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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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Premium ADs

Dear Spotify!The Premium tier specifies NO ADS. This runs OK on all device classes (web, desktop, win10, speaker) except Android, where I, a long-time Spotify Premium user are regularly greeted with difficult-to dismiss, intrusive, full-screen ads.Wh...

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Dear Spotify! The Premium tier specifies NO ADS. This runs OK on all device classes (web, desktop, win10, speaker) except Android, where I, a long-time Spotify Premium user are regularly greeted w...

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Screen doesn't turn on when Spotify is logged in - Samsung Galaxy S5

It seems like at least half the time, I can't get my screen to turn on and I have to hard reboot the phone. I originally attributed this to some other new apps I had installed, but I realized after some experimentation that it only happens when Spoti...

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It seems like at least half the time, I can't get my screen to turn on and I have to hard reboot the phone. I originally attributed this to some other new apps I had installed, but I realized after s...

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Song Changing Randomly after Disconnecting from Android Auto

Ever since I've connected my phone to my car using Android auto, I've had a recurring, very specific problem. Whenever I use google to search a song on Spotify (basically not a song from one of my playlists), Spotify seems to remember that song very ...

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Ever since I've connected my phone to my car using Android auto, I've had a recurring, very specific problem. Whenever I use google to search a song on Spotify (basically not a song from one of my pl...

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Couldn't set Spotify as music provider for Google assistant

Hi guys! So basically I am trying to set Spotify as the default music provider for Google assistant, but the option doesn't exist on the music menu. Check the attached screenshot for you to know what I am talking about. Any trick I could use or did I...

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Hi guys! So basically I am trying to set Spotify as the default music provider for Google assistant, but the option doesn't exist on the music menu. Check the attached screenshot for you to know what...

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Why is a playlist grayed out but i cant even view the artist?

So i want to listen to songs on other playlists. I go to it and literally all the songs are blacked out. The thing is though, on other playlists some of the songs work. Do I just need to search the song manually? With unavailable songs i can still se...

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So i want to listen to songs on other playlists. I go to it and literally all the songs are blacked out. The thing is though, on other playlists some of the songs work. Do I just need to search the s...

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Bring back autofill of Playlist Name when Saving an Album

In prior versions, whenever you wanted to save an album as a Playlist, when you selected Create New Playlist, the information from the Album was already populated in the Playlist Name field. After a recent update, this very convienient option stopped...

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In prior versions, whenever you wanted to save an album as a Playlist, when you selected Create New Playlist, the information from the Album was already populated in the Playlist Name field.  Af...

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Solved!! Android

How am i able to change the colours/theme of my spotify on my phone (samsumg s6) i know its possible as ive seen people who have been able to do it in the past. Can anyone help me out?

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How am i able to change the colours/theme of my spotify on my phone (samsumg s6) i know its possible as ive seen people who have been able to do it in the past. Can anyone help me out?

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Can I please go back to the old UI?

I made a second Spotify account and logged into it on my Android app and suddenly the app was completely different with a new UI. I read online that it's for new accounts so when I logged back into my 4 year old original account on my app, I expected...

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I made a second Spotify account and logged into it on my Android app and suddenly the app was completely different with a new UI. I read online that it's for new accounts so when I logged back into m...

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Spotify don't start anymore for 1 week on android 4.0.3 release 5a on sony tablet s

Config : android 4.0.3 release 5a on sony tablet sSpotify works with no problem since a while. For 1 week, Spotify don't start anymore.I tried to follow advices on this topic without success :- reinstall- purge data- reinstall from scratch tablet- ch...

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Config : android 4.0.3 release 5a on sony tablet s Spotify works with no problem since a while. For 1 week, Spotify don't start anymore. I tried to follow advices on this topic without success : -...

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background noise on Pioneer 300r

lastest version on Pioneer 300r android ver.5.1.1 has background nosie. Clear to hear while changing new song.Only problem on spotify, joox ,etc no.please help.

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lastest version on Pioneer 300r android ver.5.1.1 has background nosie.  Clear to hear while changing new song. Only problem on spotify, joox ,etc no. please help.

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How to select 2 or playlist for playing?

Hi,Anybosy knows if there is a way for selecting 2 o playlists and reproduce the songs of both playlists? Please don't tell me that I need to create a new one with merge. Thanks.

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Hi, Anybosy knows if there is a way for selecting 2 o playlists and reproduce the songs of both playlists? Please don't tell me that I need to create a new one with merge.   Thanks.

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email address & password

I have a spotify premium account but i don't remember the email address i used. I know the username and the password i used is not right, even though I think that is it. what do i do? I would like to at least cancel the premium account so that i don;...

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I have a spotify premium account but i don't remember the email address i used. I know the username and the password i used is not right, even though I think that is it. what do i do? I would like to...

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Shuffle on Playlists isn't Shuffling

I have a playlist with a lot of songs, and I know I can't play them all if I hit shuffle. That's not the issue. Now that that's said, the issue started with the new update that overhauled the mobile UI and such. Now whenever I hit shuffle on my playl...

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I have a playlist with a lot of songs, and I know I can't play them all if I hit shuffle. That's not the issue. Now that that's said, the issue started with the new update that overhauled the mobile ...

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Downloaded songs keeps on being deleted

Spotify is moved to SD Card where I've downloaded songs I wanted to listen offline. When i logged in again, none of the songs were saved. How to resolve this? Should i transfer spotify to internal storage?

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Spotify is moved to SD Card where I've downloaded songs I wanted to listen offline. When i logged in again, none of the songs were saved. How to resolve this? Should i transfer spotify to internal st...

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Solved!! Not able to play individual songs on mobile (android)

Whenever I select a song to play it, the "shuffle play" button bounces and nothing happens. Using shuffle is the only way I can play any music. How do I fix this?

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Whenever I select a song to play it, the "shuffle play" button bounces and nothing happens. Using shuffle is the only way I can play any music. How do I fix this?

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Skipping songs

Everytime i shuffle the playlist it goes to play a song. When a song from :the life and times of scrooge MCduck by toumas holopainen' comes on it skips? Also, you know how the song titles appear white? Well they appear a dark gray. Why is this???

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Everytime i shuffle the playlist it goes to play a song. When a song from :the life and times of scrooge MCduck by toumas holopainen' comes on it skips? Also, you know how the song titles appear whit...

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Download Page

I've moved to Spotify from Apple Music and one of the only thinks missing in my opinion are a page to view the songs you're downloading at the moment and a page to view you're downloaded songs in an orginized librery (orginized like the one we have n...

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I've moved to Spotify from Apple Music and one of the only thinks missing in my opinion are a page to view the songs you're downloading at the moment and a page to view you're downloaded so...

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long audio books

long Audio books can't be listened beyond about track 180. The Spotify App will Start again with track 1. Although the tracks can be played manualy. The following track of any track beyond about 180 will always be track 1.

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long Audio books can't be listened beyond about track 180. The Spotify App will Start again with track 1. Although the tracks can be played manualy. The following track of any track beyond about 180 ...

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