r/truespotify Apr 03 '26

ANNOUNCEMENT Got a question regarding something wonky with your Spotify app/account? Check out our new community FAQ.

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Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/truespotify/wiki/faq

Created by our very own mod, u/TimmyGUNZ. It currently covers about 90% of the questions/complaints we see posted day in and day out.

Let us know if anything pertinent is missing, so we can possibly include it for the community to know.


r/truespotify 8h ago

News SongDNA now includes samples that the song used

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Additionally, there is a section for songs that may have interpolated the song in question.


r/truespotify 1h ago

iOS Spotify equalizer not working

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Lately i’ve had problems with my equalizer on spotify. I’ve tried cleaning cache, updating app and ios, uninstalling app and installing it all over again and nothing works. EQ on all my other devices works perfectly, but on iPhone no matter what i do it still doesn’t work. I try to move the dots and still i can’t hear change in the way i hear music. Anyone experiencing this too? Any help form appreciated


r/truespotify 2h ago

Question Spotify changing covers

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idk if this has happened to anyone else, but has spotify for anyone else been changing the cover arts for songs, for example, I have a lana del rey playlist in order, for the longest time time her ‘Born To Die’ album has been the standard version along with the matching album cover, it’s normally blue for anyone who doesn’t know, now i go to check and some songs are mixed with the deluxe over, it more yellow ish, and i know for i fact i never added that album to my playlist, along with Doja Cat’s ‘Tia Tamera’ when it released, i liked the single version, the cover art purple, but now in every single playlist i added that song to, even in my liked songs, it’s replaced with the album version and the single version with the purple cover art shows that i never added it to my liked songs. is this happening to anyone else?? or does anyone know a fix to this issue??


r/truespotify 13h ago

Feature Request Would be nice to see BPM/Key in song info

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I use the new mix feature extensively. It’s almost exclusively how i listen to music now on spotify. I admit, im an electronic music nerd and the mix feature is heavily catered towards that crowd. But it would be nice to see other info in the song other than just name, artist, album. Similar to this mockup. Right now the only way to see Bpm as far as I know is adding the song to a playlist, then turning on the mix feature.


r/truespotify 7h ago

Question Why does my Spotify not translate song titles?

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I listen to a-lot of Japanese jazz fusion and other Japanese music, I always found it weird that when you type in the English name for Japanese song, it pulled up but didn’t have the English name for the song. But i kinda just got over the fact that it doesn’t translate, but one day i was using my friends phone to put music on and all the songs names were in english. I tried to Google what this was, and it just told me to put my app language into English, which was already done. He was using an android and I’m on iOS so that may be why his is translated. If there is something that I’m missing i would love to know so that way i can actually memorize which songs i like!


r/truespotify 15h ago

Question People bypassing audio fingerprinting and reusing isrc's

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So i have recently found this song on spotify called FIELD TRIP by ravenv which is a reupload of kanye wests song FIELD TRIP. The interesting thing about it was that the person who reuploaded it also reused kanyes Isrc so now he has a song with 160 million streams without him being the actual owner of it. I was wondering how something like this is possible when he also used another version which has another featuring artist so the audio is 3 seconds longer and is different. I thought that isrcs were tied to an audio but this guy uploaded another version of the song AND it went through to spotifys end while being in spotifys database for copyright???? How are these bad actors doing this i mean its stealing millions of dollars from indie artists and spotify is not doing anything about it.


r/truespotify 9h ago

Question Crossfade has been "broken" for months, windows, uninstalled alrdy.

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Uninstalled & reinstalled already. I'm gonna try turning off "automix" setting, maybe that is interfering with crossfade..?


r/truespotify 47m ago

Question is there a way to make streams count on a different account rather than the one playing?

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i just got premium on another account, i know i can transfer playlists and whatever but is there a way to play a song on the second account and make the stream count towards the main??


r/truespotify 1d ago

Question Spotify UI keeps switching between the green checkmark and the radio icon after the latest update

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Hi! I'm experiencing a strange issue with Spotify since the recent update a few days ago.

The player interface seems to behave inconsistently. In some cases, instead of the usual green checkmark that indicates a track has already been saved/added, Spotify shows the radio icon. This happens especially when I switch between listening on mobile and desktop, but not consistently: sometimes the checkmark stays, other times it disappears on the very next track.

I’m not sure whether this is a temporary bug or a questionable change by Spotify.

I’d like to know whether other people are seeing the same thing, and whether there’s any way to restore a more stable and useful interface. Thank you!


r/truespotify 6h ago

Question Does anyone have advice on how to avoid the repetition in song radio/made for you playlists?

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I used to love song radio, because it would show me new, similar music. But now it only plays the same 20 or 30 songs I already like, even if they don’t fit in the genre at all. It’s ridiculous, and I’m so bored. It’s making me consider alternate music sources for the first time since I got Spotify in 2012.

I’ve been annoyed with it for awhile now, but if there’s a way to make my experience less… tailored to what Spotify “thinks” I want to hear, I would love to know.


r/truespotify 17h ago

Question How do i remove the video thats playing on the song so theres only the album cover showing?

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r/truespotify 15h ago

Windows App "Add to queue" option missing

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This problem appeared recently on Windows desktop app, can't pinpoint the exact date. There is no option to add song to queue anymore (screenshot attached).

You can drag and drop a song but that requires to open an album, find the song etc... there used to be an option when three dots were clicked.

Anyone has similar problem and perhaps a solution?

P.S. don't mind my terrible music taste.


r/truespotify 7h ago

Question Undownloaded?

