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Jam now available on Desktop

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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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. The Now Playing View in the right sidebar shows the album art and info of the current song or pod...

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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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Solved!! Spotify free: Music stops on MAC

Edited: Thank you very much everyone for helping! Finally I managed to correct the error and the steps are those that DerpyNerd offered and highlighted as a solution. Hi! I have a MacBook Pro, and for a week now I have a problem with the desktop app....

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[Mac] Troubleshooting Spotify

Having trouble with Spotify on your Desktop app? Here’s what to try first. Search the Community Someone might have asked your question on the Community before. So type your issue into the search box and have a look. Tip: Don't forget to check our Spo...

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Equaliser still missing from Macs/PCs

PlanPremiumUK Device(Mac)Operating System(OSX Yosemite) My Question or IssueI'm using Premium Spotify more and more on my Mac, and it is so important to have EQ. This was 'Case Closed' previously despite over 5 thousand votes, because not enough peop...

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  • Plan Premium UK   Device (Mac) Operating System (OSX Yosemite)   My Question or Issue I'm using Premium Spotify more and more on my Mac, and it is so important to have EQ.  T...
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High memomory usage persists

DeviceiMac Mid 2011, 2,7 GHz Intel Core i5, 20GB RAMOperating SystemOSX 10.13.6 My Question or Issue Occasionally Spotify App on our home Mac would unexpectedly crash or freeze on us before, and still does lately. This made me keep an eye open for po...

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  • Device iMac Mid 2011, 2,7 GHz Intel Core i5, 20GB RAM Operating System OSX 10.13.6   My Question or Issue  Occasionally Spotify App on our home Mac would unexpectedly crash or freeze ...
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Mac macOS extreme hard drive activity when running Spotify

PlanFreeCountryDenmarkDeviceiMac (late 2009)Operating SystemmacOS 10.12.6Spotify Desktop App 1.0.88.353.g15c26ea1 My Question or IssueAs soon as I log in to the desktop app the hard disk starts going bananas with activity. It's killing the perfomance...

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  • Plan Free Country Denmark Device iMac (late 2009) Operating System macOS 10.12.6 Spotify Desktop App  1.0.88.353.g15c26ea1    My Question or Issue As soon as I log in to th...
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Spotify memory leak

PlanPremiumCountry DeviceMacbook Pro Touchbar late 2016Operating SystemMac Mojave My Question or IssueMassive memory leak on Spotify. It has done this a few times.

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  • Plan Premium Country   Device Macbook Pro Touchbar late 2016 Operating System Mac Mojave   My Question or Issue Massive memory leak on Spotify. It has done this a few times. &nbs...
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Finding Accounts On Mac Desktop

Plan: Free Country: United States Device: Mac Desktop Operating System: OS X Version 10.6.8 My Question or Issue: I can't find my account/username from my desktop's cache. The instructions said to open FINDER then click GO > LIBRARY > APPLICATION SUP...

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  • Plan: Free   Country: United States   Device: Mac Desktop  Operating System: OS X Version 10.6.8     My Question or Issue:   I can't find my account/username f...
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Superuser Contribution Playlist followers

Despite all the claims for a more 'Community Feeling', Spotify still has not added the most important feature of checking the profiles/names/accounts of the amount of followers each playlist has. Why is Spotify not listining to this extremely valuabl...

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  • Despite all the claims for a more 'Community Feeling', Spotify still has not added the most important feature of checking the profiles/names/accounts of the amount of followers each playlist has.&nbs...
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Superuser Contribution Music being removed from Playlist??!!

Well, this problem has actually been going on for a while. Music that I add to my playlist gets removed from it after maybe around a week, even though it's still available on spotify. For example, I added the song "Blasphemy" to my playlist a while b...

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  • Well, this problem has actually been going on for a while. Music that I add to my playlist gets removed from it after maybe around a week, even though it's still available on spotify. For example, I ...
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Superuser Contribution Friend Activity Feed Not Updating Correctly

PlanPremiumCountryUnited States DeviceMacbook Pro 2017Operating SystemMacOS Mojave 10.14 My Question or Issue Just deleted and reinstalled the newest version of Spotify for Desktop and it still isn't updating my Friends' activity correctly. Have test...

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  • Plan Premium Country United States  Device Macbook Pro 2017 Operating System MacOS Mojave 10.14   My Question or Issue  Just deleted and reinstalled the newest version of Spo...
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Friend Feed not updating correctly

PlanPremiumCountry New ZealandDevice(Macbook Pro Early 2015)Operating System(Mac OS Mojave) Hey,My friends list has just started to not update correctly, I have reinstalled spotify and the issue does not seem to resolve itself. I also have restarted ...

