How to play music stored on android, in Spotify

[glynnscott]

I am searching for a way to incorporate my music saved on my phone sd card, into my spotify "Your music". 

Is there a way to do this? I basically want to be able to use Spotify as my only media player on my phone, not the Music player on my phone for sd card music, then Spotify for my streamed music.

Thanks

[Daniel]

Hi, unfortunately the SPotify app cannot play music stored locally on your device.

What you can do is transfer those files to your desktop computer (PC or Mac) and then import them to the Spotify Desktop application. Once you have done this you can sync these albums/tracks to your mobile device making them show in 'My Music'.

You then want to set these to 'Offline' on your mobile and it will start transferring them to your phone. You can then delete the mp3's from your device and be able to listen to the tracks through the Spotify app.

Please read the support topic here for assistance setting up local file sync: Listen to local files

Make sure that you are on the same WiFi network and Windows & third party firewalls are configured to allow the Spotify connection through.

Another point to note is that sometimes if a track is stored locally & is also available to stream then when you sync to your device it will automatically use the Spotify streaming version but the data from your playlist. If for some reason the metadata such as track length differs this can cause conflict and break the track. In this instance you are best off removing the local file from your playlist on the desktop and adding the track from the Spotify server then re-sync. This should fix this issue.

[katat11]

That's ridiculous.........why not just make it available in the android app like it is on the desktop app............wow.....unbelievable