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Just moved from an Iphone to a droid turbo and I love it. The only issue I have is that I don't have access to lockscreen controls. I have lockscreen widgets enabled but spotify doesn't show up as an option. I know this is supported for other android...
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Premium user. In my android I can't listen to music because when i press play it stops after less than one second. This doesn't happen in my computer. I've tried doing a clean installation but didn't work. Anyone with the same issues?
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What is the the thought behind putting the off/online toggle right beneath the shuffle button? I work on a ship, meaning days without internet, and found out the hard way that a simple misclick removed about 1500 songs from my offline playlists.
What is the the thought behind putting the off/online toggle right beneath the shuffle button? I work on a ship, meaning days without internet, and found out the hard way that a simple misclick remo...
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installed spotify on tablet, but crashes very often. It crashes when app go background (when open another app, or inactive screen, or when the screen is blocked). I noticed that when the screen is blocked, the widget go crazy and start to sparkle, as...
installed spotify on tablet, but crashes very often. It crashes when app go background (when open another app, or inactive screen, or when the screen is blocked). I noticed that when the screen is bl...
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Hi, Now I find in "my albums" every album containing a song that I have saved., when I save just one specific song, I find the corresponding album in "my albums" (containing only the saved song). The result is that I have much more albums saved than ...
Hi, Now I find in "my albums" every album containing a song that I have saved., when I save just one specific song, I find the corresponding album in "my albums" (containing only the saved song)...
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No matter how many times I press play, it goes back to pause, for every song. However it works on mobile.
No matter how many times I press play, it goes back to pause, for every song. However it works on mobile.
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So I recognize that my playlist is small (7 songs), and for some reason you have singled out phones as the only ones who can't listen to their actual playlists (even though tablets with the exact same OS can) and so I get suggested songs inserted int...
So I recognize that my playlist is small (7 songs), and for some reason you have singled out phones as the only ones who can't listen to their actual playlists (even though tablets with the exact sam...
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Hi, I have downloades and installed your app for Android devices but when I lauch it it says an error message in spanish that says the following: "Parece que hay un problema con tu instalación de la app. Para obtener mejores resultados, debes reinsta...
Hi, I have downloades and installed your app for Android devices but when I lauch it it says an error message in spanish that says the following: "Parece que hay un problema con tu instalación de la ...
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After moving to Brazil I get an error message stating "you appear to be logging in to spotify from a different country". I found a solution thread for this problem that said I should change my country at https://www.spotify.com/account/profile/, Whic...
After moving to Brazil I get an error message stating "you appear to be logging in to spotify from a different country". I found a solution thread for this problem that said I should change my countr...
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I have to do a free trial before I can pay so do I still get the deal? If so how dose the payment system work? Is it free trial pay free month pay and that's the two free months or is it free trial pay free month and free month?
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So I have a thing that connects to the cassete in my 2001 audi's stock sound deck. I have a Galaxy s5. I can play sounds on youtube using my phone and the car's speakers, this sounds great, I can hear all of the base and different subtle layers of th...
So I have a thing that connects to the cassete in my 2001 audi's stock sound deck. I have a Galaxy s5. I can play sounds on youtube using my phone and the car's speakers, this sounds great, I can hea...
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Hi, Description On a new tablet I can't get Spotify to run. A Spotify screen shows up for a very brief period (not much more than 1 second) and then disappears completely. I don't even get to enter my Spotify account details. What are the steps you t...
Hi, Description On a new tablet I can't get Spotify to run. A Spotify screen shows up for a very brief period (not much more than 1 second) and then disappears completely. I don't ...
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Description When I try to send a song or playlist to my friend on Facebook on my android, her name does not show up when I type in her name. I can send the song to any other friend and I can send any song to her on the desktop version of Spotify. (My...
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Hey, I've been using Spotify for a while now on my galaxy tablet, I could play any song I wanted to but now I click on one a bunch of times and it says "song not available". Its really irritating, and eventually after a few 100 clicks the song starts...
Hey, I've been using Spotify for a while now on my galaxy tablet, I could play any song I wanted to but now I click on one a bunch of times and it says "song not available". Its really irritating, an...
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I just downloaded spotify on my android yesterday morning and it said I had a 7 day free trial of premium but at 9 pm it told me the trial had ended. So it was really only a 12 hour free trial. What happened with that? It would have been nice to try ...
I just downloaded spotify on my android yesterday morning and it said I had a 7 day free trial of premium but at 9 pm it told me the trial had ended. So it was really only a 12 hour free trial. What ...
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Hello I'm using a Samsung Glaxy S4 Mini (GT-i9195) with a 16GB SD Card. (which has 8GB free space and) Everytime i try to save playlists offline spotify uses my internal memory (which has 500MB free space) I already reinstalled spotify, removed cache...
Hello I'm using a Samsung Glaxy S4 Mini (GT-i9195) with a 16GB SD Card. (which has 8GB free space and) Everytime i try to save playlists offline spotify uses my internal memory (which has 500MB fre...
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Just downloaded the Spotify app for Android on an Asus Zenfone 5 running android 4.4.2 Works fine BUT it won't let me choose songs to play specifically. On playlists it shows the titles of songs in mute mode. It will only allow me to play songs on SH...
Just downloaded the Spotify app for Android on an Asus Zenfone 5 running android 4.4.2 Works fine BUT it won't let me choose songs to play specifically. On playlists it shows the titles of...
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Why is spotify allways putting new songs in the playlists but never delete the older songs. Now the playlists are growing everyday and my sd card is allmost full.
Why is spotify allways putting new songs in the playlists but never delete the older songs. Now the playlists are growing everyday and my sd card is allmost full.
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I am having problems with getting to New Releases via browse I get the first 10 in the list and then I get the searching symbol a rotating arrow Everthing else is working correctly 1 I have tried uninstalling Spotify shutdown, restart and reinstallin...
I am having problems with getting to New Releases via browse I get the first 10 in the list and then I get the searching symbol a rotating arrow Everthing else is working correctly 1 I...
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