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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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Android does not detect PC in Deices

My PC detects my Android but not the reverse.  Please help.

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My PC detects my Android but not the reverse.  Please help.

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Intrusive or what!!!!!!

The latest android update has become very intrusive, I can understand needing know when the phone is in use buy why does it need to know the remote number that you called? This is absolutely disgraceful behaviour on the part of spotify, it is like mu...

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The latest android update has become very intrusive, I can understand needing know when the phone is in use buy why does it need to know the remote number that you called?   This is absolute...

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Spotify Refusing To Recognize Premium Account

It has been 24 hours since I contacted Spotify about (surprise!) another problem they created. For some unknown reason (and despite Spotify consistently taking my money every month - including this one), my account how is on "shuffle play" (how cute)...

Gig Goer

It has been 24 hours since I contacted Spotify about (surprise!) another problem they created.  For some unknown reason (and despite Spotify consistently taking my money every month - including ...

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Since this is the only way to log an error, bug, or derp. ( kem ad )

While listening to Eminem radio via mobile version (1.3.0.423) of spotiy on the galaxy note 3, the not so random ad "Kem Promise to love R&B best kept secret" come up but does not play. When i click shuffle play again, it prompts "music will play aft...

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While listening to Eminem radio via mobile version (1.3.0.423) of spotiy on the galaxy note 3, the not so random ad "Kem Promise to love R&B best kept secret" come up but does not play....

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Random 'downloading music' notification.

HelloRecently, my phone will randomly display 'downloading music' in the status bar.I'm not sure why. I'm not synchronized with a pc and am not subscribed to any offline playlists appart from my own.This isn't a big deal, more of a minor annoyance!

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Hello Recently, my phone will randomly display 'downloading music' in the status bar. I'm not sure why. I'm not synchronized with a pc and am not subscribed to any offline playlists appart from...

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Re: Local files not playing in offline playlists

Did you find a solution to your problem? I have the same issue on my android device. No local files are synced.

Music Fan

Did you find a solution to your problem? I have the same issue on my android device. No local files are synced.

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Problems downloading playlists Spotify Version 1.3.0.423

Up until 3-4 days ago, I have never had an issue downloading playlist. Just within the last few days my playlist will not download. I have clear all the data in the cache, uninstalled, re-installed, deleted other saved playlists on other devices (eve...

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Up until 3-4 days ago, I have never had an issue downloading playlist. Just within the last few days my playlist will not download. I have clear all the data in the cache, uninstalled, re-installed, ...

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[Bug][Android][Bluetooth]

Hello, I find a bug and would like to share it with Spoify. Requirments: 1) Android Phone 2) Bluetooth media player Steps to reproduce: 1) Connect android phone to Bluethooth media (in my case it is my car - Tayota Prius)2) Start playing music from S...

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Hello, I find a bug and would like to share it with Spoify.   Requirments: 1) Android Phone 2) Bluetooth media player   Steps to reproduce: 1) Connect android phone to Bluetho...

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Offline music and Last FM scrobbling

Hi, I am a new user of the Android version of Spotify and I am wondering if the Last.fm scrobbling is working when I listen to my music offline. I know it will not reflect it immediately due to the "offline" fact but will my scrobbles be pushed once ...

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Hi,   I am a new user of the Android version of Spotify and I am wondering if the Last.fm scrobbling is working when I listen to my music offline. I know it will not reflect it immediat...

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Spotify stopping randomly and not re-opening

I've been having the issue that Spotify is stopping when I open it sometimes. It usually happens only after I've opened it and then closed it, but sometimes will happen during the first time I try to open it after I restart my phone, which is the onl...

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I've been having the issue that Spotify is stopping when I open it sometimes. It usually happens only after I've opened it and then closed it, but sometimes will happen during the first time I try to...

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help please!

