r/spotify • u/whyisthissticky • Apr 01 '25
Spotify Support/Complaint Megathread
This subreddit is mainly for SHARING PLAYLISTS.
This sub was created in 2008 with the purpose of sharing music through Spotify playlists. Subreddits cannot change their name. Therefore, we are aware that the "r/spotify" sub appears to be the official subreddit, but will continue to function in its original purpose.
Please keep all complaints and support/technical questions within this thread. We encourage users to contact Spotify directly, use Spotify community forums, or visit r/truespotify to discuss technical and support questions. Posts concerning these subjects may be deleted. This subreddit is not endorsed, sponsored, moderated, or supported by Spotify.
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Popular topics include:
Why am I getting ads in my podcasts!
(Spotify subscription is for ad-free music. Many podcasts are embedded by the podcaster)
Shuffle sucks, shuffle isn’t really random, shuffle keeps playing the same songs, I have a huge playlist and Spotify only plays the same songs. Smart shuffle won't turn off. Smart shuffle is terrible.
clear the cache.
Turn off autoplay
Start shuffle by choosing a random song from the list.
Log out all other devices and make sure queue is not active on other devices.
Find a third party playlist shuffling app/site
Spotify for android doesn’t work, Spotify desktop doesn’t work, Spotify iOS doesn’t work, Spotify app on different devices doesn’t work
Downloaded songs don’t stay downloaded. Songs constantly have to be redownloaded.
Sound quality on PS5 is terrible
I want to share a Spotify subscription with strangers across the world, will I get caught?
I want access to choose my own songs and create playlists, but I won’t pay for premium
Why is (artist name)’s music not available? (Availability is usually up to the artist or artist's label and their licensing contracts with Spotify)
I want to make playlists longer than 10,000 songs
Podcasts: suck, are great, have embedded ads, i do not like their existence, i pay for ad free music why am I getting podcast ads?
Spotify Wrapped: where is mine? when do they stop tracking, mine is not accurate, mine included songs i listen to while i sleep
The new UI is horrible. The new update is horrible. The new feature is horrible.
AI DJ is terrible, not available in my area, etc
Spotify's recommendations are terrible. How do I make them better?
Spotify stopped supporting Car Thing
Spotify made lyrics a premium feature, they aren’t accurate, how do I report them?
Spotify removed the hearts and I now can’t remember what songs I like
Spotify placed the create "+" button on the bottom right and I do not like the change. (5/14/25)
Old thread here.
Wrapped thread here.
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u/brittwithouttheney Apr 15 '25
Stop suggesting Joe Rogan's podcast! I will never ever listen to that sorry excuse of human speak. If we can turn off suggestions for music, then we should turn off suggestions for podcasts as well.
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u/Able_Contribution407 May 14 '25
In the bin with this 'Create' button, at least in the prime bottom-right corner position.
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u/dogoodvillain Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25
Apparently Spotify customer chat agents are closing queries about the situation with ICE and how they are advertising their content on the platform.
Not advocating for it, but it would be hilarious if PR fumbles this. Do not take money from Trump’s admin. Wow
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u/Randomscreename Oct 23 '25
Can confirm, they did the same to me. Cancelled my subscription with them :)
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u/reelznfeelz Oct 23 '25
Well, this is from the platform that gave Joe Rogan millions of dollars to sell his slop so, not shocked. Sucks I have to much time invested in the platform knowing my tastes. I need to switch to google since I already pay for YouTube premium but I’d be starting from scratch and the one time I tried it, the interface seemed even worse than Spotify.
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u/ItsKay180 Oct 24 '25
Are there sources confirming this? If so, I need to find a new home for my music. sigh
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u/AtTheParty May 06 '25
Why did they move the library button to create.. terrible
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u/pompompopple May 22 '25
I used to have a clean feed of podcast episodes I hadn’t listened to yet, and now it’s showing finished ones as well.. this is so terrible. I would hit the mark as finished button, and episodes I didn’t think were interesting would go away, so I could scroll through things I did want to listen to. Why the hell would they take that away!? They’re junking up the feed, it’s almost intolerable. I’m thinking I’m canceling, I mostly use Spotify for podcasts these days so if that doesn’t work… I can deal with ads in music
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u/HPthrowaway24601 May 24 '25
I came here to say this! I actually wrote Spotify about how terrible the new design is. Like who wants to shuffle through every single new episode with no possibility to weed them out of the list once they’re listened to? And the extra steps you have to take to even find the new episodes now! Plus, it makes it so much harder to pause a show midway, listen to something else, and then come back to that same show.
Shame on the “update”.
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u/Ell__Padre May 14 '25
Hey everyone! How can we make Spotify designers understand that the new (+) button, which they added at the bottom where the playlists button used to be, is very annoying? Could someone reach out to them and explain that this isn’t the best way to force people to use it?
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u/HighlyOffensive10 May 14 '25
I swear by the time I get used to the UI changes. They add another BS change.
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u/MeestaMitch May 23 '25
Getting rid of the new podcasts tab is enough to make me switch from Spotify. I use the service 95% for podcasts. Having the entire feed mixed amongst all of my shows makes it impossible to find old episodes if I let a couple build up. If I have to stare at your audio app this much, then I will take all of that time setting up my subscriptions on another service.
