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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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Solved!! Desktop App and Web Player playing no music

PlanPremiumCountry United States DeviceDesktop App and Web PlayerOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueFor a couple of months now, I have not been able to play any music from Spotify on my desktop. It started with only a couple of songs skip...

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  • Plan Premium Country  United States  Device Desktop App and Web Player Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue For a couple of months now, I have not been able to ...
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No music on spotify

PlanFreeCountry FinlandDeviceComputerOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I noticed that some songs on my friends playlist werent shown that were shown on my phone, I tried installing spotify again, and now there's no music. Not anywhere, ...

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  • Plan Free Country  Finland Device Computer Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I noticed that some songs on my friends playlist werent shown that were shown o...
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How to use Spotify overlay

Hello there Spotify community!I'm looking for help about the Spotify overlay on my Windows 10. I did use it sometimes when I spammed my keyboard. I have it enabled but what's the actual keybind for it? Looking for volume up & down, next song & previo...

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  • Hello there Spotify community! I'm looking for help about the Spotify overlay on my Windows 10. I did use it sometimes when I spammed my keyboard. I have it enabled but what's the actual keybind for...
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Superuser Contribution Problemas con la reproduccion

Hola, tengo problemas al reproducir ciertas canciones... puedo reproducir algunas del album, pero no todas. adjunto imagenPlanPremiumCountryChileDevicelenovo ideapad 500Operating Systemwindows 10 My Question or Issue

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  • Hola, tengo problemas al reproducir ciertas canciones... puedo reproducir algunas del album, pero no todas. adjunto imagen Plan Premium Country Chile Device lenovo ideapad 500 Operating System...
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Brani preferiti vuoti

Buongiorno,oggi ho riinstallato spotify sul mio pc(windows 10) perché non funzionava correttamente. Successivamente l'installazione e l'accesso all' applicazione ho constatato che purtroppo nella sezione "Brani preferiti" sono scomparse tutte le canz...

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  • Buongiorno, oggi ho riinstallato spotify sul mio pc(windows 10) perché non funzionava correttamente. Successivamente l'installazione e l'accesso all' applicazione ho constatato che purtroppo nella s...
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Superuser Contribution Playing a podcast episode will play a episode 5 episodes back?

PlanFreeCountry Operating Systemwindows 10 My Question or IssueWhen I play a podcast episode, it will go forward 5 episodes. Once I was trying to play the second episode, and when I clicked on it, it went 5 videos forward and played that, so I had to...

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  • Plan Free Country     Operating System windows 10   My Question or Issue When I play a podcast episode, it will go forward 5 episodes. Once I was trying to play the second epi...
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Superuser Contribution Playlist fica diferente em cada plataforma

a minha playlist no iphone tem algumas musicas que nao aparecem no pc enquanto outras eu tive de adicionar nas duas plataformas,ou seja,as playlist nao estao sincronizando

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  •    a minha playlist no iphone tem algumas musicas que nao aparecem no pc enquanto outras eu tive de adicionar nas duas plataformas,ou seja,as playlist nao estao sincronizando
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Superuser Contribution Las listas de reproducción están vacias o incompletas

Las listas de reproduccion en la aplicacion de la pc estan vacias. Previamente por varios dias estuvieron incompletas con respecto a las listas correctas que podia ver en el smarphone y en el reproductor web, pero reintale la aplicacion de escritorio...

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  • Las listas de reproduccion en la aplicacion de la pc estan vacias. Previamente por varios dias estuvieron incompletas con respecto a las listas correctas que podia ver en el smarphone y en el reprodu...
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Playlist Scrolling Lag

I am running a Dell XPS 13 9370 an dhave found that when scrolling my larger playlists the CPU usage increases largely and lags.I did a quick look for others with this issue and the closest thing i have found to a cause for this is the 4k screen caus...

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  •   I am running a Dell XPS 13 9370 an dhave found that when scrolling my larger playlists the CPU usage increases largely and  lags. I did a quick look for others with this issue and the c...
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Saved mobile songs not syncing with Desktop

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDevice(Samsung Galaxy S9, Windows 10 Desktop)Operating System(Windows 10, Samsung OS) My Question or IssueSo I use the "Songs" tab for my playlists, and usually it works perfectly fine, but recently some songs I save to it don...

