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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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Superuser Contribution I can't find the equalizer. only language and play tab is there on settings

I open settings the only two things I see are languages and display. I want the equalizer. I've spent 30 minutes searching for it

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  • I open settings the only two things I see are languages and display. I want the equalizer. I've spent 30 minutes searching for it
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Can't see my followers on the web browser version

I using the spotify web browser because i can't have the app on my work computer, and can't find my followers (or who i am following, who is following a certain playlist, etc.). anyone know how to fix this? i'm having the same issues on my app on the...

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  •   I using the spotify web browser because i can't have the app on my work computer, and can't find my followers (or who i am following, who is following a certain playlist, etc.). anyone know h...
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Superuser Contribution Desktop App Slow / Bad / No Response

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceDell XPS, Core 11. Gen, 32 GB Ram, Nvidia Graphic, Focusrite 18i20Operating SystemWindows 11 23H2 My Question or IssueI've been having a huge problem with the response time of the user interface for a week now. Play and...

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  • Plan Premium Country Germany Device Dell XPS, Core 11. Gen, 32 GB Ram, Nvidia Graphic, Focusrite 18i20 Operating System Windows 11 23H2   My Question or Issue I've been having a huge p...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify doesn't play most songs and if it does - only 10 seconds.

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceDesktop/BrowserOperating SystemWin10 My Question or IssueHello,I'm new to Spotify and have the following problem: Whenever I want to play a song, I see an error stating that this song cannot be played at the moment. The...

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  •   Plan Premium Country Germany Device Desktop/Browser Operating System Win10   My Question or Issue Hello, I'm new to Spotify and have the following problem: Whenever I want to ...
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Superuser Contribution Sharing playlists - will it update automatically on other's PC's?

Morning all, I am wanting to create a playlist, that I share with three friends. If, once I have shared the playlist with them, add more music to the playlists, will this new music automatically appear in the playlist on their PC, or do they need to ...

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  • Morning all,   I am wanting to create a playlist, that I share with three friends.   If, once I have shared the playlist with them, add more music to the playlists, will this new mu...
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Superuser Contribution Local Files Album Art Compression

PlanPremiumCountryUnited States of AmericaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI created a 1600x1600 png to use as album art for my local files, but the quality of the image compresses horribly. What's up with that? I'll attach...

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  • Plan Premium Country United States of America Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I created a 1600x1600 png to use as album art for my local files, but th...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify too slow, can't handle large playlists

I have a playlist with 8,500 songs- When I try to search through this playlist it takes over 1 minute now. It also freezes my desktop client. When I want to pause a song while the search is performaning, it does not react and also takes a very long t...

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  • I have a playlist with 8,500 songs- When I try to search through this playlist it takes over 1 minute now. It also freezes my desktop client. When I want to pause a song while the search is performan...
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Superuser Contribution 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...

Start Jam Menu - Desktop App.png Queue Right Sidebar.png
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  • Spotify is bringing Jam to the desktop app! 🥳 🖥️ 💻 Now you can start or join a listening party with your friends, family, colleagues, and classmates, with the Spotify desktop app in ...
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Superuser Contribution Lyrics animation doesn't slide the window on music progress.

PlanFreeCountryFranceDeviceDesktop PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHi,When I open the lyrics while music plays, the lyrics cursor is not set with the lyrics window. The lyrics cursor continue to goes down, until going outside the box...

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  • Plan Free Country France Device Desktop PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Hi, When I open the lyrics while music plays, the lyrics cursor is not set with the lyric...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify installer isn't installing anything

PlanFreeCountryEgyptDeviceLenovo laptop idepad 3 Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI wanted to reinstall spotify because I had an issue with the lyrics and other things, I wanted to use the spotify installer since microsoft store doesn't...

