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Solved!! New and Improved Android Widget

Spotify is bringing a new update to the home screen widget on Android devices. This update will help you get more out of it than before. The new widget will make it simpler and faster to access your favourite content on Spotify. So what is changing?H...

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Solved!! The version of Spotify I have has completely different features than another free user.

PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceAndroid PhonesMy Question or IssueMy dad and I both have spotify. I cannot pick songs to play and have to rely on shuffle. My dad can pick songs without issue, and probably doesn't even know that shuffle's an option. We both h...

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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...

  • Newbie
  • 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....   ...
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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.

  • Newbie
  • It's a week now that the browse function has disappeared on all my android devices. Not funny.
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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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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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Music on sd card?

HeyI just bought Spotify premium and Downloaded some music. According to my Phone it saved the music on my sd card and not on the Device memory. After downloading some music it was 5GB for Spotify on my sd card but it said my Device memory is full to...

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  • Hey I just bought Spotify premium and Downloaded some music. According to my Phone it saved the music on my sd card and not on the Device memory. After downloading some music it was 5GB for Spotify ...
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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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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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Music stops playing in personal spotify list

Dear users, I am using spotify premium, and made several personal playlists. the poblem is that the track continues, but there is no sound anymore. So I have to push the playbutton for continuing. I have already tried the next things: log in, log off...

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  • Dear users,   I am using spotify premium, and made several personal playlists. the poblem is that the track continues, but there is no sound anymore. So I have to push the playbutton for conti...
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Spotify won't even open

Every time I open Spotify since February it just loads a black screen then crashes. Please help.Thanks

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  • Every time I open Spotify since February it just loads a black screen then crashes. Please help. Thanks
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Have space to update but spotify keeps telling me I don't

I keep getting prompted to update spotify on my Android (alcatel one touch). It says only needs a little over 29 MB of space, However I have almost 300 MB and it still won't update. I went in and cleared out all cached data and unnecessary files and ...

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  • I keep getting prompted to update spotify on my Android (alcatel one touch). It says only needs a little over 29 MB of space, However I have almost 300 MB and it still won't update. I went in and cle...
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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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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...

  • Newbie
  • 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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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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Solved!! No sound when playing

There is no sound when playing anything in Spotify on my android phone - whether the song has previously been downloaded or not. When online or offline. The phone does not have a problem with any other audio - and Spotify had previously worked on thi...

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  • There is no sound when playing anything in Spotify on my android phone - whether the song has previously been downloaded or not. When online or offline. The phone does not have a problem with any oth...
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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...

  • Casual Listener
  • 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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CAN"T MANAGE MY MUSIC!

Here's the situation: I was logged into my account on my phone and suddenly it restarted itself. All apps were deleted. I download spotify again, sign into my account and it says i have no music whatsoever. But when i search my username, i can see al...

  • Casual Listener
  • Here's the situation:   I was logged into my account on my phone and suddenly it restarted itself. All apps were deleted. I download spotify again, sign into my account and it says i have no m...
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