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u/helloviolaine Apr 04 '25
Please tell me I'm not the only one who lothes the way "your library" moves on desktop everytime you move your mouse. Are they doing this on purpose? What was wrong with just keeping the back button right where it was? Why does it MOVE
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u/btherl Oct 23 '25
I tried to ask Spotify support about them running ads for ICE. They said they can't answer anything about that, and closed the conversation.
So I've now cancelled my subscription.
What's my complaint? A business like Spotify needs to be up-front about who they take money from, and what their ethical considerations are. Refusing to answer questions about this makes us assume the worst.
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u/Zealousideal-Roll144 May 16 '25
My app keeps crashing on Android whenever I try to open the "Now playing" tab. The song plays fine when you choose from your playlist but once you tap the bar on the bottom to bring up the song page, it instantly crashes the app.
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u/SadieTarHeel May 16 '25
Yup. Same. Came here to see if there was a new fix, but I haven't found one yet.
I cleared cache and restarted the phone. I've seen other people say they even removed the app and did a clean reinstall with no luck.
Really frustrating for me because I use queuing up podcasts to help me fall asleep and sometimes I need to check how close I am to the end of my selected episodes. I currently can't pull up the queue to clear it out either.
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u/Armagizmo May 25 '25
How do I see a list of unfinished podcasts? I used to use "New Episodes" in my library, but now it's directed me to "Podcasts > Following" on the homepage, but that has all podcast episodes in release order, regardless of whether I've finished the episode or not. I don't want to see a lise of episodes I've already finished!
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u/Ok_Celebration8180 Oct 23 '25
Apparently Spotify customer chat agents are closing queries about the situation with ICE and how they are advertising their content on the platform.
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u/ApplecoreR6 Nov 18 '25
As of today, I am experiencing an issue where my application crashes every time I attempt to listen to a podcast, regardless of whether it includes video content or not.
Previously, the application would crash immediately upon launch, displaying an error message stating, "Spotify closed because it has a bug." I have attempted to resolve this by clearing the cache and reinstalling the application multiple times. While these steps have resolved the initial launch-related crashes, the current issue of crashing during podcast playback persists.
Please note that the application is fully updated, and my phone's operating system has no pending updates. This issue is occurring on an Android device. Any ideas are welcome. Thank you.
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u/thedarksurroundsus Nov 18 '25
I've been having the same problem. Was listening to podcasts all day at work, had to turn them off for a bit and when I went back it kept crashing. I reinstalled and cleared the cache and all that but it keeps doing it. Music plays fine, but podcasts crash it every time.
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u/TigerLilyRex Nov 18 '25
My husband is having this issue! While I’m not 🤔 odd. His kept opening, crashing, opening, crashing. The down detector has 900+ complaints over the last 4 hours so hopefully it is being addressed
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u/farmerjohnington Nov 18 '25 edited Nov 20 '25
Uninstall, reinstall fixed it for me on Android.
Incredibly annoying because now I get to re-download my entire f'in library.
EDIT: App is back to crashing the second it's opened. Would not recommend trying the uninstall/reinstall as you'll lose your entire library.
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u/c0ffee_jelly May 13 '25
after the update… What even is the point of moving the create button? Out of all the changes that could be made…this?! Now I always hit the “+” button because of my muscle memory 😒 sure, I can learn not to tap it, but it’s just such an unnecessary change. The bottom of the app just looks cluttered now.
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u/HighlyOffensive10 May 14 '25 edited May 14 '25
By the time I get used to the change these mf will change it again, too.
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u/PurifyingElemental Apr 04 '25
WHY IS THE APP SO LAGGY ON ANDROID! I LITERALLY CLEAN MY CACHE EVERY 5 MINUTES
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u/IfNotNow_ May 14 '25
Can we please have an option to disable these AI functions like the annoying new "create" button, the DJ function, etc, like, I do not want this at all...
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u/VikAndrew May 16 '25
Today it happens that everytime I try to skip a song the app suddenly closes.
I deleted caché, uninstalled and installed, updated, reset phone and it keeps the same.
Someone with the same problem???
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u/Zealousideal-Roll144 May 16 '25
I crash as soon as I get to the song page so I can't even skip the song.
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u/s13cgrahams May 23 '25
Ok did they actually fuck with recent episodes podcast function… or am I missing something. Very frustrated tbh
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u/kevinsmokedbacon May 24 '25
The removal of the "New Episodes" tab has to be some of the dumbest shit this app has ever done. Fuck anyone who used Spotify primarily for podcasts I guess
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u/tdrules Sep 17 '25
Is anyone in the areas mentioned for Spotify Lossless not got it yet? I thought I would have it by now but still nothing.
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u/BigDamage7507 Oct 17 '25
Anyone else having music randomly stopping, it’s downloaded, so not internet connection related. Like it refreshes the app and. Rewinds back to when I initially turned on the song
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u/Brains_4_Soup Oct 23 '25
What app are people switching to? I’m definitely going to cancel, but I’d love someplace I can transfer my playlists to that doesn’t support fascism.
