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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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Slow WLAN because of Spotify App

Hi together,I have a Huawei P20 lite lite with spotify installed. As soon as i start the spotify app, my wlan connection gets really slow. Websites take forever to load. As soon as i switch to mobile data everything is back to normal.When i use my Sa...

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Hi together, I have a Huawei P20 lite lite with spotify installed. As soon as i start the spotify app, my wlan connection gets really slow. Websites take forever to load. As soon as i switch to mobi...

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"Download" slider is set to "off" for all playlists. Cannot re-download; in Antarctica.

This has happened a few times before, and I've seen it around the forums without a satisfactory solution. Basically, I've been listening to spotify with no problems at all, and then it suddenly decided to lose track of all of the music I have downloa...

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This has happened a few times before, and I've seen it around the forums without a satisfactory solution.  Basically, I've been listening to spotify with no problems at all, and then it suddenl...

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Behind the lyrics doesn't work

PlanPremium DeviceAsus Zenfone 5 Operating SystemAndroid Oreo My Question or Issue Before getting premium i was able to see behind the lyrics on spesific tracks or on playlists such as Behind the Lyrics: Hits but now i am not able to view it despite ...

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Plan Premium   Device Asus Zenfone 5  Operating System Android Oreo   My Question or Issue  Before getting premium i was able to see behind the lyrics on spesific tracks ...

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Lost music

My Question or Issue I switched my phones and all my music is gone. I logged in using my email and my username as well as my Facebook and nothing. All my playlists are gone. I thought an account is an account? No matter where you log on it's there. I...

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    My Question or Issue  I switched my phones and all my music is gone. I logged in using my email and my username as well as my Facebook and nothing. All my playlists are gone. I ...

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Spotify stops the bar when pausing a podcast

PlanPremiumCountryBrazil DeviceSamsung Galaxy S7Operating SystemAndroid Oreo My Question or Issue Whenever I'm listening to a podcast and pauses it when I get back to the app and play it again it starts to play from the time it was paused but it star...

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Plan Premium Country Brazil   Device Samsung Galaxy S7 Operating System Android Oreo   My Question or Issue  Whenever I'm listening to a podcast and pauses it when I ge...

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How can I tell an artist my thoughts about his new album?

PlanPremiumCountry DeviceMobile Phone, PC, MacBook Pro Operating SystemAndroid 7.1.2 / Windows 10 My Question or Issue How can I tell an artist my thoughts about his new album?

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Plan Premium Country   Device Mobile Phone, PC, MacBook Pro   Operating System Android 7.1.2 / Windows 10     My Question or Issue  How can I tell an artist my th...

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Phone restart deletes my entire downloaded library

PlanPremiumCountry PHDeviceS9+Operating SystemAndroid Pie My Question or Issue Ever since I've updated my os to Android Pie, Spotify now keeps deleting my entire library every single time I reset my phone. I have tried uninstall/reinstall yet the iss...

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Plan Premium Country  PH Device S9+ Operating System Android Pie   My Question or Issue  Ever since I've updated my os to Android Pie, Spotify now keeps deleting my entire li...

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Solved!! Gear S3 Frontier will not connect to phone app suddenly

Before the firmware update for my watch, the Spofity Gear app was finicky. Now it will not work at all. All it ever will say in remote mode is "Can not connect to Spotify on your phone. Please open the app there to continue." This is interesting beca...

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Before the firmware update for my watch, the Spofity Gear app was finicky. Now it will not work at all. All it ever will say in remote mode is "Can not connect to Spotify on your phone. Please open t...

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Superuser Contribution Downloading music to the new Samsung Galaxy Watch or Gear S3

Here is the solution to be able to download music to your Samsung Galaxy Watch or Gear S3 and the Samsung Gear watches with Spotify, to enable you to be able to listen to music from your watch offline when you are away from wifi or bluetooth (out run...

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Here is the solution to be able to download music to your Samsung Galaxy Watch or Gear S3 and the Samsung Gear watches with Spotify, to enable you to be able to listen to music from your watch o...

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Solved!! Unlink Clock from Spotify

PlanPremiumCountryCanada DeviceGoogle Pixel 1Operating SystemAndroid Kernel 3.18.12 My Question or Issue Hi I'm wondering it it's possible to unlink the Spotify app from the clock app as it sometimes has random notificaitons that pop up and disappear...

