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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 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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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 change w...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Downloaded icon on artists in library

PlanPremiumCountryFranceDeviceSamsung A52Operating SystemAndroid 12 My Question or IssueI have several artists from whom I downloaded all the songs, but when I choose the artists view in my library, only one of them appears as downloaded (i.e. with t...

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  • Plan Premium Country France Device Samsung A52 Operating System Android 12   My Question or Issue I have several artists from whom I downloaded all the songs, but when I choose the a...
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Superuser Contribution Downloaded local file wont play on phone iOS

My Question or IssueI have a lot of local files in my playlists and they all have been working for years. But now recently there is just one song that appears to be unavailable, even though it had been in my playlist since 2017. Out of nowhere I can’...

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  • ...ad been in my playlist since 2017. Out of nowhere I can’t play the song anymore on my phone.  On my MacBook I can still play it. And on my iPhone I can see the song, it even has a green download...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Download Limit

PlanPremiumCountrySwitzerlandDeviceComputerOperating SystemWindows 10 professional, 21h2 My Question or IssueI wanted to download my songs on my new pc and when I clicked on it I have this message.I tried to sign out everywhere in the account panel b...

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  • Plan Premium Country Switzerland Device Computer Operating System Windows 10 professional, 21h2   My Question or Issue I wanted to download my songs on my new pc and when I clicked o...
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Superuser Contribution Downloads wont load

When i get in my car and try to load my downloaded music it takes forever to load and i have to turn off both my wifi and cellular data for it to load.PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceSamsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (Verizon)Operating SystemAndroid 12One UI 4.1

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  • When i get in my car and try to load my downloaded music it takes forever to load and i have to turn off both my wifi and cellular data for it to load. Plan Premium Country USA Device Samsung G...
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Superuser Contribution How do I turn off automatically liking songs when downloading an album?

Hi all, when I download an album for the offline use, Spotify automatically likes all the songs on this album for me. Is there a way to turn this off? I want to decide for myself what songs to like or not. Kind regards,Evert-Jan

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  • Hi all,   when I download an album for the offline use, Spotify automatically likes all the songs on this album for me. Is there a way to turn this off? I want to decide for myself what s...
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Superuser Contribution Albums on Windows Desktop

PlanPremiumCountrySwitzerlandDevice(Windows Laptop)Operating SystemWindows 10My Question or Issue I can download and play offline albums on my Android-Phone. But those Albums are not shown under "albums" on the desktop-app-version nor can they be fou...

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  • Plan Premium Country Switzerland Device (Windows Laptop) Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue   I can download and play offline albums on my Android-Phone. But those A...
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Superuser Contribution 10,000 Song Download Limit

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceiPhone XOperating SystemiOS 14 My Question or IssuePlease remove the download limit or increase it from 10,000. I realize very few people actually hit the download limit, but it might not be because people don’t want more t...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device iPhone X Operating System iOS 14   My Question or Issue Please remove the download limit or increase it from 10,000.  I realize very few people a...
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Superuser Contribution Download: ON in dynamic Playlists

PlanPremiumCountry: India DeviceSamsung A50 Operating SystemAndroid Oreo My Question or IssueI've just shifted from Apple Music to Spotify (I hope you guys are proud of me xD) Anyways, moving on, I've been very confused regarding the download feature...

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  • ...ou guys are proud of me xD)   Anyways, moving on, I've been very confused regarding the download feature in general and how it works.    To be more specific, what I really wanna k...
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Superuser Contribution Help syncing local files from macbook to iPhone

PlanPremium Family CountryEnglandDeviceiPhone 11 Pro Max, MacBook Air mid 2013Operating SystemiOS 13.7, MacOS Catalina 10.15.6 My Question or IssueI have looked through the forums and have trued everything. I turned off firewall, am on the same netwo...

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  • ...ooked through the forums and have trued everything. I turned off firewall, am on the same network, downloaded and re downloaded spotify client, updated the software, logged in and out, restarted my d...
  • Elena
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Superuser Contribution Explicit song downloading as clean in playlists

When I added Taylor Swift's folklore album and songs to my other playlists, the songs downloaded as the clean versions even though I'm adding from the explicit song/album page. Why? And how do I fix it? Is anyone else having this same issue? My accou...

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  • When I added Taylor Swift's folklore album and songs to my other playlists, the songs downloaded as the clean versions even though I'm adding from the explicit song/album page. Why? And how do I f...
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Solved!! Just make several songs available offline

Hello,how can I just download several songs and not the whole Playlist to hear them offline?Right now my whole Playlist is offline available and this takes so much of the storage. PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceiPhone 6sOperating SystemiOS 13

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  • Hello, how can I just download several songs and not the whole Playlist to hear them offline? Right now my whole Playlist is offline available and this takes so much of the storage.   P...
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Manage playlist downloads

I will start saying that for some reason i can't post this in the "ideas" section! I have a premium plan and this annoys me and i can't be the only one, so if any of you could post this for me or make this reach to anyone who cares, would be apprecia...

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  • ...usics i want to download without having to create another playlist.    It's a simple feature, make it happen i don't want to choose 30+ musics one by one, wen i can simply chose one in 30+ t...
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Superuser Contribution Where's my downloaded library?

PlanPremiumOperating SystemAndroid Pie Issue:Ever since the June major "update" I've been missing my downloaded songs library and been listening less and less to Spotify. On the previous version, there was a tab where you could find all your download...

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  • Plan Premium Operating System Android Pie   Issue: Ever since the June major "update" I've been missing my downloaded songs library and been listening less and less to Spotify.   O...
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Superuser Contribution Music is not downloaded

PlanPremium FamilyCountry DeviceSamsung Galaxy S10Operating SystemAndoid 9 My Question or IssueI have created a longer playlist and switched to download it (3 days ago). But the download is not starting. Download progress stucks at 0%. I checked all ...

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  •   Plan Premium Family Country   Device Samsung Galaxy S10 Operating System Andoid 9   My Question or Issue I have created a longer playlist and switched to download it (3 d...
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Can't see downloaded songs

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceLG G6Operating SystemAndroid 8.0 I noticed that you can see if you downloaded a specific song in a playlist. You can see a 'downloaded'-icon left to the song name. When I am opening the album, I can't see that icon. Ple...

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  • Plan Premium Country Germany Device LG G6 Operating System Android 8.0   I noticed that you can see if you downloaded a specific song in a playlist. You can see a 'downloaded'-icon l...
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