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  •   Plan Free Country Egypt Device Lenovo laptop idepad 3  Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I wanted to reinstall spotify because I had an issue with the lyr...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution App opens on the wrong screen EVERY TIME [dual monitors]

PlanFreeCountryRomania DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I launch Spotify, it always launches on my primary monitor, instead of the second one. Please read this through, this isn't the issue with the desktop icon, simply the...

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  • Plan Free Country Romania   Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue When I launch Spotify, it always launches on my primary monitor, instead of the second on...
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Superuser Contribution Lyrics on Spotify Desktop (Windows)

PlanPremium CountryPhils. DeviceDell Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI used to have the lyrics feature on my spotify desktop which I use whenever I like a new song but when I tried opening it it suddenly says that "Sorry, you have to g...

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  • Plan Premium   Country Phils.   Device Dell   Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I used to have the lyrics feature on my spotify desktop which I use w...
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Superuser Contribution Cannot select multiple songs

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceHP LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI'm trying to add multiple songs from old playlists into one. Both online and the Windows App do not let me select multiple songs. I can select multiple but when i scr...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device HP Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I'm trying to add multiple songs from old playlists into one. Both online and the Windows A...
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Solved!! Podcast titles with apostrophes show html numeric code '

Using my desktop windows 7 spotify app, podcast titles with ' apostrpohes in the title seem to be displaying html numerical character ' instead of '. I don't see this issue with my iOS spotify app or with music albums, songs, playlists. only see this...

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  • Using my desktop windows 7 spotify app, podcast titles with ' apostrpohes in the title seem to be displaying html numerical character ' instead of '.    I don't see this issue wit...
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Superuser Contribution The application is not responding

Spotify gets unresponsive -> You close it. Try to reopen it and you get a message box with "The Application is not responding". Only works again if you go to task manager and kill any process that's related to Spotify. This has been reported before b...

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  • Spotify gets unresponsive -> You close it. Try to reopen it and you get a message box with "The Application is not responding". Only works again if you go to task manager and kill any process that...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Windows playback stuttering

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceWindows 10 PCOperating SystemWindows 10 Professional OEM My Question or IssuePlayback on the Windows desktop application stutters about every 10 seconds. Just a very slight hitch but 100% noticeable and makes it IMPOSSIBLE ...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device Windows 10 PC Operating System Windows 10 Professional OEM   My Question or Issue Playback on the Windows desktop application stutters about every 10 se...
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the song lyrics just dont display

PlanFreeCountrypolandDeviceacer travelmate p2Operating Systemwin 10 pro My Question or Issue99% of the songs im listening to lost their lyrics, i look them up on musixmatch, and the lyrics are avaible.

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  • Plan Free Country poland Device acer travelmate p2 Operating System win 10 pro   My Question or Issue 99% of the songs im listening to lost their lyrics, i look them up on musixmatch, ...
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Superuser Contribution Repeat one skips after an ad break

PlanFreeCountryUnited StatesDeviceWindows 11 DesktopOperating SystemWindows 11 When playing a song on a playlist/album/authors top 10 with repeat one enabled, the song WILL repeat itself, up until an advertisement plays, at which it will go to the ne...

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  • Plan Free Country United States Device Windows 11 Desktop Operating System Windows 11   When playing a song on a playlist/album/authors top 10 with repeat one enabled, the song WILL rep...
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Superuser Contribution Music will stop playing and freeze on an ad

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSADeviceWindows DesktopsOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueFor the past two months, when I play music on my HP desktop the music will stop and freeze on an ad. This happens every 3 songs and it is becoming very anno...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country USA Device Windows Desktops Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue For the past two months, when I play music on my HP desktop the music will stop and fre...
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spotify shows songs to be only 0:29 second long

Hi, today I noticed that in some albums the songs are showed to be 0:29 seconds long (always and only 0:29) while obviously they are longer. Once I play them the right lenght appears on the playing bar, but still not in the album. This only happens i...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi, today I noticed that in some albums the songs are showed to be 0:29 seconds long (always and only 0:29) while obviously they are longer. Once I play them the right lenght appears on the playing b...
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