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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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Can´t control my music with my smartwatch anymore

Hello,My Smartwatch was the Generation 3 from Fossil, Typ Control. It goes with the Wear OS by Google App. I connected it to my Huwaii P8 light Phone. Till the last Weekend I can choose from my watch my Playlist, start and stopp it and can choose the...

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  Hello, My Smartwatch was the Generation 3 from Fossil, Typ Control. It goes with the Wear OS by Google App. I connected it to my Huwaii P8 light Phone. Till the last Weekend I can choose fro...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify Android Auto - library order - upsort Download

Android auto Spotify app is very inconvenient to use to listen to Downloaded music. The first option on the higher levels of the navigation are all about online play lists. It takes 2 more levels to get to Downloaded (and scroll to the end of the lis...

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Android auto Spotify app is very inconvenient to use to listen to Downloaded music. The first option on the higher levels of the navigation are all about online play lists. It takes 2 more levels to ...

Peter

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[Chromecast] Connection lost too often

Copying from https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Please-fix-chromecast-with-Spotify/m-p/2459136 since it's marked "Solved" even though it's not solved. Happens on two different Android phones (Pixel 2 & Note and on three Chromecast devices. The ...

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Copying from https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Please-fix-chromecast-with-Spotify/m-p/2459136 since it's marked "Solved" even though it's not solved. Happens on two different Android phones (P...

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[Chromecast] Different song under "now playing" than actually playing

Copying from https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Please-fix-chromecast-with-Spotify/m-p/2459136 since it's marked "Solved" even though it's not solved. Happens on two different Android phones (Pixel 2 & Note and on three Chromecast devices. - Sp...

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Copying from https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Please-fix-chromecast-with-Spotify/m-p/2459136 since it's marked "Solved" even though it's not solved. Happens on two different Android phones (P...

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[Chromecast] Problems with volume adjustement

Copying from https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Please-fix-chromecast-with-Spotify/m-p/2459136 since it's marked "Solved" even though it's not solved. Happens on two different Android phones (Pixel 2 & Note and on three Chromecast devices. - Of...

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Copying from https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Please-fix-chromecast-with-Spotify/m-p/2459136 since it's marked "Solved" even though it's not solved. Happens on two different Android phones (P...

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Superuser Contribution Playback issues since last update : Android 9

PlanPremiumDeviceGoogle pixelOperating SystemAndroid 9 My Question or Issue Since updating my phone I have lost the playback on both the lock screen and homescreen. I have enabled all the notifications and nothing has changed. Any help or advice?

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Plan Premium Device Google pixel Operating System Android 9   My Question or Issue  Since updating my phone I have lost the playback on both the lock screen and homescreen. I have e...

Katerina

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Superuser Contribution Search function

PlanPremiumCountry SingaporeDevice(Samsung note 9)Operating SystemAndroid My Question or Issue My Spotify search function keeps stating goes online to search more. But I have already check my settings and I'm not in offline mode. How do I solve this?

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Plan Premium Country  Singapore Device (Samsung note 9) Operating System Android    My Question or Issue  My Spotify search function keeps stating goes online to search ...

Katerina

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Superuser Contribution Spotify Mobile Playlist MixUp

Sometimes on my free Spotify mobile app, my playlists will randomly stop, and then seemingly play some other, random playlist that I've never heard of. The only fix I've found is to restart my entire device. Any Help?

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Sometimes on my free Spotify mobile app, my playlists will randomly stop, and then seemingly play some other, random playlist that I've never heard of. The only fix I've found is to restart my entire...

Katerina

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Superuser Contribution Cant search online, even though I'm in online mode

PlanPremiumCountry USDeviceGalaxy S8Operating SystemAndroid 8.0 My Question or Issue Spotify will not let me search for a song or artist. Every time I try, it says to go online to search. I know that im online, because browse and discover work perfec...

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Plan Premium Country  US Device Galaxy S8 Operating System Android 8.0   My Question or Issue  Spotify will not let me search for a song or artist. Every time I try, it says ...

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Superuser Contribution Searching for new music

PlanPremiumCountry England DeviceSamsung galaxy S6 edge My Question or IssueI have spotify downloaded on my phone and it works fine with playing music I have downloaded however when I go to search new music it only let's me search for music I've down...

