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Solved!! 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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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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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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[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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Superuser Contribution Library View on Desktop not able to expand

Plan: PremiumCountry: USDevice: Dell DesktopOperating System: Windows 10My Question or Issue: When I use Spotify on desktop, I like to keep my view split between the album/playlist on the right, and my library on the left. Now currently, the library ...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: US Device: Dell Desktop Operating System: Windows 10 My Question or Issue:  When I use Spotify on desktop, I like to keep my view split between the album/pl...
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Superuser Contribution Expand Now Playing looses video

PlanFreeCountryU.S.A.DeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueA couple weeks ago I noticed that the Expand Now Playing view button resulted in a black/absent/missing video, where it used to expand the video for the video podcasts I ...

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  • Plan Free Country U.S.A. Device Laptop Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue A couple weeks ago I noticed that the Expand Now Playing view button resulted in a black/a...
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Superuser Contribution Miniplayer not showing properly

PlanFreeCountryUnited KingdomDeviceGalaxy Book4 EdgeOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueWhen select the option to show the miniplayer in the spotify desktop app, a window, which the miniplayer is supposed to show in, appears. But it just s...

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  • Plan Free Country United Kingdom Device Galaxy Book4 Edge Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue When select the option to show the miniplayer in the spotify desktop app, a...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify video songs not working

Plan : PremiumCountry : IndiaDevice(Asus Vivobook)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or Issuewhenever i play video songs it shows up "try installing latest version" even though it is the latest version . i even tried reinstalling . And sometime...

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  • Plan : Premium Country : India Device (Asus Vivobook) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue whenever i play video songs it shows up "try installing latest version" ev...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Windows desktop application - losing place after closing lyrics

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceDell XPS DesktopOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueHello, when scrolling through the discography, if I open and close the lyrics for the particular song I am on, the application jumps to either the pla...

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  • Plan Premium Country United States Device Dell XPS Desktop Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue Hello, when scrolling through the discography, if I open and close the lyr...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify Buffering while playing music (with fast internet connection)

PlanPremiumCountrySouth AfricaOperating SystemWindows 10 (Spotify Web on Google Chrome) My Question or IssueHi there, I have been struggling with issue where music will randomly buffer as if I'm on a slow internet connection meanwhile that is not the...

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  • Plan Premium Country South Africa Operating System Windows 10 (Spotify Web on Google Chrome)   My Question or Issue Hi there, I have been struggling with issue where music will randomly ...
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Options Menu not appearing when right clicking songs.

The "More options" menu shown below is no longer appearing when you right click on a song or artist. It only shows if you click the 3-dot icon now. Is there a way to get this feature back? I've tried reinstalling Spotify and using the Browser app and...

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  • The "More options" menu shown below is no longer appearing when you right click on a song or artist. It only shows if you click the 3-dot icon now. Is there a way to get this feature back? I've tried...
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Albums on laptop (windows) and mobile phone (android) show different displays

A certain album (Collected Works of Steve Reich) consists of 23 cd's. On the mobile all cd's are mentioned seperately: CD1, CD2 ect. On the laptop (windows 11) they are not mentioned, so you see a very long playlist of all the numbers.Is this because...

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  • A certain album (Collected Works of Steve Reich) consists of 23 cd's. On the mobile all cd's are mentioned seperately: CD1, CD2 ect. On the laptop (windows 11) they are not mentioned, so you see a ve...
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Superuser Contribution Desktop app keeps muting itself periodically

PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWin10 My Question or IssueSpotify desktop app is randomly muting itself a few times a day, often without me even being at my desk with my hands on any device, phone included. I'm unclear what the fix w...

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  • Plan Premium Country US Device Desktop Operating System Win10   My Question or Issue Spotify desktop app is randomly muting itself a few times a day, often without me even being at my ...
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Superuser Contribution Fullscreen mode being blank

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhenever i go into fullscreen or/and click the expand button on a song or music video, the whole screen just turns into a blank color (color matching the song cover). Does...

