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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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Playing by Artist results in many duplicate songs and even some non-music tracks

We're having trouble with what seems like one of the most basic things you'd ever want to do with Spotify - just play an artist. Play Michael Jackson. Play Paul Simon. If we do that, two bad things happen. First, within the first half hour of play we...

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  • We're having trouble with what seems like one of the most basic things you'd ever want to do with Spotify - just play an artist. Play Michael Jackson. Play Paul Simon. If we do that, two bad thi...
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Bug Report: Searching for a song within a playlist messes up the play queue (Mac)

Steps to reproduce:Navigate to a playlistPlay a songPress CMD-F (Mac) or CTRL-F (PC) to filter the playlistType in some textView your play queue; it's not what it should be. Instead, it appears to be a repeating list of any matches found when filteri...

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  • Steps to reproduce: Navigate to a playlist Play a song Press CMD-F (Mac) or CTRL-F (PC) to filter the playlist Type in some text View your play queue; it's not what it should be. Instead, it ap...
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Problems with "Your Music"

For the past few days, I'm not able to access the albums and artists under "Your Music." Spotify just goes to its general page with recommended genres. It works fine with "songs" under "Your Music," but "albums" and "artists" don't load. I'm on a Mac...

  • Casual Listener
  • For the past few days, I'm not able to access the albums and artists under "Your Music." Spotify just goes to its general page with recommended genres. It works fine with "songs" under "Your Music," ...
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Filter on Desktop

Why cant we filter songs on the desktop application?

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  • Why cant we filter songs on the desktop application?
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Play from a playlist, the album art on the left still remains on the old track

DescriptionUpon starting to play from a playlist, the album art on the left still remains on the old track, displaying also the incorrect title. A more detailed description, using numbered steps1.Search for a playlist2. all playlists with my search q...

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  • Description Upon starting to play from a playlist, the album art on the left still remains on the old track, displaying also the incorrect title.   A more detailed description, using numbered...
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My custom playlists are not loading on mac

All I get is the loading circle, they never load. Uninstalling Spotify (and deleting the caches and application support folders) and reinstalling fixes the issue for about 5 minutes, but next time I load up Spotify, the same issue returns and my play...

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  • All I get is the loading circle, they never load.   Uninstalling Spotify (and deleting the caches and application support folders) and reinstalling fixes the issue for about 5 minutes, but nex...
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Solved!! Spotify Desktop - damaged or incomplete

Spotify all of a suddent won't open on my Macbook Air. When I click on the dashboard icon, the pop-up message says the Spotify app may be damaged or incomplete.

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  • Spotify all of a suddent won't open on my Macbook Air. When I click on the dashboard icon, the pop-up message says the Spotify app may be damaged or incomplete.    
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Lost international playlists to Philippines-specific playlists

I've played one Philippines-specific playlist for a day and all of a sudden 80% of the playlists in Browse > Overview reference PH-related playlists. On the Genres & Moods tiles I also get PH playlists groups as well. I'm not feeling patriotic, I jus...

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  • I've played one Philippines-specific playlist for a day and all of a sudden 80% of the playlists in Browse > Overview reference PH-related playlists. On the Genres & Moods tiles I also get PH ...
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Wrong album image, from an unrelated artist

Spotify desktop sometimes shows wrong album image, from an unrelated artist. Album tracks are correct, only the album image is wrong. For example: Robben Ford - Soul on Ten (2009)spotify:album:6CX00W8NgQmfA6pmAa9POD shows album cover from Mike Stern ...

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  • Spotify desktop sometimes shows wrong album image, from an unrelated artist. Album tracks are correct, only the album image is wrong. For example:   Robben Ford - Soul on Ten (2009) spotify:a...
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Solved!! Spotify uninstalled itself

Hey all. I went to click on my spotify to open it (I have a mac) and it said error opening. I tried again several times and then suddenly it disappeared from both my dock and my applications folder. Then something popped up telling me to install spot...

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  • Hey all. I went to click on my spotify to open it (I have a mac) and it said error opening. I tried again several times and then suddenly it disappeared from both my dock and my applications folder. ...
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"2Pac Greatest Hits" not available in explicit?

