topic Re: Local files do not show up in Desktop (Windows)

Local files do not show up

abenthem — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:09:07 GMT

Hello spotify community,

Today I tried to add an album to my spotify collection which wasn't on spotify anywhere. So I imported the CD onto my PC with windows media player. WMP is selected in my preferences fbut the album does not show up in my local files. So I added the folder where it was imported to but that didn't seem to help. Does anyone know why it isn't showing up?

Re: Local files do not show up

abenthem — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:21:54 GMT

Anybody? I already reinstalled spotify and that didn't help. On my old pc there was no problem with this CD

Re: Local files do not show up

Foxxling — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:33:37 GMT

I'm having the same problem. I bought a bunch of CDs at the weekend that I haven't found on spotify, and can't seem to get them to get onto my local files, which is a shame. 😞

Re: Local files do not show up

MattSuda — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:56:48 GMT

Make sure the file formats are supported by Spotify:

Spotify supports these file types:

.mp3
.mp4
.m4a
.m4r

Note: to play .m4a files make sure you have the latest version of QuickTime.

.m4p is supported, but these files are often DRM-protected. If a file is DRM-protected Spotify will not be able to play it, but will try to find a replacement version in the Spotify catalogue.

.m4v, .3gp, .3g2 and .mov files will be imported, but will only play if they were originally exported as audio files.

Re: Local files do not show up

Foxxling — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:08:56 GMT

So the properties says this, I don't know much about file types but like, does this mean it doesn't work?

http://prntscr.com/60n0o2

Re: Local files do not show up

MattSuda — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:11:11 GMT

It shows that the file type is .wma

Spotify doesn't support .wma

Maybe you can convert it or rip it from the CD in a different file format such as .MP3?

Re: Local files do not show up

Foxxling — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:13:34 GMT

Oh I'll get on that. Silly me :3 Thank you!

Re: Local files do not show up

MattSuda — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:14:49 GMT

You're welcome