Problems Playing Some Tracks Offline

[garyb2303]

OK so I have a premium account with Spotify that I use with my iPhone 5

Ive created a playlist for all the tracks I want to listen to Offline which consists at the moment of 587 tracks.

Playing each track online is fine.

Yet when I flick the switch to play offline not all the tracks are selected.

Why is this?

And why wont they play on my iPhone?

[Peter__]

Are any of the tracks in that playlist local files on your desktop Spotify?

[garyb2303]

Hi Peter,

Yes they are actually.

I also have iTunes on my laptop which has about 2000 tracks on my hard drive.

So of the tracks in my Spotify playlist could be those.

Is that a problem? 

[Peter__]

Have you synced them over to your phone by connecting your device and computer to the same WiFi network like outlined here?

https://support.spotify.com/learn-more/faq/#!/article/Sync-your-device-with-Spotify

[garyb2303]

Yes my iPhone and laptop are on the same WIFI

When I plugged the iPhone into the USB connection and select "Device" , I clicked on the IPhone app and it took me into iTunes and did all sorts of downloading and "Sending information through to iTunes"

I also have an iPad with Spotify  which I connected as well and they seem to be in synch with each other as well!

I can now select something from my iPad and it will now play on my iPhone! (Which is great)

Looking on the iPad I can see the tracks that wont place offline are tracks in Spotify that have an arrow pointing down in a green circle?

What does that mean?

Is there anything I can do?

What a nightmare. I just want to play all songs offline!!!