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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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  • MattSuda
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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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  • bfteach
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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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Duplicate Local Files

Hi, After I updated Spotify, the music tracks stored in my computer duplicated. I tried switch off all the local files sources however the tracks were still here and some duplicated, I tried see where the tracks were stored in my Mac but the 2 duplic...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi,   After I updated Spotify, the music tracks stored in my computer duplicated. I tried switch off all the local files sources however the tracks were still here and some duplicated, I tried...
  • GrilledTony
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Solved!! Can't sort search results

Before the big recent update, search results could be sorted by clicking the column headers -- e.g. by artist, track, album. But after the update I can't do it anymore.I'm guessing that they just didn't bother to keep the old functionality in the new...

  • Music Fan
  • Before the big recent update, search results could be sorted by clicking the column headers -- e.g. by artist, track, album. But after the update I can't do it anymore. I'm guessing that they just...
  • StarScream
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Solved!! How do I rearrange my playlists' order?

My playlists in spotify seem to be in the order that they were created. Is there a way to rearrange them in any different order? Thanks for any help.

  • Roadie
  • My playlists in spotify seem to be in the order that they were created.   Is there a way to rearrange them in any different order?   Thanks for any help.
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What happened to the Filter function?!

guys! ive been a huge spotify evangelist since its introduction. ive been pleased to see it gradually improve as time has passed, and even had some really great features added (like the ability to control one device from another). but the removal of ...

  • Casual Listener
  • guys!   ive been a huge spotify evangelist since its introduction.  ive been pleased to see it gradually improve as time has passed, and even had some really great features added (like the...
  • mrurns
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Solved!! My Usage of my image

Good morning:I am a photographer and a user of Spotify. This morning 7/24/2015 I noticed on the mobile app Discover weekly section that one of my images was use without mention of authorship or copyrights. I am enclosing said image. Please explain ho...

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  • Good morning: I am a photographer and a user of Spotify. This morning 7/24/2015 I noticed on the mobile app Discover weekly section that one of my images was use without mention of  authorship ...
  • MattSuda
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Solved!! Search results sorting not available

This has been open for MONTHS now. Search options can't be sorted. Is there ANY official stance on this? It's such a basic feature its increible its been neglected.spotify:search:term workaround no longer works either.

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  • This has been open for MONTHS now. Search options can't be sorted. Is there ANY official stance on this? It's such a basic feature its increible its been neglected. spotify:search:term workaround ...
  • MattSuda
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Local files don't appear

Hello, Firstly, I apologise if this topic has been brought up before, I havent been able to find it and I am new to the community. Im having issues with local files, where nothing (no files) turn up. See attachment below. Any suggestions?

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  • Hello,   Firstly, I apologise if this topic has been brought up before, I havent been able to find it and I am new to the community.   Im having issues with local files, where nothing (...
  • jmaneto
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Solved!! Plugins on Spotify 1.0.3 for OS X - what happened???

Hi, I'm a premium user and since I've updated my desktop (OS X) client a few weeks ago, I can't access the plugins I had (I used the last.fm and Lazify plugins to discover music). Was this a deliberate downgrade or is there a problem with my installa...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi,   I'm a premium user and since I've updated my desktop (OS X) client a few weeks ago, I can't access the plugins I had (I used the last.fm and Lazify plugins to discover music).   W...
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Use Spotify Connect with Mac or PC

I don't understand why Spotify does not enable Spotify Connect on desktop computers. It effectively prevents you from using eg a Mac Mini as a media server, unless you want to use 3rd party software to control it remotely eg from an iPad. It also bug...

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  • I don't understand why Spotify does not enable Spotify Connect on desktop computers. It effectively prevents you from using eg a Mac Mini as a media server, unless you want to use 3rd party software ...
  • peiteer
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Solved!! Disabling Mac OS X Dock badge notifications

Warum zum Henker ist das noch immer nicht gelöst worden? Why the hell are you not able to kill the annoying notifications?

