The Spotify desktop application has many functions that the web version does not have, we can also activate them from the app’s preferences, but you should also know the keyboard shortcuts, key combinations that will help us handle Spotify much better.
As we have said, keyboard shortcuts are the pressing of a combination of keys to perform quick actions, in this case in Spotify, with them we can control the way to view the app, the playback settings or the creation of new playlists.
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Spotify keyboard shortcuts for playlists and app
First of all we will focus on seeing the keyboard shortcuts that we have available in the app related to the Spotify account and the creation of playlists as well as the application’s display options:
- Ctrl + N: with these keys you can create a new playlist.
- Ctrl + Shift + N: we can create a new playlist folder.
- Ctrl + Shift + W: this command will help us to close session and change Spotify account.
- Ctrl + Shift + Q: press these keys to close the application.
- Ctrl + +: with this combination of keys you can zoom into the application and see the elements with a larger size.
- Ctrl + -: unlike the previous one with these keys you can reduce the zoom and see the smallest elements.
- Ctrl + 0: by pressing these keys we can reestablish the zoom level that we have applied.
Spotify keyboard shortcuts for music playback
A priori we may think that keyboard shortcuts in applications like Spotify are not worth it, but there are times that they can be really useful, let’s look at the case of keyboard shortcuts related to music playback on Spotify :
- Space bar: pressing this key allows us to pause or play the music.
- Ctrl + Right arrow: with this shortcut we can go to the next song.
- Ctrl + Left arrow: with this shortcut we can go to the previous song.
- Shift + Right Arrow: with this combination of keys we can advance the song.
- Shift + Left Arrow: with these keys we can go back the playback of the current song.
- Ctrl + S: we will activate the random music playback.
- Ctrl + R: we can activate the option to repeat songs.
- Ctrl + Up Arrow: with this command we can increase the volume.
- Ctrl + Down arrow: instead with this combination of keys we can lower the volume.
These are all the keyboard shortcuts that we can use in the Spotify desktop application with which we can do actions much faster and use the desktop app like a professional.