On my pc I can see all of my songs in a Playlist but in my phone I got 7 songs instead of all 500

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On my pc I can see all of my songs in a Playlist but in my phone I got 7 songs instead of all 500

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(solved) Tip - Cannot Log in on Android

I can only listen to Spotify offline on my Kindle Fire. I have downloaded music and Spotify would bring us the Brwse. Now..it has now begun requiring a login which I cannot do offline. so no music except my purchased CDs. Any suggestions?? It is usel...

Newbie

I can only listen to Spotify offline on my Kindle Fire. I have downloaded music and Spotify would bring us the Brwse. Now..it has now begun requiring a login which I cannot do offline. so no music ex...

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premium doesn't work

i started testing the premium "mode" a few hours ago on my laptop. i thought that i could use this also on my mobile phone but it doesn't work. now my question: what do i have to do to use premium with my mobile phone ? or can i only use it with my l...

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i started testing the premium "mode" a few hours ago on my laptop. i thought that i could use this also on my mobile phone but it doesn't work. now my question: what do i have to do to use premium wi...

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Wrong song mobile vs desktop

Howdy, Not sure where to report this but on the following album: https://play.spotify.com/user/byron.smith/playlist/1CCaKdCvdX9mwhciXwrMyp The song by Ed Sheeran on my Android is definitely not Ed, it's a cover by some who sounds nothing like Ed. On ...

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Howdy,   Not sure where to report this but on the following album:   https://play.spotify.com/user/byron.smith/playlist/1CCaKdCvdX9mwhciXwrMyp   The song by Ed Sheeran on m...

Joe

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Solved!! Spotify playing downloaded songs, but no sound. Works fine with streamed songs.

Hi there! I've been encountering this issue for the past few days ever since formatting my phone (HTC One M8), downloaded my playlists over to my phone, resynced everything and tried to play a few of my downloaded/local songs. However, no sound was h...

Casual Listener

Hi there! I've been encountering this issue for the past few days ever since formatting my phone (HTC One M8), downloaded my playlists over to my phone, resynced everything and tried to play a few ...

Daniel

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Solved!! Music playing from other devices / playlists disappearing

Okay so yesterday there was an update and that has messed things up, a lot!, Good job Spotify, ever heard of testing? SO yesterday at home my phone randomly started connecting to a Nexus 5 device (I don't own such a device) and it was weird. I though...

Visitor

Okay so yesterday there was an update and that has messed things up, a lot!, Good job Spotify, ever heard of testing?   SO yesterday at home my phone randomly started connecting to a Nexus 5...

Daniel

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Solved!! Adapt Sound

Is there any chance that I could use Samsung's adapt sound with Spotify because it really enhances the quality

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Is there any chance that I could use Samsung's adapt sound with Spotify because it really enhances the quality

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Solved!! I saved 1500 songs but I don't want them all on my smartphone!

Hi! First of all I am so happy since I have spotify premium. I've never listened to all this different music before. It's amazing!!! So many things to discover. Neverending. Having said that... I use to save a lot of artists and entire albums to list...

Visitor

Hi!   First of all I am so happy since I have spotify premium. I've never listened to all this different music before. It's amazing!!! So many things to discover. Neverending. Having said th...

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My Spotify downloads music everytime I start it

Im a premium user of Spotify for a long time. Recently I got a new android phone and started to download some playlists I Had. The problem is that every time I start the app it always downloads music that was already downloaded. It starts with some s...

Casual Listener

Im a premium user of Spotify for a long time. Recently I got a new android phone and started to download some playlists I Had. The problem is that every time I start the app it always downloads music...

kbrooksc

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issue with local files

hi, i just added two local files from my pc to spotify and added them to a playlist. after that i synced my phone (htc one m8). on my pc the files work perfectly fine with spotify but on my phone the app keeps crashing or sometimes even going haywire...

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hi,   i just added two local files from my pc to spotify and added them to a playlist. after that i synced my phone (htc one m8). on my pc the files work perfectly fine with spotify but on...

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