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  • Warum zum Henker ist das noch immer nicht gelöst worden? Why the hell are you not able to kill the annoying notifications?
  • mikesalz
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How Do I Delete all my iTunes entries

Hi All I recently joined Spotify and when using my iMac it kindly imported all my itunes library into my spotify without asking. Now I have hundreds of old music that I do not want. I have tried to start to go through them and deleting but it takes a...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi All   I recently joined Spotify and when using my iMac it kindly imported all my itunes library into my spotify without asking. Now I have hundreds of old music that I do not want. I have t...
  • gusgowland
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Slow graphics performance of VMWare Fusion when Mac client is showing

Since a few months, whenever the Spotify for Mac client is showing (but not when it's just open and playing but hidden by clicking the red X) the graphics performance on VMWare Fusion degrades with a factor of 10.Since I use VMWare to run a Windows C...

  • Casual Listener
  • Since a few months, whenever the Spotify for Mac client is showing (but not when it's just open and playing but hidden by clicking the red X) the graphics performance on VMWare Fusion degrades with a...
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Solved!! Stopping the Mac OS X 10.5 auto-update madness

-- This part of the message is directed at the folks who work at Spotify -- Please turn off the auto-update madness for customers using Mac OS X 10.5. All you are doing is breaking their already running Spotify installations. Frankly, it's just gratu...

  • Roadie
  • -- This part of the message is directed at the folks who work at Spotify --   Please turn off the auto-update madness for customers using Mac OS X 10.5. All you are doing is breaking their alr...
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Spotify Premium won't load

i uninstalled, and reinstalled Spotify app on my iPhone, but it won't play my premium subscription... Only free trial. Any ideas?

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  • i uninstalled, and reinstalled Spotify app on my iPhone, but it won't play my premium subscription... Only free trial. Any ideas?
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My spotify contact form sent to the wrong email!

I sent in a contact for because I was charged twice this month and it sent it to the wrong email I went to change my email on spotify and it still sent it to the wrong email after I resent the complaint what do I do

  • Newbie
  • I sent in a contact for because I was charged twice this month and it sent it to the wrong email I went to change my email on spotify and it still sent it to the wrong email after I resent the compla...
  • aznfoo
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Songs not adding to playlist after 30 songs (OSX)

Hey, my problem is pretty self-explanatory. I've been adding a bunch of songs to one of my playlists, and when I went to look at the playlist, it was stuck at 30 songs. I have no clue what's causing it, but it's seriously irritating. It should be clo...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hey, my problem is pretty self-explanatory.   I've been adding a bunch of songs to one of my playlists, and when I went to look at the playlist, it was stuck at 30 songs. I have no clue w...
  • motorben
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Spotify premium offline no more??

I've been a sootify premium member for a few years now. Today I had to pay again as something went wrong with my subscription. Now my offline playlists won't play, I've go online and downloaded them again but they will only play by spoitfy shuffle bu...

  • Casual Listener
  • I've been a sootify premium member for a few years now. Today I had to pay again as something went wrong with my subscription. Now my offline playlists won't play, I've go online and downloaded them ...
  • jean3601
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Cant log in to spottfy using the app (mac)

No matter what I cant log in to spotfy using the app on my mac. I can log in here (obvisley) but evey time i keep trying to log in to the app it keeps saying that the user name or password is incorrect. Ive tryed reinstilling the app, changing the pa...

  • Casual Listener
  • No matter what I cant log in to spotfy using the app on my mac. I can log in here (obvisley) but evey time i keep trying to log in to the app it keeps saying that the user name or password is incorre...
  • ml1000
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I got the student discount but now it's making me enter my credit card info again

I signed up for premium and then it asked me to verify if I was a student which I did and $5.29 was taken out of my account. Well when I got the confirmation email that I was an eligible student it's asking me to put my card info back in and I don't ...

  • Newbie
  • I signed up for premium and then it asked me to verify if I was a student which I did and $5.29 was taken out of my account. Well when I got the confirmation email that I was an eligible student it's...
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Solved!! spotAPI plugin error when launching Mac desktop player

Since Spotify has removed app support in their player, now every time I launch I get the following error message (attached screen shot). I've done a clean reinstall but still get the error. How do I remove spotAPI?!? ErrorSpotify 1.0.2.6.g9977a14b (v...

  • Casual Listener
  • Since Spotify has removed app support in their player, now every time I launch I get the following error message (attached screen shot). I've done a clean reinstall but still get the error. How do I ...
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