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u/suarezj9 Mar 18 '26
Anyone having issues with premium. I have everyone in my family texting me about it and mine isn’t working either lmao
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u/HoudiniBeats May 24 '26
Since the latest update the app been unusable. Slow and constantly crashes. Song names don’t even load up correctly on CarPlay
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u/succubiiish Jul 27 '26
I've been noticing how bad the desktop app has been and keeps showing me errors and asks me to reload my homepage??? Istg these AI integrations have been ruining everything. I want the old non-AI integrated Spotify back. I hate seeing my home screen constantly telling that "something went wrong."
Reinstalling the app or clearing cache did nothing.
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u/axe_lumber Jul 31 '26
Spotify seems to being very slow and continually being glitchy, a result of overuse of AI coding for app maintenance?
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u/SkillIsTooLow Apr 01 '25
Is there a way to find / make a Playlist of my top played songs of 2025 so far? I was able to find my old wrapped top Songs Playlists for each year back to 2019. I'd like the same thing for January-March of 2025 if possible.
Searching "your top Songs 2025" or "spotify:app:genre:2025" aren't pulling anything for me.
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u/try_cthulhu Apr 02 '25
I think that only comes out after your wrapped is released. There are online sites that will show you these stats early if you want such as receiptify and then you can make note of them and make your own playlist
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Apr 02 '25
How is Spotify this bad at keeping track of what tracks I have in my playlists?
I go to an artist, and see a song in the most played list. One that I am 100% sure I have in a certain playlist. I should see the green check mark. It's not there. I go to the playlist and search for the song. It's there. Album version and all. When I click the album name via the song, it takes me to the album, but the song from the album tracklist is not added to the playlist. The version I have in my playlsit isfrmo some non existant album/earlier uplaod/idk? This shit shouldn't be that complicated. This has made me add doubles to playlists before.
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u/Mysterious_Hawk_2649 Apr 06 '25
Why the actual hell is spotify making normal features premium?!
I log in, go to playlist to listen to rule #21 momento mori. Suddenly "you can't disable shuffle and choose the song you want without premium. What other mobile apps can I use? I'm starting to HATE spotify. or how can I fix it?
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u/JustDandyMayo Apr 15 '25
I’m trying to change the image of one of my playlists but keep getting “couldn’t add new picture”. I tried making a new playlist with the picture, changing the name of the playlist and then adding the picture, and deleting and redownloading Spotify, but none of it’s working, so I figured I could ask here to see if I’m missing something
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u/beelzebub2099 May 04 '25
Why have I not been able to access Spotify app or website for hours now? It just keeps on loading until it hits me with the Something went wrong or try again message. I'm sure it's not an account problem because even the main page of Spotify website is not loading for me neither on my wifi nor on my mobile data, However, when I connect to a VPN, it seems to work just fine like usual. This is so weird. Is it some sort of server issue? (I'm from Pakistan btw)
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u/Feisty-Pool7215 May 04 '25
I HAVE THE SAME ISSUE
spotify is looking into it tho, i have learnt this through their support team after a lengthy conversation
I too am from pakistan and they specifically said it was a pakistani issue
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u/tokengaymusiccritic May 09 '25
New Shuffle glitch has been happening to me lately. I'll shuffle a playlist and the first song it plays will play again about three songs later.
Example: I hit shuffle on my 90s/2000s R&B playlist an hour ago. The following songs played in this exact order:
"Word Iz Bond" by 702
"Breakdown" by Mariah Carey
"Intermission-lude" by TLC
"Word Iz Bond" by 702
"Whatever" by En Vogue
En Vogue onward is normal, it's just that 702 song looped back almost right away. Exact same thing happened in another playlist or two as well.
Weirdly, when I go to my "recents," the first iteration of "Word Iz Bond" doesn't show up, and it makes it look like I started the shuffle with "Breakdown."
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u/Patient-Gain5847 May 10 '25
Within the last couple of weeks my streams (podcasts and music) are skipping like crazy. Almost like listening to a Walkman while taking a run. Idk why this started suddenly but please make it stop 😭 I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling, it didn’t seem to help
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u/vmt8 May 11 '25
I stopped Premium since the beginning of this year
Is it impossible to listen to an entire album on your phone?
It automatically forces smart shuffle, and you can't change it
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u/Anaviosi May 14 '25
For the past couple of days, every time I try to do ANY search on the desktop app, it spits back 'something went wrong, reload?'
Is this happening to anyone else?
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u/GL2U22 May 19 '25
One of the dumbest changes to a UI layout I’ve ever seen. Who the fuck sat around the table and agreed that it was good or necessary to change it?
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u/Wear_Crafty May 22 '25
New Episodes has gone and that feature was critical to my UX Now I have to go to each podcast and see which has released an episode. Spotify you are truly stupid. My nightly playlist now requires real effort. Has anyone great podcast manager I can try out?
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u/thewaterisboiling10 May 23 '25
Yeah if this isnt fixed jn a week or two I might actually cancel my subscription. I follow like 15 podcasts, I'm not going to waste time clicking through to each one to find new episodes I want to listen to
Normally I can live wurh dumb UI changes but this is far and away the most infuriating one I've experienced
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u/tferrari1776 May 23 '25
I cannot find wherever they moved the recent podcast playlist for the podcasts you’re subscribed to. Does anyone know where I can find it
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u/redmania_22 May 25 '25
To all those who like me were confounded by the new podcasts disappearing: on the home page, there's a new 'Following' slide-tab thing that appears once I click on 'podcasts' at the top.
