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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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Some downloaded songs wont play

I've searched the forum for solutions, but haven't found anything. I use a Sony Xperia Z and some of the songs I've downloaded just refuse to play on my phone. If I play them on my computer they work just fine. I've tried to delete them for the playl...

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I've searched the forum for solutions, but haven't found anything.   I use a Sony Xperia Z and some of the songs I've downloaded just refuse to play on my phone. If I play them on my compute...

Joe

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Billboard Hot 100

Does anyone know why almost half the songs are missing from the Billboard Hot 100 playlist. Yesterday morning it contained 95 songs and by the afternoon it only contained 55 songs. Just curious as to what happened...

Newbie

Does anyone know why almost half the songs are missing from the Billboard Hot 100 playlist. Yesterday morning it contained 95 songs and by the afternoon it only contained 55 songs. Just curious as to...

MattSuda

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Add a local file to a playlist without wifi sync?

My university's internet is all through Ethernet, so I don't have access to wifi. Is there any way for me to add the local files to my phone manually and play them along side the other songs in my playlist?

Newbie

My university's internet is all through Ethernet, so I don't have access to wifi. Is there any way for me to add the local files to my phone manually and play them along side the other songs in my pl...

Joe

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Low volume on Android - some kind of explanation

Hi I myself has experienced the most annoying thing where the volume on my S3, when starting a new track for example, reduces by approx 30% within a half a second. After been reading a couple of posts, I ended up with the solution to turn the EQ off....

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Hi    I myself has experienced the most annoying thing where the volume on my S3, when starting a new track for example, reduces by approx 30% within a half a second.  After been...

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Phone is trying to download every playlist

Hi everyone, I've been using Spotify for several years on my Mac. Just recently have upgraded to use it on my phone (Google Samsung Nexus S). The first time I login I find that it is trying to download EVERY playlist into the memory, even though I ha...

Newbie

Hi everyone,   I've been using Spotify for several years on my Mac. Just recently have upgraded to use it on my phone (Google Samsung Nexus S). The first time I login I find that it is tryin...

Joe

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Spotify App size is too large

Hi, I have a Samsungs Galaxy Gio running Android 2.3. The device has about 160 MB internal space for apps, where part of that is used by system apps. So lets say, there is about 100 MB left. During the past time, the app size somewhen increased to ab...

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Hi, I have a Samsungs Galaxy  Gio running Android 2.3. The device has about 160 MB internal space for apps, where part of that is used by system apps. So lets say, there is about 100 MB left. ...

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Dump file on Android phone memory that never gets erased is created by Spotify.

I have a problem with Sony Xperia L combined with Spotify. These two aren't a good match. Originally it was all fine, but at some point my phone started to collect a lot of memory (around early august) and the only thing to do is to do a system reset...

Regular

I have a problem with Sony Xperia L combined with Spotify. These two aren't a good match.   Originally it was all fine, but at some point my phone started to collect a lot of memory (around ...

Tch72

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Blackouts while listening on Android

Hello Spotify community, I'm using Spotify Premium for a couple of days now and I'm very happy with that. But I've discovered that sometimes there are "blackouts" when I'm listening to music on my mobile (Samsung Galaxy S2, Cyanogenmod 10.1.3 RC2). W...

Casual Listener

Hello Spotify community, I'm using Spotify Premium for a couple of days now and I'm very happy with that. But I've discovered that sometimes there are "blackouts" when I'm listening to music on my m...

karbas

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[Bug detected] Big album covers lead to force close

Hi, I'm usually import some of my music which is not available through spotify in Germany from my own library. Some of my album covers have huge sizes, so when I start playing such a song the UI of spotify crashes (but the music keeps playing ). Last...

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Hi,   I'm usually import some of my music which is not available through spotify in Germany from my own library. Some of my album covers have huge sizes, so when I start playing such a son...

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Spotify Won't Sync Local Tracks On My Phone

I am a Spotify Premium user and I cannot get any of my local tracks to sync onto my phone. I just recently brought a new Galaxy Note 3. I have the phone and the computer on the same WiFi network and have the playlist downloaded on the phone and mark ...

