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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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grabbing music from the radio

hi, i am trying to find in spotify how to grab a song that i hear on the radio and add the song to my playlist, any help much appreciated.

Newbie

hi,   i am trying to find in spotify how to grab a song that i hear on the radio and add the song to my playlist, any help much appreciated.  

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Streaming cache always on internal storage?

I'm running Marshmallow 6.0 on a Moto X Play. From a clean installation, I have storage set to 'SD card' in the new Storage menu. I have never downloaded anything, I've only ever streamed. Spotify seems to be successfully using the SD card to store i...

Roadie

I'm running Marshmallow 6.0 on a Moto X Play. From a clean installation, I have storage set to 'SD card' in the new Storage menu. I have never downloaded anything, I've only ever streamed. Spotify se...

voice_of_reason

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Spotify offline error

I changed my storage device from my internal storage to my SD card on my Samsung galexy s5 active and since then I transfered everything to the SD card. I now get a notification everytime I start spotify on my phone that I have reached the maximum nu...

Casual Listener

I changed my storage device from my internal storage to my SD card on my Samsung galexy s5 active and since then I transfered everything to the SD card. I now get a notification everytime I start spo...

Daniel

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Can't fast scroll down in playlist

Dear Spotify, I'm an Android app user. I'm pretty sure some other persons reported this issue as well, but as this is very frustrating i'd like to add my own post so it shows you that this issue matters a lot to your users (who pays for premium and g...

Newbie

Dear Spotify,   I'm an Android app user.   I'm pretty sure some other persons reported this issue as well, but as this is very frustrating i'd like to add my own post so it shows you th...

Alx

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recover deleted songs from offline android

Hello everyone, By mistake, more than half of my main playlist get deleted. When i noticed that, i immediatly press several time the undo fonction (ctrl + z), but it didn't recover all my deleted song (595/648).But that was on my PC and still have th...

Casual Listener

Hello everyone,   By mistake, more than half of my main playlist get deleted. When i noticed that, i immediatly press several time the undo fonction (ctrl + z), but it didn't recover all my de...

Joe

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Song stops playing/looks like it's playing/no audio

I'm not sure if this has been posted before. I thought that I'd found a workaround for this problem by using an older apk but that also stopped working. I recently got a pair of Bluetooth headphones and the problem hasn't occurred while using them. N...

Music Fan

I'm not sure if this has been posted before. I thought that I'd found a workaround for this problem by using an older apk but that also stopped working. I recently got a pair of Bluetooth headphones ...

Allove79

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Spotify on android not working

So I tried all tricks listed on this community board. Spotify is not woorking at all on my andriod phone. Galaxy S5After down loading the app.with out sd card. I sign in and app stops completely.Help please

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So I tried all tricks listed on this community board. Spotify is not woorking at all on my andriod phone. Galaxy S5 After down loading the app.with out sd card. I sign in and app stops completely. ...

jean3601

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Audio keeps cutting out

** COPIED MY EMAIL **Hi,I have several gripes with the app at the moment. My app keeps crashing and I have to close and restart it. However my main issue is that audio suddenly stops playing yet the app says the song is playing. In order to play the ...

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** COPIED MY EMAIL ** Hi, I have several gripes with the app at the moment. My app keeps crashing and I have to close and restart it. However my main issue is that audio suddenly stops playing ...

xxmissiolaxx

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Playlist stops

When I am listening my playlist (it does not matter if online or offline) until 10 minutes it stops and I have to klick play button again to start listening and this repeats again and again

Newbie

When I am listening my playlist (it does not matter if online or offline) until 10 minutes it stops and I have to klick play button again to start listening and this repeats again and again

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ipoblem with audio stopping after songs but still playing

This is still haqening after 2 updates what is goin on at spotify

Gig Goer

This is still haqening after 2 updates what is goin on at spotify

Daniel

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Signing in on Android ap

Can't seem to sign I'm on the Spotify ap button via the website. Any ideas?

Newbie

Can't seem to sign I'm on the Spotify ap button via the website. Any ideas?

Daniel

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Radio issues

HI I have an issue where the thumbs up/down buttons just don't do anything. When I dislike a song it continues playing the rest of it, and when I like a song, it does nothing but say it's improving but all the songs are still the same. I really liked...

