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Hello, since a week or so, my spotify app on my phone will not start up. At least, it will start a black screen with the spotfy logo in the top left corner and then the app dies. I already...
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Just downloaded version 1.6.0.952.The app doesn't play local music. The app has no notion of local music regardless of what is written here: http://community.spotify.com/t5/ideas/v2/ideapage/blog-id/ideaexchange/article-id/2239 or https://support.spo...
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I thiught my aux was messed up cause it was only playing through one side but I turned pandora on and it works just fine. Im canceling my subscription if its not fixed
I thiught my aux was messed up cause it was only playing through one side but I turned pandora on and it works just fine. Im canceling my subscription if its not fixed
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=== START OF TEMPLATE === Description Every day I get home on my WiFi, my spotify app starts to download songs that I have already downloaded, more than once. It does it about everytime the app is launched when I am on WiFi, it's almost always same s...
=== START OF TEMPLATE === Description Every day I get home on my WiFi, my spotify app starts to download songs that I have already downloaded, more than once. It does it about ever...
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Hey long time premium spotify user here. Pretty tech savy and have always been able to figure any issue Ive had without much help at all. I started having issues about 2 weeks ago now.&nb...
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I've had spotify premium for a year now and have never had any issues streaming or downloading music on my HTC One M8 or previous phons before about a month ago. Now whenever I download music to my HTC One M8 it says it is downloaded until i lose ser...
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First, I just want to say that I love spotify and I use it pretty much 24/7. However, I don't understand why when you are on your cell phone, you don't have unlimited skips if you are on wifi. When you are on a tablet, you can do as much as you can o...
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I didn't have a problem until my phone updated to 4.4.4 android. I only get the controls on the lock and system tray.I uninstalled and reinstalledcleared cache and data and reinstalled again.Nothing gives me control over the music within the app whic...
I didn't have a problem until my phone updated to 4.4.4 android. I only get the controls on the lock and system tray. I uninstalled and reinstalled cleared cache and data and reinstalled again. ...
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Everytime I boot the app I get a blank screen and can't do anything but hit the home key and leave. This happens every other month and I am sick of it. I have been a Premium user for at least 2 years and am very close to taking my business elsewhere....
Everytime I boot the app I get a blank screen and can't do anything but hit the home key and leave. This happens every other month and I am sick of it. I have been a Premium user for at least 2 years...
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I hav ebaout 60 local files that I have been successful in adding to spotify on the windows computer... but when I go to my playlist, and select the "Available Offline" button, those files do not sync on the phone. I have even tried making a playlist...
I hav ebaout 60 local files that I have been successful in adding to spotify on the windows computer... but when I go to my playlist, and select the "Available Offline" button, those files do not syn...
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I am a premium user and have playlists dowloaded for offline use on my laptop and android device. Recently, my android songs and playlists were all deleted and when I log back into my account on my phone, it prompts me to download premium as if I hav...
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This just started happening yesterday, I have a Galaxy S4, when I open Spotify there is the typical black backdrop and then in the upper left corner the menu button with the spotify logo, but after that nothing loads and soon I get a message saying "...
This just started happening yesterday, I have a Galaxy S4, when I open Spotify there is the typical black backdrop and then in the upper left corner the menu button with the spotify logo, but after t...
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I posted this yesterday. Got the advice to clear all app data and this solved it.. .. For ten hours. No the same problem again. Any advice? Many thanks! "After upgrading to 1.6.0.952 there are issues with three things: - the lock screen spotify contr...
I posted this yesterday. Got the advice to clear all app data and this solved it.. .. For ten hours. No the same problem again. Any advice? Many thanks! "After upgrading to 1.6.0.952 there ar...
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Hello. I have yet to find Spotify functionality that alows me to control playback on my Samsung Galaxy III. This is an Rdio feature I have yet to find on Spotify, I hope it exists. Basical...
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Hello, I got weird issue. Today I reinstalled Spotify app on my Android and found out that I`m linked to some "nakisastore`s iPhone" device. How it`s possible? That user also switches tracks all the time. I tried to change password but it didn`t help...
Hello, I got weird issue. Today I reinstalled Spotify app on my Android and found out that I`m linked to some "nakisastore`s iPhone" device. How it`s possible? That user also switches tracks all...
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