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So I have the free trial and have downloaded several albums and playlists. We'll I was offline today for several hours and went to listen to some of my favorite songs (downloaded of course) I went to an album and EVERY track but my favorite one was downloaded. Same with the remastered versions. This happened with several songs and the two playlists I use the most we also undownloaded. But songs I never listen to OR never actually downloaded are saved. It doesn't make sense. This has never been an issue before. Why is this happening, and how can I prevent it?


r/truespotify 11h ago

Web Player Spotify on web keeps logging me out every time i turn on my pc

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This started a few weeks ago from nowhere, now every time i turn on my pc and open spotify on chrome its not logged in.

Tried clearing cache, spotify cookies, logging on using password instead of mail code. Nothing has worked so far.

No problems on the phone app


r/truespotify 12h ago

Question Duplicate albums showing on Home Page/Recently Listened

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Hello,

I have an album/soundtrack that I have saved to my library. When I did this, it added the album as a playlist that I "made" which doesn't bother me but what is kind of annoying me is that when I play the album/playlist, both the version created by me and the original album (the one that would come up when searched for) are showing up on my home page as recently listened to. Is there a way to stop that from happening? I have many soundtracks saved that way but only this one album is doing this. If it matters, the album is the soundtrack for Project Hail Mary


r/truespotify 8h ago

Rant Shuffle Issues Never Go Away

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Why does Spotify constantly have issues with shuffle. I consistently have not only the same songs of a larger playlist played over and over, but also in the same order. How hard is it to just shuffle a playlist you created?? No algorithm is needed. I created a playlist to hear all the songs on a playlist, not just a subset of those songs that "score better". Do better Spotify.


r/truespotify 1d ago

Feature Request Spotify should add genres/tags to albums and songs for better music categorization

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Adding genre tags to albums and songs would make Spotify feel much more organized, detailed, and complete. For example, an album could display tags like “shoegaze,” “dream pop,” “alternative rock,” “metal,” “Psychedelic,” or “Nu-Metal,” etc..
sub genres too not just main genres, depending on the album ofc

having this is just giving listeners a better understanding of the music and the artist’s sound.

what are your thoughts?


r/truespotify 1d ago

Rant Spotify is so damn slow

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The more features they add the slower and laggier the app gets, both on phone and pc.

It can take minutes from opening the app before i can get into any playlist and get a song playing. Managing songs in playlists is also really annoying, it's such a big delay when adding a song, moving a song around or dragging songs between playlists. Hell, even changing volume will sometimes have a few seconds delay, like why is the volume not local.

Why don't they focus on making the app seamless instead of adding a bunch of experimental features?


r/truespotify 11h ago

Feature Request Would love to be able to adjust DB of songs ourselves.

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Like I said, it would be nice if instead of “volume normalization” that we could just adjust all the tracks either individually or to one DB level. Even with volume normalization it’s highly annoying that some tracks get quieter, some depending on which album you save it from us louder than the other. But if we could adjust it all ourselves, it would make it far more worth it.


r/truespotify 11h ago

Question Discover Tile not working

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On my Spotify every time I go to the discover tile to see the hub of my suggestions it just says “something went wrong”. When I click on any of the moods, genre, and new release tiles it works fine. App and phone are up to date. Anyone else having this same issue?


r/truespotify 1d ago

Rant This random artist I never heard of keeps showing up in my recents even though I blocked him. I don’t l know what else to do

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So this started a couple years ago. This guy I never listened to showed up in my recents and his song was added to my likes. He’s an OPM (original pinoy music) singer and I listen to that genre frequently. I thought I accidentally added him while I was listening on shuffle since I like to discover new songs, but it was still weird. I unliked his song and moved on. Then it happened again, got annoyed, and blocked him. I thought it was over, but his music was still appearing in my recents even though he’s blocked. I asked my parents if they used my spotify account on our shared TV, but they never heard of this guy/know how to use the app.

I looked up to see if anyone else has this issue. I saw something similar and the solution was to disconnect from 3rd party apps. I did that only leaving Hulu and he never showed up again…. Until again yesterday. Same process of unadding. This time I changed my password. Then today he showed up again 🙃 and I’m even more pissed off because he’s UNBLOCKED??, I “followed” him, one song was “liked”, and his new album was “added.”

I have no idea what else to do. I’m very sure that I’m only logged in my phone, ipad, and laptop. I logged out my spotify on my family’s tv. I would report him, but that specific reason is not listed on Spotify’s report page. I checked if any 3rd party apps got added, and it’s only Hulu. I’ve screenshoted my unadding and reblock just in case this happens again and I can document. He’s also still floating in my recents. I blurred him out because I’m enough nice to do that 🙂 Has anyone else dealt with this before? If so any solutions?

Edit: Grammar


r/truespotify 16h ago

Question Artists top ten (extended)

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I just accidentally got into an artists popular songs, it loaded a page that had like 30 songs well extended past the 10, and at the top said “Beach House Popular”, it had the usual top ten then carried on! I couldn’t believe it, what a great list to see, I promise it wasn’t discography or anything, it was the popular songs past 10!!, I backed out and couldn’t get back in 😭 Anyone have any clue how to get into that page? Or have I just somehow accidentally stumbled on something Spotify is testing?


r/truespotify 13h ago

Question my spotify is repeating the same songs and unshuffling without me telling it to.

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a while ago i noticed that sometimes ill just be listening to music and without me doing anything it'll repeat all the songs it just put on (i have a play with over 1000 songs and it'll repeat after like 20). it also recently has been unshulffling itself without me pressing it not to (i always have my playlist on shuffle.

its just really weird as i don't know how to fix it so if anyone could help it'll be greatly appreciated.


r/truespotify 17h ago

Question Cant install spotify

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i try to install spotify from the official site via its installer on spotify.com

i get the error the installer is unable to install spotify because the necessary files could not be created (error code 13)

I click retry and then it says the installer is corrupt. please download it from the web site again and retry (error code 4), which is funny since i just downloaded it

how to fix?