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Can't see Your 2023 Wrapped - check out this guide

Hey folks, We're receiving reports that Your Wrapped 2023 isn't appearing for some users. There are a few possible reasons as to why this might be happening: You're using an outdated version of the Spotify app - your app needs to be at least on 8.8.8...

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Your 2023 Wrapped feedback thread

Hey there, Once again, the long awaited Wrapped experience is here! We value the feedback that we receive everyday from our users, so we want to hear all your thoughts on this year's Wrapped: How is your Wrapped experience going? What did you like ab...

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Watch Feed on the Home tab

Hey folks, You might have spotted a new feature we rolled out to some of our users. We're launching a new feed which will help you expand your musical horizons and dive into content discovery through a Canvas video. You can spot that feed under your ...

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Spotify Takes Listening With Friends to Another Level with Jam

Spotify is introducing a more fun, intuitive, and collaborative social listening experience with Jam. Whether you’re together or apart, joining a Jam with your loved ones is now simpler than ever by tapping phones, scanning a QR code, or sharing a li...

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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 improves navigation and makes it easier and faster to collect and retrieve all types of content, bringing new features to desktop that y...

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  • tutter17
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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 new expe...

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  • MattSuda
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Superuser Contribution Suffle button un-shuffles the queue

PlanPremiumDeviceDesktop Pressing the "Shuffle" button while playing multiple playlists makes the same song repeat multiple times one after the other. See screenshot for example.

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Device Desktop   Pressing the "Shuffle" button while playing multiple playlists makes the same song repeat multiple times one after the other. See screenshot for example.  
  • Kiril
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Search] Bring back songs listed by album in artist section

Trying to navigate through artists songs is so much harder than when you could scroll through albums with songs listed under them.Please bring back an interface closer to this.The current UI requires you to continuously click through to an album then...

  • Visitor
  • Trying to navigate through artists songs is so much harder than when you could scroll through albums with songs listed under them. Please bring back an interface closer to this. The current UI requ...
  • Elena
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop] Clarify Collaborative Playlists

* I am told Collaborative Playlists are always private unless shared with me, but * I see Collaborative Playlists that were not shared with me.* I don't know how to make my playlist public.* I don't know if my Collaborative playlists are already publ...

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  • * I am told Collaborative Playlists are always private unless shared with me, but  * I see Collaborative Playlists that were not shared with me. * I don't know how to make my playlist public....
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Superuser Contribution Adding new songs to the top of the list

If I add new songs to playlists, why are they always at the end of the list? It would be much easier, when new songs are added to the top of the list.

  • Casual Listener
  • If I add new songs to playlists, why are they always at the end of the list? It would be much easier, when new songs are added to the top of the list.
  • MafeG
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    Playlists
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Playlists] making sure u dont have the same songs in your playlist

Hey spotify! My name is Jasmine and I think you should add this feature where you have a button that skims through all the songs in your playlist so it could check if you have any of the same selections saved, so it wouldn't play again. This would be...

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  • Hey spotify! My name is Jasmine and I think you should add this feature where you have a button that skims through all the songs in your playlist so it could check if you have any of the same selecti...
  • Elena
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    Playlists
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution [Bug] [Desktop] [Mac M1] Deleted old playlist appears on home screen

PlanPremiumCountryIsrael DeviceMac mini m1 2020 - MacOS Monterey My Question or IssueI found for some reason old playlist i created and deleted long time ago appears on my home screen, when i trying to delete it i get error: "something went wrong" an...

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  • Plan Premium Country Israel   Device Mac mini m1 2020 - MacOS Monterey    My Question or Issue I found for some reason old playlist i created and deleted long time ago appears...
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Your Library] Add complete local Album to WaitingList

Sometimes I want to hear a whole Album from local files.This time I need to click on every file and add it to Waiting List.The Idea is a context-menu-entry like 'Send the whole Album to Waiting List' .Other Idea can be a multi selection.

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  • Sometimes I want to hear a whole Album from local files. This time I need to click on every file and add it to Waiting List. The Idea is a context-menu-entry like 'Send the whole Album to Waiting L...
  • Eni
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    Your Library
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Your Library] Arranging playlist directory -- Alphabetically, or Last Saved

One of two significant advantages Napster's desktop AND mobile apps have over Spotify is the ability to organize playlists Alphabetically and by Date Last Saved. Why doesn't Spotify do this?

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  • One of two significant advantages Napster's desktop AND mobile apps have over Spotify is the ability to organize playlists Alphabetically and by Date Last Saved.   Why doesn't Spotify do this?
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    Your Library
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Playlists] Categories for Playlists

I, personally, have so many playlists - some of them pertain to similar moods, some do not. It would be amazing to have an option to categorize playlists - so if I wanted to listen to my study playlists, I could click on the category I labeled as "st...

