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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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I can't get spotify to download or play via 4g or 3g

I want to listen to music while in driving via streaming. When I put it in online mode it says still offline and I have made the settings accordingly.

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I want to listen to music while in driving via streaming. When I put it in online mode it says still offline and I have made the settings accordingly.

Liontob

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Meta Data on Galaxy S3 Android 4.3

I've read in various forums that the 4.3 update to the Galaxy S3 along with the latest version of Spotify finally enabled meta data over bluetooth to you could see track title/artist/etc info on your car's head unit. I'm not able to get any of this i...

Regular

I've read in various forums that the 4.3 update to the Galaxy S3 along with the latest version of Spotify finally enabled meta data over bluetooth to you could see track title/artist/etc info on your...

Joe

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Can't Install

I have been trying to install it on my phone but it won't even let me install it. I am from India but am currently residing in Finland, and while I am able to use it on the desktop client (with a facebook login). It won't let me install the app. My s...

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I have been trying to install it on my phone but it won't even let me install it. I am from India but am currently residing in Finland, and while I am able to use it on the desktop client (with a fac...

Joe

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Make removing the currently playing song from playing list easy

This is the use case. I find an interesting playlist. I create a new playlist based on it so that I customized it further. I click "Shuffle Play". A few songs later I find myself not interested in the song being played. I want to remove it from the p...

Newbie

This is the use case. I find an interesting playlist. I create a new playlist based on it so that I customized it further. I click "Shuffle Play". A few songs later I find myself not interested in th...

Joe

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Solved!! Sync Local files from android to desktop

Hello everybody First of all, i want to say, that i'm not a native english speaker, so i may make some mistake As i don't read anything about it, i just want to know if i can synchronize music from my android phone to my computer ? To be more precise...

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Hello everybody   First of all, i want to say, that i'm not a native english speaker, so i may make some mistake 🙂 As i don't read anything about it, i just want to know if i can synchron...

Astyan

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Free music not on android?

Why do you say its Free to listen to music via the app. When it isn't... So your point is, buy an expensive **bleep**ty phone = get Free music. That a bad advertisement, noone wants to buy an iphone just for free music.

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Why do you say its Free to listen to music via the app. When it isn't... So your point is, buy an expensive **bleep**ty phone = get Free music. That a bad advertisement, noone wants to buy an ip...

Joe

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Solved!! Spotify requirement

Hi community, I'd like to setup an Android tablet as Spotify media center. My question is if spotify will be compatible with the cheaper android tablet in the market (510M RAM - 1 CPU) ? I will send audio thansk to Airplay (android airplay app). This...

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Hi community,   I'd like to setup an Android tablet as Spotify media center.   My question is if spotify will be compatible with the cheaper android tablet in the market (510M RAM -...

matthloplop

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Can't select song I want to play!

Hi,I've been having a problem with spotify. When I want to play a song, I try and click on the song and it doesn't do anything. All I have is a green shuffle button, and when I click on it sometimes it doesn't do anything or it plays I random song I ...

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Hi, I've been having a problem with spotify. When I want to play a song, I try and click on the song and it doesn't do anything. All I have is a green shuffle button, and when I click on it sometime...

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Getting rid of the obscuring widget?

How do I get rid of the really ugly and obcuring lockscreen widget? I have 4.3 on my SGS3 LTE and latest Spotify version. I really don't need the widget.

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How do I get rid of the really ugly and obcuring lockscreen widget? I have 4.3 on my SGS3 LTE and latest Spotify version. I really don't need the widget.

Joe

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Error With Nexus 7 2013 + CM11

Description After 4 songs or so, the playlist stops playing, and I need to select it and click Shuffle Music again, or select a different playlist to listen to more music, this seems to happen both with the app in the foreground and in the background...

Music Fan

Description After 4 songs or so, the playlist stops playing, and I need to select it and click Shuffle Music again, or select a different playlist to listen to more music, this seems to happen both...

kcmartz

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Search doesnt match certain artists

I'm on a Nexus 4, Android 4.4.2, Spotify 0.7.4.610.gd7332b3 In the search bar, search for artist Man Man by searching: man man. Man Man is NOT returned in the list of artists. On a mac desktop, searching for man man returns the correct result. You ca...

