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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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Local files (songs)

I dont know how to delete tracks from my "local" playlist in spotify i have deleted all music i had in my PC but in my Spotify "local" playlist all tracks turnd grey but I want to delete them from the list because they are grey and useless.

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  • I dont know how to delete tracks from my "local" playlist in spotify i have deleted all music i had in my PC but in my Spotify "local" playlist all tracks turnd grey but I want to delete them from th...
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Smart Playlist?

Hey guys! So I was wondering are there smart playlist on spotify? What I mean is like Apple Music allows you to take all your music, and whatever met a certian parameter of rules where added to the playlist. Ex. Everything with "rap" in the genre wou...

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  • Hey guys! So I was wondering are there smart playlist on spotify? What I mean is like Apple Music allows you to take all your music, and whatever met a certian parameter of rules where added to ...
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Airfoil + Spotify – Sound drops out

Recently I've started having problems with my Spotify playing via Airfoil. Very often the sound drops out. And every time a song is near the end – like 20 secs before the end – the sound drops out. I thought it looked like a bandwidth problem, but I'...

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  • Recently I've started having problems with my Spotify playing via Airfoil. Very often the sound drops out. And every time a song is near the end – like 20 secs before the end – the sound drops out. I...
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Spotify can't reconize wifi connection?

Hi, so I had spotify on my laptop, but one day it stopped letting me us it because it couldn't reconize my wifi connection. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, logging off/on, letting it through my laptops firewall, and nothing is working. Can some...

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  • Hi, so I had spotify on my laptop, but one day it stopped letting me us it because it couldn't reconize my wifi connection. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, logging off/on, letting it through my...
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Short Artist & Playlist URL

Is it possible to create short URLs for artists and playlists?

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  • Is it possible to create short URLs for artists and playlists?
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Media keys not working after installing to different hard drive

I reinstalled this to my SSD without changing anything else and since then my media keys only work when im on the spotify window. Has any one else had this happen?

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  • I reinstalled this to my SSD without changing anything else and since then my media keys only work when im on the spotify window.  Has any one else had this happen?
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Can't Login With Facebook Credentials

I recently rebooted an older Mac (running on Mac OS X 10.7.5) computer that I haven't used in a couple of years to use for music. I updated the spotify app and now when I try to login using my facebook credentials I receive an error that says, "Could...

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  • I recently rebooted an older Mac (running on Mac OS X 10.7.5) computer that I haven't used in a couple of years to use for music. I updated the spotify app and now when I try to login using my facebo...
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Cannot drag songs in playlist to change order

Hi, I cannot drag songs in my playlist to change order. For example, I might want a song at the top of myplaylist instead of at the bottom. Yet when I drag it to the top of my playlist it doesn't move. I have tried to restart Spotify, it still doesn'...

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  • Hi,   I cannot drag songs in my playlist to change order. For example, I might want a song at the top of myplaylist instead of at the bottom. Yet when I drag it to the top of my playlist it ...
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"This song is not available"

I went to play several different songs and Spotify has the blue bar message at the top saying "This song is not available. If you have the file on your computer, you can import it." What do I do here?

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  • I went to play several different songs and Spotify has the blue bar message at the top saying "This song is not available. If you have the file on your computer, you can import it." What do I do here?
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Filter multiple artists on a playlist

I have a very large playlist, and making a queue full of the multiple artists I feel like listening to on it is very time consuming. I'd love to see a feature where you can filter a playlist to only play a select few of the artists on it, as opposed ...

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  • I have a very large playlist, and making a queue full of the multiple artists I feel like listening to on it is very time consuming. I'd love to see a feature where you can filter a playlist to ...
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Ability to Delete songs

Hey guys,I have a problem concerning some Taylor Swift songs that I downloaded in October 2016. I want to delete them but they never vanish from my list of songs, on my computer as well as on my phone. When I try to delete them, the check mark change...

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  • Hey guys, I have a problem concerning some Taylor Swift songs that I downloaded in October 2016. I want to delete them but they never vanish from my list of songs, on my computer as well as on my ph...
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SAME "NO INTERNET CONNECTION" **bleep** SINCE 2012??

Hello,I have a premium member Spotify account. Every several days, I get the same annoying and time-stealing "No Internect connection" **bleep**, although I am definitively connected and have best Wifi signal!When will the Spotify dev team FIX THIS *...

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  • Hello, I have a premium member Spotify account. Every several days, I get the same annoying and time-stealing "No Internect connection" **bleep**, although I am definitively connected and have best ...
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Solved!! help me find diss tracks!

Hi, I'm interested in creating a playlist of all diss tracks recorded by hip hop/rap artists. Does anyone know of an efficient and/or comprehensive way of getting at a list of tracks? I can do a search for the word 'diss' but that might not cover eve...

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  • Hi,   I'm interested in creating a playlist of all diss tracks recorded by hip hop/rap artists. Does anyone know of an efficient and/or comprehensive way of getting at a list of tracks? &n...
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Import local files from iTunes library

Hi, so I've just downloaded Spotify and am having trouble importing my music library. Currently, I have all my music in local files which I have imported into both iTunes and Google Play. Using local files to import this music into spotify has worked...

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  • Hi, so I've just downloaded Spotify and am having trouble importing my music library. Currently, I have all my music in local files which I have imported into both iTunes and Google Play. Using ...
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All my music has gone

Hi!I'm not sure what's going on, but all the songs from the "songs" tab have vanished. My playlists are still there with the correct songs, but all my saved songs from the desktop version have vanished. The songs are still saved on my mobile spotify....

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  • Hi! I'm not sure what's going on, but all the songs from the "songs" tab have vanished. My playlists are still there with the correct songs, but all my saved songs from the desktop version have va...
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Ugly "song is duplicate" popup

I think thats pretty self-explanatory. The bug is probably caused because of the longer german translation, so the buttons dont fit next to each other. A screenshot is in the attachments.

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  • I think thats pretty self-explanatory. The bug is probably caused because of the longer german translation, so the buttons dont fit next to each other.    A screenshot is in the atta...
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Freezing that's only getting worse [OS X 10.9.5]

Spotify (newest update 1.0.64.399.g4637b02a) freezing is getting only worse. I've had the problem for almost a year now. At first it was only with search and front page, I could still access my playlists and this was tolerable since I could still som...

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  • Spotify (newest update 1.0.64.399.g4637b02a) freezing is getting only worse. I've had the problem for almost a year now. At first it was only with search and front page, I could still access my ...
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Solved!! older G4 Macs

Spotify still works on my G4 laptop but the message every day that "spotify updates will no longer be available soon on this platform" worry me - should I be thinking of selling my lovely laptop sometime soon? I can't find a full length explanation o...

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  • Spotify still works on my G4 laptop but the message every day that "spotify updates will no longer be available soon on this platform" worry me - should I be thinking of selling my lovely laptop some...
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