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Plan Premium Country Canada  Device Google Pixel 1 Operating System Android Kernel 3.18.12   My Question or Issue  Hi I'm wondering it it's possible to unlink the Spotify app...

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Recommended Music

PlanPremiumCountry USDeviceSamsung Galaxy S8+Operating SystemAndroid 8 I had seen a thread on here but the issue was not solved so here I am.This is only happening on one playlist of mine (so far). At the end of my one playlist on my Android phone, S...

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Plan Premium Country  US Device Samsung Galaxy S8+ Operating System Android 8   I had seen a thread on here but the issue was not solved so here I am. This is only happening on on...

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Disappearing Music

PlanFree/PremiumCountry DeviceZte Grandx 4Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) Android Oreo, I thinkMy Question or Issue So for the past few days I've noticed several of the clusters of songs under 'Artists' have just vanished. Bef...

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Plan Free/Premium Country   Device Zte Grandx 4 Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)  Android Oreo, I think My Question or Issue  So for the past few...

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different behavior android-iphone

Plan Premium Device Sony XZ1 compactOperating System Android 9 Hello, using spotify connect with my Yamaha Amp.While with an Iphone X i can use the volume buttons even when the phone is off,with Android the behavior is different: the volume buttons w...

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Plan Premium  Device Sony XZ1 compact Operating System Android 9   Hello, using spotify connect with my Yamaha Amp. While with an Iphone X i can use the volume buttons e...

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Cannot connect to Chromecast Audio from Android Pie on Galaxy Note 9

I cannot connect to Chromecast Audio from Android Pie running on Galaxy Note 9. Whenever I try to do it, all the Chromecast devices are grayed out and cannot be selected. On the other hand, I can cast audio from other installed applications (ie. Musi...

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I cannot connect to Chromecast Audio from Android Pie running on Galaxy Note 9. Whenever I try to do it, all the Chromecast devices are grayed out and cannot be selected. On the other hand, I can cas...

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Ruined Song/Album Organisation

Why did Spotify find it necessary to remove individually saved / ticked songs from being listed in the user library in the album section of all platforms except web?I used to browse my saved/ticked selection of music via albums as I find it's the mos...

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Why did Spotify find it necessary to remove individually saved / ticked songs from being listed in the user library in the album section of all platforms except web? I used to browse my ...

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How to start Spotify automatically connected to Cast device

Plan PremiumCountry Czech Device - Asus ZenPad 8Operating System Android 7 My Question or IssueHow to configure Spotify to automatically start playback at Cast device ? I play my music from Spotify using Google ChromeCast - now I have always point mu...

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Plan Premium Country Czech   Device - Asus ZenPad 8 Operating System Android 7   My Question or Issue How to configure Spotify to automatically start playback at Cast device ? I...

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Asus ZenPad 8 - skip song by swaping picture not working

Plan PremiumCountry Czech Rep Device Asus ZenPad 8Operating SystemAndroid 7 My Question or IssueI ussually skip track by swapping on its picture, at my Nexus 7 and Honor 10 all OK, but with Asus ZenPad 8 this is not working, picture changes, anyway o...

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Plan Premium Country Czech Rep   Device Asus ZenPad 8 Operating System Android 7   My Question or Issue I ussually skip track by swapping on its picture, at my Nexus 7 and...

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Songs not downloading all the way

I'm a premium user in the US, and I'm having trouble with my Android Galaxy J3. The first issue is that many of my downloaded songs say that they are downloaded, but they only download for about a minute. The second issue I have is that many of my ar...

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I'm a premium user in the US, and I'm having trouble with my Android Galaxy J3. The first issue is that many of my downloaded songs say that they are downloaded, but they only download for about a mi...

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Al minimizar la app y regresar ocurre lo siguiente

Soy usuario premium y tengo mi musica descargada mi dispositivo es un huawei mate 10 lite y esto solo ocurre con los artistas que tengo descargados

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Soy usuario premium y tengo mi musica descargada mi dispositivo es un huawei mate 10 lite  y esto solo ocurre con los artistas que tengo descargados    

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Gapless Playback - bug?

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceSamsung Galaxy S7Google HomePCOperating SystemAndroid 8.0.0Windows 10 1809 Is there an bug? I still have breaks between tracks even though this gapless playback option is enabled. Mixed albums have an one second break b...

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Plan Premium Country Germany Device Samsung Galaxy S7 Google Home PC Operating System Android 8.0.0 Windows 10 1809   Is there an bug? I still have breaks between tracks even though ...

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