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I'm on a Nexus 4, Android 4.4.2, Spotify 0.7.4.610.gd7332b3   In the search bar, search for artist Man Man by searching: man man.  Man Man is NOT returned in the list of artists.  ...

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song options action sheet on 0.7.5.696 difficult to recognize and tap quickly

Here is my use case: I primarily star songs that I want to have downloaded onto my device, creating a large downloaded playlist of songs I can put on shuffle in my car, and I often queue up a few songs while driving. However, the new UI that puts all...

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Here is my use case:   I primarily star songs that I want to have downloaded onto my device, creating a large downloaded playlist of songs I can put on shuffle in my car, and I often queue u...

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Randomly changing songs on its own

When I'm running at the gym, 20 minutes in spotify just starts skipping all over playing a few seconds of a track and moving to the next one. I'm on droid "the one" have plenty of memory available, did two clean reinstalls, have the playlists downloa...

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When I'm running at the gym, 20 minutes in spotify just starts skipping all over playing a few seconds of a track and moving to the next one. I'm on droid "the one" have plenty of memory available...

Mangoats

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Audio Effects Stop Working when music stopped or paused

Hi, I've recently found that when I pause or stop songs using the Spotify android app the audio effects i have turned on stop working when the muisc is resumed. The audio effects then start working upon entering the Audio Effects menu (ie there is no...

Newbie

Hi,   I've recently found that when I pause or stop songs using the Spotify android app the audio effects i have turned on stop working when the muisc is resumed. The audio effects then star...

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Cannot Log In with Facebook account

Hello, Today I have Loged Out of my account on the Spotify Mobile and after that I cannot Log In back. When I tap on Log In with Facebook accout, for couple of secs I am redirected to the next "slide" and then back to the Log In view, what can I do a...

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Hello,   Today I have Loged Out of my account on the Spotify Mobile and after that I cannot Log In back.   When I tap on Log In with Facebook accout, for couple of secs I am redirec...

Xiiiax

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Galaxy Note stops streaming when phone goes idle.

I tried a fresh install. I have uninstalled my custom operating system. I tried a task manager for the exception list. Nothing has worked. It's only been happening the past two or three months, and it's really annoying. Wether I'm on my 4G lte networ...

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I tried a fresh install. I have uninstalled my custom operating system. I tried a task manager for the exception list. Nothing has worked. It's only been happening the past two or three months, and i...

joshlikesmusic

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Disable covers to show in playlists

Hi, I'm using spotify now for quite a while and I pretty like the big variety of classical music. I only got the problem, that I can't see the full name of a titel in playlist, because there is the cover on the left site of the screen. for short name...

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Hi,   I'm using spotify now for quite a while and I pretty like the big variety of classical music. I only got the problem, that I can't see the full name of a titel in playlist, because the...

Joe

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I have premium but can't turn of shuffle. There is no"I" button in sight.

I can't turn shuffle of. there are little icons at the top of the screen for shuffle and repeat but I can't toggle either. Really starting to piss me off. Helppp

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I can't turn shuffle of. there are little icons at the top of the screen for shuffle and repeat but I can't toggle either. Really starting to piss me off. Helppp

Joe

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Computer freezes and locks up when syncing with Galaxy s3

Hello, I have been searching for a related issue but have been unable to find a solution. I am trying to sync a playlist to my galaxy s3. Every time I connect my phone to the wifi network, the syncing process begins. After 1-3 minutes of syncing song...

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Hello,   I have been searching for a related issue but have been unable to find a solution. I am trying to sync a playlist to my galaxy s3. Every time I connect my phone to the wifi network,...

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Issue with no internet conection

Hi. I have premium and a SGS4 i download a playlist from spotify to play while i'm on the bus. But it play only on random and doesnt scrobble :/. There is a fix for this?, i use the spotify app from the playstore.

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Hi. I have premium and a SGS4 i download a playlist from spotify to play while i'm on the bus. But it play only on random and doesnt scrobble :/.  There is a fix for this?, i use the spotify app...

Peter__

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