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Solved!! 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
Spotify Star
2024-03-14 3:38:28 PM
Wednesday
notworking117
Casual Listener
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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
3 weeks ago
Lanciano007
Gig Goer
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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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My songs library doesn't show all of my saved songs

After the last update I noticed a ton of songs went missing in my library even though I didn't unsave them. This really sucks because I like to shuffle my library which usually has 5000+ songs in it, but after adding them all to a playlist it only sh...

carsonpair
Casual Listener
After the last update I noticed a ton of songs went missing in my library even though I didn't unsave them. This really sucks because I like to shuffle my library which usually has 5000+ songs in it,...
2016-11-20 4:37:34 AM
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My Songs Problem

Usually when I click on 'Songs' under the 'Your Music' tab, it shows all of my saved songs, now when I click on it I get redirected to 'Browse'. Problem only appears on desktop.

xducks
Newbie
Usually when I click on 'Songs' under the 'Your Music' tab, it shows all of my saved songs, now when I click on it I get redirected to 'Browse'. Problem only appears on desktop.
2016-11-19 8:17:18 PM
2016-11-20 4:01:23 AM
lostwords13
Newbie
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Song Bar on PC / Win 8.1

Hello,when i switch between Spotiy and a game (or the browser, Word or whatever), the Song Bar (left: cover, middle: skip, shuffle, play/pause etc, right hand side: volume control) freezes in the current state. This means that it freezes in the state...

JaylowJS
Casual Listener
Hello, when i switch between Spotiy and a game (or the browser, Word or whatever), the Song Bar (left: cover, middle: skip, shuffle, play/pause etc, right hand side: volume control) freezes in the c...
2016-11-19 12:16:16 AM
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Solved!! Pornographic banners on Spotify free for pc desktop windows 8.1

Hi, I have Spotify free and in the lower part of my spotify always appear pornographic banners, does not respect my privacy, please how can I prevent it?Thanks to everybody

Bollesan
Casual Listener
Hi, I have Spotify free and in the lower part of my spotify always appear pornographic banners, does not respect my privacy, please how can I prevent it? Thanks to everybody
2016-11-17 1:01:07 PM
2016-11-19 8:11:48 PM
Bollesan
Casual Listener
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Windows

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Spotify stops playing after 1 second

Hey everybody,I have a big problem. Every time i choose a song it only plays 1 second and than I don't hear sound anymore. What can I do? I tried re-installing spotify and I tried something with the cache but it didn't work. And everytime I changed t...

charlotte244
Newbie
Hey everybody, I have a big problem. Every time i choose a song it only plays 1 second and than I don't hear sound anymore. What can I do? I tried re-installing spotify and I tried something with th...
2016-11-19 4:22:08 PM
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Spotify skips the songs and stops playing after 2 seconds

hi!from this evening on my spotify player skips most of the songs and the few songs that start playing, stop again in 2 seconds... actually a reinstalled, cleared the cache, etc.... but nothing helped.i tried spotify on my iphone too and the problem ...

mdinho
Newbie
hi! from this evening on my spotify player skips most of the songs and the few songs that start playing, stop again in 2 seconds... actually a reinstalled, cleared the cache, etc.... but nothing hel...
2016-11-19 1:54:52 AM
2016-11-19 1:56:00 PM
eLaZizY
Casual Listener
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2 replies
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Spotify keeps crashing over and over again, has ceased to be usable

I have been using Spotify premium on a desktop computer (Windows 7 64-bit) for years, with no major issues. However, in the past 2 days, every time I log into the program and play a song, within about 5-10 seconds of the song starting to play, it sto...

primordialsea
Casual Listener
I have been using Spotify premium on a desktop computer (Windows 7 64-bit) for years, with no major issues. However, in the past 2 days, every time I log into the program and play a song, within abou...
2016-11-17 1:21:19 AM
2016-11-19 3:45:44 AM
primordialsea
Casual Listener
967 Views
7 replies
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Windows

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"Can't play current song" when gaming

I'm playing games and I get this issue ( Overwatch mostly) where after I leave a match, the song suddenly stops and I can hear a 'pop' as though the headset has disconnected. All other audio still works (game volume, youtube etc.). I get the impressi...

Gavigan
Newbie
I'm playing games and I get this issue ( Overwatch mostly) where after I leave a match, the song suddenly stops and I can hear a 'pop' as though the headset has disconnected. All other audio still wo...
2016-11-18 11:03:54 PM
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"This song is not available", Spotify seems to think I'm offline

I get the error message "This song is not available. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." when I try playing any song. I'm not in offline mode, and able to browse the whole catalogue. I have narrowed the problem down a bit:- I ha...

evanus
Casual Listener
I get the error message "This song is not available. If you have the file on your computer you can import it." when I try playing any song. I'm not in offline mode, and able to browse the whole catal...
2016-11-18 9:25:27 AM
2016-11-18 7:41:38 PM
evelyn99
Newbie
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3 replies
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Lyrics and missing songs

To whom it may concern, I already saw your post about the lyrics comming back, but that is 6 months old and we still doesn't got the lyrics back. What is so difficult adding lyrics to the songs? I had an addon for winamp that did this in the 90s, why...

