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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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Sd card problems

I've tried downloading my spotify library on my sd card a dozen times, followed instructions from all over the web.Every time I select my sd card in the spotify options menu, the songs download fine for a while, the suddenly the sd card option dissap...

Casual Listener

I've tried downloading my spotify library on my sd card a dozen times, followed instructions from all over the web. Every time I select my sd card in the spotify options menu, the songs download fin...

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Increased limit to 10K songs for up to 5 devices

Thank you for this update! Will my currently downloaded tracks and playlists be erased completely for redownloading because of this update? Thanks.

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Thank you for this update! Will my currently downloaded tracks and playlists be erased completely for redownloading because of this update? Thanks.

Loxer

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Superuser Contribution Uploaded Music Play on Android device

None of the below informationHow can I play or download music uploaded from the PC into Spotify on an Android device?I can not play the songs on my Android device.

Visitor

None of the below information How can I play or download music uploaded from the PC into Spotify on an Android device? I can not play the songs on my Android device.  

Jemi

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Superuser Contribution Artist Page and Album Page links are greyed out

None of the below information is requirPlanPremiumCountry United StatesDevice(LG V20)Operating System(Android 7.0) My Question or Issue Artist Page and Album Page links are greyed out. Clicking on album art will show full album and more but going dir...

Casual Listener

None of the below information is requir Plan Premium Country  United States Device (LG V20) Operating System (Android 7.0)   My Question or Issue  Artist Page and Album Page...

AeroZ

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Song Radio and View Album options greyed out

PlanPremiumCountry Singapore.DeviceSamsung Galaxy 6Operating SystemAndroid Kit Kat My Question or IssueI've been a spotify Premium user since 2016. Recently in the past few weeks I've noticed that the View Album, View Artist and Go To Song Radio opti...

Music Fan

Plan Premium Country  Singapore. Device Samsung Galaxy 6 Operating System Android Kit Kat   My Question or Issue I've been a spotify Premium user since 2016. Recently in the past ...

AeroZ

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Superuser Contribution Can't select view album or artist, shuffle turns off

PlanPremiumCountry UsaDeviceGalaxy S9+Operating SystemAndroid My Question or Issue I can no longer click on "view artist" and "view album" options. Also Spotify turns off the shuffle option at least once a day.

Newbie

  Plan Premium Country  Usa Device Galaxy S9+ Operating System Android    My Question or Issue  I can no longer click on "view artist" and "view album" options. Al...

AeroZ

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Search, view artist, view album not working

PlanPremiumCountry USDeviceSamsung galaxy s8 My Question or Issue The search artist. Album. Or any if my searches are not pulling up anything. I have plenty of service, premium for years, tried on wifi. Restarting phone and app. Unable to search new ...

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Plan Premium Country  US Device Samsung galaxy s8   My Question or Issue  The search artist. Album. Or any if my searches are not pulling up anything. I have plenty of service,...

AeroZ

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Unable to click view artist or album (greyed out)

As of yesterday when i click the 3 dots in an effort to view the album for the song I'm listening to, the options view album and view artist are greyed out. I also noticed this morning that my search would only pull up songs I've download. No artist,...

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As of yesterday when i click the 3 dots in an effort to view the album for the song I'm listening to, the options view album and view artist are greyed out.   I also noticed this morning that ...

AeroZ

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Superuser Contribution Album, Artist, Radio, Greyed Out

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceSamsung Galaxy 8Operating SystemLatest android available My Question or IssueThis happens at least 3x per week. Album, Artist, and Radio options are grayed out. Have to restart the phone and the options are available again...

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Plan Premium Country USA   Device Samsung Galaxy 8 Operating System Latest android available   My Question or Issue This happens at least 3x per week. Album, Artist, and Radio op...

AeroZ

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Superuser Contribution Lagging and not switching/ playing songs

PlanPremiumCountryUsa Device Samsung Galaxy 9Operating System Android Oreo? My Question or IssueOk, I've tried to uninstall and it still does this. There is alot of lag. When I first bring up the app to play music I go straight to my playlists, and i...

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  Plan Premium Country Usa   Device Samsung Galaxy 9 Operating System  Android Oreo?   My Question or Issue Ok, I've tried to uninstall and it still does this...

