How to use Spotify keyboard shortcuts on your Mac or PC to manage your playback and playlists

• Spotify has over two dozen keyboard shortcuts, which let you navigate through nearly your entire library with just a few buttons on your computer's keyboard.
• The keyboard shortcuts differ slightly depending on whether you're using Spotify on a Mac or PC, but they largely accomplish the same things.

Did you know you can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate your Spotify library? It's true!

Below is an extended list of the keyboard shortcuts that can make your Spotify experience on a PC or Mac smoother than ever.

Note that a plus sign between keys indicates that those keys should be pressed at the same time. And when we talk about cutting, copying, and pasting, it's about copying whole songs so you can move them between playlists.

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How to use Spotify keyboard shortcuts on PC

• Create a new playlist: Ctrl + N
• Cut a song to paste elsewhere: Ctrl + X
• Copy a song to paste elsewhere: Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Alt + C
• Paste a song into a playlist: Ctrl + V
• Select all songs in a playlist: Ctrl + A
• Delete: Del
• Play or pause the current track: Space bar
• Set the current track or playlist to repeat: Ctrl + R
• Set the current playlist to shuffle: Ctrl + S
• Skip to the next track: Ctrl + Right arrow key
• Skip to the previous track: Ctrl + Left arrow key
• Increase volume: Ctrl + Up arrow key
• Decrease volume: Ctrl + Down arrow key
• Mute: Ctrl + Shift + Down arrow key
• Raise the volume to its maximum: Ctrl + Shift + Up arrow key
• Open the Help menu: F1
• Select the "Filter" bar: Ctrl + F
• Select the search bar: Ctrl + L
• Go back: Alt + Left arrow key
• Go forward: Alt + Right arrow key
• Play the track you've selected: Enter
• Set your preferences: Ctrl + P
• Log out of your Spotify account: Ctrl + Shift + W
• Close the Spotify window: Alt + F4

How to use Spotify keyboard shortcuts on Mac

• Create a new playlist: Command + N
• Cut a song to paste elsewhere: Command + X
• Copy a song to paste elsewhere: Command + C
• Paste a song into a playlist: Command + V
• Select all songs in a playlist: Command + A
• Delete: Delete
• Play or pause the current track: Space bar
• Set the current track or playlist to repeat: Command + R
• Set the current playlist to shuffle: Command + S
• Skip to the next track: Ctrl + Command + Right
• Skip to the previous track: Ctrl + Command + Left
• Increase volume: Command + Up
• Decrease volume: Command + Down
• Mute: Command + Shift + Down
• Raise the volume to its maximum: Command + Shift + Up
• Open the Help menu: Command + Shift + Question mark
• Select the "Filter" bar: Command + F
• Select the search bar: Command + L
• Go back: Command + [
• Go forward: Command + ]
• Play the track you've selected: Enter
• Set your preferences: Command + Comma
• Log out of your Spotify account: Command + Shift + W
• Quit Spotify and close the application: Command + Q
• Hide the Spotify window: Command + H
• Hide windows for applications other than Spotify: Command + Option + H
• Close the Spotify window: Command + W
• Minimize the Spotify window: Command + M
• Open up the minimized Spotify window: Command + Option + 1

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