topic Re: Some local files are not available in Android

Some local files are not available

RTH666 — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:11:47 GMT

I have a folder on my harddrive with Metallica, I have added this folder as local files in Spotify and I have syncronized but still only 7 out of 23 files are available on my phone. I notise that the files I can play are high-lighted on spotify on my pc. All files are MP3 and I can play all of them without any problems on my pc

Re: Some local files are not available

Sam — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:25:31 GMT

How much space do you have free on your phone? Could you try deleting a few bits, then trying again?

Re: Some local files are not available

SteveBrammer — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 07:33:35 GMT

I have the same problem. I have Peter Gabriel's So album as local files on my desktop but when I sync it to Android I only see 6 of the 9 tracks on the album. All 9 tracks are playable on Spotify Desktop and they are playable on Android if I copy the MP3 files to the phone, but when I sync with Android only 6 of the 9 files show up (despite the Spotify Android app saying that there are 9 tracks). Other local files sync with no problems to my Android phone so it's not a general problem, but how ever much I try I cannot get this particular album to sync correctly.

p.s. I have several gigabytes free on my phone so that is not the issue.

Re: Some local files are not available

SteveBrammer — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:27:23 GMT

Did someone at Spotify poke around with my playlists?

The missing tracks from the Peter Gabriel album just suddenly synced a few minutes ago. The Android App said it was syncing 12 tracks in total but everything happened so fast I didn't have time to see what they all were. Maybe I had some other broken playlists that have now been fixed as well?

I would be interested to know what was done. That offline playlist made up of all local files has been a problem for months now and just a few hours after I wrote about it here it is now working. This is too much of a coincidence, someone at Spotify must have done something.

Re: Some local files are not available

RTH666 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:21:47 GMT

I got plenty of free space. After I tried to add the Metallica-folder I made a playlist with over 200 songs and have no problems with playing them, but none of these songs are local

Re: Some local files are not available

SteveBrammer — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 07:12:17 GMT

Knock-Knock. Is anybody there?

You see those question marks (?) at the end of a couple of sentences in my earlier post? Well, in the English language at least, they signify that the sentence is a question and usually this is part of an on going conversation where an answer to the question is the usual response. Silence is not the usual response to a question, except maybe to a rhetorical question. My questions earlier weren't rhetorical.

Re: Some local files are not available

Sam — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:05:42 GMT

Thanks for that lesson, Steve. No, we haven't touched your playlists. Personally, I wouldn't dare touch them. Not after the stink you kicked up before.

Seems it's just started to work.

Re: Some local files are not available

SteveBrammer — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:09:37 GMT

LOL 🙂

Still it's a bit strange that it started working just a few hours after I mentioned it here, after it had been a problem for several months.

Re: Some local files are not available

RTH666 — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:52:45 GMT

Not much help here.
Still not able to play all Metallica songs but I have on my local drive.

I still got around 1GB free space on my SD-card and 870MB on my phone