Katerina

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Can't seek music via Bluetooth

PlanFree/PremiumCountryPOLANDDeviceXiaomi mi4cOperating SystemAndroid 7.0 My Question or Issue Can't seek music through my car radio. It's Volkswagen Composition Media and it says "this operation is unavailable" when I want to seek music on spotify v...

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Plan Free/Premium Country POLAND Device Xiaomi mi4c Operating System Android 7.0   My Question or Issue  Can't seek music through my car radio. It's Volkswagen Composition Media a...

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Spotify APP doesn't offer the SD card download folder option anymore

I was used to storage my songs in a SD card which i bought with the purpose of storage all my songs (over 2k), but today i opened the app and all my downloaded songs were deleted, so i checked the sd card (it is working), and went to the settings to ...

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I was used to storage my songs in a SD card which i bought with the purpose of storage all my songs (over 2k), but today i opened the app and all my downloaded songs were deleted, so i checked the sd...

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Solved!! Spotify not showing folders on Anroid app

PlanFree Device1+ 6Operating SystemAndroid I have the issue that my folders, that i created on my desktop version of Spotify are not showing up on the mobile app. I already reinstalled the mobile app and tried to synch the folders by turning on offli...

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  Plan Free   Device 1+ 6 Operating System Android   I have the issue that my folders, that i created on my desktop version of Spotify are not showing up on the mobile app.&nb...

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Favorites

Hello,i accidentally deleted or hidded my spotify favorites playlist and now my favorites button disappeared. How can i restore the playlist and restore the button because is more easy for me to add songs directly from notification centre.Thank you.

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  Hello,i accidentally deleted or hidded my spotify favorites playlist and now my 🖤 favorites button  disappeared. How can i restore the playlist and restore the button because is more ea...

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Username is appearing as random letters & numbers

So I've been trying to fix this issue for a while now. When I'm listening to one of my playlists, at the top where it says what playlist is playing it says "playlist by: " and then a bunch of random letters and numbers.I've connected my account to Fa...

Newbie

So I've been trying to fix this issue for a while now.   When I'm listening to one of my playlists, at the top where it says what playlist is playing it says "playlist by: " and then a bunch o...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Download to SD Card Issue - Android App

PlanPremiumCountryFRANCE DeviceSamsung Galaxy S7 EdgeOperating SystemAndroid Oreo My Question or IssueSince the last update I can't download music to my SD card anymore. Download feature still works but it doesn't let me choose between local storage ...

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Plan Premium Country FRANCE  Device Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Operating System Android Oreo   My Question or Issue Since the last update I can't download music to my SD card anymore....

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daily mix disappeared after switch to premium

PlanFree => PremiumCountry Netherlands Operating SystemAndroid 7 My Question or Issue:Exactly the same as in the link below, but apparantly I can't reply to that one anymore? https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/I-m-not-getting-any-daily-mixes/td...

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  Plan Free => Premium Country Netherlands   Operating System Android 7   My Question or Issue: Exactly the same as in the link below, but apparantly I can't reply to tha...

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Consider redesigning podcast view, awful UX

Hello, in hope that somebody from the Spotify (Dev) team reads it: From my point of view you should honestly consider redesigning the podcast view again. With one of the latest update the UX became way worse. It was actually good before.Using version...

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Hello,   in hope that somebody from the Spotify (Dev) team reads it:   From my point of view you should honestly consider redesigning the podcast view again. With one of the latest upda...

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BMW Connected Drive crashes

Hello,the bluetooth connection with my new Phone (Nokia 8 Android 8.1) always breaks when i start the App in my car (BMW F36). With my old Phone (HTC mini 2 Lineage OS 14) everything worked fine.There is no problem to stream music via BT with the car...

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  Hello, the bluetooth connection with my new Phone (Nokia 8 Android 8.1) always breaks when i start the App in my car (BMW F36). With my old Phone (HTC mini 2 Lineage OS 14) everything worked...

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Transfer spotify music from Lap Top to Spotify on Android Phone

PlanFree/Premium....... FREECountry....... Australia Device Phone Android J5 Prime Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue. Have Free Spotify on Computer and Android Phone. Have own music library on Computer Spotify but cant transfer to Andr...

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Plan Free/Premium....... FREE Country....... Australia   Device Phone Android J5 Prime    Operating System Windows 10     My Question or Issue. Have Free Spotify on ...

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