I was on an american spotify account with my family, and i didn't have any issues with this album. Just switched to my own Canadian account, since I live here now. However, I can't access the Greatest Hits album in its original form, only edited. I c...

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  • I was on an american spotify account with my family, and i didn't have any issues with this album. Just switched to my own Canadian account, since I live here now. However, I can't access the Greates...
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Still can't stop Spotify from opening on start up

HiThis has been mentioned before but I still cannot stop Spotify desktop opening on start up (on a Mac).I use Spotify on a work computer so don't stay logged in, but it does not to seem want to remember the setting for not openingspotify, it reverts ...

  • Gig Goer
  • Hi This has been mentioned before but I still cannot stop Spotify desktop opening on start up (on a Mac). I use Spotify on a work computer so don't stay logged in, but it does not to seem want to r...
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Solved!! Wrapping Playlist Title Text

Am I the only one who gets super annoyed by all my playlists ending in "..."?Although I pretty much know my own playlist titles (titles of playlists that I have created), I do not necessarily know the titles for playlists I am following. This is prob...

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  • Am I the only one who gets super annoyed by all my playlists ending in "..."? Although I pretty much know my own playlist titles (titles of playlists that I have created), I do not necessarily know ...
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Can't reorder playlist mac

as of today, I can't reorder my playlists on my Mac, it says something about duplicate tracks and when I add anyway it duplicates instead of moving the song up or down the list. Also I can't delete the songs from my playlist. I'm tired of all the pro...

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  • as of today, I can't reorder my playlists on my Mac, it says something about duplicate tracks and when I add anyway it duplicates instead of moving the song up or down the list. Also I can't delete t...
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Language setting

I currently live in Czech Republic, I upgraded my spotify but the " browse " page all turned into Chinese , I don't really understand Chinese , how can I change back ??

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  • I currently live in Czech Republic, I upgraded my spotify but the " browse " page all turned into Chinese , I don't really understand Chinese , how can I change back ??
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Avatar

I keep trying to change my avatar for my profile, but none of the images load when I attach them.

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  • I keep trying to change my avatar for my profile, but none of the images load when I attach them.
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Tracks skipping

Hi everyone, I'm having the problem that certain tracks are skipping while playing them, all of them are from the same album, they show up like they are only about 0:20 long... when in reality they are much longer, say 3:34 mins. I had this problem b...

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  • Hi everyone,   I'm having the problem that certain tracks are skipping while playing them, all of them are from the same album, they show up like they are only about 0:20 long... when in reali...
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Complete black screen - frozen app - mac

On the latest update, spotify is broken. I get a black screen and a frozen app. Here is what appears in the console: 6/22/15 5:47:37.530 PM Spotify Helper[26850]: Cannot find executable for CFBundle 0x7f9b6150f6a0 (not loaded) Everytime it loads, my...

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  • On the latest update, spotify is broken.   I get a black screen and a frozen app.  Here is what appears in the console:   6/22/15 5:47:37.530 PM Spotify Helper[26850]: Cannot find ...
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Noticeable sound quality loss on spotify desktop versions above 1.0.4.90

Hello, I have noticed a loss of sound quality on any versions above: 1.0.4.90 - I keep overwriting the auto updates, when the app re-lauches ( I wish it would not auto update me) The updates sound very thin and low quality and the "high quality" stre...

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  • Hello,   I have noticed a loss of sound quality on any versions above: 1.0.4.90 - I keep overwriting the auto updates, when the app re-lauches ( I wish it would not auto update ...
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Queue is not refreshing properly (again) in build 1.0.4.90.g0b6df40b!!!

Upon reordering, the queue's view does not reflect the new order of the queue. The user must navigate away from the queue and back to trigger a refresh.This was broken in build 1.01.1060.gc75ebdfd, then fixed, and now it's broken again.Please regress...

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  • Upon reordering, the queue's view does not reflect the new order of the queue. The user must navigate away from the queue and back to trigger a refresh. This was broken in build 1.01.1060.gc75ebdf...
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