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Desktop: Jam now available

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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Desktop: 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. Together, the individually customizable design of these new views provides a richer experience, m...

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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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[Troubleshooting] Windows

Having trouble with the Spotify desktop app? Here’s a step-by-step guide to help get things working again. What to try first Perform a soft reset (generally rebooting the device will suffice). If that doesn’t help, try a clean reinstall. Be sure to l...

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Search shows a massive amount of irrelevant results and there is no order of relevance

PlanPremiumCountryBrazilDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueThe search is really broken. Here is an example:I want to listen to a song called Frida (by BEHM but let's pretend I don't remember) So I put Frida (or "Frida" doesn't see...

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  • Plan Premium Country Brazil Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue The search is really broken. Here is an example: I want to listen to a song called Frida (by B...
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Superuser Contribution constant skipping

PlanpremiumCountryusaDevicewindows 11 desktop pc, iphone 12Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueOn my desktop app, My spotify is stuck playing a playlist of mine and it skips through the whole playlist playing each song for less than a seco...

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  • Plan premium Country usa Device windows 11 desktop pc, iphone 12 Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue On my desktop app, My spotify is stuck playing a playlist of mine an...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify: A firewall may be blocking spotify. Please update your firewall to allow spotify.

PlanFreeCountry Canada DeviceWindows 10 My Question or IssueEverytime i try to login my spotify account, the firewall issue keeps on coming up. Ive tried to delete it, check if my country is still the same, tried a different account, tried a vpn, eve...

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  • Plan Free Country Canada   Device Windows 10   My Question or Issue Everytime i try to login my spotify account, the firewall issue keeps on coming up. Ive tried to delete it, check...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify Destop App "Something Went Wrong Try reloading the page"

PlanPremium CountryUSADeviceComputerOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI can see playlists and saved stuff on the side, and the playing now and queue. I can also listen to music. But the middle area hasn't worked and just shows "Something...

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  • Plan Premium  Country USA Device Computer Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I can see playlists and saved stuff on the side, and the playing now and queue. I can ...
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Superuser Contribution Entire windows 11 audio is messed up

I was on Spotify when i noticed a update so i updated my Spotify and then everything went downhill first the audio from spotify wouldnt play at all but the songs would play and when the song was playing (I cant hear the actual song) it would make oth...

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  • I was on Spotify when i noticed a update so i updated my Spotify and then everything went downhill first the audio from spotify wouldnt play at all but the songs would play and when the song was play...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Can't listen to music with Headset

PlanFreeCountry SpainDevicePC WindowsOperating System Windows 10 My Question or IssueSuddenly, I stopped hearing the music on my wireless headset (Corsair Void Pro). If I change to my speakers, It works. It's not the headset's problem because I can h...

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  • Plan Free Country  Spain Device PC Windows Operating System  Windows 10   My Question or Issue Suddenly, I stopped hearing the music on my wireless headset (Corsair Void Pro)...
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Videoclipes no spotify não funcionam

PlanPremiumCountryBrasilDeviceComputadorOperating SystemWindows 11 Home 23h2 My Question or Issueé o seguinte, meu spotify funciona normalmente se for apenas ouvir o áudio da música, porém se eu tento ativar pra ver o videoclipe da música, ele da o s...

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  • Plan Premium Country Brasil Device Computador Operating System Windows 11 Home 23h2   My Question or Issue é o seguinte, meu spotify funciona normalmente se for apenas ouvir o áudio da...
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Superuser Contribution Missing Playing Animation for Current Song in Playlist

PlanPremiumCountryIndiaOperating SystemWindows 10 Dear Spotify Support Team,I am a Premium user from India using Spotify on a Windows 10 system. I have noticed an issue with the user interface while playing songs from a playlist. Specifically, the pl...

