topic Re: My liked songs wont sync on my phone in Your Library

My liked songs wont sync on my phone

Srosmond — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:25:22 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Canada

Device

Samsung s 20

Operating System

Android 13

My Question or Issue

My phone is my major playing device and I 95% add music to liked using it, but i recently added a discography from a band and they wont shuffle into my liked list when played. Ive cleared cache, done full reinstall (of 3600 plus songs 😞 ) and tried on my tv and it shuffled into one of the songs without issue.

Re: My liked songs wont sync on my phone

Dian — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 07:02:28 GMT

Hey @Srosmond,

Thanks for posting in the Community.

Could you try adding the songs to a different account and see if they're getting shuffled? Use your mobile device for that.

Let us know how that went,

Cheers!

Re: My liked songs wont sync on my phone

Srosmond — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 19:44:34 GMT

They did shuffle on the same account but on a different device (my tv) in the same playlist but wont on my phone.

Re: My liked songs wont sync on my phone

Joan — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:20:35 GMT

Hi there @Srosmond,

Thanks for the reply. Are those songs the only ones with this issue? If possible, could you make a screen recording of the behaviour and send it to us? That would be really helpful.

Let us know how it goes.

Re: My liked songs wont sync on my phone

Srosmond — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:43:09 GMT

I cant upload it here due to 5mb limit but ive posted in on my youtube, my apologies if links arent allowed but https://youtu.be/KdipNzjWUn4

The band in question is volbeat but it feels like the shuffle wont choose anything after a certain point, i only scrolled through 200 songs or so but i have over 3600 and 100 odd are volbeat and the odds they dont show up randomly is high.

Re: My liked songs wont sync on my phone

Alex — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:25:58 GMT

Hi there @Srosmond,

Thanks for the post.

On Spotify, the shuffle algorithm prioritizes songs which you tend to listen to more often, so in very large playlists like your Liked Songs you might not get all the songs in the shuffle pool from the get go.

What you can try is to listen to the album a couple of times, and start playback from one of the Volbeat songs in your Liked Songs. The more you listen to a band, the more likely it is to get their songs when you shuffle a large playlist.

On different devices, the content is requested using a different mechanism, so that's why the newly added songs are appearing when you listen to the list on your TV.

Hope this info helps.

Re: My liked songs wont sync on my phone

Srosmond — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:09:01 GMT

That makes perfect sense but leaves me wanting "true" randomizaton as an option, but thanks, was really annoying trying to figure out what i did wrong lol

Re: My liked songs wont sync on my phone

Joan — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 06:49:18 GMT

Hi @Srosmond,

Always happy to help out! Regarding true shuffle, check out this idea. If it's something you'd like to see, feel free to vote for it and share it around.

Let us know if there's anything else we can do for you.