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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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Cannot search

Hello - often the search section of Spotify is overly sensitive. I will start typing and it will immediately close out. I try typing slower and the same happens. This leaves me unable to search for music and stuck with the same playlists. Can someone...

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Hello - often the search section of Spotify is overly sensitive. I will start typing and it will immediately close out. I try typing slower and the same happens. This leaves me unable to search for m...

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offline mode unwanted

Spotify is keeps putting me I offline mode and don't let me play music. Som times I can listen to a full song sometime only half the songs and it's eery irritating.If I go in to setting and clicks on offline mode and then online mode directly it work...

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Spotify is keeps putting me I offline mode and don't let me play music. Som times I can listen to a full song sometime only half the songs and it's eery irritating. If I go in to setting and clicks ...

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Privacy mode

Hi How do i setup the spotify app on my android phone to never share any info to anybody? I try enable it but the next day i have to do it again... and again and again.... Getting sick of this.

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Hi   How do i setup the spotify app on my android phone to never share any info to anybody?   I try enable it but the next day i have to do it again... and again and again....   ...

Bittencourt

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Solved!! play list stops when screen saver turns on

Never had this issue before with Spotify just started couple weeks ago. When I listen to a play list and my screen saver turns on my music will stop at end of the song. I have to open my screen again for next song to start.Here is the kicker. If I am...

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Never had this issue before with Spotify just started couple weeks ago. When I listen to a play list and my screen saver turns on my music will stop at end of the song. I have to open my screen again...

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When i save a song it downloads to my phone

When i save a song or album to my library it is downloading to my phone. It is not set to play offline but when you open the artist it shows a green arrown by each song. This has caused me to have no memory on my phone. Can i save without it download...

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When i save a song or album to my library it is downloading to my phone.  It is not set to play offline but when you open the artist it shows a green arrown by each song.  This has caused m...

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Song overflow icon has too small of a hit area

The touch area around the overflow icon on the right of every song is *WAY* too small. This causes two painful (and painfully common) problems. The first is when you go and try to hit more options and it scrolls you to the middle of the playlist some...

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The touch area around the overflow icon on the right of every song is *WAY* too small. This causes two painful (and painfully common) problems.   The first is when you go and try to hit more o...

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browse button missing

It's a week now that the browse function has disappeared on all my android devices. Not funny.

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It's a week now that the browse function has disappeared on all my android devices. Not funny.

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Spotify stops after activating My Album

When I activate My Albums, Spotify stops playing and stops running.After restarting (double clic the Spotify Icon) again and activating My Album the same problem occurs.I uninstalled Spotify and installed it again. After this action it works again, b...

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When I activate My Albums, Spotify stops playing and stops running. After restarting (double clic the Spotify Icon) again and activating My Album the same problem occurs. I uninstalled Spotify and ...

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Downloads a few files and then stops

Edit: It seems that, having left the house this morning, that downloading works via the mobile network, and now that I'm in the office, it's happily downloading over our corporate wifi - seems that I've got a problem with my home internet connection ...

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Edit: It seems that, having left the house this morning, that downloading works via the mobile network, and now that I'm in the office, it's happily downloading over our corporate wifi - seems that I...

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Solved!! Video Playback issue with Spotify "Shows"

I'd like to share the playback issues I faced this week with the newly launched Spotify "shows”. I hope these findings can be used to troubleshoot any potential video playback issues with android devices. I have a Nexus 6P that is running Android 6.0...

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  I'd like to share the playback issues I faced this week with the newly launched Spotify "shows”. I hope these findings can be used to troubleshoot any potential video playback  issues wi...

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Download error

Hello! So I have a Samsung A5 with a 5.0.2 Android version and I'm premium user. When I try to download songs to have them available offline in my cellphone there's this sign: However, when I check my cellphone storage it says that the device memory ...

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Hello! So I have a Samsung A5 with a 5.0.2 Android version and I'm premium user. When I try to download songs to have them available offline in my cellphone there's this sign:    &nbs...

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Download extreme quality

Hello I just purchased the paid version of spotify. I downloaded all my music into normal quality is there a way to switch all my current music into extreme quality or does everything have to be redownloaded. Thanks

Newbie

Hello I just purchased the paid version of spotify. I downloaded all my music into normal quality is there a way to switch all my current music into extreme quality or does everything have to be redo...

Juan

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Solved!! Delete account

How Can Delete my account spotify?

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How Can Delete my account spotify?

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Samsung s5 not searching

Hi I've got Spotify premium & I'm unable to search for anything my account keeps advising me that I'm offline when I'm online. Tried restarting my phone even turn g it off for a longer period. Any ideas before I cancel & try elsewhere???

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Hi I've got Spotify premium & I'm unable to search for anything my account keeps advising me that I'm offline when I'm online. Tried restarting my phone even turn g it off for a longer period. An...

Juan

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Google Maps & Spotify

Hello, For the past couple of months I've had an issue where when I try using Spotify on my phone to stream audio via bluetooth (on offline mode) the app keeps locking up my phone. In particular this originally started when I was trying to run Google...

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Hello,   For the past couple of months I've had an issue where when I try using Spotify on my phone to stream audio via bluetooth (on offline mode) the app keeps locking up my phone. In partic...

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Samsung gs3 first song plays fine, next is silent.

So I own a Sumsung gs3 and premium spotify. When I play a song through spotify it works totally fine, but after one song play (very rarly after two songs) the next song starts in the app like normal, it will track the duration of the song in real tim...

Newbie

So I own a Sumsung gs3 and premium spotify. When I play a song through spotify it works totally fine, but after one song play (very rarly after two songs) the next song starts in the app like normal,...

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Android app not syncing local files

Hi there, I have a problem syncing local files from my computer with my Android app. I do have a premium account and I do understand how it should work: I have added some of my local files to a playlist, and then marked that playlist to be downloaded...

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Hi there,   I have a problem syncing local files from my computer with my Android app. I do have a premium account and I do understand how it should work: I have added some of my local files t...

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Spotify Connect won't show WiFi connected devices

Another issue; I have 5(!) WiFi connected devices which can play music with my laptop, Android phone, stream movies however not with Spotify. It seems not to be able to recognize ANY of them? The only advice I can find on spotify.com is to get some g...

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Another issue; I have 5(!) WiFi connected devices which can play music with my laptop, Android phone, stream movies however not with Spotify. It seems not to be able to recognize ANY of them? The onl...

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App kills itself after 2/3 songs

I'm getting more and more fed up with Spotify. Latest problem is that since about a month, after every two songs the app will just shut itself down. Have to restart it, REALLY annoying. Anyone has the same problem?

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I'm getting more and more fed up with Spotify. Latest problem is that since about a month, after every two songs the app will just shut itself down. Have to restart it, REALLY annoying. Anyone has th...

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Equalizer help

I've got a Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ and the system equalizer stops working. I tried it with other apps like the one from samsung and Musixmatch and it works fine. With Spotify works in the first song, then it turns off, even when you enter and move th...

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I've got a Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ and the system equalizer stops working. I tried it with other apps like the one from samsung and Musixmatch and it works fine. With Spotify works in the first song,...

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