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  • Plan Premium Country India Operating System Windows 10   Dear Spotify Support Team, I am a Premium user from India using Spotify on a Windows 10 system. I have noticed an issue with the ...
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Superuser Contribution Error code auth:2 when login in Windows 10 Spotify Desktop App

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceDell Latitude 5510Operating SystemWindows10 My Question or IssueEverything worked fine on the spotify desktop app UNTILL I activated my VPN and jumped around different locations. This totally broke my desktop app. I res...

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  • Plan Premium Country Germany Device Dell Latitude 5510 Operating System Windows10   My Question or Issue Everything worked fine on the spotify desktop app UNTILL I activated my VPN and...
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Superuser Contribution How Do I Turn Offline Mode Off?

PlanFree/PremiumCountryEnglandDeviceSony Xperia 1 II and PCOperating SystemAndroid, Windows 10 My Question or IssueI have hit a problem where Spotify says I must turn off offline mode before playing a song. However I can't find where to turn it off, ...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country England Device Sony Xperia 1 II and PC Operating System Android, Windows 10   My Question or Issue I have hit a problem where Spotify says I must turn off off...
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it is not letting me get on Spotify

it is just a black screen and i reload and it still did not work

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  • it is just a black screen and i reload and it still did not work
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Superuser Contribution I can't control spotify via my bluetooth speaker

I can't play, pause, or skip songs on the buttons on my JBL Flip 6 speaker or my bluetooth earphones, while connected to Spotify desktop, but they both work fine through my Android phone.

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  • I can't play, pause, or skip songs on the buttons on my JBL Flip 6 speaker or my bluetooth earphones, while connected to Spotify desktop, but they both work fine through my Android phone.
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Superuser Contribution spotify says its already installed but it isnt

I uninstalled spotify because of this and when I go to reinstall it says its already installed, but it isnt. I've checked my appdata and apps and features, and there is no sign of spotify, yet it says it is still installed.

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  • I uninstalled spotify because of this and when I go to reinstall it says its already installed, but it isnt. I've checked my appdata and apps and features, and there is no sign of spotify, yet it say...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify is changing my Windows default volume for the app

When I try to adjust the audio level on the Spotify app, it inadvertently changed the default windows audio level for the app as well. Resulting in lower than normal audio level. There are instances where the app is muted but by adjusting the audio l...

  • Casual Listener
  • When I try to adjust the audio level on the Spotify app, it inadvertently changed the default windows audio level for the app as well. Resulting in lower than normal audio level. There are instances ...
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How do I change the size of the interface? (and multiple other things)

PlanPremium Operating SystemAndroid/Windows (but surely ios is concerned too) My Question or IssueOn the windows app everything is bigger...way too big now I can't see much. I can't find the way to set font and everything smaller Every big update Spo...

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  • Plan Premium   Operating System Android/Windows (but surely ios is concerned too)   My Question or Issue On the windows app everything is bigger...way too big now I can't see much. I...
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Superuser Contribution Disable updates completely

Hey guys, TLDR: Is it possible to completely disable updates in Spotify? Dear developers, please try to put yourself in the position of an average user. What do you think (s)he wants to do when opening spotify?A) Listening to music or podcastsB) upda...

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  • Hey guys,   TLDR: Is it possible to completely disable updates in Spotify?   Dear developers, please try to put yourself in the position of an average user. What do you think (s)he want...
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Superuser Contribution Desktop APP lagging-glitching every sound on PC as long as it opens.

PlanPremiumCountryGreeceDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueA whole week now, everyone in my friend group has the same issue. Support was 0 of help as they repeatedly said to try things we already done and already said they are tem...

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  •   Plan Premium Country Greece Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue A whole week now, everyone in my friend group has the same issue. Support was 0 of help...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Desktop overlay not showing

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSADeviceAlienware Aurora R10 (Ryzen Edition)Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIt doesn't matter how many times I turn "Show desktop overlay when using media keys" on and off, it just won't show. At the moment I ha...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country USA Device Alienware Aurora R10 (Ryzen Edition) Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue It doesn't matter how many times I turn "Show desktop overl...
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