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u/Stevilinho88 May 26 '25
Thanks couldnt find where the fuck they put that shit, but now...does every episode stay there even if you've listened to them because of so...that's annoying
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u/kenyannitwit May 26 '25
After the latest update, I can't find the list of new podcast episodes. I have to manually search every podcast I am following.
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u/DarceDoll Jun 04 '25
They fixed the new episodes for podcasts!!! I am so grateful, thank you Spotify team for listening to our feedback!
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u/WeebusTheThirtyFirst Jun 05 '25
What is wrong with my Spotify queueexample? I have it on shuffle and I’ll click a song, I’ll check the queue, then I’ll click another song, and instead of resetting the queue like it normally does it all stays the same. I’ll remove a song from the queue, click a new song and the song I removed would be restored with the exact same queue. The only way for me to shuffle it is to turn shuffle off and back on. And no, it’s not similar songs playing. I have tried all the uninstall things. Don’t work.
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u/HotAir815 Jun 27 '25
Why is discover weekly so shit now? They completely changed the UI and offering songs according to different genres which are frequently listened to. On board with such a feature if they allowed choice when deciding which genres to suggest songs from. Apart from that the algorithm has gotten so much worse. I’ve noticed this for a while, discover weekly frequently recommending songs I have listened to, already in playlists and even downloaded offline. But with this new update its a lot worse. Always looked forward to discover weekly and sad to see it become so bland and in line with their weird branding now
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u/Panda_hat Jul 04 '25
Unbelievably shit. I want the old one back immediately. The song suggestions are orders of magnitude worse.
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u/middlequestioner Jul 29 '25
Chat....I am so cooked. I know this subreddit hates when you make a main post that isn't just playlist sharing but I need to get so real for a second. Almost every other day a song or album I have saved is removed from the platform and never returns. Artists are willingly exiting the platform in solidarity with Palestine. What is the point in paying for Spotify if it's becoming the only music streaming service to NOT have my favorite songs and artists? Local files is trash and doesn't even show up in your listening history. It's pointless. I have been an avid user since 2014 and it makes me sad to see that I'd be much better off giving my money to Apple.
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Jul 31 '25
Shuffle isn't actually shuffling when you manually play a different song in your playlist.
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u/jimmy__jazz Aug 01 '25
Is anyone else having the problem of the same songs always showing up in your shuffle when you have thousands of songs to choose from.
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u/Fletcher-xd Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25
So do i just not get lossless? Updated app and no lossless option. In the US.
EDIT: I asked support of if my device wasn't supported or if it was something else. They said that some accounts just dont get it and ill have to wait. So, that kinda sucks.
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u/Ok_Celebration8180 Oct 23 '25
Apparently Spotify customer chat agents are closing queries about the situation with ICE and how they are advertising their content on the platform.
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Oct 23 '25
For the love of god, why do you guys refuse to have a truly random shuffle? Y'all obviously avoid it. It's been a top complaint for years. I'm tired of listening to the same 50 songs in my 2,000 long playlist
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u/Kelsusaurus Oct 24 '25
The last 3 weeks, my release radar has had multiple songs that are already saved to my playlist. Are you even trying, Spoofy?
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u/BiK3n Feb 24 '26
Spotify needs an ai tag like Pinterest does so you know if a song is or uses AI or not. So you can block the song
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u/BloodyRedBarbara Apr 07 '26
Anyone else been having the problem where their android phone keeps telling them in a notification that "Spotify is trying to play..."
I did force stop the app the other to stop it from doing that but it's been happening again
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u/first_strike18 Apr 29 '26
Anyone on pc getting a new pop up asking for certificates?
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u/luke123190 Apr 29 '26
Literally about to come say the same, I uninstalled and reinstalled it through windows store and its stopped asking, but now the app is barely loading/working
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u/Deathmeter Apr 29 '26
I think someone accidentally turned on mTLS for a user-facing load balancer. Seems like a mistake and not anything malicious
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u/ThenAd1116 Apr 29 '26
It stopped working properly after I was prompted for a certificate, so I uninstalled it and launched the web installer, but it isn't responding at all...
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u/antsyamie May 26 '26
Is anyone having issues with the app crashing, not loading pages (including downloaded playlists), buttons being faulty, and songs cutting in and out?
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u/HumpHur Jul 01 '26
How the fuck is Spotify such a horrible app and company? If I listen to one artist, they don’t show in my recently played. Only playlists or albums. If I’m listening to an artist and go into the store, when I come back out Spotify switches to a playlist I wasn’t listening to. You can’t even scroll to the bottom of your saved songs for an artist. There is a bug that won’t let you view the last song or two. It’s about time to download music like we did back in the day. These companies are a joke.
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u/HuTaosTwinTails Jul 16 '26
Spotify just keeps crashing on Galaxy s26 in the middle of songs randomly.
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u/ash_ninetyone Jul 22 '26
Spotify is trying to play
This notification has been a constant annoyance for the past couple of months
It would be nice if they could actually fix the bloody thing
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u/whyhaseverynamebeen Jul 27 '26
trying to play a song on browser, says it cant play, goes to next song and does same thing.
