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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 Bug - Play button does not work for podcast

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceDell XPS Operating SystemWin 11 My Question or IssueIf I have a Spotify playlist, like Jazz In The Background, playing, and I go to my Library, and find a podcast and select it, if I click on the Play button, nothing happen...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device Dell XPS  Operating System Win 11   My Question or Issue If I have a Spotify playlist, like Jazz In The Background, playing, and I go to my Library...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify app skips songs repeatedly without input

I'll hit the skip button once, and Spotify will sometimes start skipping repeatedly. The number of skipped songs varies, from around 50 to hundreds. This happens both with and without shuffle on, and it's been occurring multiple times a day for sever...

  • Casual Listener
  • I'll hit the skip button once, and Spotify will sometimes start skipping repeatedly. The number of skipped songs varies, from around 50 to hundreds. This happens both with and without shuffle on, and...
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Superuser Contribution Slack is distorting Spotify Sound

Frequently throughout the day, Spotify sound will distort and get quiet. The songs are random but once it does it to a song, it's consistent at the same place even if I go back to that time or relisten later. So I assume it corrupts the cache but tha...

  • Music Fan
  • Frequently throughout the day, Spotify sound will distort and get quiet. The songs are random but once it does it to a song, it's consistent at the same place even if I go back to that time or relist...
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Queue displaying random songs that don't play

The songs are not from the playlist I'm listening to. They show in the queue (sometimes repeating over and over) but never play. The actual next song is somewhere further down. I also can't remove songs from the queue either, but only sometimes.

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  • The songs are not from the playlist I'm listening to. They show in the queue (sometimes repeating over and over) but never play. The actual next song is somewhere further down. I also can't remove so...
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Solved!! Lag, Slow, Won't Load, Massive Delay, Program Latency, Laggy

Spotify still has a pestering lag issue that some users still suffer across multiple platforms and it won't go away, nothing in the forums seems to helpBasically even something as simple as adjusting the volume slider on the program can take forever ...

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  •   Spotify still has a pestering lag issue that some users still suffer across multiple platforms and it won't go away, nothing in the forums seems to help Basically even something as simple ...
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Superuser Contribution I do not find the repeat track or playlist button. (I have premium account)

Usually the button used to appear in the menu where you start/play, next/previous track.Now I have only skip forward/backward 15 seconds and the repeat track is not there anymore.

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  • Usually the button used to appear in the menu where you start/play, next/previous track. Now I have only skip forward/backward 15 seconds and the repeat track is not there anymore.
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Can't add new songs of local file to existing playlist

PlanPremiumCountryHong Kong DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI have 2 playlist of songs from local files (Playlist added from Local Files, not the "Local Files" playlist) I cannot add any of the song from said playlists to anoth...

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  • Plan Premium Country Hong Kong   Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I have 2 playlist of songs from local files (Playlist added from Local Files, not th...
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Superuser Contribution Spontaneous change in playback speed

Spotify suddenly slows down the playback speed of the next song in queue. I can revert the playback speed by clicking on the next/previous button then switching back to the slowed down song. Current Spotify version is 1.1.43.700.g20acee0f. PlanPremiu...

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  • Spotify suddenly slows down the playback speed of the next song in queue. I can revert the playback speed by clicking on the next/previous button then switching back to the slowed down song. Current ...
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Superuser Contribution Guten Tag, wenn ich den Wochenmix verpasst habe, wie komme ich an den Wochenmix der letzten Woche?

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue  
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Superuser Contribution Appears On page for artsists limits the number of albums they appear on

This has been a problem for a long time, Spotify removed the appears on tab a little while ago last year for windows desktop, thankfully though, you could still use the web player to find the appears on tab and then brought it back to the windows des...

  • Casual Listener
  • This has been a problem for a long time, Spotify removed the appears on tab a little while ago last year for windows desktop, thankfully though, you could still use the web player to find the appears...
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Superuser Contribution "Spotify cant play this right now" on browser.

The error has started to occur on my windows 11, Lenovo legion 5 since today(11-8-24). Whenever i start playing a song it plays to about half way and then the error pops and player skips to the next song and this keeps on repeating. The error doesn't...

  • Visitor
  • The error has started to occur on my windows 11, Lenovo legion 5 since today(11-8-24). Whenever i start playing a song it plays to about half way and then the error pops and player skips to the next ...
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Superuser Contribution Playback with Sound BlasterX G6 (External USB DAC and Amp) does not work

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceDesktop version Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueAt the PC a USB sound card of the model "Creative Sound BlasterX G6" is used.If you start the Spotify desktop application and in Windows the Sound Blaster i...

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  • Plan Premium Country Germany Device Desktop version  Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue At the PC a USB sound card of the model "Creative Sound BlasterX G6" is use...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution nothing is loading

PlanFreeCountryUSDevicePCOperating Systemwindows 11 My Question or IssueOne day, my spotify started to show as blank/nothing would load. I've tried a whole lot of stuff, like disabling hardware acceleration and deleting my "hosts" file in system32, a...

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  • Plan Free Country US Device PC Operating System windows 11   My Question or Issue One day, my spotify started to show as blank/nothing would load. I've tried a whole lot of stuff, like...
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Superuser Contribution i want my queue to play all the songs, not repeat

My queue plays one song over and over. I want it to go to the next song in the queue automatically. Toggling off the "repeat 1" button means when it finishes a song, it goes to a similar song that is NOT in my queue. I just want it to play the songs ...

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  • My queue plays one song over and over. I want it to go to the next song in the queue automatically. Toggling off the "repeat 1" button means when it finishes a song, it goes to a similar song that is...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Preview of song not working when copying it

PlanFreeCountryUruguayDeviceComputerOperating SystemWindows 10 I'm a huge fan of sharing my favourite songs with my friends in Discord, but lately, whenever I copy the song's link, they dont show up as before, instead, they are shown as "open.spotify...

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  • Plan Free Country Uruguay Device Computer Operating System Windows 10   I'm a huge fan of sharing my favourite songs with my friends in Discord, but lately, whenever I copy the song's l...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify media keys is not working at the other pages (in app)

My spotify media keys is not working(fn+f6.7.8) at the other pages like games etc. it's just working at the spotify app.

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  • My spotify media keys is not working(fn+f6.7.8) at the other pages like games etc. it's just working at the spotify app.
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Superuser Contribution Spotify Redesign is broken in ultrawide monitors

PlanPremiumCountryBrazilDeviceCustom Built PC: Intel Core i7 6770k, 32 GB Ram, 2 TB storage (HDD+SDD), GTX 1070Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueWith the previous design of the desktop app, the middle section was aligned to the center. W...

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  • Plan Premium Country Brazil Device Custom Built PC: Intel Core i7 6770k, 32 GB Ram, 2 TB storage (HDD+SDD), GTX 1070 Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue With the previou...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution no chance to login

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDevicePCOperating System(Windows 11) My Question or IssueI've installed the Spotify-App out of the Windows-App-Store. - But when I'm trying to login nothing happens. I start from the following screenIf i click on "Anmeldung" ...

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  • Plan Premium Country Germany Device PC Operating System (Windows 11)   My Question or Issue I've installed the Spotify-App out of the Windows-App-Store. - But when I'm trying to login ...
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