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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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Problem Between Google Maps & Spotify

PlanPremiumCountryAE DeviceHuawei 10 plusOperating SystemAndroid 9 My Question or Issuein googl maps when i press over spotify popup icon gives me this error ( To play music , you need to connect to spotify when it's safe to do so ) could someone hel...

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Plan Premium Country AE   Device Huawei 10 plus Operating System Android 9   My Question or Issue in googl maps when i press over spotify popup icon gives me this error ( To play...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify downloading all songs new after new startup of android

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceSamsung A50Operating SystemAndroid 9 My Question or IssueAfter a fresh restart of my mobile phone, Spotify starts re-downloading all songs new. My standard setup is thst the music gets saved on my external SD card. I ha...

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Plan Premium Country Germany Device Samsung A50 Operating System Android 9   My Question or Issue After a fresh restart of my mobile phone, Spotify starts re-downloading all songs new....

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Superuser Contribution Different devices, same problems - slow to open, and app thinks it's offline

PlanPremiumDeviceSamsung Galaxy A3 and Nokia 4.2Operating SystemAndroid 8.1 (?) and 9 Takes insanely long to open app, like two or three minutes. And quite often the app says to go online despite actually streaming music at the same time. It's been l...

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Plan Premium Device Samsung Galaxy A3 and Nokia 4.2 Operating System Android 8.1 (?) and 9   Takes insanely long to open app, like two or three minutes. And quite often the app says to go...

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Superuser Contribution "song is unavailable"

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceHuawei P20 proOperating System My Question or IssueWhen I go to play a certain artist I get the message that the song is unavailable. All others play fine and it worked fine earlier today. Tried clearing cache, uninstall and...

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  Plan Premium Country UK Device Huawei P20 pro Operating System     My Question or Issue When I go to play a certain artist I get the message that the song is unavailable. ...

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New Discography view is very inconvenient

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDevicePixel 2XLOperating SystemAndroid 10 My Question or Issue A recent update to Spotify completely changed the Discography section in an artist page. It's now a single list, rather then the previous separation for albums, co...

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  Plan Premium Country Canada Device Pixel 2XL Operating System Android 10   My Question or Issue   A recent update to Spotify completely changed the Discography section in...

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Android Widgets are automatically shuffled

PlanPremiumCountryUK>NIDevice(Huawei P9)Operating System(Android 7.0) My Question or IssueEvery widget link on my home screen (very few playlists - they're mostly full albums) automatically enables Shuffle as soon as it's pressed. Never starts on the...

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Plan Premium Country UK>NI Device (Huawei P9) Operating System (Android 7.0)   My Question or Issue Every widget link on my home screen (very few playlists - they're mostly full alb...

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Superuser Contribution When I click "Add to Homescreen" the spotify app crashes and the album isnt added.

Premium/USA/Samsung Galaxy 7I add the albums I download to my homescreen. I have 24 already, but about 2 weeks ago it quit working. Spotify crashes and the album isnt added.

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Premium/USA/Samsung Galaxy 7 I add the albums I download to my homescreen. I have 24 already, but about 2 weeks ago it quit working. Spotify crashes and the album isnt added.    

Petya

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Superuser Contribution "My Library" shows no Podcasts & Playlists

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceHuawei P30liteOperating SystemAndroid 9 + Spotify Version 8.5.26.1031 My Question or IssueOn my new phone (also newly installed spotify app) I cant see my podcasts and music/playlist on the "My Library" tab. It's the ol...

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Plan Premium Country Germany Device Huawei P30lite Operating System Android 9 + Spotify Version 8.5.26.1031   My Question or Issue On my new phone (also newly installed spotify app) I ...

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Deleting offline files

Is there a way to download all of the offline music and podcasts? I see that you can delete the cache, but there doesn't seem to be an option for the offline files downloaded.

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Is there a way to download all of the offline music and podcasts? I see that you can delete the cache, but there doesn't seem to be an option for the offline files downloaded.

