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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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Can I move around the order of the playlists themselves not the songs within them

I have lots of different playlists and I'm constantly adding more. Problem is, the older playlist get buried under the new playlist and I want certain playlist at the top in a pecking order that is not the same as the "most played" order. How can I t...

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I have lots of different playlists and I'm constantly adding more. Problem is, the older playlist get buried under the new playlist and I want certain playlist at the top in a pecking order that is n...

Daniel

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corrupting sd cards

I have tried on 2 separate occasions with 2 different sd cards to move my saved music from my device to my sd card and on both occasions it has corrupted the sd cards. I have lost a lot of stuff from my sd cards because of it, not to mention the card...

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I have tried on 2 separate occasions with 2 different sd cards to move my saved music from my device to my sd card and on both occasions it has corrupted the sd cards. I have lost a lot of stuff from...

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advertising

I have been noticing my videos for 30min of ad free music has not been playing I still get the 30 min but it doesn't give me the advertisingI just don't want to break the law by exploiting this glitch

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I have been noticing my videos for 30min of ad free music has not been playing I still get the 30 min but it doesn't give me the advertising I just don't want to break the law by exploiting this gli...

Daniel

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custom playlist unavailable when offline :/

hi guys, this has happened a few times now. i have a user def playlist with around 300 songs in it - i keep it updated and offlined but sometimes when i select it to play while offline, it says not available no idea why thanksdan

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hi guys,   this has happened a few times now.   i have a user def playlist with around 300 songs in it - i keep it updated and offlined   but sometimes when i select it to play w...

Daniel

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Chromecast audio troubles

Hi all, I've been having trouble with Spotify and my Chromecast audio for a while now, with some intermittent success. I'm a premium user, Nexus 5 and Chromecast audio and more often than not, when trying to cast Spotify I see this screen showing my ...

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Hi all, I've been having trouble with Spotify and my Chromecast audio for a while now, with some intermittent success. I'm a premium user, Nexus 5 and Chromecast audio and more often than not, when t...

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NOT able to quick scroll to bottom of playlist

I was always able to before, but since the last update, I can no longer use my finger on the very right of the spotify playlist to fast scroll to the bottom. I have to keep scrolling and scrolling down, over 3,000 songs, to get to the bottom Help ple...

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I was always able to before, but since the last update, I can no longer use my finger on the very right of the spotify playlist to fast scroll to the bottom.   I have to keep scrolling and scr...

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All downloaded / offline Playlists Albums and Sons lost

Hello community, I lost again all my downloaded songs/playlists/albums, means they are still available in my library but the the "offline available" switch is reset. It now happened the second time within 2 weeks but didn't had this problem before. S...

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Hello community,   I lost again all my downloaded songs/playlists/albums, means they are still available in my library but the the "offline available" switch is reset. It now happened the seco...

TwistnSmoke

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Scrollwheel disappeared after update

Hi i updated the app on my Galaxy s6 and the scrollweel function isn't thereWill it come back?I really need it as it takes ages to scroll through my play list with 1500 songs/Emanuel

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Hi i updated the app on my Galaxy s6 and the scrollweel function isn't there Will it come back? I really need it as it takes ages to scroll through my play list with 1500 songs /Emanuel

Daniel

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Superuser Contribution Headset: triple press to previous song

Why triple press in the headset button doesn't play the previous song like any other music apps?It's skiping 2 songs instead.Why someone would like have the ability to skip two songs instead of repeating the song or listening the previous one?Why we ...

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Why triple press in the headset button doesn't play the previous song like any other music apps? It's skiping 2 songs instead. Why someone would like have the ability to skip two songs ...

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Downloaded songs not showing up on "my songs"

So I've downloaded all my playlists. But when I click "my library" and go to "songs" it only lists like 5 songs. If I want to listen to anything else i have to go pick a playlist of mine that is on. I want to just shuffle all the songs I have at one ...

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So I've downloaded all my playlists. But when I click "my library" and go to "songs" it only lists like 5 songs. If I want to listen to anything else i have to go pick a playlist of mine that is on. ...

