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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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Superuser Contribution "add to home screen"

PlanFreeCountry CanadaDeviceLG G4Operating SystemAndroid 6.0My Question or IssueHello gentlemen, If I want to add a shortcut to my playlist on the home screen of my Android, the option "add to home screen" is no longer visible or is no longer availab...

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Plan Free Country  Canada Device LG G4 Operating System Android 6.0 My Question or Issue Hello gentlemen, If I want to add a shortcut to my playlist on the home screen of my Androi...

Peter

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Superuser Contribution Random Pausing and No Spotify bar in phone pull down menu

PlanStudent PremiumCountry USADeviceSamsung Galaxy S8Operating SystemMost recent, not sure what it's called but I'm fully updated My Question or IssueI have 2 issues. The first is that the music keeps randomly pausing and I have to keep hitting play ...

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Plan Student Premium Country  USA Device Samsung Galaxy S8 Operating System Most recent, not sure what it's called but I'm fully updated   My Question or Issue I have 2 issues. Th...

Peter

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Superuser Contribution Puse Spoti en modo off line, ya lo saqué, pero no lo reconoce el sistema!

Hola, cambié spotify a modo off line y ahora no vuelve a online!!PlanPremiumCountryArgentina DeviceSamsung J2 PRIMEOperating System Android My Question or IssueSpotify no se cambia a modo online! Le cambié la configuración, pero no se cambia. Tampoco...

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Hola, cambié spotify a modo off line y ahora no vuelve a online!! Plan Premium Country Argentina  Device Samsung J2 PRIME Operating System  Android    My Question or Iss...

Peter

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Superuser Contribution Downloading Songs is taking forever

CountryGermany Device(HTC One M9) Operating System(Android 7.0) My Question or IssueI've got a new phone just today and I started to reinstall everything as well as Spotify and tried to download my playlists. Now I'm sitting here almost 6 hours later...

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Country Germany   Device (HTC One M9)   Operating System (Android 7.0)   My Question or Issue I've got a new phone just today and I started to reinstall everything as well as...

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Superuser Contribution Offline even though full internet connection

I've been using the app for years and I just recently started getting this error. Whenever I search for music that I don't have downloaded, it says "No offline results. Go online to search millions of songs" even though I have a full internet connect...

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  I've been using the app for years and I just recently started getting this error. Whenever I search for music that I don't have downloaded, it says "No offline results. Go online to search mi...

Peter

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Superuser Contribution Library songs to playlist

PlanPremiumCountryGreece DeviceSamsung Galaxy 8 edgeOperating SystemAndroid My Question or Issue Is there a way to create all of your saved songs in your library into a sharable playlist?

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Plan Premium Country Greece   Device Samsung Galaxy 8 edge Operating System Android   My Question or Issue  Is there a way to create all of your saved songs in your library ...

Peter

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Superuser Contribution The app is broken, its so buggy

PlanPremiumCountry ArgentinaDeviceMoto G5s PlusOperating SystemAndroid 7.1.1 My Question or IssueThe controls doesnt show up, I have to manually open the app to change a song, and whenever I change a song, the UI doesnt show it, it just get stuck in ...

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Plan Premium Country  Argentina Device Moto G5s Plus Operating System Android 7.1.1   My Question or Issue The controls doesnt show up, I have to manually open the app to change a...

Elena

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Spotify not showing in the notification panel

Hello,While playing songs, Spotify doesn't show on the notification panel randomly. It comes up by itself sometimes. PlanPremiumCountry SingaporeDeviceSamsung Note 8Operating SystemAndroid 8.0.0 Thanks

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Hello, While playing songs, Spotify doesn't show on the notification panel randomly. It comes up by itself sometimes.   Plan Premium Country  Singapore Device Samsung Note 8 Operat...

jsannn

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Superuser Contribution Long loading times.

PlanPremiumCountryNorway DeviceSamsung Galaxy S8Operating SystemAndroid 8.0.0 My Question or Issue When opening a playlist, 25% of the time it takes several minutes to load. Also starting a song takes some time, Sometimes I get irritated and keep pre...

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Plan Premium Country Norway   Device Samsung Galaxy S8 Operating System Android 8.0.0   My Question or Issue  When opening a playlist, 25% of the time it takes several minut...

