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Spotify keyboard shortcuts

Playback, search, and library navigation shortcuts.

25 shortcuts Mac and Windows checked September 12, 2026

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Every system Mac Windows
Everything Editing Files and printing Messages and mail Navigation Paragraphs and lists Selection View and zoom
Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Open search Anywhere in the app Mac CmdK 1 more variant Source
Select everything in the list Any list Mac CmdA 1 more variant Source
Filter the current list Any list Mac CmdF 1 more variant Source
Play or pause Anywhere in the app Mac Space 1 more variant Source
Open preferences Anywhere in the app Mac Cmd, 1 more variant Source
Open the help window Anywhere in the app Mac Cmd/ 1 more variant Source
Mute or unmute Anywhere in the app Mac M 1 more variant Source
Go to home Anywhere in the app Windows AltShiftH Source
Go to your library Anywhere in the app Windows AltShift0 Source
Go to playlists Anywhere in the app Windows AltShift1 Source
Go to podcasts Anywhere in the app Windows AltShift2 Source
Go to artists Anywhere in the app Windows AltShift3 Source
Go to albums Anywhere in the app Windows AltShift4 Source
Go to audiobooks Anywhere in the app Windows AltShift5 Source
Go to liked songs Anywhere in the app Windows AltShiftS Source
Go to the queue Anywhere in the app Windows AltShiftQ Source
Go to new releases Anywhere in the app Windows AltShiftN Source
Go to the charts Anywhere in the app Windows AltShiftC Source
Go to Made For You Anywhere in the app Windows AltShiftM Source
Go to now playing Anywhere in the app Windows AltShiftJ Source
Show or hide the now playing panel Anywhere in the app Windows AltShiftR Source
Show or hide the library sidebar Anywhere in the app Windows AltShiftL Source
Open the context menu Item selected Windows AltJ Source
Like or unlike the song Track playing Windows AltShiftB Source
Log out Anywhere in the app Windows AltShiftF6 Source

About Spotify and its shortcuts

Spotify's desktop application keeps a short keyboard list focused on playback and navigation: play and pause, moving between tracks, volume, search and moving back and forward through where you have been.

The desktop application, the web player and the system media keys behave differently, and some combinations are handled by your operating system before Spotify sees them. Spotify also changes its interface often.

Where the Spotify keys came from

Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of Spotify. Report a key that is wrong

To see how one action is done in other apps as well as Spotify, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task