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Can't repeat a song

I recently switched from ios to andriod and I noticed how there's no repeat song button?????

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I recently switched from ios to andriod and I noticed how there's no repeat song button?????

eltoch

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Music with gaps

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueHello,I have an album of classical music on my desktop (Local files) and I listen to it with ...

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Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue Hello, ...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Ordneransicht in der App

Ich habe meine Playlisten über die Desktop-App in Ordnern sortiert. Soweit so normal, jedoch zeigt die Android App diese Ordner in falscher Reihenfolge, teilweise leer und teilweise mit falschem Inhalt ab. Kriegt man das irgendwie gerichtet? Immerhin...

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Ich habe meine Playlisten über die Desktop-App in Ordnern sortiert. Soweit so normal, jedoch zeigt die Android App diese Ordner in falscher Reihenfolge, teilweise leer und teilweise mit falschem Inha...

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Solved!! [Android] Lock screen controls not working

Plan: PremiumCountry: UKDevice: Samsung Galaxy 9Operating System: Android 9 Pie I can't skip or pause tracks from my lock screen controls. I was having no problems until yesterday when I updated the app. I have tried erasing data and cache and uninst...

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Plan: Premium Country: UK Device: Samsung Galaxy 9 Operating System: Android 9 Pie   I can't skip or pause tracks from my lock screen controls. I was having no problems until yest...

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Different storage size on Android

Hey hey,Could someone explain how it is possible to fix this problem or it is okay?In the app, the size of downloaded songs + cache is approximate 12.3GBBut if I check it in settings-application the size (user data) is 13.7 GBWhy there is a differenc...

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Hey hey, Could someone explain how it is possible to fix this problem or it is okay? In the app, the size of downloaded songs + cache is approximate 12.3GB But if I check it in settings-applicatio...

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Superuser Contribution thanks to this awesome bug, spotify gets so **bleep**ing slow it hurts!!

Plan Free and Premium it doesn't matter Device samsung galaxy whatever Operating System (Android Oreo My Question or Issue Sometimes i just want to play music like a human being would do. I open spotify and that piece of junk won't load anything.it h...

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Plan Free and Premium it doesn't matter Device samsung galaxy whatever Operating System (Android Oreo   My Question or Issue Sometimes i just want to play music like a human...

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Alexa and Heos connect

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceSmartphone, Fire HD10Operating SystemAndroid My Question or IssueWhen I play a saved Album, Spotify can not connect to Heos or Alexa. For a few weeks I'm waiting for a fix, and it makes me feel bad.

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  Plan Premium Country Germany Device Smartphone, Fire HD10 Operating System Android   My Question or Issue When I play a saved Album, Spotify can not connect to Heos or Alexa. F...

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Spotify used wrong facebook username

Spotify did not use my facebook username for the account username. It used my chinese name that i put as my language specific name. I have removed my chinese name from my facebook account and log in and out of spotify. However, spotify still displaye...

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Spotify did not use my facebook username for the account username. It used my chinese name that i put as my language specific name. I have removed my chinese name from my facebook account and log in ...

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Local files won't appear in my playlist anymore!

PlanPremiumCountryPHDeviceXiaomi MI9 (stock rom) My Question or Issue is that local files (I've marked with a heart/like) won't appear in my "favourite songs" playlist. The file only appears on my Desktop PC, not my phone meaning I can't add songs (t...

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Plan Premium Country PH Device Xiaomi MI9 (stock rom)   My Question or Issue is that local files (I've marked with a heart/like) won't appear in my "favourite songs" playlist. The fi...

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Spotify Voice not working (bug)

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceSamsung Galaxy S6 Edge +Operating SystemAndroid 7.0 (Nougat) My Question or IssueEvery time I use the Spotify Voice, it restarts the app immediately after I say a voice command. It recognizes what I am saying and inputs it,...

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Plan Premium Country USA Device Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge + Operating System Android 7.0 (Nougat)    My Question or Issue Every time I use the Spotify Voice, it restarts the app imme...

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