystemAndroid & W10 Issue:Since the last "updates of Spotify" things have changed a lot. Cool graphics, playlists, cool way of seeing the album animated picture (on phone)...but the customisation, the personalization of everyone owns music ...

Mare92
Casual Listener
...hone) ...but the customisation, the personalization of everyone owns music is far worse. Two main (and not only) points: In the previous versions you could have among "Your artists" not only the o...
2019-03-18 10:49:19 PM
2019-03-18 11:47:40 PM
Mare92
Casual Listener
1642 Views
2 replies
10 likes
artist
Artist Playlist
followed playlists
songs

1642 Views
2 replies
10 likes

Superuser Contribution Artist not showing on Local Files

PlanPremiumCountry United StatesOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I have recently downloaded 164 songs from SoundCloud which I intended to put into Spotify as it is much easier for me. All of the songs have imported fine, but they are n...

RainDropz
Newbie
...nto Spotify as it is much easier for me. All of the songs have imported fine, but they are not showing the artist. (Attachment 1) Shows they are not showing in Spotify (Attachment 2) Shows t...
2018-09-25 4:45:57 AM
2018-09-27 4:45:09 PM
Daisy
Spotify Legend
2622 Views
1 replies
0 likes
artist
local files

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1 replies
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Stream Counter is not working

Country Germany Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue Hi, I have my own music on spotify. The "Spotiy for Artists" app shows me, that I had streams the last 3 days, but the counter doesn't count anything. The number 19,499 isn't changing. N...

djrelaxingsound
Casual Listener
Country Germany Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Hi, I have my own music on spotify. The "Spotiy for Artists" app shows me, that I had s...
2018-07-25 9:54:44 PM
2018-07-29 6:13:59 PM
Luke
Spotify Star
11792 Views
3 replies
1 likes
artist
Counter
problem
Streams

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3 replies
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Prevent unwanted genres and artists

I live in Brazil. I'm brazillian. Ok? But I'm metal fond. Yes. I just like all types of metal. Heay Metal. Progressive Metal. New Metal. Classic Metal. Metal. But I also like Punk, Punk Rock, Rock'n'Roll, Classic Rock, Hard Rock and other - just the ...

adamitj
Newbie
...ock, Rock'n'Roll, Classic Rock, Hard Rock and other - just the good - genres and good artists. Then, why for the heaven's sake, everytime I open my Windows Spotify I'm "delighted" with B...
2017-12-11 7:40:01 PM
2018-01-31 7:56:43 PM
majorminus7
Newbie
1099 Views
1 replies
18 likes
artist
genre
unwanted

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1 replies
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