Stuck on Waiting to Download

[ItsC0mPlex]

I am trying to make a playlist available offline and have turned on download on cellular network but it still is saying Waiting to Download on the playlist. What's wrong?

[chachi69]

What worked for me was logging into the Spotify desktop app and selecting "Show unavailable songs in playlists", which I believe is deselected by default.

There were quite a few local files that I had deleted from iTunes (or from iTunes playlists that I had deleted) that were still technically in my Spotify playlist. I think those are what Spotify on my iPhone was forever "Waiting to Download".

Syncing between Spotify Web, Spotify Desktop, and Spotify smartphone is a bit of a mess, imo.

Spotify > Preferences > Display Options