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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...

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  • alexjamesbutler
  • Newbie
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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...

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  • vadfasfd
  • Casual Listener
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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
  • Spotify Star
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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...

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  • Mac
    Windows
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FAQ: Spotify for Windows 10 app

Hey folks, we've outlined some of the common questions you might have about the Windows 10 app now available. Please post in this board if you have any other questions. Q: Why can’t I see Spotify in the Windows 10 store? A: Spotify for Windows store ...

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  • Spotify
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  • Windows
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Superuser Contribution [Bug] [New UI] Volume Slider Jumps Around

PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceDell Inspiron 16 Plus 7620Operating SystemEdition Windows 11 ProVersion 22H2Installed on ‎10/‎6/‎2022OS build 22621.1702Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22641.1000.0Spotify VersionSpotify for Windows1.2.11.916.g...

  • Roadie
  • ...owever, with the new UI, the volume slider likes to jump around when scrolling with my mouse or my touchpad. Please see the attached videos.   This jumpiness is not just visual. The volume l...
  • kaworu_bloodpaw
  • Roadie
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  • 20 replies
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  • bug
    Scroll
    slider
    UI
    volume
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Spotify, Your Code is Showing

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  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Free   Operating System Windows 10  
  • kaworu_bloodpaw
  • Roadie
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  • code
    messy interface
    UI
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Superuser Contribution Reduced Animations Setting

My Question or IssueIt would be nice to have a reduced animations On/Off setting (some devices have this as an OS setting that the app may be able to default the value to). The recent 2021 desktop UI update introduced an animated equalizer next to th...

  • Casual Listener
  • ...021 desktop UI update introduced an animated equalizer next to the current playing song in the playlist view, which replaces the number (attached is screenshot), and there seems to be no way that I k...
  • Shaylynnr
  • Visitor
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  • Animations
    Desktop (Windows)
    settings
    UI
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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 ...

  • 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 is...
  • MattSuda
  • Spotify Star
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  • artist
    display
    UI
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution [Bug] [New UI] Album Artwork Cut Off

PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceDell Inspiron 16 Plus 7620Operating SystemEdition Windows 11 ProVersion 22H2Installed on ‎10/‎6/‎2022OS build 22621.1702Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22641.1000.0Spotify VersionSpotify for Windows1.2.11.916.g...

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  • Roadie
  • ...xperience Pack 1000.22641.1000.0 Spotify Version Spotify for Windows 1.2.11.916.geb595a67   My Question or Issue I've noticed a bug in the new UI. If the title or artist line in the now p...
  • Susan_GP
  • Moderator
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  • album artwork
    bug
    new UI
    Now playing
    UI
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Superuser Contribution Annoying new features

Plan PremiumCountry PolandOperating System Windows 11 My Question or IssueHey guys!After some of the latest updates, when I start the spotify app, the left side menu panel shows up very wide even when I sized it down to the minimum before, so I have ...

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  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country Poland Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue Hey guys! After some of the latest updates, when I start the spotify app, the left side menu p...
  • Dian
  • Spotify Legend
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  • UI
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Superuser Contribution Give us an option to permanetly keep square covers

The Spotify client UI is getting worse and worse after every update. Now everything is getting infested with the horrendous rounded corners plague, even covers are getting destroyed by the intrusive and uninspired Spotify UI. Please! Stop destroying ...

  • Roadie
  • The Spotify client UI is getting worse and worse after every update. Now everything is getting infested with the horrendous rounded corners plague, even covers are getting destroyed by the i...
  • betterbebugs
  • Newbie
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  • covers
    rounded corners
    UI
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New Now Playing -- Annoying and Unnecessary

I really just want to know what is currently playing. I really don't need to know more information about most artists and I most certainly don't want to buy their merch. The Now Playing now takes up a third of the screen if I want to size it to hide ...

  • Casual Listener
  • I really just want to know what is currently playing. I really don't need to know more information about most artists and I most certainly don't want to buy their merch. The Now Playing now takes up ...
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  • Now playing
    UI
    Update
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Superuser Contribution Put the Playlist, Podcasts, Artists and Albums back in the sidebar

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceiPhone 6S PlusOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueFor a long time I managed to avoid getting the UI updates because I really disliked how many extra clicks it required me to get to where I wanted to go. Unfort...

  • Regular
  • Plan Premium Country Canada Device iPhone 6S Plus Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue For a long time I managed to avoid getting the UI updates because I really d...
  • Dian
  • Spotify Legend
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  • UI
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Solved!! User Interface (UI) - Show 'Now Playing'

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceCustom DesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueA navigational issue - if I start playing someone else's playlist (incl. Spotify's), there isn't a way for me to see which playlist I'm playing. I can s...

