Desktop (not device) 'Waiting' on Download

notebene — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:40:11 GMT

Windows 10, using the Spotify app from the Windows Store (or...whatever they call it...the metro apps...or wait, we can't say metro any more).

I have the same problem as this person, but couldn't respond because it was old and closed (though..not sufficiently answered).

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Large-playlist-perpetually-quot-Waiting-quot-for-download/td-p/1610366

All my other downloaded playlists download on the Windows 10 computer just fine. The only one that doesn't has 714 songs in it. It just says 'waiting'.

It makes me think you folks have issues with play lists of a certain size in your desktop app. And it would be nice to have that fixed. Please have a QA make a playlist with 1,000 'local' files in it, pointing to all sorts of various places for the files (iTunes, Amazon downloads, etc) and then click 'download' and see what happens.

Re: Desktop (not device) 'Waiting' on Download

notebene — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 17:25:52 GMT

I might have solved this.

I selected all the songs and copied them into a new playlist. It still would not download. I scrolled through the list and found 5 songs that showed as if they were not available. Not sure why, they exist on my hard drive and the parent directory is included in local files (two other albums by the band show up fine, from the same folder). I deleted them from the playlist, and it would show 'downloaded'! Nice!

I re-added the songs from local files to the playlist, and it's now unstuck. Not sure why that one album's 5 songs got in that state, but whatever.

Everything is fine, carry on! 🙂

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