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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...

MattSuda
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2024-03-14 3:38:28 PM
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Rim4
Gig Goer
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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2023-06-26 8:42:18 AM
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Pansauce
Casual Listener
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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...

MattSuda
Spotify Star
2023-04-28 8:08:45 PM
2023-04-29 10:41:16 PM
MattSuda
Spotify Star
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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...

Goodman
Spotify Legend
2013-09-17 11:47:47 AM
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Spotify is constantly restarting

In practice, once or twice a minute while listening to music, the application is restarted on its own, what is the solution?

TurgayIskeceli
Newbie
In practice, once or twice a minute while listening to music, the application is restarted on its own, what is the solution?
2016-12-02 6:32:46 PM
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Premium account won't play any music (music unavailable error)

Hi, I've just installed Spotify on a new PC running Windows 10 and despite allowing Spotify in my Firewall settings, I can't play any music. Every track I try and play results in a blue bar popping up saying 'This song is not available. If you have t...

Aristotlewot
Newbie
Hi, I've just installed Spotify on a new PC running Windows 10 and despite allowing Spotify in my Firewall settings, I can't play any music. Every track I try and play results in a blue bar pop...
2016-12-02 6:26:24 PM
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Solved!! Playlists stop playing and interrupted by songs on my "my music" list

When I go to one of my playlists and hit the "play button" on my windows desktop version of Spotify, it will play only one song from that playlist and then start playing songs that I've saved but AREN'T part of the current playlist. This didn't start...

RinRayne
Casual Listener
When I go to one of my playlists and hit the "play button" on my windows desktop version of Spotify, it will play only one song from that playlist and then start playing songs that I've saved but ARE...
2016-12-01 7:53:41 PM
2016-12-02 4:34:21 PM
RinRayne
Casual Listener
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Con't move playlist to folder - solved I think

I notice several people have had the same problem I've had moving playlists into folders. You can drag the playlist over the folder and the + sign appears, but when you release,the playlist is just moved to the location before or after the folder, no...

luthersnow
Music Fan
I notice several people have had the same problem I've had moving playlists into folders. You can drag the playlist over the folder and the + sign appears, but when you release,the playlist is ...
2016-12-02 4:19:34 PM
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Discover Weekly bug

My discover weekly picture has not changed for about 3 months how can i change or fix this?

Sam170
Casual Listener
My discover weekly picture has not changed for about 3 months how can i change or fix this?
2016-11-30 4:45:29 AM
2016-12-02 5:23:33 AM
Sam170
Casual Listener
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NonRepeating Radio-- AllOfSpotify

What do you think? No repeat radio No track limits - No duplicates True shuffling - All of Spotify Automatically updated periodically I offer you AllOfSpotify_Radio >> AllOfSpotify_Radio << with No track limits-- No infuriating repeats!-- Includes pr...

rednblu
Roadie
What do you think? No repeat radio No tr...
2016-12-01 12:33:25 AM
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Imported songs get their metadata changed to random and wrong information

So i imported a song to spotify so i could upload it to my phone. The song is called Still by JJThe artist JJ exist on spotify but the album my song is on iss missing.After i added the song to the local data spotify changed it to The Blood Still Work...

Ulim
Casual Listener
So i imported a song to spotify so i could upload it to my phone. The song is called Still by JJ The artist JJ exist on spotify but the album my song is on iss missing. After i added the s...
2016-12-01 11:24:29 PM
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F-secure freedome

HelloI'm having constant problems with my spotify connection while having f-secure freedome on.

pullavaras
Newbie
Hello I'm having constant problems with my spotify connection while having f-secure freedome on.
2016-12-01 9:25:09 PM
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Spotify stops updating, shows the same song all the time.

Hello.I´m having a problem with the w10 Spotify. The feed to the right, showing song name and album, stops updating so it´s always the first song I played that I played that keeps showing. Anyone else having this problem?

Galiviel
Newbie
Hello. I´m having a problem with the w10 Spotify. The feed to the right, showing song name and album, stops updating so it´s always the first song I played that I played that keeps showing. Anyone e...
2016-12-01 6:20:09 PM
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Künstler folgen Spotify free

Hallo zusammenWenn ich auf meinem Spotify free Account auf den Button "Künstler folgen" drücke, gehe ich davon aus, dass ich diesem Künstler nun folge. Nach wenigen Minuten merke ich, dass ich dem Künstler doch nicht mehr folge und den Button erneut ...

Binningen
Newbie
Hallo zusammen Wenn ich auf meinem Spotify free Account auf den Button "Künstler folgen" drücke, gehe ich davon aus, dass ich diesem Künstler nun folge. Nach wenigen Minuten merke ich, dass ich dem ...
2016-12-01 6:11:43 PM
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I can not import my Itunes playlist on Spotify - Nothing Happens

Hello, Everything is in the title. I can't manage to import my Itunes playlist on my Spotify Prenium application in my PC. I have already made the following steps : Went to my itunes -> Files -> preferences -> advanced -> checked the box "share the X...