Mari71

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Android moto x 2nd gen 5.1 non-rooted - music pauses

I have spotify premium and the music pauses frequently and the beginning of each song. It will play 2 seconds then stop. If I skip forward or back one song and then back to the current, the music will play again.I have reloaded (deleted, reboot and r...

Newbie

I have spotify premium and the music pauses frequently and the beginning of each song. It will play 2 seconds then stop. If I skip forward or back one song and then back to the current, the music wil...

Daniel

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Local Files on Android

Good Morning I got a problem when i try to add local files on my spotify account.They reproduce without problems on my PC; but when i try to listen to them in my Android phone, some play and some not.The ones that didn't play says "this song isn´t av...

Casual Listener

Good Morning   I got a problem when i try to add local files on my spotify account. They reproduce without problems on my PC; but when i try to listen to them in my Android phone, some play a...

DanielShtrada

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Solved!! Android Update 6.x Marshmallow & Adoptable Storage

With the latest version of Android called Marshmallow (6.x) Google have introduced something called ‘Adoptable Storage’ - So what is it and how does this affect Spotify? Android and Apple have always shunned the use of external memory in their device...

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With the latest version of Android called Marshmallow (6.x) Google have introduced something called ‘Adoptable Storage’ - So what is it and how does this affect Spotify?   Android and Apple ...

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Recomendations

Hi. I'm a fairly new user to spotify, but not a newcommer in mobile music streaming (2 yers of dzr, and 2 g.music)I live in Finland, and I don't care or like finnish music and "whats hot in finland". Is it somehow possible to change setting (where?) ...

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Hi.  I'm a fairly new user to spotify, but not a newcommer in mobile music streaming (2 yers of dzr, and 2 g.music) I live in Finland, and I don't care or like finnish music and "whats hot in ...

Daniel

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Chromecast will not play audio Shows, will play everything else?

Trying hard to figure out why I can't cast the audio show I've been listening to on Bluetooth in my car to my Chromecast at home. Going to 'Devices available' in the Android app shows that my Chromecast is not available, with the message 'Can't play ...

Casual Listener

Trying hard to figure out why I can't cast the audio show I've been listening to on Bluetooth in my car to my Chromecast at home.   Going to 'Devices available' in the Android app shows that m...

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AVH-4100NEX - Can anyone share experiences?

Hi all, I have a Pioneer AVH-P4400BH receiver unit, which is great for the most part, but the lack of Bluetooth Metadata from Spotify is driving me crazy. It used to work with my AOSP ROM and Galaxy S4, but ever since I got my Galaxy S6, it no longer...

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Hi all,    I have a Pioneer AVH-P4400BH receiver unit, which is great for the most part, but the lack of Bluetooth Metadata from Spotify is driving me crazy. It used to work with my AOSP ...

Daniel

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Profile and playlists won't show

I've recently gotten a new phone and when I installed the Spotify app I've been experiencing some problems The first one is that my profile refuses to show - it keeps saying that something went wrong and whenever I refresh it, it shows the same thing...

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I've recently gotten a new phone and when I installed the Spotify app I've been experiencing some problems 😞 The first one is that my profile refuses to show - it keeps saying that something went wr...

Daniel

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Downloading Full Albums instead of just Playlists

I can download playlists to offline mode but cannot do this with individual albums? I have an Android device and the lastest update for the spotify App. Please Help

Casual Listener

I can download playlists to offline mode but cannot do this with individual albums? I have an Android device and the lastest update for the spotify App. Please Help

Daniel

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Chromecast song selection / skipping issues

Hi, I'm having issues with selecting a song to play on Chromecast, no matter if trying to do so from Windows Pc or Android App. If I press Play, Next, Previous or select a specific song, spotify will start playing for a fraction of a second and then ...

Casual Listener

Hi, I'm having issues with selecting a song to play on Chromecast, no matter if trying to do so from Windows Pc or Android App.    If I press Play, Next, Previous or select a specific son...

Daniel

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Mobile data android

Using android 6.0 spotify version 4.9..992.Spotify off-line, background data limited switched on, still observed mobile data usage. The only way to stop spotify using data is to delete it completely?

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Using android 6.0 spotify version 4.9..992. Spotify off-line, background data limited switched on, still observed mobile data usage. The only way to stop spotify using data is to delete it completel...

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