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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 just see a bar in my huawei honor 8x i want to see all the lockscreen with my music.

PlanPremiumCountry ColombiqDevice Huawei Honor 8xOperating SystemAndroid oreo 8.1 My Question or Issue I want to see the entire lockscreen the music i am listening, it shows just a bar a little bar and i want to see the entire lockscreen with the mus...

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Plan Premium Country  Colombiq Device  Huawei  Honor 8x Operating System Android oreo 8.1    My Question or Issue  I want to see the entire lockscreen the musi...

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Extremely long menu load times and random crashes

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceLG V30Operating SystemAndroid 8.0 My Question or Issue Ever since yesterday the app on my android phone has been extremely buggy. Taking a long time to start songs back up after pausing, menus take an extremely long time to...

Music Fan

Plan Premium Country USA Device LG V30 Operating System Android 8.0   My Question or Issue  Ever since yesterday the app on my android phone has been extremely buggy. Taking a lon...

Frosternal

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Albumliste von Artistenansicht verschwunden

PlanFree/PremiumCountry DeviceDiverse, Android 9Spotify version 8.4.88.150 Unter Android 9 werden in der Artistenansicht seit dem letzten Update keine Alben mehr angezeigt.Es ist nur Android 9 betroffen da dort ein neues Design angezeigt wird. Das ne...

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Plan Free/Premium Country   Device Diverse, Android 9 Spotify version 8.4.88.150   Unter Android 9 werden in der Artistenansicht  seit dem letzten Update keine Alben mehr angez...

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[mobile] shuffle option missing on specific playlist.

PlanFreeCountry USADeviceGalaxy S6Operating SystemAndroid. My Question or Issue I have many playlists on my Spotify account, however, the one playlist that I listen to heavily, which is almost 3,000 songs, no longer has the option to shuffle the play...

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  Plan Free Country  USA Device Galaxy S6 Operating System Android.    My Question or Issue  I have many playlists on my Spotify account, however, the one playlist...

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Hacked account

PlanPremiumCountry ItalyDeviceRedmi Note 4Operating System Androdi 7.0 NRD90M My Question or Issue Hello, So my account as been hacked left and right and they had to re-set my subscription with consequent loss of downloaded songs. In reading other to...

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Plan Premium Country  Italy Device Redmi Note 4 Operating System   Androdi 7.0 NRD90M  My Question or Issue   Hello,  So my account as been hacked left and right ...

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Solved!! Searchbar Missing on Android

PlanPremiumCountrySwitzerland DeviceSamsung Galaxy s9Operating System Android 8.0 My Question or IssueI can't find the search bar or sorting function. Can't I just scroll up in a playlist and it should be shown? I'm using Spotify for many years and o...

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Plan Premium Country Switzerland  Device Samsung Galaxy s9 Operating System  Android 8.0   My Question or Issue I can't find the search bar or sorting function. Can't I just ...

XxBrianxX

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My library doesn't sync to my Android mobile phone

PlanPremiumCountry GermanyDeviceHuawei P20 ProOperating SystemAndroid 8.1.0 My Question or Issue I added songs to my library from my computer. They synced on my iPad but not on my Android mobile phone. I have enough storage and tried to logout and lo...

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Plan Premium Country  Germany Device Huawei P20 Pro Operating System Android 8.1.0   My Question or Issue  I added songs to my library from my computer. They synced on my iPa...

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Recently Played Artists Not Showing?

Hi there, I spent the day enjoying Spotify yesterday. Both on my phone and desktop, about 90% of that experience is absent from my Recently Played. I'm concerned that these plays aren't tracked/artists are not given credit for them. I notice this err...

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Hi there,   I spent the day enjoying Spotify yesterday. Both on my phone and desktop, about 90% of that experience is absent from my Recently Played. I'm concerned that these plays aren't trac...

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buzzing noise Android - FIXED!

Hi all, So many (including myself) have been suffering from a buzzing sound (or electronic bug) during playback in Android Devices. I use a Note5 (yes it is getting old), however I believe the issue is the same across multitude of devices.The reason ...

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  Hi all,   So many (including myself) have been suffering from a buzzing sound (or electronic bug) during playback in Android Devices.    I use a Note5 (yes it is getting ol...