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  • Plan Premium Country Canada Device (Samsung Galaxy S9, Windows 10 Desktop) Operating System (Windows 10, Samsung OS)   My Question or Issue So I use the "Songs" tab for my playlists, a...
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cant play songs on my windows but on my phone i can

PlanPremiumCountry usDevicewindow desktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue so my spotify has been acting up and whenever i add a new song on my phone it never shows up on my desktop spotify ,same acount by the way .so i delete spotify o...

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  • Plan Premium Country  us Device window desktop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  so my spotify has been acting up and whenever i add a new song on my phone ...
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When i choose a song, the tittle and artist doesn't show up and there is no audio.

Plan: FreeCountry: Mexico DeviceAcer LaptopOperating SystemWindows 10So, it all started on friday, i started spotify and choosed a song and noticed that the name of the song and the artist wasn't showing up and there was no audio even tho the playing...

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  • Plan: Free Country: Mexico  Device Acer Laptop Operating System Windows 10 So, it all started on friday, i started spotify and choosed a song and noticed that the name of the song and...
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Spotify Connect with Windows 10 does not see devices

Music plays fine on its own, however my question is related to Windows 10 and Spotify Connect specifically. While using Windows 10, I cannot see ANY of my Spotify devices inside my network unless music is already playing on one of my devices. I have ...

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  •   Music plays fine on its own, however my question is related to Windows 10 and Spotify Connect specifically. While using Windows 10, I cannot see ANY of my Spotify devices inside my network un...
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I can't listen to songs outside of my playlist.

As the title says. Can't play songs that are not in my playlist.

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  • As the title says. Can't play songs that are not in my playlist.
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Spotify Desktop Client Automatically Transliterates Cyrillic

PlanFreeCountry USADevice(Acer Desktop)Operating System(Windows 10) My Question or Issue My spotify desktop client had no issues a few weeks ago and still kept a few Russian artist's names in Cyrillic but after some sort of update a bunch of more art...

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  • Plan Free Country  USA Device (Acer Desktop) Operating System (Windows 10)   My Question or Issue  My spotify desktop client had no issues a few weeks ago and still kept a fe...
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Browing a song list while playing a song boots me back to the home screen

PlanPremiumCountry USDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or Issue I've had Spotify on my pc for years and haven't had a problem but I restarted my pc earlier and, ever since, if I'm looking at an artist's page or a playlist and I start pla...

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  •   Plan Premium Country  US Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue  I've had Spotify on my pc for years and haven't had a problem but I restarted m...
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Spotify bug

Hello I have a bug for a while there's music that I can not read, in more if I add the music, for my saves, the music does not appear in the list of my musics.The cover of the music is not displayed on the left.I have already empty the cache, reinsta...

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  • Hello I have a bug for a while there's music that I can not read, in more if I add the music, for my saves, the music does not appear in the list of my musics. The cover of the music is not displaye...
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Explicit filter is broken on Desktop

The Desktop player has a bug in that if you have enabled explicit filter on a mobile device and are connected via Spotify Connect to a device with explicit filter enabled then the desktop will show an error that the track can't be played every time y...

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  • The Desktop player has a bug in that if you have enabled explicit filter on a mobile device and are connected via Spotify Connect to a device with explicit filter enabled then the desktop will show a...
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So, if I was living in Madagascar, then my Home page was going to be filled with Saoela & Jaojo?

PremiumCountry ?!!?!!?!!!!!!!!!!!! Windows 10 My Question or Issue What kind of prejudice idea is to promote music and artists according to Spotify account owner's name and geographical presence? So if I was living Madagascar, my Home page would be f...

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  • Premium Country ?!!?!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!   Windows 10   My Question or Issue  What kind of prejudice idea is to promote music and artists according to Spotify account owner's nam...
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Not all files show up in Local Files

So I've been looking for a solution to this problem for a while now. I am a Premium Spotify member, but using Spotify for years. The problem I'm having is occurring on my desktop. I mainly use playlists with a mix of songs on Spotify and songs with l...

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  • So I've been looking for a solution to this problem for a while now. I am a Premium Spotify member, but using Spotify for years. The problem I'm having is occurring on my desktop. I mainly use playli...
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