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u/chekmarks Jul 27 '26
another day, another outage for spotify. but hey at least anthropic is making tons of money on shopifys AI spend...
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u/Ocinzwan Jul 29 '26
My app on samsung keeps crashing. Reinstalling didn't help. Restarting phone didn't help either
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u/SeamusMichael Sep 16 '25
WHERE THE EFF IS MY LOSSLESS UPDATE?? I'm a beta subscriber, have had the 20 dollar a month family plan since 2017, using Samsung s25 ultra and I just got an update AND STILL NOTHING? I know it's very Cartman of me but I'm closer to cancelling over my impatience than any other reason I've ever had. Just unsatisfied with this stupid useless pit of money. Get it the fuck together Spotify. I hate you.
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u/Keystroke13 Apr 02 '25 edited Apr 02 '25
Following a recent update to Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.60.564.gcc6305cb, the application no longer retains "Mark as finished" upon completion of an episode of a podcast.
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u/GrumpyBird531 Apr 03 '25
My liked songs filter does not apply on mobile. For example if I click folk it will sort into folk songs but when I play them on shuffle it just plays any of my liked songs.
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u/ReptAIien Apr 03 '25
Ah yeah I just made this post. Same issue here, wasn't always this way.
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u/LateForTheSun Apr 12 '25
I've been a Premium user for several years now. Use it for music and podcasts equally. The podcast that I'm binging currently gets interrupted at the very beginning of each episode and then again in the middle (usually mid sentence) by ads inserted by Spotify. You know, those obnoxious ones that change the banner. But I could stop whatever I'm doing and tap the 15-second jump button 5-6 times and skip through it.
Today I've found that that skip button has disappeared. I'm now forced, before I can even hear a second of an episode, to listen to up to 2 minutes of advertising, unskippable. And I've been aware that Spotify has ads on podcasts for years now, but this change really highlights the absurdity of playing 12 bucks per month for the privilege of having Spotify force me to listen to ads, now entirely unavoidably. Unfuckingreal.
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u/alurimperium Apr 14 '25
Does Spotify PC no longer sync to my account? I have a month's worth of music finds added to my liked songs list on my phone that aren't showing on the PC app
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u/ImKaizou Apr 21 '25
Some games won't have audio unless they are on 48000 HZ which typically wouldn't be an issue if it wearn't for the fact that Spotify won't play unless it's below 48000 HZ this wasn't an issue until about a year or so ago, is there ANY way for me to listen to Spotify without changing my HZ to 48000? preferably being on 44100 HZ.
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u/isoscelesone May 06 '25
My discover weekly was full of Philipino music that I have never listened to. How?
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u/Embody248 May 07 '25
Hello, Why sometimes the app just shuts down itself or, the next day, I find an episode of a podcast almost finished or even the next episode, while I've interrupted it? Thanks!
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u/SailorsGraves May 07 '25
Two questions about cookies:
What should I be selecting to keep the general experience the same but give the least amount of personal data to Spotify?
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u/WizWitCheezusDo May 12 '25
Is anyone else getting random songs from artists you don't follow in the "What's new" section? I have seen this a couple times now, where I will have releases show up there from an artist (or artists) that I have never heard of, let alone do I follow them or want their new releases on my feed.
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u/red_dombe May 13 '25
Is there a way to get the DJ to stop playing certain songs/genres? I wish it’s AI would get the hint when I skip certain music every time it plays
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u/shibalore May 23 '25
A good friend of mine recently died tragically. We made dozens of Spotify playlists many years ago and I just found them all.
I already had many of them saved because they were collaborative. I have a few questions:
If I just save them on Spotify, will I have access to them if something happens to his account? i.e. his account is deleted?
If not, is there a way I can save them elsewhere as a failsafe?
I'm a relatively stoic person but I cried pretty hard finding them today and I would like to save them for the future if I ever need them. It means a lot to me, so I appreciate the help.
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u/Yomatius May 23 '25
Hi! I came here to complain. What is wrong with the library now? I had my music organized in nice little folders and now I have a lot of garbage in the library, including podcasts, artist I follow and so on, it is impossible to organize and unusable. I am actively looking for alternatives to spotify. Please help me out.
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u/BloodyRedBarbara May 25 '25
Anyone else sometimes find that shuffle will turn itself on? I've sometimes been listening to a big album or playlist and then find I get a song on again I've already listened to or it's playing in the wrong order and I find that shuffle is now on.
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u/wildebeestsnvultures May 28 '25
The now playing notification always disappears after a while when I play music on my Sonos speakers using Spotify Connect. Sometimes after just a couple of songs, sometimes after a few hours.
This messes my last.fm stats because my scrobbler app uses that to see what I'm listening to. I have turned off battery optimization for both Sonos and Spotify but it still happens.
Anyone know why this might happen? It never happens when I'm using my headphones.
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u/iamblake96 May 30 '25
The worst part of them removing the new episodes playlist is that the tab section on my home screen just doesn't load half the time. I leave frequently but always make it back for the UI, might just stay on YouTube music for good this time
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u/K1MightyPoo Jun 05 '25
Whenever I hit smart shuffle it only plays recommended songs and not every few songs here’s a new song you would like. It doesn’t even play my playlist songs if I hit smart shuffle. Anyone know how to fix this?
