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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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Curated playlists not showing up for some genres.

PlanPremiumCountry CanadaDeviceSamsung Galaxy S7Operating SystemAndroid Oreo My Question or Issue Whenever I browse some genres genre, for some reason, the curated playlists like RapCaviar are not showing up. I tried force stopping and clearing the c...

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  Plan Premium Country  Canada Device Samsung Galaxy S7 Operating System Android Oreo   My Question or Issue  Whenever I browse some genres genre, for some reason, the ...

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Spotify Playlist Shuffle

PlanPremiumCountry USA - TexasDeviceSamsung Galaxy S7 & PC - Windows 10 Hello, I have been having problems with the Spotify shuffle on playlists that I have created. I have several playlists with two artists, but most of their albums in the playlist....

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Plan Premium Country  USA - Texas Device Samsung Galaxy S7 & PC - Windows 10   Hello, I have been having problems with the Spotify shuffle on playlists that I have created. I hav...

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Sort by date added

Since the filtering fields changed from sort by ''recently added" to "by date" I cannot sort my playlist with the songs I've recently added at the top. No matter which way the arrow is pointing when I select sort by date, it will only filter with the...

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Since the filtering fields changed from sort by ''recently added" to "by date" I cannot sort my playlist with the songs I've recently added at the top. No matter which way the arrow is pointing when ...

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Spotify Connet battery drain issue

PlanFree/PremiumCountry FinlandDeviceSony Xperia XZ1 Compact Operating SystemAndroid oreo 8.0 My Question or Issue I have Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact and Denon AVR-X-2100W. The problem is that when using spotify connect the battery drain is very high in ...

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Plan Free/Premium Country  Finland Device Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact  Operating System Android oreo 8.0   My Question or Issue  I have Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact and Denon AVR...

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What happened to the SEARCH button on STATIONS section?

It so weird that I can't search for anything in Stations section in Android.. I can only see the stations that I added weeks or months ago.. Anybody with solution?

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It so weird that I can't search for anything in Stations section in Android.. I can only see the stations that I added weeks or months ago.. Anybody with solution?

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Superuser Contribution unknown devices

I am getting unknown devices connecting to my android phone and adding playlists. I have researched the help forum on the same topic and cannot find a viable solution. Can you please help? My phone is a Galaxy S9 and I am in a premium family plan

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I am getting unknown devices connecting to my android phone and adding playlists. I have researched the help forum on the same topic and cannot find a viable solution. Can you please help? My phone i...

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Superuser Contribution Skipping, web player chrome

My spotify keeps pausing and skipping songs half way through a song. Whether it be in the playlist or just go to a completely different genre that isnt my playlist. Additionally, my phone keeps saying that we are connected to Web Player (Chrome) but ...

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My spotify keeps pausing and skipping songs half way through a song. Whether it be in the playlist or just go to a completely different genre that isnt my playlist. Additionally, my phone keeps sayin...

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Superuser Contribution FULL SCREEN ALBUM ARTWORK ON PLAYBACK

PlanFree/PremiumCountry IndonesiaDeviceSamsung Galaxy A7 My Question or Issue How to change my spotify playback (the yellow one) into the original one with square-shaped album (the green one) . All of my friend still on the original look, but IT'S AL...

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Plan Free/Premium Country  Indonesia Device Samsung Galaxy A7   My Question or Issue  How to change my spotify playback (the yellow one) into the original one with square-shape...

Guido

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Spotify freezes when I change the audio playback device

PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 7 My Question or IssueSpotify freezes when I change the audio playback device, e.g. when I start using headphones. I then have to kill several spotify processes via task manager until i can sta...

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Plan Premium Country Germany Device PC Operating System Windows 7   My Question or Issue Spotify freezes when I change the audio playback device, e.g. when I start using headphones. I ...

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Can't get back on line

My Question or Issue Hi, My spotify is offline and I can't get back online. If I go to my settings I don't have the offline mode or equaliser options in my PLAYBACK section. I logged out and tried to log back in but it says I am offline. I did see a ...

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  My Question or Issue  Hi, My spotify is offline and I can't get back online. If I go to my settings I don't have the offline mode or equaliser options in my PLAYBACK section. I logged o...

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The app crashes whenever i use search?

Whenever I try to search for something through the app it crashes? 

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Whenever I try to search for something through the app it crashes?  

