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New and Improved Android Widget

Spotify is bringing a new update to the home screen widget on Android devices. This update will help you get more out of it than before. The new widget will make it simpler and faster to access your favourite content on Spotify. So what is changing?H...

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[COMPLETE GUIDE] How to fix most Android issues

Please read below for troubleshooting Spotify on your Android device. This guide contains fixes for most common issues as well as detail on how to create a new topic if you still are having problems. First thing to do before trying anything else is r...

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Solved!! The version of Spotify I have has completely different features than another free user.

PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceAndroid PhonesMy Question or IssueMy dad and I both have spotify. I cannot pick songs to play and have to rely on shuffle. My dad can pick songs without issue, and probably doesn't even know that shuffle's an option. We both h...

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Spotify app nail-bitingly slow on Android

So since a few months my Spotify app has gotten extremely slow. It's super annoying, it takes ages to load my list of albums and when I scroll too fast through this list (before all the thumbnails are loaded) the app crashes. Same goes for playlists....

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  • So since a few months my Spotify app has gotten extremely slow. It's super annoying, it takes ages to load my list of albums and when I scroll too fast through this list  (before all the thumbna...
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HELP ABOUT STORAGE PLEASE :)

Hello dear Spotify community, I was wondering, does the same music in multiple playlists will take more storage? (I'm talking about Local Storage, not about the Internet Data it takes to download same song several times.) So, if I download, for Offli...

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  • Hello dear Spotify community, 🙂   I was wondering, does the same music in multiple playlists will take more storage?  (I'm talking about Local Storage, not about the Internet Data it ta...
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Spotify Android Auto issue

Hi, i have an issue with Android Auto and Spotify and, the problem is, when i set the play button on Spotify app into Android auto and the song finishes, the next song in the playlist don't beggins, changes the song but stops and i have to press play...

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  • Hi, i have an issue with Android Auto and Spotify and, the problem is, when i set the play button on Spotify app into Android auto and the song finishes, the next song in the playlist don't beggins, ...
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Superuser Contribution Deleting songs does not clear space from phone.

Hello. I have a problem with premium spotify. I have downloaded a lot of songs to spotify. Now i want to delete some songs. When i remove them from spotify the songs are removed from playlist and i can not listen them offline. The problem is that, on...

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  • Hello. I have a problem with premium spotify. I have downloaded a lot of songs to spotify. Now i want to delete some songs. When i remove them from spotify the songs are removed from playlist and i c...
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Spotify para de tocar quando sai do aplicativo.

Quando estou escutando uma música e saio do spotify, a música deveria continuar tocando em segundo plano mas ela para e só volta se eu entrar no app de novo e clicar no play.

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  • Quando estou escutando uma música e saio do spotify, a música deveria continuar tocando em segundo plano mas ela para e só volta se eu entrar no app de novo e clicar no play.
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Daily Mixes not loading

First off, it's bull that it took me so long just to find this page. Spotify doesn't care about their paying customers clearly. Secondly, my daily mixes are refusing to load. Two of them have only had one song in them for days now. Going to be cancel...

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  • First off, it's bull that it took me so long just to find this page. Spotify doesn't care about their paying customers clearly. Secondly, my daily mixes are refusing to load. Two of them have only ha...
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Annoying cache issue

Im on a Motorola G4 and experience issues with the spotify caching of files. Sometimes even though specified to cache to sd-card, it starts caching on my system "disk" and I get a message that my system partition is almost full. When I look in Spotif...

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  • Im on a Motorola G4 and experience issues with the spotify caching of files.   Sometimes even though specified to cache to sd-card, it starts caching on my system "disk" and I get a message th...
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Unable to get beyond login screen

I am unable for several days now to get to the usual Spotify screen for searching, playlists etc. Differently to before I am asked to login upon opening the App. I have reset the passwords and so I know this is not the issue. When logging in I only s...

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  • I am unable for several days now to get to the usual Spotify screen for searching, playlists etc. Differently to before I am asked to login upon opening the App. I have reset the passwords and so I k...
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Stop Spotify from taking control of headphone button ?