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Artistas no se reproducen

PlanPremiumCountry ArgentinaDeviceMoto Z2 playOperating SystemAndroid My Question or Issue En específico la banda Babasónicos no se reproduce desde mi celular, en otros dispositivos si lo hace correctamente. No aparece ningún aviso, simplemente no se...

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  Plan Premium Country  Argentina Device Moto Z2 play Operating System Android  My Question or Issue  En específico la banda Babasónicos no se reproduce desde mi celular...

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Home page keeps showing the same song

For the last couple months the same "more like this song" has been on my home screen despite me not having listened to the song or the band more than maybe a single day way back. I'm wondering if there's a way to refresh the page or block the artist ...

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For the last couple months the same "more like this song" has been on my home screen despite me not having listened to the song or the band more than maybe a single day way back. I'm wondering if the...

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specific albums dont play properly?

PremiumCountry CanadaDeviceLG Power x IIOperating Systemwhatever latest android OS My Question or Issue For some reason, J.Cole's album KOD and specific songs within don't play properly, some just break spotify and crash it, or just skip into the nex...

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Premium Country  Canada Device LG Power x II Operating System whatever latest android OS   My Question or Issue  For some reason, J.Cole's album KOD and specific songs within ...

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App constantly changes my music quality...

PlanPremiumCountry USADeviceGoogle Pixel 3Operating SystemAndroid Pie (9), most current version My Question or IssueThe app keeps downgrading my music quality. I always keep it set to Very High and multiple times per week the app changes it back to t...

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  Plan Premium Country  USA Device Google Pixel 3 Operating System Android Pie (9), most current version   My Question or Issue The app keeps downgrading my music quality.&n...

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Unable to Create New Playlists on Android

For the past couple of months I've been difficulties creating new playlists. I'm able to make new playlists but once I close and reopen Spotify my new playlist disappears. I have now issue making playlists on my computer, just my mobile device (I use...

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For the past couple of months I've been difficulties creating new playlists. I'm able to make new playlists but once I close and reopen Spotify my new playlist disappears. I have now issue making pla...

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Grayed out songs i didn't download on my library

PlanPremiumCountry Brazil My Question or Issue So, I have this problem where, specifically when I play my library's music on random, a LOT of songs I did not save (and did not even know about) are shown to me, and grayed out to boot. It seems they ar...

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Plan Premium Country  Brazil    My Question or Issue  So, I have this problem where, specifically when I play my library's music on random, a LOT of songs I did not save (an...

Reylla

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[Chromecast] App must be forced closed to find Chromecast

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceNexus 5XOperating SystemAndroid My Question or IssueSometimes my Chromecast devices are not shown in devices list when Spotify is opened. If I force close Spotify and restart the Chromecast is usually visible. I've had t...

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Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Nexus 5X Operating System Android   My Question or Issue Sometimes my Chromecast devices are not shown in devices list when Spotify is opened. If I f...

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Solved!! Add Follow playlist as your own

PlanPremiumCountry SwedenDeviceSamsung S7 EdgeOperating SystemAndroid 8.0 My Question or Issue If I follow a playlist and want to add it as my own so I can customize and add music, how do I do it?

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Plan Premium Country  Sweden Device Samsung S7 Edge Operating System Android 8.0   My Question or Issue  If I follow a playlist and want to add it as my own so I can customiz...

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Spotify Radio don't works anymore

PlanPremiumCountry GermanyDeviceHonor 8xOperating SystemAndroid 8.1 My Question or Issue For a few weeks I can't start Spotify Radio anymore. When I click start artist-radio I don't go to the artist radio but insted I go to a playlist that is titled ...

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Plan Premium Country  Germany Device Honor 8x Operating System Android 8.1   My Question or Issue  For a few weeks I can't start Spotify Radio anymore. When I click start art...

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Only downloading a few of my songs

Hi, I'm in Australia on a premium plan. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy 7. I have a playlist of about 190 songs, which was successfully downloaded previously, however now only 10 of the songs are downloaded, and no matter what I do, it won't download an...

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Hi, I'm in Australia on a premium plan. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy 7.   I have a playlist of about 190 songs, which was successfully downloaded previously, however now only 10 of the songs a...

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