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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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Windows 10 app showing facebook account

I disconnected my email account from facebook but when I open windows 10 app I still see my facebook account user name besides my email!How get rid of facebook account and user name ?Please see the screenshot.

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  • I disconnected my email account from facebook but when I open windows 10 app I still see my facebook account user name besides my email! How get rid of facebook account and user name ? Please see t...
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Spotify funktioniert nicht

Seit etwa einer Woche funktioniert Spotify gar nicht mehr auf meinem PC (auf meinem Handy schon).Wenn ich Spotify öffnen möchte, öffnet sich kein Fenster und es hängt leicht (an der Taskleiste öffnet sich das kleine Fenster, wenn ich mit der Maus dra...

  • Casual Listener
  • Seit etwa einer Woche funktioniert Spotify gar nicht mehr auf meinem PC (auf meinem Handy schon). Wenn ich Spotify öffnen möchte, öffnet sich kein Fenster und es hängt leicht  (an der Taskleist...
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Downloaded songs and now I can't find them

Hey all!I really hope you can help me, it's driving me crazy.Yesterday I downloaded my mix of the week so I can hear it offline. Now I can't find the songs anywhere. Anybody has an idea how I can find them again? I don't remember any names of the art...

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  • Hey all! I really hope you can help me, it's driving me crazy. Yesterday I downloaded my mix of the week so I can hear it offline. Now I can't find the songs anywhere. Anybody has an idea how I can...
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Friend Feed gone

My friend feed is gone. I now have a button "Find Friends." When I click on that button it shows that I am following several people but nothing is showing up in the feed. It can't be possible that everyone decided at the same time to turn off publish...

  • Casual Listener
  • My friend feed is gone.   I now have a button "Find Friends."  When I click on that button it shows that I am following several people but nothing is showing up in the feed.  &nbs...
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Recently played artists not showing up on profile

This is happening to me and a friend, we can both see our own recently played artists but not each others (only public playlists). However we can both see a third friends recently played artists. I've tried enabling and disabling show top artists and...

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  • This is happening to me and a friend, we can both see our own recently played artists but not each others (only public playlists). However we can both see a third friends recently played artists. I'v...
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Superuser Contribution Song skipping half of the track

So, basically when a song finish, the next one starts at the half. Example: Is it normal? How can I fix this?

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  • So, basically when a song finish, the next one starts at the half. Example:   Is it normal? How can I fix this? 
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Spotify doesn't play firefox

Today Spotify webplayer update Shuffle playback and infinite playback do not turn off when you click Refresh. This patch does not seem to be Firefox.

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  • Today Spotify webplayer update   Shuffle playback and infinite playback do not turn off when you click Refresh.   This patch does not seem to be Firefox.
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Black screen in Chrome

Hi, again I'm having problem with the spotify web player in chrome in windows 7.When opening https://play.spotify.com/browse it immediately switches to https://open.spotify.com/browse/featured and shows the well known content for a fraction of a seco...

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  • Hi,   again I'm having problem with the spotify web player in chrome in windows 7. When opening https://play.spotify.com/browse it immediately switches to https://open.spo...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spofity Windows Desktop version slow and crashing

I am using Spotify on my Windows 8.1 laptop. The Spotify app I'm using is version 1.0.77.338.g758ebd78.The problem with the app is that it sometimes gets very slow or even crashes, especially during searches.This has nothing to do with the internet c...

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  • I am using Spotify on my Windows 8.1 laptop. The Spotify app I'm using is version 1.0.77.338.g758ebd78. The problem with the app is that it sometimes gets very slow or even crashes, especially ...
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Espontaneous interruption when listening

Good morning!I have a strange issue in my account: When I listen music on PC, iPhone, Android as well as my car, sometimes the playing turns to pause aleatory... sometimes one time in one hour sometimes three of four times in the next. It happens in ...

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  • Good morning! I have a strange issue in my account:  When I listen music on PC, iPhone, Android as well as my car, sometimes the playing turns to pause aleatory... sometimes one time in one hou...
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Discover Weekly wont update

My Discover Weekly playlist isn't wanting to update. Its been 8 days since it last updated and I've tried plenty of fixes which are not working. Unfollowed, logged out, closed and reopened, then signed back in and followed it again and it still hasnt...

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  • My Discover Weekly playlist isn't wanting to update. Its been 8 days since it last updated and I've tried plenty of fixes which are not working. Unfollowed, logged out, closed and reopened, then sign...
  • Nico
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Solved!! Song I didn't chose starts playing

Hello,I opened Spotify on my PC and new songs have been added to my playlist which I have never listened to before and also I was listening to a song on my laptop when it cut out and started playing a classical song I hadn't heard before.This is a bi...

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  • Hello, I opened Spotify on my PC and new songs have been added to my playlist which I have never listened to before and also I was listening to a song on my laptop when it cut out and started p...
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Spotify window shows up on my desktop and I can't scroll?

http://prntscr.com/j66zkn This pops up on my desktop and I can't scroll or use mouse4 & 5, does anyone know what this is and how to get rid of it?

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  • http://prntscr.com/j66zkn   This pops up on my desktop and I can't scroll or use mouse4 & 5, does anyone know what this is and how to get rid of it?
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finding music videos

I use Spotify in Austria and don't have the option of seaching for music videos. When will this option be available? It seems to be available in other areas.

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  •   I use Spotify in Austria and don't have the option of seaching for music videos.  When will this option be available?  It seems to be available in other areas.
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Application not working

Hi,Lately I've problems with my desktop application. I've been using desktop application for about one year in my current laptop and I had no problems. But unfortunetely, one week ago application began not to work. Also I am not able to reach spotify...

  • Newbie
  • Hi, Lately I've problems with my desktop application. I've been using desktop application for about one year in my current laptop and I had no problems. But unfortunetely, one week ago application b...
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Spotify don't recognize iTunes in Windows 10

Hi everyone, i've just installed Windows 10 pro, so iTunes and imported my library for old playlists. Than I install Spotify and when I go in Settings, iTunes doesn't appear in sources! I tried to disinstall and reinstall both, but it doesn't work!Is...

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  • Hi everyone, i've just installed Windows 10 pro, so iTunes and imported my library for old playlists. Than I install Spotify and when I go in Settings, iTunes doesn't appear in sources! I tried to di...
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Playlist no longer available and can't delete it

I followed some playlists, it seems the people who created them delete them.So i can't access them anymore, not a problem, i respect it.My problem is I don't want to see them anymore on my playlist list as no use, the issue is i can't delete them

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  • I followed some playlists, it seems the people who created them delete them. So i can't access them anymore, not a problem, i respect it. My problem is I don't want to see them anymore on my p...
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Windows Spotify.exe login problem (again)

This happens every couple months with some update and I do not know what unnatural process is required to login to the Spotify.exe --- there is NO reason that logging in to an application is not standardized. At one point, I thought that I had to use...

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  • This happens every couple months with some update and I do not know what unnatural process is required to login to the Spotify.exe --- there is NO reason that logging in to an application is not stan...
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Solved!! Clicking album cover goes to wrong song

Is this the right place to report bugs? When I click the album cover to jump to the song's location in a playlist, it often jumps to the wrong song if I have sorted the playlist by a column. It won't work until I play a different playlist and then co...

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  • Is this the right place to report bugs?   When I click the album cover to jump to the song's location in a playlist, it often jumps to the wrong song if I have sorted the playlist by a column....
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