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I can't seem to find a lot of explicit albums, can anybody help me with this? Thank you.
I can't seem to find a lot of explicit albums, can anybody help me with this? Thank you.
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I have a playlist that I regularly add music to. Whenever I add new music to it via the mobile app, it doesn't show up inside the same playlist on the desktop version of spotify, and vice-versa (whether online or local). This is very frustrating. I'm...
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Hi there,Whenever I start spotify on my S3 phone, my phone slows to a crawl. I hate this! it takes forever to open other apps such as facebook etc.Can you help?
Hi there, Whenever I start spotify on my S3 phone, my phone slows to a crawl. I hate this! it takes forever to open other apps such as facebook etc. Can you help?
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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...
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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 with my mobile phone ? or can i only use it with my l...
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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 absolutely disgraceful behaviour on the part of spotify, it is like mu...
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The app doesn't work on my tablet with the new updates
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Since june / 2014 (version 1.1.1.162) I am encounrering this annoying bug:Music pauses in different moments without any reason, sometimes I have to tap 'play' 10 times to finish listening one song. Really annoying. It happens with downloaded songs to...
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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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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!
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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I always get asked to remove the old version of Spotify when I open my current vesion and I always do, then carry on using Spotify, then most of the time when I open Spotify I get asked again and all the time and can't stop the Android app from askin...
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I used spotify for almost 2 months on my android phone with no issues. recently however when I have gone to open the app it boots to a white screen and does not open. eventually after sitting on the white screen so long it will force close the app wi...
I used spotify for almost 2 months on my android phone with no issues. recently however when I have gone to open the app it boots to a white screen and does not open. eventually after sitting on the ...
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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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I got a galaxy s II with a 64gb sd card. I have the app installed on my sd card. I have roughly 7gb free but it won't download all my songs in my playlist. I have over 900 songs in it and it has got to around 77% but won't download anymore. Why is th...
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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...
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