# No spotify playlists, known fixes not working

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-spotify-playlists-known-fixes-not-working/1305>\
**Category:** Pi MusicBox (archive)\
**Created:** [August 7, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-spotify-playlists-known-fixes-not-working/1305 "2016-08-07T20:42:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Rick\_Jellema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dbc845/32.png) [@Rick\_Jellema](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Rick_Jellema)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-spotify-playlists-known-fixes-not-working/1305/1 "2016-08-07T20:42:16Z")

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Hi there!

For some reason, my musicbox pi does not show any of my personal spotify premium playlists.  
I can listen to the top lists though.  
I tried the fixes on the internet. But none of them worked.  
As for some reason, in my config file of Mopidy, on the  
[spotify] part. there is nothing set for Cache\_dir: . I tried a rm -r /var/cache/mopidy/spotify to remove the cache but it doesn’t exist.  
I also tried to delete var/lib/mopidy/spotify but that didn’t work either. Also tried a fresh reinstall.

I’m sorry if I’m missing something really obvious.

Topics with same problem I tried using.

> [@Musicbox spotify playlists not there?](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/musicbox-spotify-playlists-not-there/276):
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> Hi folks I just upgraded to version 5.1 after a fairly long absence. I have Spotify running quite nicely, however I do not know how to navigate to my playlists. I can search for music and play the top 100, but no luck finding my playlists. (clicking on “playlists” just produces a blank page) Thanks for any assistance.

> <https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify/issues/27>
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> As of this evening, I am no longer seeing any Spotify playlists being loaded by …mopidy. I've changed nothing on my installation, as far as I recall - and it's happening on 2 systems - so it must be something at Spotify. All my playlists are still there in the official client, and mopidy will search for and play spotify tracks.
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> Have Spotify mangled their API again so this no longer works?

I have a Terminal only Musicbox OS on my Pi.

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**Author:** ![Rick\_Jellema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dbc845/32.png) [@Rick\_Jellema](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Rick_Jellema)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-spotify-playlists-known-fixes-not-working/1305/2 "2016-08-07T23:39:38Z")

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Seemed I fixed it after using this solution:

> [@Musicbox spotify playlists not there?](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/musicbox-spotify-playlists-not-there/276/22):
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> I found something. Removing and reinstalling the libspotify12 package fixes the problem for me: apt-get -y remove libspotify12 && apt-get install libspotify12 && service mopidy restart hope it lasts, so I can create the final version of MusicBox 0.5.1. It’s the way I fixed a strange bug some time ago too… I commented out the cache\_dir setting in the config too.

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**Author:** ![simplesi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@simplesi](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/simplesi)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 7:56am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-spotify-playlists-known-fixes-not-working/1305/3 "2016-08-09T07:56:59Z")

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This one works for me

> [@Musicbox spotify playlists not there?](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/musicbox-spotify-playlists-not-there/276/32):
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> Hi Robert, had the same problem, did TheRealMolens trick and now it works like charm. So if this is still a problem for you here are the steps: login to to your musicbox by ssh cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mopidy\_spotify/ (if it’s not there on your musicbox you will find it by using “find . -name session\_manager.py”) nano session\_manager.py scroll down to " def refresh\_playlists(self): ""“Refresh the playlists in the backend with data from Spotify”"" if not self…

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Jensen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@Dan\_Jensen](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Dan_Jensen)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-spotify-playlists-known-fixes-not-working/1305/4 "2017-03-14T20:16:19Z")

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I have tried all fixes listed here and am still having no luck getting Playlists to load.

Running PMB 0.6 and Mopidy 0.19.5

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-spotify-playlists-known-fixes-not-working/1305/5 "2017-03-16T00:23:58Z")

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There’s a v0.7.0 release candidate at [https://github.com/pimusicbox/pimusicbox/releases/tag/v0.7.0RC3](https://github.com/pimusicbox/pimusicbox/releases/tag/v0.7.0RC3) you can try if you are interested. Please report any issues.

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Jensen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@Dan\_Jensen](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Dan_Jensen)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-spotify-playlists-known-fixes-not-working/1305/6 "2017-03-16T14:19:05Z")

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Thanks, I’ll check it out today.

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Jensen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@Dan\_Jensen](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Dan_Jensen)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-spotify-playlists-known-fixes-not-working/1305/7 "2017-03-16T16:05:44Z")

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Got the RC up and running. Seems to work but still has no Spotify playlists. As my installation is living solely for the purpose of Spotify, it’s not a huge help, but I can confirm that I got it running on an RPi 3 with no extra sauce needed.

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-spotify-playlists-known-fixes-not-working/1305/8 "2017-03-16T16:25:49Z")

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Can you try restarting Mopidy? If you have a lot of playlists it needs time to load them all. You should be able to restart Mopidy from the command line with `service mopidy restart` or by enabling and disabling a random (non-Spotify) extension in the websettings.

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**Author:** ![jodal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jodal/32/2651_2.png) [@jodal](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jodal)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/no-spotify-playlists-known-fixes-not-working/1305/9 "2026-02-19T11:47:21Z")

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Closed on February 19, 2026, 11:47am UTC