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Why Spotify sucks in 2019 (on Android)

I work in User Experience Design and would like to share some thoughts from my point of view. We all have our different ways of approaching this music app, each our individual use cases and therefore my view is obviously narrow. Please let me know wh...

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I work in User Experience Design and would like to share some thoughts from my point of view. We all have our different ways of approaching this music app, each our individual use cases and therefore...

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Local files unplayable

PlanPremiumCountry United statesDeviceGalaxy j3 emergeOperating System My Question or Issue I added about 15 local files to a playlist. I took the playlist and saved all the songs, then deleted it. I am currently just shuffling my saved sings since t...

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Plan Premium Country  United states Device Galaxy j3 emerge Operating System     My Question or Issue  I added about 15 local files to a playlist. I took the playlist an...

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Songs are unavailable in mobile app, yet available in iPad app.

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceSamsung Galaxy S9Operating SystemAndroid 8.0.0 Oreo My Question or IssueI recently rediscovered an old playlist of songs I loved, created by me in 2012. However, when trying to listen to it on my phone, well over half the so...

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Plan Premium Country UK Device Samsung Galaxy S9 Operating System Android 8.0.0 Oreo   My Question or Issue I recently rediscovered an old playlist of songs I loved, created by me in 2...

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Bluetooth VW infotainment, No tracklist available

PlanPremiumCountryUK DeviceSamsung s7 edgeOperating SystemAndroid 8.0 My Question or Issue I am not sure if this is a spotify issue or an issue with my car infotainment system. I've recently bought a 2018 model volkswagen scirocco with a discovery pr...

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  Plan Premium Country UK  Device Samsung s7 edge Operating System Android 8.0   My Question or Issue  I am not sure if this is a spotify issue or an issue with my car ...

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[Android Auto] Offline music account premium

PlanPremiumCountry ItalyDeviceLG G4Operating SystemAndroid 6.0 My Question or IssueHello,Last week I've updated both Android Auto and Spotify and suddenly I cannot listen anymore my offline music even if it is downloded. I've already tried to re-down...

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Plan Premium Country  Italy Device LG G4 Operating System Android 6.0   My Question or Issue Hello, Last week I've updated both Android Auto and Spotify and suddenly I cannot lis...

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Can't play playlist with hidden songs

PlanFreeCountry CHDeviceHuawei P20 ProOperating SystemAndroid Oreo My Question or IssueWhen I shuffle play a playlist with hidden songs it reads "This song is not available" and no song is being played. The reason why I hide the songs is that otherwe...

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Plan Free Country  CH Device Huawei P20 Pro Operating System Android Oreo   My Question or Issue When I shuffle play a playlist with hidden songs it reads "This song is not a...

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Music pauses randomly on certain music (linked with drumbeat?)

PlanPremiumCountryEstoniaDeviceHuawei TIT-L01Operating SystemAndroid 5.1 My Question or IssueI recently bought new speakers and now, when using Spotify on my phone with these speakers, some music pauses randomly. There is no issue when using my old s...

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Plan Premium Country Estonia Device Huawei TIT-L01 Operating System Android 5.1    My Question or Issue I recently bought new speakers and now, when using Spotify on my phone with...

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Spotify Premium auf neuem Smartphone nicht mehr verfügbar

Ich habe das "3 Monate Spotify für 0.99€" Abo gebucht.Nach dem Kauf eines neuen Smartphones, habe ich mich ganz normal bei Spotify eingeloggt und hatte plötzlich kein Spotify Premium mehr.Kann mir jemand helfen ? Ich habe mich mehrmals an- und abgeme...

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Ich habe das "3 Monate Spotify für 0.99€" Abo gebucht. Nach dem Kauf eines neuen Smartphones, habe ich mich ganz normal bei Spotify eingeloggt und hatte plötzlich kein Spotify Premium mehr. Kann mi...

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Chromecast - Spotify connect

Since a few days after holidays my android (samsung galaxy s7) connects via Chromecast to my pioneer hifi system instead of "spotify connect". The qualifty of communications between mobile phone and hifi get worse and very delayed.Thanks for your hel...

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Since a few days after holidays my android (samsung galaxy s7) connects via Chromecast to my pioneer hifi system instead of "spotify connect". The qualifty of communications between mobile phone and ...

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