topic Re: Cannot play music on phone, says "unavailable for listening on" in Android

Cannot play music on phone, says "unavailable for listening on"

frankzhou — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 20:47:36 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Pixel 3

Operating System

My Question or Issue

I cannot switch to playing music on my phone when it is playing on another device using my account. So when I leave the house and try to play music it won't let me. This is absolutely a new development this has never happened before since this week. Help??

Re: Cannot play music on phone, says "unavailable for listening on"

Gosling — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 21:37:31 GMT

Hi, I've already started a thread with a same issue 🙂
What device is it playing on?

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Android-Spotify-app-cannot-switch-back-to-phone-playback-on/td-p/5041766 for reference 🙂

Re: Cannot play music on phone, says "unavailable for listening on"

frankzhou — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 04:13:35 GMT

Oh man, yeah it's really frustrating. I'm on Pixel 3 and music is playing on Windows 10 at home.

Re: Cannot play music on phone, says "unavailable for listening on"

PartyAtTims — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 19:26:50 GMT

Galaxy S9 & Windows 10 here. Same problem.

Re: Cannot play music on phone, says "unavailable for listening on"

scojo78 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 19:51:52 GMT

I just encountered this problem. My Pixel 3 was showing as unavailable for listening. I was able to resolve it by going to Spotify on the device (a laptop) that was currently playing music. From that instance of the Spotify app I was able to select my phone and the music started playing on my phone. Hope this helps!

Re: Cannot play music on phone, says "unavailable for listening on"

Robbiec321 — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 03:55:26 GMT

Same here. It seems to have started happening this week after I updated to Android 11 on my pixel 4XL. Please fix this! thank you

Re: Cannot play music on phone, says "unavailable for listening on"

beanman69 — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:15:48 GMT

Solution i found is to turn wifi off, switch to phone, turn wifi back on

Re: Cannot play music on phone, says "unavailable for listening on"

epifas87 — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 13:06:35 GMT

Nope, that didn't work for me

Re: Cannot play music on phone, says "unavailable for listening on"

peterDub — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 01:44:42 GMT

This seems to be the easiest solution for now, worked for me. Still ridiculous spotify, don't auto update when it breaks the app!