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  • Plan Premium Country Sweden Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Whenever i go into fullscreen or/and click the expand button on a song or music video, the whol...
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Superuser Contribution spotify kann dies zurzeit nicht abspielen. wenn sich die datei auf deinem computer befindet, kannst

hi,ich hab nun schon länger diese Fehlermedlung. Am Handy klappt Spotify bestens, am PC hingegen garnicht. Habe auch schon gelesen, dass das Problem schon öfter aufgetreten ist, jedoch hat mir das bis jetzt nichts gebracht. Habe Spotify schon mehrmal...

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  • hi, ich hab nun schon länger diese Fehlermedlung. Am Handy klappt Spotify bestens, am PC hingegen garnicht. Habe auch schon gelesen, dass das Problem schon öfter aufgetreten ist, jedoch hat mir das ...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify Desktop Crashes, Then Deletes Downloaded Music

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceWindows 10 PC---On three separate occasions, I've launched Spotify, only for it to immediately crash and freeze my PC. On restart and relaunching Spotify, I find that I have been signed out of Spotify, and that after logging...

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  • Plan Premium Country UK Device Windows 10 PC --- On three separate occasions, I've launched Spotify, only for it to immediately crash and freeze my PC. On restart and relaunching Spotify, I fi...
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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...

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  • Plan Free Country USA Device Dell Inspiron 16 Plus 7620 Operating System Edition Windows 11 Pro Version 22H2 Installed on ‎10/‎6/‎2022 OS build 22621.1702 Experience Windows Feature Experi...
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Superuser Contribution Local files option doesn't appear in my settings/privacy list

I want to be able to see the local music files on my hard drive in my Spotify account but my settings/privacy list no longer shows the local files option and one track I linked into the account a few days ago is now greyed out.

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  • I want to be able to see the local music files on my hard drive in my Spotify account but my settings/privacy list no longer shows the local files option and one track I linked into the account a few...
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Superuser Contribution Re: Songs going silent on desktop (web browser version)

Moderator edit: Asus x415 Operating System Windows 11 I've seen this exact issue talked about on the android app, but nothing on desktop. Whilst playing songs, the audio will randomly stop, whilst the bar below the pause button acts like the audio is...

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  • Moderator edit: Asus x415 Operating System Windows 11   I've seen this exact issue talked about on the android app, but nothing on desktop. Whilst playing songs, the audio will ran...
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Superuser Contribution I'm using https://open.spotify.com/ -- but I can't see the search box.

1) I cant' find the search box on https://open.spotify.com/2) I looked at https://community.spotify.com/t5/FAQs/Search-filter-and-sort-in-Spotify/ta-p/46497893) The link to https://open.spotify.com/browse/ returns "Page not found".Many thanks for any...

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  • 1) I cant' find the search box on https://open.spotify.com/ 2) I looked at https://community.spotify.com/t5/FAQs/Search-filter-and-sort-in-Spotify/ta-p/4649789 3) The link to https://open.spotify.c...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution My volume is too low

Even though i make my volume max the music volume is too low and this only happens on my pc in my phone its perfectly fine

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  • Even though i make my volume max the music volume is too low and this only happens on my pc in my phone its perfectly fine
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Annoying advertising

Lately spotify app on windows has gotten me so **bleep**ing mad, I don't know if I'm the only one who has these problems:1. Excess of ads: When I first downloaded spotify it used to play an audio advertisement about every seven songs, but it was only...

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  • Lately spotify app on windows has gotten me so **bleep**ing mad, I don't know if I'm the only one who has these problems: 1.  Excess of ads: When I first downloaded spotify it used to play an a...
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Superuser Contribution Webplayer Issues Again

Seems as though the webplayer is having issues again like it did the end of last year. It says it can't play certain tracks, then skips many tracks, then plays a song for 8 secs and then stops but the progress bar keeps going. I've tried all the thin...

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  • Seems as though the webplayer is having issues again like it did the end of last year. It says it can't play certain tracks, then skips many tracks, then plays a song for 8 secs and then stops but th...
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Solved!! The spotify app does not open

PlanPremiumCountry BRAZILDeviceSAMSUNG COMPUTEROperating System Windows 10My Question or Issue Hi, I'm having trouble opening the spotify app. When I click to open an error message appears. I already tried to reinstall, but it did not work.

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  •   Plan Premium Country  BRAZIL Device SAMSUNG COMPUTER Operating System  Windows 10 My Question or Issue  Hi, I'm having trouble opening the spotify app. When I click to...
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