I've only been able it find posts about trying g to get Spotify to work with external headphone buttons. My problem is the opposite; it works too well. I use both Spotify and Aimp to listen to different sets of music. A lot of the things I listen to ...

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  • I've only been able it find posts about trying g to get Spotify to work with external headphone buttons. My problem is the opposite; it works too well.  I use both Spotify and Aimp to listen to...
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How to automatically pause Spotify when listening to WhatsApp audio message

Hi all I have a Samsung Galaxy S8. Prior, I exclusively used an iPhone. With my iPhone, when I was listening to Spotify, if a WhatsApp audio message was received and I listened to it, Spotify would automatically pause to allow me to listen to the mes...

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  • Hi all   I have a Samsung Galaxy S8. Prior, I exclusively used an iPhone.   With my iPhone, when I was listening to Spotify, if a WhatsApp audio message was received and I listened to i...
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Offline Mode is wonky as **bleep** with local files

I mostly wanted to post this to also vent my feelings towards the system to the staff/moderators - why is offline mode so wonky, convoluted, and flawed? Are there any plans to improve it? It's been like this since I first started my premium account a...

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  • I mostly wanted to post this to also vent my feelings towards the system to the staff/moderators - why is offline mode so wonky, convoluted, and flawed? Are there any plans to improve it? It's been l...
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It wont play music unless you push the shuffle

My music won't play unless you push the shuffle button and it won't let me choose it.

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  • My music won't play unless you push the shuffle button and it won't let me choose it.
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Cant turn autoplay off?

I have a free account and sometimes it's nice to have autoplay on so I can listen to new artists, but sometimes I just wanna listen to an album or playlist itself. I turned off autoplay but still found that I would get suggested music to the point wh...

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  • I have a free account and sometimes it's nice to have autoplay on so I can listen to new artists, but sometimes I just wanna listen to an album or playlist itself. I turned off autoplay but still fou...
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Premium

My Spotify works perfectly up until I try to go premium. Ive never had a problem with the upgrade before but now when I go to the page to select the offers it doesn't fully load and shows like a 'chached' version of the page and says that I need Java...

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  • My Spotify works perfectly up until I try to go premium. Ive never had a problem with the upgrade before but now when I go to the page to select the offers it doesn't fully load and shows like a 'cha...
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Spotify keeps stopping

My Spotify stops playing every time I open a different app. I used to be able to play Spotify while on other apps e.g Facebook, Internet browser. Please help me find a solution to this Not sure what caused this change. Thanks

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  • My Spotify stops playing every time I open a different app. I used to be able to play Spotify while on other apps e.g Facebook, Internet browser. Please help me find a solution to this  Not sur...
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musicas saltando android 7.0

As musicas saltam nunca tocam ate ao fim o que faco? Samsung S7 edge

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Google Maps Assistant

Hi, if I use google maps and say ,,ok google, play music by .'' it plays music with Play Music, if I start the Assistant manually with the homebutton and say ,,play music by .'' it plays music with spotify, how can I make google maps playing music wi...

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  • Hi, if I use google maps and say ,,ok google, play music by <bandname>.'' it plays music with Play Music, if I start the Assistant manually with the homebutton and say ,,play music by <bandn...
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Make access to spotify beta more open

Like in topic. It would be nice to download beta release from Google play with auto update istead of downloading updates manually from apkmirror

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  • Like in topic. It would be nice to download beta release from Google play with auto update istead of downloading updates manually from apkmirror 🙂
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Spotify connect closes Spotify

Hello, When i use Spotify connect on my phone and the screen is swithed off, after some minutes Spotify is closed (there is no lock screen app anymore and no icon in the bar). The music on my Sonos plays normal and when i Start Spotify again, the cor...

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  • Hello,  When i use Spotify connect on my phone and the screen  is swithed off,  after some minutes Spotify is closed (there is no lock screen app anymore and no icon in the bar). The ...
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Subscription won't play

I've been studying French playing "coffee break french" by radio lingua network with their podcasts and sice yesterday I can' access them. Under my subscription it's listed there but when I click on it in the opera browser i get a "sorry couldnt find...

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  • I've been studying French playing "coffee break french" by radio lingua network with their podcasts and sice yesterday I can' access them.  Under my subscription it's listed there but when I cli...
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