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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 not syncing to phone

So, I wiped my Mac a few days ago, and finally got around to setting Spotify back up. I notice that the device section is totally missing, and came here to findout the hacky workaround to get local files syncing. However, it isn't working. I have the...

  • Casual Listener
  • So, I wiped my Mac a few days ago, and finally got around to setting Spotify back up. I notice that the device section is totally missing, and came here to findout the hacky workaround to get local f...
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Can not run Spotify !

Hi,I have trouble with starting spotify....I have Macbook and one day I opened spotify but nothing happend just "Initalizing..." and then it freezesafter this, all I can do is cancel it... error message saying something like this.. Date/Time: 2015-04...

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  • Hi, I have trouble with starting spotify....I have Macbook and one day I opened spotify but nothing happend just "Initalizing..." and then it freezes after this, all I can do is cancel it... error ...
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Spotify Connect, synchronisation or both?

Hello folks! I have some strange problem but I can't realy tell where it comes from.I think it occured since the possibility to switch to the PS4. 1) I removed some tracks from my songs but they are still being played; at least they don't have the "s...

  • Gig Goer
  • Hello folks!   I have some strange problem but I can't realy tell where it comes from. I think it occured since the possibility to switch to the PS4.   1) I removed some tracks fr...
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Main 'frame' appears but zero content will load

Hi guys, So, Spotify will load up (or appear to) on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.9.5), but none of the actual music content displays. I can see the side bar on the left with all of my playlists and the 'Now Playing' bar at the bottom, but the main window ...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi guys,   So, Spotify will load up (or appear to) on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.9.5), but none of the actual music content displays. I can see the side bar on the left with all of my playlists a...
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Spotify skipping on my Mac Pro

When Spotify is not the front, visable window it starts skipping and stopping on my Mac Pro. I've tried all the suggestions I could find i.e. restarting, etc with no results.

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  • When Spotify is not the front, visable window it starts skipping and stopping on my Mac Pro. I've tried all the suggestions I could find i.e. restarting, etc with no results.
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Version 1.04 for Mac a LOT faster...

Version 1.0.4.89g22b04e33 seems to have fixed the extreme slowness that had been in the new release. It's usable again. It starts up fast and browsing around is better. Several steps in the right direction for me.

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  • Version 1.0.4.89g22b04e33 seems to have fixed the extreme slowness that had been in the new release. It's usable again. It starts up fast and browsing around is better. Several steps in the...
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The "find" function is missing.

Hello.Some time ago it was great to use the "find" function to search inside my music and playlists, where's is that function now?Any help will be welcome.

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  • Hello. Some time ago it was great to use the "find" function to search inside my music and playlists, where's is that function now? Any help will be welcome.  
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Missing Starred Music and my playlists!!! HELP!!!

HiI am temporarily using Spotify in Germany and it has been working fine and has all my music saved. Then today I opened Spotify and discovered that all my Starred music was missing and some of my playlist were gone as well. Please help me!! I had al...

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  • Hi I am temporarily using Spotify in Germany and it has been working fine and has all my music saved. Then today I opened Spotify and discovered that all my Starred music was missing and some of my ...
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Mac client bugs - Albums listed under followed artist not playing correctly

I'm going to the albums listed under a followed artist (Academy of Ancient Music). The albums are in reverse chronological order. If I go down a few albums and click on the album artwork to play that album in its entirety, I'm finding that an entirel...

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  • I'm going to the albums listed under a followed artist (Academy of Ancient Music). The albums are in reverse chronological order. If I go down a few albums and click on the album artwork to play that...
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Desktop app for Mac not syncing "your music" with iPhone app

The other day I saved a bunch of albums to my music via the Mac desktop app from my work computer.It synced seamlessly with my iPhone app.However the desktop app on my home computer doesn't seem to be syncing "Your Music".My playlists are all synced ...

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  • The other day I saved a bunch of albums to my music via the Mac desktop app from my work computer. It synced seamlessly with my iPhone app. However the desktop app on my home computer doesn't ...
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Lost Songs/ Albums/ Artists

Hello, So i'm a premium spotify subscriber and have not had any problems until now. The Mac desktop app has lost all of my albums/ songs and most of my artists. My playlists and messages are still saved however so I know I haven't logged into a dupli...

