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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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Can't send songs on Android.

Been a premium member for over 3 years now, and I must say I am becoming more and more disappointed with Spotify as the days go on. I can't send music to people on Android unless I connect to Facebook, which I am not doing. I am clearly following peo...

Music Fan

Been a premium member for over 3 years now, and I must say I am becoming more and more disappointed with Spotify as the days go on.   I can't send music to people on Android unless I connect...

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Solved!! Browse Feature stuck loading

Hi there!I'm a Premium user, have the latest version installed on my tablet, and I've been having this problem the past few days, everytime I try tro browse on a different category, In the Browse feature, it will only load 10 playlists, and stuck the...

Newbie

Hi there! I'm a Premium user, have the latest version installed on my tablet,  and I've been having this problem the past few days, everytime I try tro browse on a different category, In the ...

Joe

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Remote control not working properly

Hello, I like to listen music using spotify on my android phone. To do that I connect my bluetoth head set with my phone and listen music. My hed set has remote contrlo buttons to for example start/stop/next song and this is working properly when spo...

Music Fan

Hello,   I like to listen music using spotify on my android phone. To do that I connect my bluetoth head set with my phone and listen music. My hed set has remote contrlo buttons to for ex...

kuki_86

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Spotify Begins Playing on Samsung Galaxy S4 Without Being Launched

About a week ago, when I turn on my phone, Spotify will begin playing a random song without me launching the Spofity app. I go in & pause/shut off the song, but it will begin playing again in less than a minute. I have to restart the phone to get Spo...

Casual Listener

About a week ago, when I turn on my phone, Spotify will begin playing a random song without me launching the Spofity app.  I go in & pause/shut off the song, but it will begin playing again ...

EvelSample

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Problem with external SD card

I think this issue is taking too much time to get addressed. I have: - Removed the cache - Removed the application - Removed the battery - Format the SD card - Re-install Spotify But the latest version does not want to detect my external 32gb SD card...

Regular

I think this issue is taking too much time to get addressed. I have:   - Removed the cache - Removed the application - Removed the battery - Format the SD card - Re-install Spotify ...

Daniel

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Songs randomly pause / Songs won't play right away

I've had these problems for some time. First...even when fully connected to Wifi, my Samsung Galaxy S3 (ATT) won't play a song, despite me pressing the song title over and over again. Eventually (a minute or so) the song begins to play, Secondly...ev...

Newbie

I've had these problems for some time.    First...even when fully connected to Wifi, my Samsung Galaxy S3 (ATT) won't play a song, despite me pressing the song title over and over again...

Disturbedpsycho

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Kindle Fire HD won't recognize Spotify Unlimited subscription.

I just bought a Kindle Fire HD 8.9 and after installing Spotify I connected with my Facebook account. Now when playing fomr playlists or radio I am having commercial breaks every few minutes, but I have an active Spotify Unlimited subscriptioin in or...

Newbie

I just bought a Kindle Fire HD 8.9 and after installing Spotify I connected with my Facebook account.  Now when playing fomr playlists or radio I am having commercial breaks every few minutes, b...

Joe

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Performance Issues - Loading Playlists, Playing

Description When I try to use the application after it has either not been launched (after a reboot) or after it has been destroyed the first load takes minutes to actually load the contents of a playlist. And navigating to other locations in the app...

Casual Listener

Description When I try to use the application after it has either not been launched (after a reboot) or after it has been destroyed the first load takes minutes to actually load the contents of a p...

Joe

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Haptic Feedback still an issue!!

I have read the forums here and other places up and down for a solution to make haptic feedback not vibrate my S3 while Spotify is playing... nothing works!! Please fix this! I pay for premium but find myself using Pandora at night because my phone v...

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I have read the forums here and other places up and down for a solution to make haptic feedback not vibrate my S3 while Spotify is playing... nothing works!! Please fix this! I pay for premium but fi...

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No way to purchase album or song from station

I'm listening to this great album or song by an artist on my Android and go to tap something to purchase it or save it to my wishlist and there's no button or option to do that. The menu button does nothing. In Pandora I have this option and I'm sure...

Visitor

I'm listening to this great album or song by an artist on my Android and go to tap something to purchase it or save it to my wishlist and there's no button or option to do that. The menu button does ...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution How to store offline music on the external SD card on andriod

first off thank you for the help if you responded very much appreciated. First off, I have a samsung Galaxy S4 and no its not rooted and I really don't want to root it either but I want to move the app spotify to my SD card but it wont let me and its...