RedhaHK
Newbie
Hello, Everything is in the title. I can't manage to import my Itunes playlist on my Spotify Prenium application in my PC. I have already made the following steps : Went to my itunes -&...
2016-12-01 2:29:09 PM
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music file half blank

Listening Flowers in the snow - Park Hyosin. It does play but no music in the middle. After 2:38, the arrow still moves till the end with silent, then goes to the next song. i assmue the musci file itself is half blank somewhat.

geonine
Newbie
Listening Flowers in the snow - Park Hyosin. It does play but no music in the middle. After 2:38, the arrow still moves till the end with silent, then goes to the next song. i assmue the musci f...
2016-12-01 12:10:21 PM
2016-12-01 1:23:06 PM
Bittencourt
Spotify Star
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Desktop won't let me play any music at all

I've been using Spotify on my old laptop for months. I just got a new one, and it worked for the first day of using it. And now it wont let me play any music whatsoever, and I don't know what to do. Any time I click on a song to play, a notification ...

tessalamb_
Newbie
I've been using Spotify on my old laptop for months. I just got a new one, and it worked for the first day of using it. And now it wont let me play any music whatsoever, and I don't know what to do. ...
2016-12-01 4:45:46 AM
2016-12-01 12:19:02 PM
Bittencourt
Spotify Star
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Windows

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"This song is not available" error

I have had this problem for some days now, Spotify will not play anything on my laptop, it keeps saying "This song is not available". I've uninstalled the app and reinstalled it, I've tried turning it off and back on again but still not working. On m...

Paupaunai
Casual Listener
I have had this problem for some days now, Spotify will not play anything on my laptop, it keeps saying "This song is not available". I've uninstalled the app and reinstalled it, I've tried turn...
2016-12-01 10:48:23 AM
2016-12-01 11:31:16 AM
Paupaunai
Casual Listener
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Windows

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"Song is not availible"

Every time I try to play a song on spotify, the same message always appears at the top of the screen and hilighted in blue: "This song is not availible. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." Any song that I try to play on my deskt...

sheilaaking
Newbie
Every time I try to play a song on spotify, the same message always appears at the top of the screen and hilighted in blue: "This song is not availible. If you have the file on your computer you can ...
2016-12-01 8:16:58 AM
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Spotify app will not play songs

This occurs after hibernating and waking the computer. The program states that "this song is not available", no matter what song it is. I also cannot add songs to the play queue. Closing and restarting the program does not fix the problem, nor does u...

stueygeorge
Regular
This occurs after hibernating and waking the computer. The program states that "this song is not available", no matter what song it is. I also cannot add songs to the play queue. Cl...
2016-11-21 10:09:57 PM
2016-12-01 4:59:10 AM
stueygeorge
Regular
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Windows

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Solved!! Do iTunes files affect playback/downloading of songs?

I used to primarily use iTunes, but it's such a pain in the **bleep** after a while, having to buy all the songs I want, and download the others that I couldn't find on iTunes. I noticed that after switching to spotify, I played some songs that I kne...

moltonlava12
Casual Listener
I used to primarily use iTunes, but it's such a pain in the **bleep** after a while, having to buy all the songs I want, and download the others that I couldn't find on iTunes. I noticed that after s...
2016-12-01 1:53:22 AM
2016-12-01 3:46:08 AM
kirashi
Community Legend
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Windows

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Local Files are not downloading

Hello! So for some reason my local files are not downloading onto my spotify online or on my phone. I had some files working but when I added new ones they did not download. I tried turning on and off the download button and that caused all my files ...

rinasalsa
Casual Listener
Hello! So for some reason my local files are not downloading onto my spotify online or on my phone. I had some files working but when I added new ones they did not download. I tried turning on and of...
2016-11-20 11:49:09 PM
2016-12-01 2:39:40 AM
rinasalsa
Casual Listener
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Some songs being added to my library

( warning : bad english )Hey guys, i have a weird problem. Whenever i log into my account I see some songs in my library that i didn't add. After I saw them, I delete them and the next time i log into my account they are back in there. I'm using my a...

BerkBektas
Newbie
( warning : bad english 😕 ) Hey guys, i have a weird problem. Whenever i log into my account I see some songs in my library that i didn't add. After I saw them, I delete them and the next time i lo...
2016-11-30 8:12:25 PM
2016-11-30 12:37:13 AM
dang426
Regular
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Spotify pauses after every song

Spotify on my Windows 8.1 machine pauses after playing one song. It is super annoying and only does it on this device. Luckily I have and auto hot key script that lets me skip to the next song and it will begin to play. I have to do this every time I...

tylerquintana22
Newbie
Spotify on my Windows 8.1 machine pauses after playing one song. It is super annoying and only does it on this device. Luckily I have and auto hot key script that lets me skip to the next song and it...
2016-11-30 11:53:29 PM
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