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  Plan Premium Country  England  Device Samsung galaxy S6 edge   My Question or Issue I have spotify downloaded on my phone and it works fine with playing music I have do...

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Superuser Contribution Visual bug

PlanPremiumCountry United KingdomDeviceSamsung Galaxy Note 8Operating SystemAndroid Oreo I've encountered something weird. After going out of the Spotify and going back in after 1-2 times, I get a strange visual bug. I have mostly all normal function...

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Plan Premium Country  United Kingdom Device Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Operating System Android Oreo   I've encountered something weird. After going out of the Spotify and going ba...

Guido

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Superuser Contribution Green Spinning Circle Hangs Forever

the android version of the app regularly hangs at the green circle spinning whenever I try to put in basic search queries, and even when I go select an artist from my library, even a popular one, like Kendrick. It just hangs! How can this be? The mus...

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the android version of the app regularly hangs at the green circle spinning whenever I try to put in basic search queries, and even when I go select an artist from my library, even a popular one, lik...

Guido

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APP HANGS
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Superuser Contribution Spotify stops playing when I change apps. Pixel 2 XL Android 9.0

I just got a shiny new Pixel 2 XL (Verizon, Android 9.0 Pie). I love it! But whenever I use Spotify it just quits playing the moment I shift to another app or the screen goes off. Which sucks cause Iistening to music in my car is ESSENTIAL to my life...

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I just got a shiny new Pixel 2 XL (Verizon, Android 9.0 Pie). I love it!  But whenever I use Spotify it just quits playing the moment I shift to another app or the screen goes off. Which sucks c...

Guido

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Podcasts can't be played on Android

PlanPremiumCountry IsraelDeviceLg G6Operating SystemAndroid Oreo My Question or Issue Podcasts can not be played on Android for over 2 weeks now. The app give me the option to only download the podcast (any podcast) but it never gets downloaded.The o...

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Plan Premium Country  Israel Device Lg G6 Operating System Android Oreo   My Question or Issue   Podcasts can not be played on Android for over 2 weeks now. The app giv...

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Como puedo eliminar musica importada desde el celular?

Hola a todos, pues resulta que se me ocurrio importar la musica que tenia en el celular a spotify con la ilusion de que se pudiera escuchar, obvio no sucedio asi, no me deja eliminarlas, no aparece la opcion. y pues la verdad es bastante molestoo ten...

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Hola a todos, pues resulta que se me ocurrio importar la musica  que tenia en el celular a spotify con la ilusion  de que se pudiera escuchar, obvio no sucedio asi, no me  deja elimina...

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App play/pause/change music by itself when connected with headphone

PlanPremiumCountry BrazilDeviceHuawei P9Operating SystemAndroid 7.0 My Question or IssueIn the recent week i've been experiencing some weird behavior from the app. Out of nowhere (still couldn't find some action on my phone that could be related) the...

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Plan Premium Country  Brazil Device Huawei P9 Operating System Android 7.0   My Question or Issue In the recent week i've been experiencing some weird behavior from the app. Out o...

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Superuser Contribution Spotify ignores proxy settings

PlanPremium (Family) CountryDE DeviceSony E5823 (Xperia Z5 Compact) Operating SystemAndroid 7.1.1 My Question or Issue After installing a firewall and a Web proxy on my home LAN to try and protect my children from **bleep** and abuse on the Web, Spot...

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Plan Premium (Family)   Country DE   Device Sony E5823 (Xperia Z5 Compact)   Operating System Android 7.1.1   My Question or Issue   After installing a firewall...

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'No Internet connection available' with 4G mobile network

PlanPremiumCountryU.S.A. DeviceOnePlus 5 Operating SystemAndroid Oreo My Question or IssueApp works just fine on wifi but as soon as I switch to my mobile network, it displays 'No Internet connection available'. Anything other than Spotify uses my mo...

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Plan Premium Country U.S.A.  Device OnePlus 5  Operating System Android Oreo   My Question or Issue App works just fine on wifi but as soon as I switch to my mobile netw...

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Playlist won't shuffle correctly

ok so i just added a few new albums to my playlist and it won't play my old music i added before hand, just my recently added ones. please help, its super annoying and i keep hearing the same albums over and over again.

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ok so i just added a few new albums to my playlist and it won't play my old music i added before hand, just my recently added ones. please help, its super annoying and i keep hearing the same albums ...

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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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