Bruno_G
Newbie
To whom it may concern, I already saw your post about the lyrics comming back, but that is 6 months old and we still doesn't got the lyrics back. What is so difficult adding lyrics to...
2016-11-18 7:38:33 PM
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What's playing area freezes after ads

This has been happening for a while and it's pretty frustrating. After an ad plays, the bottom left section freezes at what I was listening to before the ad - you can even see the name of the ad at the bottom. In the attachment, you can see I'm liste...

tylerisgood
Newbie
This has been happening for a while and it's pretty frustrating. After an ad plays, the bottom left section freezes at what I was listening to before the ad - you can even see the name of the ad at t...
2016-11-18 6:30:40 PM
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Stuttering sound & mouse when using Spotify Desktopapp & Chrome

Hello everyone, i´m currently running Windows 10 64-bit (Anniversary Update) with up to date drivers. Im using the Spotify-desktopapp and Chrome. Since the second last update of the Spotify-desktopapp i´m experiencing a weird issue. While listening t...

Numidis
Newbie
Hello everyone, i´m currently running Windows 10 64-bit (Anniversary Update) with up to date drivers. Im using the Spotify-desktopapp and Chrome. Since the second last update of the Spotify-...
2016-11-18 4:01:34 PM
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Interface gets stuck on ad and doesn't show song or time anymore

Since some time now, I have this stupid issue that Spotify would bug out after playing an ad and get stuck on the ad image as well as the ad time.So when my music plays again I don't see what is being played or the time progress bar.Only restarting S...

paralysekid
Casual Listener
Since some time now, I have this stupid issue that Spotify would bug out after playing an ad and get stuck on the ad image as well as the ad time. So when my music plays again I don't see what is be...
2016-11-18 3:00:08 PM
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this song is not avaliable ...

**bleep** you spotify and **bleep** your system . ı have one year premium membership but ı cant play lots of songs. ı have reinstalled this **bleep** but ıt doesnt work. give my money back bastards

demircohen01
Casual Listener
**bleep** you spotify and **bleep** your system . ı have one year premium membership but ı cant play lots of songs. ı have reinstalled this **bleep** but ıt doesnt work. give my money back bastards
2016-11-17 6:56:14 PM
2016-11-18 1:06:45 PM
crematedman
Community Legend
465 Views
1 replies
1 likes
Windows

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Issues Logging with desktop application

Hi I am having issues logging into my spotify account on my desktop app only.The problem originally started when I accidentally keyed in ctrl+shift+w in spotify instead of in my web browser, which logged me out. I tried to login with facebook like I ...

Flipstar1
Newbie
Hi I am having issues logging into my spotify account on my desktop app only. The problem originally started when I accidentally keyed in ctrl+shift+w in spotify instead of in my web browser, whic...
2016-11-17 6:33:18 PM
2016-11-18 1:04:41 PM
crematedman
Community Legend
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spotify shuts down when I unplug the adapter

Hi there, my spotify player always shuts down when I unplug adapter from my notebook. When I restart it, it will even have old playlist loaded up. As I have to unplug the notebook quite often I would really like it to stay as it is. Is there any solu...

matej11199
Newbie
Hi there, my spotify player always shuts down when I unplug adapter from my notebook. When I restart it, it will even have old playlist loaded up. As I have to unplug the notebook quite often I would...
2016-11-18 12:27:17 PM
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Conflict Offline Files - PC vs iPhone

Hello, I am having cruical and boring issue with Spotify.As a spotify premium member, I use it both in iPhone and PC. I mostly listen it in offline mode in iPhone but I prefer online mode for PC. So I do not need to waste space to download songs for ...

gambeha
Newbie
Hello, I am having cruical and boring issue with Spotify. As a spotify premium member, I use it both in iPhone and PC. I mostly listen it in offline mode in iPhone but I prefer online mode ...
2016-11-18 11:24:22 AM
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Is there really no way to make it not log you out of last.fm almost every time it does an update?

I have my account linked to last.fm because I wanted to track what I was listening to, but it seems like I can barely go a week before it disconnects and stops scrobbling. Then usually by the time I notice several days have gone past. Obviously this ...

ThePantsParty
Casual Listener
I have my account linked to last.fm because I wanted to track what I was listening to, but it seems like I can barely go a week before it disconnects and stops scrobbling. Then usually by the t...
2016-11-17 11:22:31 PM
2016-11-18 2:29:20 AM
abilea
Roadie
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Windows

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Meu spotify não abria ai desinstalei e reinicei fui baixar de novo e não vai

O que faço para reinstalar?

DoidoLoiro
Newbie
O que faço para reinstalar?
2016-11-18 1:01:45 AM
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Solved!! Removal of volume add-on

So whenever I change the volume on my computer there is now a big spotify bar next to it that shows what I was/am listening to - is there some way to remove this? I didn't give spotify permission to do this, and more importantly it's just obnoxious. ...

Ethan_G
Music Fan
So whenever I change the volume on my computer there is now a big spotify bar next to it that shows what I was/am listening to - is there some way to remove this? I didn't give spotify permission to ...
2016-11-17 7:37:55 PM
2016-11-17 9:16:14 PM
Hubo
Community Legend
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