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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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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 Stop open.spotify links to open the Spotify app!

My Question or IssueIn Chrome on Windows i acaccidentally clicked a message to open the Spotify app on load of the Webplayer. Now everytime i click on an open.spotify link the Spotify app opens up. Thats horrible!I want to only load the webplayer whe...

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  • My Question or Issue In Chrome on Windows i acaccidentally clicked a message to open the Spotify app on load of the Webplayer. Now everytime i click on an open.spotify link the Spotify app opens up....
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Superuser Contribution New UI Left sidebar is missing my playlists and Folders

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceLenova Yoga 730Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI just updated my Spotify and I noticed my entire left sidebar is empty minus the home, search, and your library. In the new UI introduction video, there seem...

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  • Plan Premium Country Canada Device Lenova Yoga 730 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I just updated my Spotify and I noticed my entire left sidebar is empty minus the ...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify is not letting me reorganise my playlist order

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(Surface Pro 7)Operating System(Windows 11) My Question or Issue A couple of days ago I was going through and reorganising my playlists, (moving the playlists above/below each other and putting them into folders, I reali...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (Surface Pro 7) Operating System (Windows 11)   My Question or Issue   A couple of days ago I was going through and reorganising my playli...
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Can't play music except if it's in my liked

I'm on PC and for the past week or so i have not been able to play any music from the home page whatsoever, it doesn't even show up on the bottom. I have to add it to my liked to play it. I tried a reinstall and the issue has still not been resolved....

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  • I'm on PC and for the past week or so i have not been able to play any music from the home page whatsoever, it doesn't even show up on the bottom. I have to add it to my liked to play it. I tried a r...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify for Windows client getting worse with every update

PlanPremiumCountry Czech RepublicDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHello, I would just like to congratulate Spotify Windows Desktop client team for probably the most rapid barrage of regressions I've seen in years. It's getting w...

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  • Plan Premium Country  Czech Republic Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Hello,   I would just like to congratulate Spotify Windows Desktop client ...
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Superuser Contribution okay so you see the spotify login page on web, how do I create ?

SPotify used to show how to create like the login/sigin up page but I can't seem to find it no was they have changed the documentation site. I know how to create a playlist and find the tracks but I don't know how to create the spotify authorisation ...

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  • SPotify used to show how to create like the login/sigin up page but I can't seem to find it no was they have changed the documentation site. I know how to create a playlist and find the tracks but I ...
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Certain Local Files Won't Play

Australia, Family Premium PlanDesktop App Windows 11, Surface Pro 6 This problem has been posted about and resolved before HOWEVER this solution no longer works, or perhaps only worked for Windows 10. Certain local files which work fine in WMP and ar...

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  • Australia, Family Premium Plan Desktop App Windows 11, Surface Pro 6   This problem has been posted about and resolved before HOWEVER this solution no longer works, or perhaps only worked for...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Why was the playlist manual ordering feature removed?!

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10Today 2023-03-24 I woke up to my spotify meticulously 300+ ordered playlists completely changed.The only ordering options offered are:Recent (the playlists you played recently)Recently AddedAl...

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  • Plan Premium Country Canada Device PC Operating System Windows 10 Today 2023-03-24 I woke up to my spotify meticulously 300+ ordered playlists completely changed. The only ordering optio...
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Superuser Contribution New Design, Desktop

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceNotebookOperating SystemWindows 8.1 My Question or IssueI had to notice today that the design of Spotify has changed again. I guess this can't be undone, right? The previous design was much more compact, if I remember c...

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  • Plan Premium Country Germany Device Notebook Operating System Windows 8.1   My Question or Issue I had to notice today that the design of Spotify has changed again. I guess this can't ...
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Solved!! Can't play specific artists/songs

PlanFree/PremiumCountryHungaryDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 7 (64 bit, Pro) My Question or IssueFor the past month I've been unable to play songs from new artists completely. I click play on for example Loqiemean's Повес2ка album, current song stop...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country Hungary Device PC Operating System Windows 7 (64 bit, Pro)   My Question or Issue For the past month I've been unable to play songs from new artists completel...
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Superuser Contribution A problem that I don't know if it's Facebook or Spotify end of things

PlanFamilyCountryCanadaDevice(ASUS ROG G512LI )Operating System(Windows 11.) My Question or IssueI don't know if this is either a Facebook Issue or Spotify Issue but this has been going on for MONTHS and I can imagine that both Facebook and Spotify w...

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  • Plan Family Country Canada Device (ASUS ROG G512LI ) Operating System (Windows 11.)   My Question or Issue I don't know if this is either a Facebook Issue or Spotify Issue but thi...
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Superuser Contribution Desktop app not being detected by Discord or Last.fm

PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceHP LaptopOperating SystemWindows 11My Question or IssueYesterday, I noticed that when using the Spotify desktop app, it wasn't displaying on my Discord profile nor were the songs I was playing showing up on my Last.fm profile....

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  •   Plan Free Country USA Device HP Laptop Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue Yesterday, I noticed that when using the Spotify desktop app, it wasn't displaying on my Disco...
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Superuser Contribution playlists work but if I want to listen to a single artist it wont play

On the desktop PC app, if I want to listen to any playlist it will play but if I want to listen to a single artist i.e. Doja Cat or Drake it wont play. It only buggs out on the desktop my phone and web browser work fine. I have tried to uninstall and...

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  • On the desktop PC app, if I want to listen to any playlist it will play but if I want to listen to a single artist i.e. Doja Cat or Drake it wont play. It only buggs out on the desktop my phone and w...
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Non trovo il tasto : "Condividi" su Spotify in PC desktop windov 10

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Superuser Contribution Webplayer problems

Hello! I’m not a paying customer, I only use what’s for free. So I don’t want any service from you, I just want to help and point out some something.The web interface has some problems, partially very essential. Let’s show this on the example of Abov...

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  • Hello!   I’m not a paying customer, I only use what’s for free. So I don’t want any service from you, I just want to help and point out some something. The web interface has some problems, pa...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify desktop version audio cuts off when opening a Chrome tab for the first time

DeviceAsus G14Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueWhen I have music playing from the desktop application and go and open a chrome tab to browse the web, the audio cuts off and spotify says it cannot play this song. Fix for this is to have ...

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  • Device Asus G14 Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue When I have music playing from the desktop application and go and open a chrome tab to browse the web, the audio cuts off...
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Superuser Contribution win10,brave browser frontend

PlanFreeCountryindia Device(brave,windows)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or Issueon opening the home page the class name are also shown along the button namesimilar issue with user profile buttonsissue is same with and without brave shieldt...

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  • Plan Free Country india   Device (brave,windows) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue on opening the home page the class name are also shown along the button name...
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Superuser Contribution Songs out of order/missing from Liked Playlist

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceDell LaptopOperating SystemWindows My Question or IssueHi all, The songs in my "Liked Songs" are displayed out of order or missing. When I click on a song to play, it plays the correct song, but when I look at the unshuffl...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA   Device Dell Laptop Operating System Windows   My Question or Issue Hi all,   The songs in my "Liked Songs" are displayed out of order or missing...
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