topic Re: Why is my spotify so weird? in iOS (iPhone, iPad)

Why is my spotify so weird?

sheydanrz — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:14:42 GMT

My friend and I have a private playlist together and the way it is for them is different from mine, even tho we both don't have premium.
They can for example stop the shuffle or skip to specific parts of a song while I can't.
And when I click on the playlist, not all songs are shown but only like the few first ones.
And that without the album cover.
When I click on the names I see all the songs with the album cover, but when I want to click on the specific song, only a short part of the song gets played like a teaser of the song.
And I know that it's not bc of my account because when I use spotify on my laptop it's just like his spotify on his phone.

Re: Why is my spotify so weird?

Yordan — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 11:11:04 GMT

Hi there @sheydanrz!

Seems like you're previewing the playlist instead of playing it directly. By clicking on "and more" next to the playlist's contents, you enter a preview mode where all tracks inside the playlist are displayed, but tapping one of them causes the app to play only a short 30 seconds random segment of the song. So in order to play a song in its entirety, you'll have to press the big green Play-in-shuffle button on the right instead, since the Free version of Spotify on mobile doesn't support on-demand playback.

Hope this clears things up. The Community is always here if there's anything else you need assistance with.

Cheers!

Re: Why is my spotify so weird?

Wh0s_Isabella — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:49:27 GMT

My account does the samething but there is no green play button and when I go to the playlist I made it just says shuffle play and no play button and it plays the 30 second clip of the song too. If you were to help that would be really great thank you

Songs don't play like i am offline

johnystrek — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:06:56 GMT

When i open the app and i am connected to an wifi i get to any of my playlists and either i can't see the songs or i can see them but can't play but the when i touch the image of the song it plays a bit of the song but not the playlist i already tried to verify my location an it is correct and already unistaled and instaled Spotify, but the result is the same