Newbie

I am a Spotify Premium user and I cannot get any of my local tracks to sync onto my phone. I just recently brought a new Galaxy Note 3. I have the phone and the computer on the same WiFi network and ...

damianbrand

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Dynamic Queueing For Android + Cloud Storage

When will dynamic queueing be available? The only things I like better in Google Music is that I can modify all of the songs I have queued up into any order...so, say I have 10 songs queued and I decide I want to hear song #8 next...I can just drag a...

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When will dynamic queueing be available?  The only things I like better in Google Music is that I can modify all of the songs I have queued up into any order...so, say I have 10 songs queue...

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After I deactivated a private session, the android app no longer sends songs I listen to Facebook.

Like I said on the title of this post, a few days ago I wanted to try the "private session" functionality on the android app. It's doesn't work that well compared to the iOS version. The thing is when I deactivated it, the android app stopped sending...

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Like I said on the title of this post, a few days ago I wanted to try the "private session" functionality on the android app. It's doesn't work that well compared to the iOS version. The thing is whe...

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BMW idrive

Has anyone manged to stream via bluetooth music from spotify on HTC one to idrive?

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Has anyone manged to stream via bluetooth music from spotify on HTC one to idrive?

Simpaty

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Sorting Downloaded Playlists in Folders on Android phone?

When I go to playlists on my phone (android), I see green text saying: downloaded. Underneath are all my downloaded playlists. And all the way down (a lot of downloaded playlists) I find all my playlists. Theproblemis: 'all' myplaylistsareoranizedinf...

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When I go to playlists on my phone (android), I see green text saying: downloaded. Underneath are all my downloaded playlists. And all the way down (a lot of downloaded playlists) I find all my p...

Joe

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how to sync my folders to Android?

I have all of my playlists organized in folders. When I sync everything to my Android, all the playlists show up in one long, crazy, unweildy list. Is there no way to get it to keep the same folder structure on my Android? Thanks for any advice.

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I have all of my playlists organized in folders. When I sync everything to my Android, all the playlists show up in one long, crazy, unweildy list. Is there no way to get it to keep the same folder s...

Joe

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Solved!! Android beta testers wanted

Hi everyone, we're looking for folks to try out new versions of Spotify for Android. Are you interesting in becoming a beta tester? Do you want to help improve the Spotify experience on Android? Join the Beta Band! Fill out this form now and apply to...

Spotify Legend

Hi everyone,   we're looking for folks to try out new versions of Spotify for Android.   Are you interesting in becoming a beta tester? Do you want to help improve the Spotify exper...

Goodman

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Ghost Folders on Android

I have an "Audioslave" ghost folder that is showing on my Android version of Spotify, which does not show up in the desktop version. All my music (which is categorized alphabetically) that shows up after Audioslave (which means, most of it) is stuck ...

Casual Listener

I have an "Audioslave" ghost folder that is showing on my Android version of Spotify, which does not show up in the desktop version. All my music (which is categorized alphabetically) that shows up a...

Peter__

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Solved!! Play/Pause UI difficulties with Bluetooth on Android

The play/pause button was working fine for me up until the most recent update of the app, but now it will play but not pause music. It also will not pause music quickly enough when the GPS tries to break through, and thus will cut off part of the dir...

Casual Listener

The play/pause button was working fine for me up until the most recent update of the app, but now it will play but not pause music.  It also will not pause music quickly enough when the GPS trie...

gfirth77

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4.3 still no meta data in my car?

I am new to android with a new galaxy note 3 running 4.3.My Spotify works fine in my car streaming via blue tooth to my 2012 yaris, I can change songs on my steering wheel no problem at all, however I still get no information about songs in my car I ...

Newbie

I am new to android with a new galaxy note 3 running 4.3. My Spotify works fine in my car streaming via blue tooth to my 2012 yaris, I can change songs on my steering wheel no problem at all, howe...

Sintel

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Error when syncing disk full...

Hi there, I use spotify to listen my music offline and when i turn on the wifi to sync music, spotify say that my disk il full but it's wrong!! How to make understand spotify that i have enough space to download?? Thanks

Casual Listener

Hi there,   I use spotify to listen my music offline and when i turn on the wifi to sync music, spotify say that my disk il full but it's wrong!! How to make understand spotify that i have...

Joe

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