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  • I, personally, have so many playlists - some of them pertain to similar moods, some do not. It would be amazing to have an option to categorize playlists - so if I wanted to listen to my study playli...
  • Red_Saturn
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    Playlists
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Playlists] Why did the album covers disappear from playlists view?

There was an update to the Spotify computer app. Before I could view playlists and see the album cover for every song in it (and not just the first 4 that spotify makes as the playlist picture). This helped me, a more visual person, quickly scan and ...

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  • There was an update to the Spotify computer app. Before I could view playlists and see the album cover for every song in it (and not just the first 4 that spotify makes as the playlist picture). This...
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[Desktop][Playlists] Modify "Popular by listeners"

About a year ago I listened to a podcast called "Sleep with me" and now for more than a year, I continue to see at the top of Spotify "Popular for listeners to: Sleep with me". How do I get rid of this? Original in DutchIk heb een jaar geleden geluis...

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  • About a year ago I listened to a podcast called "Sleep with me" and now for more than a year, I continue to see at the top of Spotify "Popular for listeners to: Sleep with me". How do I get rid of th...
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  • Roadie
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[Desktop][Connect] Spotify keeps pausing on all devices (webplayer, mobile, and desktop) !

My spotify for the last few days have been pausing everywhere, on browser, on my desktop application(mac) and on my iphone. I've tried almost everything.I signed out of on all my accountsI reinstalled Spotify I tried deleting the folders location: /p...

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  • My spotify for the last few days have been pausing everywhere, on browser, on my desktop application(mac) and on my iphone.    I've tried almost everything. I signed out of on all my a...
  • kozza
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Playlists] Make the liked songs list sync across devices in real-time

I've noticed that if I like a song on my phone, when I come back to my laptop the liked song list hasn't updated. It would be awesome if this was updated in real-time or frequently across all devices without me having to quit Spotify desktop and rest...

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  • ...evices without me having to quit Spotify desktop and restart.
  • Alex
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Playlists] Playlists Created from Albums No Longer include Artist name in Title

Up until the last desktop update a few weeks ago, if you created a new playlist from an album the playlist would be named "artist - album". No longer. Now the name is just "album". This is forcing me to hand-edit every playlist I create, which is an ...

  • Casual Listener
  • Up until the last desktop update a few weeks ago, if you created a new playlist from an album the playlist would be named "artist - album". No longer. Now the name is just "album". This is forcing m...
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    Playlists
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[Desktop][Your Library] Spotify Un-Liked all of my songs and albums

I woke up this morning to an entirely empty Liked Songs list and entirely empty liked Albums list and an empty artist list. I have been using spotify for years so this is incredibly frustrating. Strangely, I still have all of my playlists and podcast...

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  • I woke up this morning to an entirely empty Liked Songs list and entirely empty liked Albums list and an empty artist list. I have been using spotify for years so this is incredibly frustrating. Stra...
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    Your Library
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[Desktop][Playlists] PLAYLIST FOLDERS

Imagine Being able to Folder your playlists however you want! By genre, Road Trips, Party’s. Keeps everything organised so there isn’t 40+ playlists you have to scrummish to find the one your looking for.

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  • Imagine Being able to Folder your playlists however you want! By genre, Road Trips, Party’s. Keeps everything organised so there isn’t 40+ playlists you have to scrummish to find the one your looking...
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    Playlists
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[Desktop][Playlists] Public playlists page shows private playlists

Hi, This relates to the desktop app on Windows. Several of the playlists listed on my Public Profile page are private and should not be listed. As you can see from the image below, the drop-down menu for a playlist on this page includes an "Add to pr...

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  • Hi,   This relates to the desktop app on Windows. Several of the playlists listed on my  Public Profile page are private and should not be listed.   As you can see from the image b...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Playlists] Give option to display "Discover Weekly" playlist in "Your Library"

It was difficult to find my "Discover Weekly" playlist today. I would like the option to tag both the "Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar" playlists so they will be featured prominently in my "Your Library" tab. The only way I could find it was by c...

  • Roadie
  • It was difficult to find my "Discover Weekly" playlist today. I would like the option to tag both the "Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar" playlists so they will be featured prominently in my "Your ...
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    Playlists
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Your Library] Artist/Album organisation

Hey! As i am one of those people who listens less to playlists but more to albums and artist radios, I would be super happy if there was an option to sort albums/artists in my library in a "recently/last listened to" kind of way not only recently add...

  • Visitor
  • Hey!   As i am one of those people who listens less to playlists but more to albums and artist radios, I would be super happy if there was an option to sort albums/artists in my library in a "...
  • Novy
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    Your Library
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Superuser Contribution [Desktop][Other] Adding song to queue (bug)

When you enter the artist, you cannot add the five most listened songs when you want to add them to the queue, the current playing artist or the playlist songs continue to play.

  • Casual Listener
  • When you enter the artist, you cannot add the five most listened songs when you want to add them to the queue, the current playing artist or the playlist songs continue to play.  
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