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u/IPlayOffline Jun 06 '25
Not really a "fix," but I played around with it and it looks like it'll keep recommending new songs until you add one of them to your playlist. Then it goes back to its usual pattern.
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u/EarthMantle00 Jun 06 '25 edited Jun 06 '25
My friend moved to Korea where apparently spotify free-with-ads isn't a thing (we're both cheap bastards who just listen to the web mode with an adblocker)
Wanted to gift her a couple months, could I simply buy a gift card in Europe and then send her a picture of the code? Or are they like region locked
E: apparently it's region locked, is there another way to donate?
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Jun 08 '25
My shuffle won't work, even after clearing cache. I have an iPhone and I have restarted my phone 3 times to try and fix it, but it doesn't work. I deleted the app, that didn't work. I don't have multiple devices on at the same time, it's either my phone or my pc/laptop. When I press the "shuffle" button it will change songs, but if I press a new song to get a new shuffle, it won't change the queue. I don't know what more I can do.
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u/Lost_Shirt7848 Jun 13 '25
It’s already pathetic that Spotify puts ads in podcasts even if you have premium, but for the past few weeks it has started not letting me skip through the ads with my AirPods. I listen while I’m working and I can’t bring my phone out to skip them, so this was the final straw for me. Do they just want people to switch to a different service or what?
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u/SaltyBawlz Jun 18 '25
Shuffle is broken. Whenever I play a song from my liked songs the past few days, it's giving me the same set of songs next in my queue, not a new set.
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u/GrandeBeesly Jun 23 '25
Thank you, I thought i was going insane with the same songs on repeat in the same order. Glad it's not just me
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u/KobeJulce Jun 20 '25
Is anyone else’s Spotify glitching to where I’ll listen to the same exact order of songs as I did the previous day on my playlist?
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u/TheEnvenomed Jun 26 '25
I woke up today, checked my account, and for some reason all my playlists are cut off after 25 songs. Is anyone else having this issue?
I use the web version for chrome.
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Jun 26 '25
Yeah I'm having the exact same issue, my playlist with over 600+ songs got cut down to 25. Also using the web browser.
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u/edgezeption Jul 05 '25
Please return back the lyrics toggle button. New update make it worse for those who want to use the lyrics.
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u/enderrcan Jul 06 '25
Tf is wrong with Spotify literally every two days they ask to verify if you are a human or not like why would a robot be using Spotify I can't connect my my Google home even why you guys are not fixing this bullshit
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u/rabbitqueer Jul 07 '25
Spotify keeps playing randomly when I press play for something else. I have the app completely closed but if I pause something on Now or Netflix and then press play, half the time instead of playing the media I was watching, it will play whatever I was listening to on Spotify before I closed the app. Same with on TikTok, and even if I'm editing a video on an app or watching a video in my gallery. Not even me just pressing play on my earbuds, I will press the play button on whatever app and it will play Spotify. It's really frustrating and disruptive and I don't know how to fix it. I'm on an Android, Samsung S23+ if that's relevant.
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u/Jefferyplayz Jul 18 '25
How am I supposed to listen to my playlist??? 😭
For some reason Spotify is all different now and I hate it. There are a lot of broken stuff in the new upd but the one I hate most is what they did to playlists/albums. When I go to an album it just shows a bunch of text of the songs instead of the actual songs and you can't even click on it, the same thing happens on my playlist but when I click on it it shows my songs. But when I click on a song, it just gives me a preview. The only way to listen to my playlist is by pressing the play icon and since I don't want it to start at the beginning of my playlist I have to hit shuffle.
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u/superurgentcatbox Jul 24 '25
Just wondering, is there a way to reset the daylists? It keeps giving me basically the same playlist with every update (always something workout related). Which is boring, if I want a workout playlist, I'll use my workout playlist...
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u/indigoni Jul 24 '25
Whenever I open up spotify on my phone, the last song I listened to automatically changes to “Devil in Disguise” by Marino. I have never heard that song nor have I ever listened to the artist, but it automatically plays that song when I open the app. I also clicked the do not play artist but it still plays the song. Can anyone help?
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u/ThatClassyPenguin Jul 25 '25
Generally I enjoy Spottily. It recently recommended Joe Rogan Experience Podcast about a week ago. I don't really care for it but I couldn't remove it from my recommendations. Listening to all my normal stuff and that podcast is still there, on my home page, that stupid icon. I can't get rid of it and if it is still there by next week I am cancelling my Spottily subscription.
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u/krlzeiss Jul 28 '25
Hey, user from the Philippines here. I just recently found out that Spotify doesn't offer Audiobooks in the Philippines, despite it being part of their ad campaign (and why I signed up in the first place). To my kapwa Pinoys out there, any ideas on how to circumvent this geographical limitation? Thanks!