Newbie

HI I have an issue where the thumbs up/down buttons just don't do anything. When I dislike a song it continues playing the rest of it, and when I like a song, it does nothing but say it's improving b...

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Premium running list stops at random

I created runnng lists with various speeds based on the BeatRunning albums. It helps me train running pace.E.g. 170 BPM list: https://open.spotify.com/user/williamsiemons/playlist/0eR0mvutKvk0AVBC1jXxg3 Unfortunately these lists stop playing on the S...

Roadie

 I created runnng lists with various speeds based on the BeatRunning albums. It helps me train running pace. E.g. 170 BPM list: https://open.spotify.com/user/williamsiemons/playlist/0eR0mvutKvk...

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Song appears to be playing but there is no sound

This is an issue that I am having on my samsung Ace 3. Whenever i'm playing music on my phone on shuffle play, about 50% of the time when it goes to the next song, it'll be "playing" as shown by the time slider moving at the bottom, however there'll ...

Casual Listener

This is an issue that I am having on my samsung Ace 3. Whenever i'm playing music on my phone on shuffle play, about 50% of the time when it goes to the next song, it'll be "playing" as shown by the ...

caleb_hates_you

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Lock screen controls not working on Android 4.4.2 (Kitkat) on Huawei P7 Ascend phone

I seem to have lost my lock screen controls (play, pause etc) on my Huawei P7 Ascend phone running Android 4.4.2 (Kitkat). Spotify runs perfectly well except for this one little issue. I've made sure all notifications are selected to show but for som...

Casual Listener

I seem to have lost my lock screen controls (play, pause etc) on my Huawei P7 Ascend phone running Android 4.4.2 (Kitkat). Spotify runs perfectly well except for this one little issue. I've made sure...

MrsCEvers78

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Spotify Connect works under wife's account on all devices but not on my account.. both premium

I've started having issues recently with spotify connect. I have been unable to connect either my android phone, android tablet, or windows 10 laptop to my samsung HW-J650 soundbar. I can connect devices to each other, but not to the bar. It doesn't ...

Casual Listener

I've started having issues recently with spotify connect. I have been unable to connect either my android phone, android tablet, or windows 10 laptop to my samsung HW-J650 soundbar. I can connect dev...

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Solved!! Problem with the shuffle mode

Sorry for my English and thanks for the forum.I am a premium user, is there any way in the shuffle mode on Android that the songs in a playlist are not repeated?For example, one playlist has 4 songs. I want to listed the four songs after listening on...

Casual Listener

Sorry for my English and thanks for the forum. I am a premium user, is there any way in the shuffle mode on Android that the songs in a playlist are not repeated? For example, one playlist has 4 so...

albertovk

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Downloaded playlists dont work

This started a few weeks back, but not to this extent where unless I'm connected to Wi-Fi I cannot listen to my downloaded playlists (which pretty much defeats the purpose, plus I suspect I'm also using my data). Also, when a song finishes, it DOES N...

Newbie

This started a few weeks back, but not to this extent where unless I'm connected to Wi-Fi I cannot listen to my downloaded playlists (which pretty much defeats the purpose, plus I suspect I'm also us...

osornios

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SD Card Option Returns, what about OTG USB Flashdrives

The way manufacturers are going is to forget about SD cards and exapandable memory. Apple have always done it, Motorola Nexus / Google did away with it, and I think it was written into the contract for Hewuei (SP) Nexus 6P to name but a few. After th...

Newbie

The way manufacturers are going is to forget about SD cards and exapandable memory.  Apple have always done it, Motorola Nexus / Google did away with it, and I think it was written into the cont...

stevenascott

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New Music Friday Update needed

Hi..I'm a Spotify Premium user utilizing Spotify on my LG/Android device...anyways long story short..the Spotify New Music Friday playlist usually almost always updates every Friday morning along with the new album releases for the week..however soon...

Roadie

Hi..I'm a Spotify Premium user utilizing Spotify on my LG/Android device...anyways long story short..the Spotify New Music Friday playlist usually almost always updates every Friday morning along wit...

Beltane575xx

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