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PlanPremiumCountryNorwayDeviceSamsung S9Operating SystemAndroid 11 My Question or IssueWhenever a bluetooth device is connected to my phone, Spotify automatically starts playing the last song it was paused on if my phone makes any "noise". If I recie...
Music Fan
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On my lock screen, the Spotify controls no longer appear as a permanent notification while music is playing. They are still present when I expand the notification bar on an unlocked phone, however.I have tried closing and reopening the app, logging o...
Visitor
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PlanFreeDeviceXiaomi Lite 12 Operating SystemXiaomi HyperOS My Question or IssueI logged into my account and saw that I can't play a single song and absolutely all playlists are empty. I don't know what this could be connected with. Moreover, this pr...
Newbie
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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.
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...
Composer
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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 ...
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,...
Composer
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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 my search would only pull up songs I've download. No artist,...
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 ...
Composer
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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...
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...
Composer
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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...
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...
Spotify Legend
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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...
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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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 ...
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...
Casual Listener
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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...
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...
Casual Listener
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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 easy for me to add songs directly from notification centre.Thank you.
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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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...
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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0 replies
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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 ...
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....
Spotify Legend
1947 Views
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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...
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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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...
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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0 replies
3 likes
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...
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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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...
Plan Free/Premium....... FREE Country....... Australia Device Phone Android J5 Prime Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue. Have Free Spotify on ...
Roadie
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Hello, i have Android 8.1 and Spotify 8.4.70.666 armV7. In the last 12 Days Spotify had 80MB Background Data while only 15 MB in Foreground. I don't understand why there needs to be so much background data. Can you please try to reduce it?
Hello, i have Android 8.1 and Spotify 8.4.70.666 armV7. In the last 12 Days Spotify had 80MB Background Data while only 15 MB in Foreground. I don't understand why there needs to be ...
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0 replies
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Hi guys,I've been using the Android app on all my devices for years now, I finally got Premium when I realised I could get a student discount a few months ago. The app has been working great in landscape mode in my car to easily view the cover flow o...
Hi guys, I've been using the Android app on all my devices for years now, I finally got Premium when I realised I could get a student discount a few months ago. The app has been working great in lan...
Music Fan
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PlanPremiumCountry NetherlandsDeviceSamsung galaxy S8Operating SystemAndroid My Question or IssueAfter some time my spotify suddenly stops playing in the middle of a song. It happens only on my phone and not on my laptop. I've had this both when onli...
Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device Samsung galaxy S8 Operating System Android My Question or Issue After some time my spotify suddenly stops playing in the middle of a son...
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Device Sony SmartWatch 3 // Sony Xperia X Operating System Android 8.0.0 I have an issue with the app in my SmartWatch as it reappears on the screen even after I have closed the app on my phone. I have tried rebooting the phone and the SmartWatch, al...
Device Sony SmartWatch 3 // Sony Xperia X Operating System Android 8.0.0 I have an issue with the app in my SmartWatch as it reappears on the screen even after I have closed the app ...
Spotify Legend
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For ~ a month my wife has a problem that her phone starts randomly playing songs. We did uninstall of Spotify, and reinstall, and it did fix the problem, but only for a week, and then it's back. How/When:most commonly when she just finished phone cal...
For ~ a month my wife has a problem that her phone starts randomly playing songs. We did uninstall of Spotify, and reinstall, and it did fix the problem, but only for a week, and then it's b...
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