  • Music Fan
  • Plan Premium Country United States Device Custom Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue A navigational issue - if I start playing someone else's playlist (incl. Spo...
  • superiorfcs
  • Visitor
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  • Interface
    Now playing
    queue
    UI
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Superuser Contribution Failure to load more than 50 items in a discography

PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceLenovo Carbon X1 Nano G1Operating SystemWindows 11 Pro (21H2) My Question or IssueSpotify does not load all items in an artist's discography when the initial view is set to thumbnail view on a high resolution display ...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country Australia Device Lenovo Carbon X1 Nano G1 Operating System Windows 11 Pro (21H2)   My Question or Issue Spotify does not load all items in an artist's discography ...
  • Elena
  • Moderator
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  • bug
    UI
    UX
    Windows
    windows 11
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Superuser Contribution New Episodes Missing "See All"

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows My Question or IssueAfter waiting so long for Spotify to add the new 'feature' of showing me the new episodes of podcasts I follow, it finally happened via a randomly placed category on my hom...

  • Gig Goer
  • ...or something that I'm paying to use. PLEASE PUT THE 'SEE ALL' BUTTON BACK FOR NEW PODCAST EPISODES OR FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY MAKE THE DESKTOP UI THE SAME AS MOBILE.
  • OscarDC
  • Moderator
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  • episodes
    new
    Podcasts
    SEE ALL
    UI
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Superuser Contribution Playlist Panel too small, UI problem (with pictures!)

PlanPremiumCountryChileDevicePCOperating SystemWindows10 My Question or IssueSince the latest update, they have revised the way the left sidebar works, and now it wastes a lot of real estate, and either the playlist panel is too short vertically, it ...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country Chile Device PC Operating System Windows10   My Question or Issue Since the latest update, they have revised the way the left sidebar works, and now it wastes a lo...
  • ral3nti
  • Casual Listener
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  • gui
    Interface
    UI
    UIX
    UX
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Superuser Contribution Cannot scroll down enough in "add to playlist" after right clicking the song in bottom left.

I often listen to random playlists/radios and sometimes I notice a song I want to add to some of my playlists.So I just right click song name in bottom left --> Add to playlist, then when I'm looking for my playlist I cannot find it even if I scroll ...

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  • Music Fan
  • I often listen to random playlists/radios and sometimes I notice a song I want to add to some of my playlists. So I just right click song name in bottom left --> Add to playlist, then when I'm ...
  • Zadak
  • Regular
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  • UI
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Superuser Contribution Removed Essential Features

Why would spotify remove essential features from their desktop app UI? to try and make it sleeker? It looks like garbage now! You cant change the playlist picture, or sort and filter playlists. Those are EXTREMELY basic features for a music app that ...

  • Regular
  • Why would spotify remove essential features from their desktop app UI?  to try and make it sleeker? It looks like garbage now!  You cant change the playlist picture, or sort and filter p...
  • Dietrichias
  • Music Fan
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  • Desktop
    Feature
    filter
    UI
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Is there any way to remove the "Play 'songname' by 'Artist'" banner?

PlanPremiumCountryUK DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI wasn't sure where to put this so hopefully it can get moved to the right place.Everytime I click on a song, then highlight another, there's a UI banner that appears above t...

  • Regular
  • ...verytime I click on a song, then highlight another, there's a UI banner that appears above the song that says (as an example); "Play Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz". It seems more like an accessability f...
  • CarlosE
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  • UI
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Superuser Contribution What happened to "Shadows" and "Backgrounds" in the New UI ?

Quite frankly, this new design - if what I'm seeing is the final product and not some kind of bug - is horrible. Sidebars are just a "black square" punching the eye, where in the middle there is an awful attempt at a "faded background" like we're bac...

  • Casual Listener
  • Quite frankly, this new design - if what I'm seeing is the final product and not some kind of bug - is horrible.   Sidebars are just a "black square" punching the eye, where in the middle ther...
  • CarlosE
  • Moderator
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  • background
    black
    missing background
    missing shadows
    UI
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Can't start continuous playback because button to display tracks in artist's discography is missing

PlanPremium FamilyDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssuePreviously, it was possible to start playing artist's album's tracks one after another. When one album ended, the second in order would start playing automatically.This behavior...

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  • Roadie
  • Plan Premium Family Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Previously, it was possible to start playing artist's album's tracks one after another. When one album ...
  • Novy
  • Moderator
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  • feature missing
    regression
    UI
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Solved!! Missing album name in author's Popular tracklist

PlanPremium FamilyDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThe album name is now missing in the author's Popular tracklist. Please upvote a Feature requesthttps://community.spotify.com/t5/Idea-Submissions/Desktop-Browse-Display-album-na...

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  • Roadie
  • Plan Premium Family Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue The album name is now missing in the author's Popular tracklist.     Please upvote a Fea...
  • OneByBoo
  • Roadie
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  • feature missing
    regression
    UI
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Superuser Contribution Podcast progress bar missing

Windows 10 - Desktop AppThe new UI removed podcast progress bars, except when they are being played. This makes finding the episode that comes next unnecessarily difficult. The way podcasts are handled was already bad enough, unfortunately this is no...

  • Newbie
  • Windows 10 - Desktop App The new UI removed podcast progress bars, except when they are being played. This makes finding the episode that comes next unnecessarily difficult. The way podcasts are h...
  • Eni
  • Moderator
  • 449 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 3 likes
  • Desktop
    Podcasts
    UI
    UI Issue
  • 449 Views
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