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Podcasts do not maintain position when paused or stopped

PlanPremiumCountry AUSDeviceOppoOperating SystemAndroid Windows 10 My Question or Issue This happens on both Windows and Andriod. Spotify loses the positions of podcasts which are generally over 20mins. This happens randomly and sparodicaly. I can't ...

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Plan Premium Country  AUS Device Oppo Operating System Android Windows 10   My Question or Issue   This happens on both Windows and Andriod. Spotify loses the positions of p...

Achmann007

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Superuser Contribution Cannot Shuffle Offline Music on Samsung Galaxy Watch

PlanPremiumCountryUSA Device(Samsung Galaxy Watch)My Question or IssueMy primary reason for buying a Samsung Galaxy Watch was how much it markets being able to play Spotify offline hassle free. That is by far the case. The app is super glitchy and wo...

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Plan Premium Country USA  Device (Samsung Galaxy Watch) My Question or Issue My primary reason for buying a Samsung Galaxy Watch was how much it markets being able to play Spotify offline...

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Android and Chromecast out of sync after ~10 minutes

PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceGoogle Pixel 2Operating SystemAndroid 9My Question or IssueAfter about 10-20 minutes of Spotify being in the background playing via Chromecast, if I return to Spotify, the "connection" with my Chromecast isn't fully function...

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  Plan Premium Country US Device Google Pixel 2 Operating System Android 9 My Question or Issue After about 10-20 minutes of Spotify being in the background playing via Chromecast, if ...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Behind the Lyrics

PlanFreeCountryAmerica Device(Samsung Galaxy S7 edge) My Question or Issue Cannot get my btl to work.

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Plan Free Country America   Device (Samsung Galaxy S7 edge)     My Question or Issue  Cannot get my btl to work.

Katerina

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Suggested song

PlanFreeCountry Argentina I made a playlist with 30 songs and after 2 or 3, suggested music starts playing. How do I stop this? I want to listen to the music I added, not to something else

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Plan Free Country  Argentina  I made a playlist with 30 songs and after 2 or 3, suggested music starts playing. How do I stop this? I want to listen to the music I added, not to somethi...

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When searching for a song the next song that plays does not take into consideration the search

I am using android. When I search for songs in a large playlist, for example, say led zeppelin only led zeppelin songs show up. If I pick one of these songs it plays correctly. However, once the next song plays it ignores the filter and plays the nex...

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I am using android. When I search for songs in a large playlist, for example, say led zeppelin only led zeppelin songs show up. If I pick one of these songs it plays correctly. However, once the...

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Entire songs not playing on android mobile

I made playlists on my computer and when I try to play on my android device it only plays like 13 seconds of the song.

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I made playlists on my computer and when I try to play on my android device it only plays like 13 seconds of the song.

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Superuser Contribution remote volume control

PlanPremium My Question or IssueDo i have the ability to control the volume on the playing device, from a different device?

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Plan Premium   My Question or Issue Do i have the ability to control the volume on the playing device, from a different device?

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Superuser Contribution Only a few local files have downloaded - why not the rest???

I have downloaded my playlist for offline use - all spotify tracks downloaded fine and 3 local files.However the remaining 30 or so local files did not and the playlist came up as download finished and the mmajority are still greyed out! Why is this?...

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I have downloaded my playlist for offline use - all spotify tracks downloaded fine and 3 local files. However the remaining 30 or so local files did not and the playlist came up as download finished...

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Bluetooth Radio Automatically Starts Spotify

I have a Note 8 that I connect to my semi's radio via bluetooth. Whenever I connect my phone to the radio, and change the source on the radio to bluetooth, spotify just out of no where starts playing. Even if the app isn't recently opened. It did thi...

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I have a Note 8 that I connect to my semi's radio via bluetooth. Whenever I connect my phone to the radio, and change the source on the radio to bluetooth, spotify just out of no where starts playing...

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App pauses or closes while playing

None of the below information is required. However, the more you provide the easier it will be for us to try and help.Plan PremiumCountry ArgentinaDeviceMoto z2 playOperating SystemAndroid 8.0.0 My Question or IssueThe app closes while i'm listening ...

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None of the below information is required. However, the more you provide the easier it will be for us to try and help. Plan Premium Country  Argentina Device Moto z2 play Operating System...

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