Looking for something specific on Spotify? A song that you can’t get out of your head, perhaps? Or maybe your favourite artist? A specific album? A playlist? One of your friends? Spotify has a well-organized and easy-to-use search feature that makes it easy to track down what you want.
- After registering for a Spotify account, you get directed to a page that should automatically launch the installation file for your Mac. To download the software, follow these steps: If the installation file doesn’t automatically launch, go to Spotify and click Download Now. Whether the file launches automatically or you manually download it, your browser.
- If you want to use Spotify on your PC or Mac, we describe the steps of how to do so below. How To Use The Spotify Desktop App On PC. Step 1: Go to your computer’s Microsoft Store or Google Play. Step 2: Search “Spotify” and click on the application. Click to go to the Spotify profile in the App Store.
- You should be able to look up the profiles by entering spotify:user:username into the search bar in the Spotify app. Make sure to replace username with the username of the profile that you'd like to look up.
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To search on Spotify
Open the Spotify application on your device of choice and log in.
Click the box in the upper-left corner labelled “Search” and start typing in what you hope to find. As you do, Spotify will make suggestions on what you might be looking for, based on how popular the results are and how closely they match your search terms.
Results are sorted by: Top Results (i.e. most popular), Songs, Artists, Albums, Playlists, and Profiles (i.e. other users on Spotify). Click a result for more information, or click Show All Results to see everything on Spotify that potentially matches your search terms.
You can also click the “X” next to the search box to clear your current search terms.
If you choose to see all results, then Artists, Albums, Playlists, and Profiles will be grouped near the top. Clicking a category name or See All next to that category will show you all results for that category.
Clicking on a user profile will take you to their information page, where you can see such things as their public playlists and who is following them.
Click on an artist’s portrait, and Spotify will begin playing their most popular songs. Similarly, clicking on the picture for an album or playlist will begin playing it. Click on the name of any of these instead, and Spotify will take you to an information page about them.
Further down, you can see a list of songs that match your search criteria. If you have allowed Spotify to access songs on your local machine (from iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.), they’ll show up here, too. You can tell them apart because they won’t have the “+” icon beside them that lets you add them to “Your Music”.
Click on the Play icon beside a highlighted song to play it, or click the “+” icon beside it to add it to your collection of songs in “Your Music”.
Further to the right, you’ll see the song’s name, artist, and album. Click on the artist or album name to have Spotify take you to an information page about them.
You can also click the More icon (“…“) for additional options, such as sharing the song with friends on social media, or starting a playlist with that song.
Next to that are just the song’s time length and a measure of how popular the song is on Spotify.
If you want to repeat a search that you’ve recently conducted, click in the search box when it’s empty (remember, you can click the “X” next to it to clear any search terms), and then click one of the recent searches that appears. You can also click Clear Recent Searches to get rid of the list of things you’ve looked for on Spotify recently.
To search for people on Spotify
As we showed you in the general instructions, Spotify users will show up in your general search results.
If you click Show All Results, you can also click See All beside Profiles to only see Spotify users whose names match your search terms as results.
However, there is a quick way to search for a specific Spotify user. Type “spotify:user:” into the search box, followed by the user name of the person whom you want to search for (without any spaces in between). Then press the “Enter” key, and you’ll be instantly taken to that person’s profile.
This is a bit of an advanced trick; we’ll go over others like it in more detail in our Spotify Tips and Tricks article.
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Those are the basics of searching on Spotify! We hope you find what you’re looking for!
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