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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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New update makes it difficult to list all the tracks for an artist. Update spoils Spotify.

Spotify has now updated on my computers, even though I did not request it. Spotify used to be brilliant. You used to be able to quickly list all the tracks by a particular artist or band and these would be presented to you in order of popularity. The...

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  • Spotify has now updated on my computers, even though I did not request it. Spotify used to be brilliant. You used to be able to quickly list all the tracks by a particular artist or band and the...
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Syncing Local FIles

spotify wont stop trying to sync local files I now have 22 files of the same songs in locall files Help please

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  • spotify wont stop trying to sync local files I now have 22 files of the same songs in locall files Help please   
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Radio Page Layout breaks below a certain size

When you reduce the central area to below 610 pixels wide, the layout breaks for Recommended Stations and Your Stations. The boxes for each station become random sizes (might be related to the resolution of the album art). This is happening on v0.9.8...

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  • When you reduce the central area to below 610 pixels wide, the layout breaks for Recommended Stations and Your Stations. The boxes for each station become random sizes (might be related to the resolu...
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Find unavailable tracks

Does anybody know of a way to search for all unavailable tracks. Last time I updated Spotify some of my previously available tracks has become unavailable. For example, the track "Keith Don't Go" by Nils Lofgren, on the album "Acoustic Live" has beco...

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  • Does anybody know of a way to search for all unavailable tracks. Last time I updated Spotify some of my previously available tracks has become unavailable. For example, the track "Keith Don't Go"...
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Starred tracks, what's the point?

Hello, new user here, running the latest version (0.9.4.169 - windows).Can someone explain what's the point of starring tracks in spotify if you can't see your starred tracks in your playlists or in album views? Am I missing something, an option mayb...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello, new user here, running the latest version (0.9.4.169 - windows). Can someone explain what's the point of starring tracks in spotify if you can't see your starred tracks in your playlists or...
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Solved!! Public playlist does not show to others

Hi, this is a bit new to me I found a case similar to this (Oct. 2013) on one of the the boards but without a solution. I have Spotify Premium, and my playlists don't not show to others.They are set Public, right click on the name shows "Make secret"...

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  • Hi,   this is a bit new to me 🙂 I found a case similar to this (Oct. 2013) on one of the the boards but without a solution.   I have Spotify Premium, and my playlists don't not sho...
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limited search results ?

4 Weeks ago i have 286 search results for "river song", now only 100 ... is the a new limit for the search results ? Also actually i am searching for "love" ... not more than 100 ... can you please change that !!!

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  • 4 Weeks ago i have 286 search results for "river song", now only 100 ... is the a new limit for the search results ?   Also actually i am searching for "love" ... not more than 100 ... can y...
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My music is gone!?!?

a few days ago i added all of the songs i had saved on a couple of different playlists to the "your music/songs" feature. After making sure they all transferred i then deleted them from the original plalists. Now today i start up Spotify and only 39 ...

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  • a few days ago i added all of the songs i had saved on a couple of different playlists to the "your music/songs" feature. After making sure they all transferred i then deleted them from the origina...
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when clicking "play" in playlist, the currently played song isn't highlighted

Hey I couldn't find my problem in the database. When open a random playlist and clicking the "play"-button next to the album cover, the currently played song isn't highlighted. But when I click at a random song in the playlist. the songs are highligh...

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  • Hey   I couldn't find my problem in the database.   When open a random playlist and clicking the "play"-button next to the album cover, the currently played song isn't highlighted. ...
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Local Files Stopped Playing

I haven't had any problems with local files playing on Spotify. But, all of the sudden, they've stopped playing. I've updated Quicktime (which I've been told helps with that problem), but none of the local files will play. Is there any other way to f...

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  • I haven't had any problems with local files playing on Spotify. But, all of the sudden, they've stopped playing. I've updated Quicktime (which I've been told helps with that problem), but none of the...
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premium

I need a premium account to my exaims, i'll take the 30days free and then cancel it again before the 30days ends, but i need to know how to cancel it again? And if i submit to premium at my pc, does it then work as well on my phone?

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  • I need a premium account to my exaims, i'll take the 30days free and then cancel it again before the 30days ends, but i need to know how to cancel it again? And if i submit to premium at my pc, doe...
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Some songs not playing on Adema Album.

I tried other songs, like the Remix off of another album. And that worked but regardless Adema album is not playing all songs. Just thought I would let you know.

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  • I tried other songs, like the Remix off of another album. And that worked but regardless Adema album is not playing all songs. Just thought I would let you know.
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Queue track from search bar

Hello, I'd like to request a feature When you search for an item and a series of suggested tracks appear underneath the search field, could you make it so that when you right click a track you can queue it? It's a bit cumbersome to open the track / a...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello, I'd like to request a feature   When you search for an item and a series of suggested tracks appear underneath the search field, could you make it so that when you right click a track...
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Like buttons for friend's notifications

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to like/dislike friend's or followed musician's/band's notification on the right hand panel on Spotify Desktop application for PC. Is there a way to comment on these notifications? A small interface as can be see...

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  • Hi,   I was wondering if it is possible to like/dislike friend's or followed musician's/band's notification on the right hand panel on Spotify Desktop application for PC.   Is there...
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Only sidebars load with newest update

Since the newest changes to the UI, spotify has been practically unusable for me. The sidebars are the only windows that load. Everything else results in a blank white screen. I went ahead and attached a screenshot to more clearly illustrate what is ...

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  • Since the newest changes to the UI, spotify has been practically unusable for me. The sidebars are the only windows that load.  Everything else results in a blank white screen.  I went ahea...
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HELP CANT SEE SONGS I SEARCH FOR! NO image...

Spotify is fked!... Why does it look like that when i search? please help!

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  • Spotify is fked!... Why does it look like that when i search? please help!
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Is there a way to revert to previous version?

Please, for the love of God, let there be a way. . . if so, someone please tell me how. Through windows regedit, going into the C:\ drive - anything! Before I just get rid of spotify for turning to crap.

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  • Please, for the love of God, let there be a way. . . if so, someone please tell me how. Through windows regedit, going into the C:\ drive - anything! Before I just get rid of spotify for turning to c...
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I can't play League of Legends while spotify open

Is there any solution about it ? I can even leave uTorrent opened with 300kb download rate with no problem, but i can not play LOL i always have random pings.

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  • Is there any solution about it ?  I can even leave uTorrent opened with 300kb download rate with no problem, but i can not play LOL i always have random pings. 
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Solved!! Was passiert wenn man auf "speichern" klickt??

Wie der Titel bereits sagt- seit einigen Wochen gibt es den speichern button und ich frage mich immer noch, was er für einen effekt hat!? es wird keine neue playlist erstellt und auch sonst seh ich kein ergebnis, bis auf die tatsache das dann die tra...

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  • Wie der Titel bereits sagt- seit einigen Wochen gibt es den speichern button und ich frage mich immer noch, was er für einen effekt hat!? es wird keine neue playlist erstellt und auch sonst seh ich k...
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advertisements in my own music

I'm getting spammed by ads in the music I bought and added to Spotify, to my own playlists. I don't like streaming music because of the ads. Spotify has a lot of the artists I usually can't find the CDs of in Denmark, back when you let people buy dow...

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  • I'm getting spammed by ads in the music I bought and added to Spotify, to my own playlists. I don't like streaming music because of the ads. Spotify has a lot of the artists I usually can't find the ...
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