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Android Alpha & Beta Programs

What are the Spotify Alpha and Beta programs? By signing up as an Alpha or Beta tester of the Spotify app, you will get early versions of our new releases before we roll them out to everyone else. This is an invaluable help for us, as it allows us to...

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Ford SYNC AppLink - need to rescan for Spotify app after each engine restart.

After an engine restart. Spotify shows on the car screen but "Could not connect to spotify". Need to rescan for app on the car menu and it works again. Spotify app is running on phone etc, tried playing track not playing track.Other bluetooth phone f...

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After an engine restart. Spotify shows on the car screen but "Could not connect to spotify". Need to rescan for app on the car menu and it works again. Spotify app is running on phone etc, tried play...

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Playing by itself

My Spotify has been starting by itself. I happened twice in the last two days. Any solution for that? Not sure what to do anymore.

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My Spotify has been starting by itself. I happened twice in the last two days. Any solution for that? Not sure what to do anymore.

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After every song plays it stops

Every time I'm trying to listen to music the app on my phone doesn't continue to the next song automatically.A song would finish and then silence. I have to go into the app and press the pause button then play again to start the music again. It becom...

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Every time I'm trying to listen to music the app on my phone doesn't continue to the next song automatically. A song would finish and then silence. I have to go into the app and press the pause butt...

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Why are my daily mix lists suddenly for premium only?

So this morning I was listening to one of my daily mixes with no issues and I shortly switched to Disney music for my daughter and when I went to try to play my daily mix again I was not allowed. There is no longer an option to shuffle the list I can...

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So this morning I was listening to one of my daily mixes with no issues and I shortly switched to Disney music for my daughter and when I went to try to play my daily mix again I was not allowed. The...

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the app shuts down

The spotify app shuts down randomly with no reason.I use fairly new phone ie Huawei P9 Lite (with Android 6.0).This is the only app with such a problem. I ve checked RAM memory and there is plenty of it. The problem started after last update.What's w...

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The spotify app shuts down randomly with no reason. I use fairly new phone ie Huawei P9 Lite (with Android 6.0). This is the only app with such a problem. I ve checked RAM memory and there is plent...

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Very spotty performance with Ford Sync

This has been brought up in the past, but there have been many updates since those last posts. My ford sync is syncing with spotify maybe 30% of the time. I can't find a rhyme nor reason why it is doing this. I've tried all the usual phone stuff (reb...

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This has been brought up in the past, but there have been many updates since those last posts. My ford sync is syncing with spotify maybe 30% of the time. I can't find a rhyme nor reason why it is do...

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Solved!! Transferring music from sd card to spotify

Hey i just got spotify but there are a few song covers in my sd card i want to transfer to spotify how exactly do i do that

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Hey i just got spotify but there are a few song covers in my sd card i want to transfer to spotify how exactly do i do that

Joe

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Archivos locales de música.

Hola! ¿Porque en algunos dispositivos Android si está disponible la opción de reproducir archivos locales de música y en otros no?

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Hola! ¿Porque en algunos dispositivos Android si está disponible la opción de reproducir archivos locales de música y en otros no?

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Nothing will play

Whenever I try to play a song on my tablet, it either says that it's a premium feature, or won't let me click it. Shuffle play as well. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app, cleared the cache, logged in and out. And I'm not sure what else to do. ...

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Whenever I try to play a song on my tablet, it either says that it's a premium feature, or won't let me click it. Shuffle play as well. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app, cleared the cache, lo...

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Pequeños chasquidos o cortes en musica

Hola, todo andaba bien hasta que escucho por los auriculares canciones, de reñente se escuchan como unos chasquidos cada tanto que son molestos, tambien se escuchan en el altavoz. Pero cuando pongo la misma musica en otra aplicacion se escucha perfec...

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Hola, todo andaba bien hasta que escucho por los auriculares canciones, de reñente se escuchan como unos chasquidos cada tanto que son molestos, tambien se escuchan en el altavoz. Pero cuando pongo l...

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How to make a playlist

This probably sounds silly, but I download Spotify on my wife's Samsung Galaxy and I can't for the life of me figure out how to make a playlist on it. I have no issue at all on my iPhone. She doesn't have near the options I do on the bottom of my scr...

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This probably sounds silly, but I download Spotify on my wife's Samsung Galaxy and I can't for the life of me figure out how to make a playlist on it. I have no issue at all on my iPhone. She doesn't...

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SD Card issue... I think this one is the newest problem

Hello everyone. Today I tried to move my musics to the sd card but the sd card option is suddenly dissappeared.I tried many solutions and when I saw this one; I felt like it's done:https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Missing-the-SD-card-option-f...

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Hello everyone. Today I tried to move my musics to the sd card but the sd card option is suddenly dissappeared. I tried many solutions and when I saw this one; I felt like it's done: https://commun...

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Unable to remove a song from the playlist

When i am listening to a song from a playlist and click on the 3 dots. I never get the option to remove from playlist. I am forced to go to the playlist and scroll through the playlist and find the song playing and then remove the song manually...

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When i am listening to a song from a playlist and click on the 3 dots. I never get the option to remove from playlist. I am forced to go to the playlist and scroll through the playlist and find the s...

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Spotify starts playing after i watch a video or any audio on my phone, any idea on how to make it st

Spotify starts playing after i watch a video or any audio on my phone, any idea on how to make it stop

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Spotify starts playing after i watch a video or any audio on my phone, any idea on how to make it stop

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Solved!! Music Not Playing in Offline Mode After Downloading.

I have recently paid for spotify premium, mainly because I wanted to be able to download and listen to songs offline. The problem Is that it doesn't work at all. I can download the songs, have them playback when in online mode, but when switching to ...

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I have recently paid for spotify premium, mainly because I wanted to be able to download and listen to songs offline. The problem Is that it doesn't work at all. I can download the songs, have them p...

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Chromecast stops showing up in device list

Like half the time I want to listen to spotify on my chromecast 2 its not in my device list. There are two ways to get it back in the list: 1. Restart my phone OR 2. Go to android settings and unmark all permissions for Spotify and mark them again. I...

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Like half the time I want to listen to spotify on my chromecast 2 its not in my device list. There are two ways to get it back in the list: 1. Restart my phone OR 2. Go to android settings and unmark...

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Download

My cel from time to time dowmloads again all my playlist; does anyone know what the problem is?

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My cel from time to time dowmloads again all my playlist; does anyone know what the problem is?

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Superuser Contribution Lost

Hi allThis morning my 360 security asked if I wanted to clean the 'junk' files in Spotify.Despite me clicking 'no' I now find ALL my music, playlists and most of my followed artists have been deleted. Ive tried the recover my music app but as i didnt...

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Hi all This morning my 360 security asked if I wanted to clean the 'junk' files in Spotify. Despite me clicking 'no' I now find ALL my music, playlists and most of my followed artists have been del...

Melody

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Lack of on-demand play for mobile phone version

I understand that "On-Demand" play is disabled for the mobile phone version of the app if you're on a Free account. But why is it disabled only for the mobile phone version and not the tablet or PC versions? What was the reasoning behind that decisio...

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I understand that "On-Demand" play is disabled for the mobile phone version of the app if you're on a Free account. But why is it disabled only for the mobile phone version and not the tablet or PC v...

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