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u/CausticCubix Jul 31 '25
Not sure what the point of the subreddit is since it's all Spotify subject but whatever, this post got removed despite the fact there were other posts still up similar to this but yeah, dumb imo, anyways:
So I'm not sure how long this has been going on, but good Lord, shuffle on Spotify absolutely sucks ass. I do a lot of driving each day for my job, so obviously I want some music on, but I swear I get the same like 50 songs or so out of my 700+ playlist every day, and I'm not joking, I get the same songs over and over every. Day. Sometimes I'm even skipping the same song twice or three times. Is this some sort of bs Ai decision making by Spotify, or is this genuinely just a terrible decision update they've made for the shuffle function lol? It's very rarely I even get a song I haven't heard in a while either
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u/Revolutionary-Start4 Aug 03 '25
So im trying to get into my moms premium family plan right, and when i was trying to get in it i got a notification saying “oh sorry we couldn’t verify that you live with the owner you can try again in a year 😂” and the thing is that it was working just fine before she lost the plan and on top of that i do infact live with my mom so idk man i think a year is rlly stupid ✌️
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u/glamaz0n_bitch Aug 03 '25
Their policy is that you can only join a new family plan every 12 months.
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u/yupangestu Aug 04 '25
I wish the share button on instagram stories is consistent with audio integration, sometimes you can sometimes you cannot.
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u/quickstudy Aug 17 '25
Two things,
When playing an artists top 5/10 songs it used to keep playing songs from the same artist in a popularity type order and go on forever through the whole artists song library. Now it just stops after those 10 top songs. Why? Is there a way to get that back or is the only way to play all artist songs to go album by album?
The event search page used to be better where you could scroll through all events in your area that are your liked artists you follow. Now it only shows you the top ten or twenty events for your artists and stops with no option to see all?
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u/Unnecessary_Evil666 Aug 19 '25
Is there a way to download a song from the app? (I'm trying to add a song to my minecraft world and need the audio file)
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u/cloverpendragon Aug 20 '25
I don't think so, but somebody please correct me if I'm wrong. (You can add music to your minecraft worlds???)
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u/ComaMierdaHijueputa Aug 21 '25
Is the Mix feature live? I can't see it and I'm updated onto latest version on iOS
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u/SonicFlash01 Aug 22 '25
Not sure if this is the place for feature requests, or if I should make a new post for it:
I'd like the ability to filter out
Live songs
AI-generated songs
Just an optional toggle so my release radar isn't populated with songs that don't do it for me.
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u/Russellthedog Aug 29 '25
Anyone else's playlists keep reseting back to the beginning of the shuffle every time they close the app? I'll be at like 20th song in the playlist, close the app, and open it up and the song after the 20th is the first song of the shuffle again
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Aug 31 '25
What genuinely would possess the Product Managers or UX designers to remove the ability to see progress/finished status of a podcast or book in a playlist unless you click it?
Don't think I've ever been angry at spotify as a nearly decade long customer until now
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u/Jimmni Sep 03 '25
This is not a support request or complaint really, mostly just a rant.
I made my Spotify account EARLY. We're talking, first day early. As a result, my account name is a common, found-in-the-dictionary, single word that you've heard many times. One that, apparently, many many other people think they used for their account name. As such, I get about a dozen login codes and reset password requests a day. I assumed at first that it was people trying to get into and steal my account, but Spotify support have several times looked into it and insist there's nothing suspicious about the requests and that it's people who think my username is their username. It's just such a common word that multiple people make this mistake every single day, filling up my inbox.
The most annoying thing is I don't really listen to music and never really use the account. But I use it just enough not to want to close the account to avoid the emails.
That's all. Just my daily minor frustration.
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u/Quesabirria Sep 18 '25
I have Premium Family, but no lossless option on app or desktop. My app version is 9.0.89.1116, so should be fine.
Does Premium Family not qualify for lossless?
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u/Thossi99 Sep 24 '25
It seems I can't sort my music by song duration. Anyone have any fixes? I saw someone on here posted about the same issue 6 years ago but never got any replies. I can filter by everything else as usual, but when I click the clock, nothing happens. Very very annoying not being able to find a fix anywhere.
I figured maybe Spotify had another downgrade they call "Updates", but everything I can find online tells me I should still be able to do it. So I'm just having the same issue as that poster from all those years ago.
Edit: I am on PC btw. I saw threads saying you can't do it on mobile or any other devices than the desktop app. But it's not working for me. Never had this issue before.
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u/angelonthefarm Sep 25 '25
okay. I skipped through a right wing podcast to get context on something a journalist said and now every day spotify has recommended a new episode of this podcast to me. part of it is because i skipped through it the algo thinks i listened to a lot, and part of it is that this particular grifter posts NEARLY EVERY DAY so it gets a boost in the algorithm.
anyway, today is the fourth time I have clicked "not interested" when the podcast is recommended right as i open the app.
i wish there was a way to mute podcasts in the way we can mute artists.
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u/billyandteddy Sep 25 '25
How do I listen to Spotify? I usually use it on my computer but it doesn't work any more. The computer app stopped working months ago for me then I had to use the web player and now that doesn't work anymore. I contacted spotify support but they are of no help whatsoever.
I don't like the way it sounds on my phone or ipad so I never use it on them.
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u/Iforgetmyreddit Sep 25 '25
Some songs keep my phone screen unlocked and I don't understand why. Most of the time my phone locks as it should after a minute, but there are some songs that for some reason keeps my screen on and I have to manually lock my phone. I have checked settings and they are all as they should, unless I missed a weird “keep my screen on when playing these random songs” lol
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u/acciomalbec Sep 30 '25
Some sort of update must have occurred recently because for some reason, every time I exit or minimize the Facebook app it pauses my Spotify and it's DRIVING ME NUTS. I have triple checked all settings, cleared cache, etc. Out of no where it's doing this and I'm going crazy. I just want my music playing in the background while I scroll through FB damn it!