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  • Hello,   So i'm a premium spotify subscriber and have not had any problems until now. The Mac desktop app has lost all of my albums/ songs and most of my artists. My playlists and messages are...
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Local File Not Recognized

I had many local files and decided to wipe my iTunes library, since I can no longer search local files through Spotify. In doing so, when I redownloaded tracks that were in some of my Spotify playlists, they were not recognized when opening Spotify. ...

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  • I had many local files and decided to wipe my iTunes library, since I can no longer search local files through Spotify. In doing so, when I redownloaded tracks that were in some of my Spotify playlis...
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Spotify freaks out when exchanging soundcards

Unfortunatelly i can't describe bug over GitHub (i spend more time on GitHub rather than checking emails :cof: )But here we go... I'm a premium user of Spotify service, and it totally worthed, inspite i have some problems since a long ago. I could st...

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  • Unfortunatelly i can't describe bug over GitHub (i spend more time on GitHub rather than checking emails :cof: ) But here we go...    I'm a premium user of Spotify service, and it t...
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Spotify interrupts to pause mode while using "connect"

Hello,I (premium user) have a very anoying problem. After every a few seconds my Spotify stops (pause mode) playing "connect" via my Denon X5200 Receiver. If I then press play again, the song starts from its beginng and interrupts after a few seconds...

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  • Hello, I (premium user) have a very anoying problem. After every a few seconds my Spotify stops (pause mode) playing "connect" via my Denon X5200 Receiver. If I then press play again, the song start...
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SPOTIFY QUITTING ON MAC

Every time I open Spotify and click on a song to play it immediately quits the app. I've tried it several times with many different songs. I have also uninstalled and reinstalled the application. HELP please!!

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  • Every time I open Spotify and click on a song to play it immediately quits the app. I've tried it several times with many different songs. I have also uninstalled and reinstalled the application. HEL...
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PLEASE ADD THE ABILITY TO SEARCH WITHIN PLAYLISTS BACK TO SPOTIFY!!!

Spotify, PLEASE add the ability to search within playlists back to Spotify. This should never have been removed. It is a core feature, and it needs to be present. PLEASE ADD IT BACK. It it unacceptable that you all decided to refactor your UI and the...

  • Gig Goer
  • Spotify, PLEASE add the ability to search within playlists back to Spotify. This should never have been removed. It is a core feature, and it needs to be present.   PLEASE ADD IT BACK.  ...
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Lost my genre radio

I recently had a bugged out radio that would say it was playing something different than was actually playing. I deleted the station with the intent of remaking it. But now I can't figure out how I made it. It was a black metal genre radio. But now w...

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  • I recently had a bugged out radio that would say it was playing something different than was actually playing. I deleted the station with the intent of remaking it. But now I can't figure out how I m...
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Shared Songs Do Not Appear in Inbox

Morning, yall. Hoping someone here can help, as this is terribly frustrating. I tried searching for this issue alreadya nd couldn't find anything—possibly I missed the target keywords, so if anyone knows of a previous thread, I'd be grateful for a nu...

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  • Morning, yall. 🙂 Hoping someone here can help, as this is terribly frustrating. I tried searching for this issue alreadya nd couldn't find anything—possibly I missed the target keywords, so if anyon...
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Solved!! My Music has gone

DescriptionOn my macbook my songs under "Your Music" has disappeared and instead shows the page where it says "this is where you will find songs you have saved". My music still exists on my iphone and on my ps4. A more detailed description, using num...

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  • Description On my macbook my songs under "Your Music" has disappeared and instead shows the page where it says "this is where you will find songs you have saved". My music still exists on my iphone ...
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Add playlist to playque

Hi! I don't know how far back this was changed, I just noticed it a couple of months ago, that I can no longer add an entire playlist to the playque.I use this a lot, when I want to listen to a specific song, and then I want to go back to listening t...

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  • Hi!   I don't know how far back this was changed, I just noticed it a couple of months ago, that I can no longer add an entire playlist to the playque. I use this a lot, when I want to listen...
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