All List of Spotify Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows and Mac

Spotify is the ultimate source of all kinds of new and old music that are available in the world. This application is available on the smartphone. Also, a user can access it on the desktop app. A majority of people work on their desktops and laptops while listening to music on it. While busy at work, it can be distracting to constantly switch to the Spotify app to change a track, mute a song, create a playlist of songs that you just heard. So, here knowing the Spotify keyboard shortcuts will come in handy for you.

Right from your keyboard, you can execute a lot of functions on Spotify. As usual, the keyboard commands are available for both Windows as well as macOS users. macOS has a few more shortcuts under its sleeve if we compare it with the Windows OS. The commands are pretty much similar except for where Windows OS uses Control key macOS utilizes the Cmd or Command key.

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List of Spotify Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows and Mac

I have listed up the keyboard shortcuts in a tabular format. It will be easy for all the windows and macOS users to find out and use the commands on the Spotify desktop app.

Spotify Function	Windows Shortcuts	macOS Shortcuts
Volume Up	Ctrl + Up Arrow Key	Command + Up Arrow Key
Volume Down	Ctrl + Down Arrow Key	Command + Down Arrow Key
Show Help	Press F1	Command+ Shift+ ?
Maximum Volume	Ctrl +Shift + Up Arrow Key	Command +Shift + Up Arrow Key
Mute	Ctrl +Shift + Down Arrow Key	Command +Shift + Down Arrow Key
Next track	Ctrl + Right	Command + Right
Previous track	Ctrl + Left	Command + Left
Shuffle	Ctrl + S	Command + S
Close Window	–NA–	Command + W
Minimize Window	–NA–	Command + M
Restore Window	–NA–	Command + Alt + 1
Logout Active User	Ctrl +Shift + W	Command +Shift + W
Quit	Alt + F4	Command + Q
Hide Window	–NA–	Command + H
Hide Other Application’s Window	–NA–	Command + Alt + H
Play Selected Row	Enter	Enter
Preferences	Ctrl + P	Command + ,
Create A New Playlist	Ctrl + N	Command + N
Cut	Ctrl + X	Command + X
Copy	Ctrl + C	Command + C
Paste	Ctrl + V	Ctrl + V
Delete	Del	Del or Backspace
Select All	Ctrl + A	Command + A
Play	Space	Space
Pause	Space	Space
Repeat	Ctrl + R	Command + R
Filter (Songs and Playlists)	Ctrl + F	Command + F
Highlight Search Field	Ctrl + L	Command + L
Go Back	Alt + Left	Command+Alt+Left
Go Forward	Alt + Right	Command+Alt+Right

So, that’s it. These are all the Spotify keyboard shortcuts you must use on your Windows computer or Mac to easily execute any function. Now, your Spotify experience will be more fun, simplistic, and faster. I hope that this guide was useful to you.

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