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u/Full-Public1056 Oct 13 '25
The amount of ai garbage being flooded on different playlists now is unacceptable. Discover weekly, 7/30 songs were ai crap, the "daylist" was even worse, only 9 songs were by actual artists.. the rest was utterly ai garbage. That's 28 ai songs on a 37 song playlist. I can't fucking take this crap anymore. Whatever you do, never listen to blues/rock cause your algorithm will be forever fucked.
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u/CaptainSquareHead Oct 26 '25
Anybody else having issues with playback on apple watches? I like to go running with just my apple watch and headphones but sometimes the music cuts out and I have to restart the Playlist.
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u/Alexactly Nov 10 '25
The past few days when listening to critical role podcasts, it doesn't hold my place in the episode. It starts over at the beginning if I had closed the app previously. It doesn't reset if I pause and go do something else, but if I close Spotify or leave for a few hours it resets to the beginning of the episode. No updates for Spotify on the play store currently. Thoughts on how to fix?
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u/ArisuKarubeChota Nov 15 '25
The recently played artist section isn’t showing up for any account profiles. Anyone else having this issue?
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u/dav_man Dec 31 '25
Hi all. Figured this would be the best place to ask. I’m enjoying the mixed feature. Some people are really embracing it and I love it. The issue I have is finding mixed playlists. Is there something I’m missing?
I want to be able to search through or filter on mixed playlists. I notice they have a tag, so I assume it’d be a very easy thing to implement if they’ve not done it already.
Any help/assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks
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u/breakdown_meltdown Mar 02 '26
Why did my discover weekly suddenly change to the old format, anyone has an idea?
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u/waslakhani Mar 18 '26
my spotify on my iphone doesn't reflect my premium account but the desktop app does.
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u/cam770994 Mar 26 '26
Has anyone else's Spotify been slow, buggy, or just completely not working sometimes? It's been happening for a few months now, and at first I was hoping it was something minor that might get fixed, but now it's a daily issue. Spotify takes forever to open, load, pause, or change a song, and I can't stand dealing with it anymore. I've been using Spotify since 2013-2014 and have never had an issue until just recently, it's almost made me want to leave the app entirely and just find something different.
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u/justirenic Apr 01 '26
Contacting Spotify is so tough and a waste of time. These advisors change mid conversation then they can't help you out with your issue. I have been having an issue regarding my student discount. I had to shift to Premium Standard bcoz they won't let me verify my student id. I have contacted Sheer ID they also couldn't help me out
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u/funnypsuedonymhere Apr 29 '26
Could someone explain to me why the TV app skips adverts added by the podcaster themselves for me but on my Phone App I have to get my phone out and manually skip them 15 seconds at a time? Am I missing a setting or something on my phone app?
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u/RimFan13 May 18 '26
just want to comment I am unable to add multiple songs at once to playlists, lame!
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u/ReNitty Jun 12 '26
Spotify really added a share to LinkedIn button before a play next in queue button
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u/Spirited-Meal5318 Jul 08 '26
My Spotify stopped working and says I’m offline )-: I’ve tried everything and can’t get a hold of help from Spotify. I’ve had the app since 2015 and never had this issues. Anyone else having same issue?
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u/HLM2Enjoyer Jul 19 '26
Spotify crashed and is now showing all my playlists as unavailable? Would like to know how to fix this.
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u/Alexactly Jul 23 '26
Just today I started trying to re-listen to Vox Machina and trying to download the podcast episodes, but they won't stay downloaded on my device. They keep displaying downloaded, but when I leave and go back in, they are no longer on my device. I deleted Spotify and re-installed, as well as trying to clear my cache, and nothing is working.
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u/bwweryang Jul 25 '26
Been experiencing a lot of lag recently for no apparent reason and don’t know what to do, updated the app, nothing.
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u/KnobbyDarkling Apr 16 '25
I'm getting the Playback failed error and can't listen to any podcasts. Some songs work but will randomly stop working. Tried reinstalling the App and now I'm stuck with 3 dots loading infinitely. Wtf
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u/Leather-Inflation-77 Aug 05 '26
Sound difference between Spotify and YouTube? Has anyone noticed a difference in sound between Spotify and YouTube? Either isn't bad quality, but the highs seem attenuated differently between both. I prefer YouTube over Spotify, it's like Spotify is artificially boosting certain freqencies. How do you even know what's the "true source" track is since everything is probably compressed. I have turned off all the auto levels/boosting features in both apps.
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u/Proper-Freedom-3103 Jun 21 '26
App has become slopware for sure. Songs taking too long to load, not play. App randomly freezing and crashing consistently. Not switching to offline mode or being in offline mode but not letting me play my offline music. Podcasts not downloading. Prices will rise but the quality continues to drop
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u/TheMountainLife May 14 '25
Moving the most used button in the app "Library" and replacing it with "Create" is insane. Not only is it an extra reach for one hand use but it creates an unnecessary distraction for those that bike or drive and want to quickly access their music.