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  •   Plan Premium Country  New Zealand Device (Macbook Pro Early 2015) Operating System (Mac OS Mojave)      Hey, My friends list has just started to not update corr...
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Friend feed showing, but not updating correctly

PlanPremiumCountry NetherlandsDeviceMacbook Air 2015Operating SystemMac OS 10.14 My Question or Issue My friend feed is showing my friend's activity, for those that allowed their activity to be followed. But the friend feed won't actually update, usu...

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  • Plan Premium Country  Netherlands Device Macbook Air 2015 Operating System Mac OS 10.14   My Question or Issue  My friend feed is showing my friend's activity, for those that...
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Superuser Contribution Automatic song change

Since yesterday I can't listen to any song in Spotify, neither in mobile Android app nor Mac desktop app. I have a premium account. Every song change automatically to other in the playlist or the album. Sometimes after few seconds, sometimes without ...

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  • Since yesterday I can't listen to any song in Spotify, neither in mobile Android app nor Mac desktop app. I have a premium account.   Every song change automatically to other in the playlist o...
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Playlist on Sarafi

PlanFree/PremiumCountryThe Netherlands DeviceIMAC/ SafariOperating System(Mac OS Mojave 10.14.1 Safari 12.0.1 My Question or IssueCan not open the Spotify playlist anymore in Safari.

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country The Netherlands   Device IMAC/ Safari Operating System (Mac OS Mojave 10.14.1 Safari 12.0.1   My Question or Issue Can not open the Spotify playlist any...
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Solved!! Keyboard media keys (play/pause) not working

macOS High Sierra v10.13.6 Spotify v1.0.90.268.ga8a0ceb4 Play/pause/skip track buttons on keyboard no longer working. - Tried re-starting machine already.- Tried re-starting app.- Tried plugging/unplugging keyboard.- Media keys function with other ap...

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  • macOS High Sierra v10.13.6   Spotify v1.0.90.268.ga8a0ceb4   Play/pause/skip track buttons on keyboard no longer working.   - Tried re-starting machine already. - Tried re-start...
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MacOS Spotify stopping all sound on device

PlanPremiumCountryAustralia DeviceMacbook Pro Early 2015Operating SystemmacOS Mojave My Question or IssueI bought some wireless bluetooth Sennheiser CX SPORTS today and was very confused that when I had stopped a song from playing on Spotify, all the...

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  • Plan Premium Country Australia  Device Macbook Pro Early 2015 Operating System macOS Mojave   My Question or Issue I bought some wireless bluetooth Sennheiser CX SPORTS today and ...
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no es posible reproducir la canción actual en mi MAC

no es posible reproducir la canción actual en mi MAC, no entiendo por que debo desactivar, desinstalar, borrar carpetas etc. si pago para ser premium. dejo de usar unos minutos mi Spotify y deja de funcionar. incluso tengo que reiniciar mi mac para q...

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  • no es posible reproducir la canción actual en mi MAC, no entiendo por que debo desactivar, desinstalar, borrar carpetas etc. si pago para ser premium. dejo de usar unos minutos mi Spotify y deja...
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Superuser Contribution Got the error "Can't play the current song" when playing the playlist

PlanPremiumCountryVietnam DeviceMacbook Pro 2017Operating SystemMacOS Mojave v10.14.1 My Question or IssueIn couple of recent days, when I'm playing my playlist, I got the error "Can't play the current song" and the next song will NOT be played. Plea...

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  • Plan Premium Country Vietnam  Device Macbook Pro 2017 Operating System MacOS Mojave v10.14.1   My Question or Issue In couple of recent days, when I'm playing my playlist, I got t...
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Solved!! How do you see which playlist is playing?

PlanPremiumDeviceMacbook Pro 2013Operating SystemIOS My Question or Issue How do i see what playlist the song is playing from? If i select a playlist to play, say a Daily Mix, and then click on other things that lead me away from that playlist window...

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  •   Plan Premium Device Macbook Pro 2013 Operating System IOS   My Question or Issue  How do i see what playlist the song is playing from?  If i select a playlist to play,...
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Songs randomly changing

I have no idea whats happening, but im about to break this computer. My spotify songs just stop midways and start playing some other que that i dont know what it is. PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceMacBook ProOperating SystemOSX My Question or Issue

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  • I have no idea whats happening, but im about to break this computer.  My spotify songs just stop midways and start playing some other que that i dont know what it is.     Plan Prem...
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Delete Local Files - Mac OSX

The local files section of my Spotify app is filled with "files" that I cannot play or remove. I have tried clearing the Cache, unselecting local storage options, removing files from application support, and reinstalling the app. None of these option...

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  •   The local files section of my Spotify app is filled with "files" that I cannot play or remove. I have tried clearing the Cache, unselecting local storage options, removing files from applicat...
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Delete content from LOCAL FILES

I imported music from my device to spotify (local files), but I want to remove them, how do I?

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  • I imported music from my device to spotify (local files), but I want to remove them, how do I?
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