Newbie

first off thank you for the help if you responded very much appreciated.    First off, I have a samsung Galaxy S4 and no its not rooted and I really don't want to root it either but I w...

Alex

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Solved!! Downloading music to external SD card, another one...

I've done the re-installing, I've done the clean re-installing, I've done the re-installing with the SD card out then putting it back in and moving files around, and nothing seems to work. I've got a Huawei y300 with Android 4.1.1, the very newest ve...

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I've done the re-installing, I've done the clean re-installing, I've done the re-installing with the SD card out then putting it back in and moving files around, and nothing seems to work.   ...

bindesh

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Playlists screen shows album art on iPad but not on Android

I miss having album cover pictures on the playlist screen on Android. The pictures are there on the iPad version of Spotify. On Android I just see a quaver icon for every playlist. It is much easier to recognise an album by its cover than its name. M...

Roadie

I miss having album cover pictures on the playlist screen on Android. The pictures are there on the iPad version of Spotify. On Android I just see a quaver icon for every playlist. It is much easier ...

Peter__

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Solved!! tune wiki doesn't work automatically

Hi.:) I used to use HTC desire x and while listening music on spotify, tune wiki was finding lyrics automatically and telling me with notification. Now on galaxy note 3, it doesn't find anything automatically. Can anyone help me about that?

Regular

Hi.:) I used to use HTC desire x and while listening music on spotify, tune wiki was finding lyrics automatically and telling me with notification. Now on galaxy note 3, it doesn't find anything auto...

withinthefire

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No online modus on galaxy tab

Hello world, I have a samsung galaxy tab GT-P1000 and normal spotify account, but I'm not able to listen to any songs as they are all greyed out, although my tablet has wireless connection. It only seems to work with a premium account. Is that a fact...

Casual Listener

Hello world,   I have a samsung galaxy tab GT-P1000 and normal spotify account, but I'm not able to listen to any songs as they are all greyed out, although my tablet has wireless connection...

Joe

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[Android 4.4]External SD card errors

If you are using android 4.4 you will find that spotify can't access an external SD card and you will get the error message "We found no place to store our data, please check that you have a working SD card and free space". This is due to restriction...

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If you are using android 4.4 you will find that spotify can't access an external SD card and you will get the error message "We found no place to store our data, please check that you have a working ...

Liam

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Spotify deletes downloaded playlists

Why did Spotify delete all of my saved tracks? My tracks are stored in my SD card which I didn't remove as of late and after a quick check, the files are nowhere to be found as I gained nearly 8-12GB of storage on my SD card. I'm on a stock Android 4...

Gig Goer

Why did Spotify delete all of my saved tracks? My tracks are stored in my SD card which I didn't remove as of late and after a quick check, the files are nowhere to be found as I gained nearly 8-12GB...

PegHorse

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offline errors android, premium

premium user, offline playlists are constantly downloading and once "downloaded" they stop playing when there is no internet connection. this is unacceptable for two reasons: 1) chewing up my data simply unacceptable (i know i can turn off downloadim...

Music Fan

premium user, offline playlists are constantly downloading and once "downloaded" they stop playing when there is no internet connection. this is unacceptable for two reasons: 1) chewing up my data si...

Joe

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Solved!! Syncing music to tablet - what's the benefit?

I'm struggling to see the benefits of syncing music to my tablet - I've downloaded Spotify on my tablet, and I can see all my paylists, and they play (on the whole, not every song, but a good 80%). So when I'm on Spotify on my desktop, it's encouragi...

Regular

I'm struggling to see the benefits of syncing music to my tablet - I've downloaded Spotify on my tablet, and I can see all my paylists, and they play (on the whole, not every song, but a good 80%). S...

trenthetfield

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Sync with local PC Files doesnt work correct

Hey, i am looking to download music with my smartphone which is located on my local PC but only a small amout of songs gets synced.. 0-3 tracks out of aroud 15 of each from 8 full albums (most are bought as mp3 from Amazon). the sync worked fine some...

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Hey,   i am looking to download music with my smartphone which is located on my local PC but only a small amout of songs gets synced..  0-3 tracks out of aroud 15 of each from 8 full al...

Thomas882

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