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Spotify web player on windows stops working over mobile data hotspot

Sure hotspot over mobile data as wifi is not the best alternative, but with 4G and 5G speeds are enough to avoid installing Wifi on county home. the thing is, as long as I play Spotify, it stops ...
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Why does Spotify automatically open when I boot my PC?

For some reason, when I boot up Microsoft Windows NT 10.0 (Windows 10), Spotify automatically launches automatically, and, when it does, its taskbar icon flashes orange. How do I prevent this from ...
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How do I minimise spotify to the system tray?

I use alt+tab a lot and spotify keeps irritating me. I want it to sit quietly in the system tray and play the music. This is easy in VLC, all you have to do is click the VLC icon in the system tray ...
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I have music playing and when i flip my screen up the music shuts down

My music (I use spotify) turns off everytime i put my computer(windows laptop) to sleep. On my desktop i don't have this problem.
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Why does Spotify take control of my Bluetooth earphones' stereo output?

I own Bluetooth earphones, which I have paired with my Windows 10 laptop. I can happily listen to audio from various different sources, until I play music through Spotify. Once I do, Spotify seems to ...
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Windows 10 per app equalizer

Equalizer APO (and the Dolby EQ app that I've also tried) seems to only be working globally, i.e. once I enable it, the entire system and every single program uses it. That messes up certain things ...
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Mysterious hieroglyph in a command of a Spotify process after update

I've just spotted that right after update spotify starts itself up with a command line that looks like Spotify.exe /UPDATECOMPLETE "䣈!" I can understand the purpose of the /UPDATECOMPLETE key there, ...
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Creating Spotify keyboard shortcuts

I'm on Windows 10 64 bit, Using spotify desktop free version. Is there a way to create keyboard Spotify shortcuts to pause/play and skip tracks, while outside Spotify? I don't want to keep opening it. ...
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Link one directory to network drive

Spotify removed the option of where to put the offline files. I had them on my NAS where I have lot of space. I run spotify on a computer with a small hard disk on c:. Can I somehow redirect the ...
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How can I stop applications from knowing system volume has been adjusted?

Spotify recently made some changes I disagreed with (doubling cost), and so I no longer have their premium service. This means they play ads after every couple songs. These ads are often very ...
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How do you block the whole file location from accessing the internet? WINDOWS 8

Windows 8 ~ Ok well i just want to know how to block Spotify (and everything it is related to) from internet access (What ever i do i cant seem to find the actual file that connects to the internet, ...
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Spotify play/pause controlling from cmd

How can I control Spotify using command line in windows xp? I know how to do it in dbus on linux, but I have no idea how to do it in windows. You can show me universal command for stopping any music ...
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Clearing Spotify cache to recover disk space?

When you play a song in Spotify, some hard drive space is used to cache the file, so that it plays faster the next time it is selected. Is it possible to clear the cache (without the use of third ...
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How to make Spotify forget local files?

Spotify scanned my PC and network for music, so that if I wanted to play that song it could save the bandwidth and play it locally. But now that I'm trying to play a song that's no longer accessible ...
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How to use Spotify with a proxy for subscribers

I have a subsribe Spotify account, and I would like to use in my job, but my proxy has blocked all streamming data, I can use it by a VPN in a VMWare machine but it consume more resources, I Would ...
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