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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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Android App only Shows Black empty Start screen

After Starting the latest Update of Android App, only the Black Start screen is Shown and the App doesn't work. Even New Installation doesn't work. Any ideas?

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After Starting the latest Update of Android App, only the Black Start screen is Shown and the App doesn't work. Even New Installation doesn't work. Any  ideas? 

phan_times

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Superuser Contribution Lost all of my downloaded songs!

Uploaded my Spotify app yesterday and I lost all of the music I had. The app is still using the 4GB of storage so the music's still there. How can I get it back without downloading it again? I don't have a good internet connection right now, please h...

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Uploaded my Spotify app yesterday and I lost all of the music I had. The app is still using the 4GB of storage so the music's still there. How can I get it back without downloading it again? I don't ...

jellyonaplate

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Solved!! No Bass / Bad equalizer when listening in car

So I have a thing that connects to the cassete in my 2001 audi's stock sound deck. I have a Galaxy s5. I can play sounds on youtube using my phone and the car's speakers, this sounds great, I can hear all of the base and different subtle layers of th...

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So I have a thing that connects to the cassete in my 2001 audi's stock sound deck. I have a Galaxy s5. I can play sounds on youtube using my phone and the car's speakers, this sounds great, I can hea...

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SD Card Issues

This has been going on for a few days now. I got a message saying something about storage being inaccessible and suddenly all my songs were no longer downloaded to my SD card. I checked and saw that my phone had, for whatever reason, revoked SD card ...

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This has been going on for a few days now. I got a message saying something about storage being inaccessible and suddenly all my songs were no longer downloaded to my SD card. I checked and saw that ...

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Why are things not easy to karioki from spotify, its easy enough to subvert with a mic.

Hi I just want to be able to use my Studio Irig Microphone To sing with Spotify and record video and sound on The EZ Voice app and be Live. Is your lyrics setting not good enough or something? Wasent there Tunewiki. This would result in me being able...

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Hi I just want to be able to use my Studio Irig Microphone To sing with Spotify and record video and sound on The EZ Voice app and be Live. Is your lyrics setting not good enough or something? Wasent...

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How can I check the number of how many songs there are in a playlist.

I remember that there was an indicator on how many songs there were in a playlist. I wanted to keep track of number of songs in my playlist but that somehow magically disappeared. Why?

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I remember that there was an indicator on how many songs there were in a playlist. I wanted to keep track of number of songs in my playlist but that somehow magically disappeared. Why?

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Storage

I looked at my storage on my cellphone and I had 9,0 gb of cache with the Spotify application, but I have 0 downloaded songs, only saved songs. How is it possible ?

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I looked at my storage on my cellphone and I had 9,0 gb of cache with the Spotify application, but I have 0 downloaded songs, only saved songs. How is it possible ?

phan_times

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Spotify App Size

Hi guys, Just updated the app to version 8.4.38.621 and it's using 2.4 GB of my phone's internal storage/memory, which seems excessive. Can anyone please confirm whether this is normal? Thanks,Jonny

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Hi guys,   Just updated the app to version 8.4.38.621 and it's using 2.4 GB of my phone's internal storage/memory, which seems excessive. Can anyone please confirm whether this is normal? &nb...

phan_times

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reinstating spotify after factory reset on android phone

hi, how do i reinstall spotify (premium) on android phone after doing a factory reset?thanks

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hi, how do i reinstall spotify (premium) on android phone after doing a factory reset? thanks

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Next button not working

Was working fine until the most recent update. Before when I was streaming from my phone on my vehicle I could hit next and it'll go to the next song. Not anymore. I tried restarting my phone and tried it in two cars and a set of headphones and next ...

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Was working fine until the most recent update.   Before when I was streaming from my phone on my vehicle I could hit next and it'll go to the next song. Not anymore. I tried restarting my phon...

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Superuser Contribution Avoiding Recommendations

Hi! I read that it won't play any recommendations when you're using a playlist > 12 songs.Is that still a thing? I'm still getting those, though...I don't mind being restricted to shuffle only. Is this some not-premium-issue? Appreciating any help

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Hi!    I read that it won't play any recommendations when you're using a playlist > 12 songs. Is that still a thing? I'm still getting those, though... I don't mind being restri...

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Falha ao Entrar

Sai da minha conta enquanto offline, e agora quando tento entrar novamente aparece o o aviso "sua definição atual é offline, fique online para se conectar ao Spotify", oq devo fazer?

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Sai da minha conta enquanto offline, e agora quando tento entrar novamente aparece o o aviso "sua definição atual é offline, fique online para se conectar ao Spotify", oq devo fazer?

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Solved!! Airplay or DLNA push from android devices?

Hi Spotify and Community! I've been a longtime user of Spotify on the iPhone, but have just bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 with Android 4.0.4. The feature I currently miss the most, is the possibility of playing music on my mobile device and pushing the ...

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Hi Spotify and Community! 🙂   I've been a longtime user of Spotify on the iPhone, but have just bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 with Android 4.0.4. The feature I currently miss the most, is the po...

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Different songs in PC and android

Hi everyone,I have a student premium account. I can't understand why some songs are not available in the android app, but they are available in the PC app. Here's an example. Can anyone explain me? Thanks everyone!

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Hi everyone, I have a student premium account. I can't understand why some songs are not available in the android app, but they are available in the PC app. Here's an example. Can anyone explain me?...

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Certain ad causing issues

The yahoo live ad keeps coming on, when it does it doesn't play anything. The timer keeps moving saying it's playing and never goes to the next song. It won't let you play another playlist until after it completes, had this happen 4 times just today ...

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The yahoo live ad keeps coming on, when it does it doesn't play anything. The timer keeps moving saying it's playing and never goes to the next song. It won't let you play another playlist until afte...

Abzanafenza

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Spotify app doesn't work

Hello. I can't open the Spotify app anymore on my phone. I have a black screen, sometimes it's with the green loading circle. It doesn't respond. I removed it and downloaded again, didn't help.I have a Xiaomi red note 4.

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Hello.  I can't open the Spotify app anymore on my phone. I have a black screen, sometimes it's with the green loading circle. It doesn't respond. I removed it and downloaded again, didn't help...

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Takes forever to download songs

I was using Spotify today when I realized all the songs I downloaded before, isn't downloaded now. I pressed download all again when I found out it takes 15 minutes just to download 3 songs. I don't know if this is happening because I'm in China, but...

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I was using Spotify today when I realized all the songs I downloaded before, isn't downloaded now. I pressed download all again when I found out it takes 15 minutes just to download 3 songs. I don't ...

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Solved!! Storage setting cleared on phone restart - all downloads lost

I select the SD card in the Spotify storage settings and then download some songs. They correctly show as downloaded and the 'Currently using' entry increases to indicate they have been stored on the SD card.However, when I restart the phone and then...

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I select the SD card in the Spotify storage settings and then download some songs. They correctly show as downloaded and the 'Currently using' entry increases to indicate they have been stored on the...

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Wie kann man in der Android App die Wiedergabe beenden?

Ich wuerde gern die Option Crossfading aendern. Das geht aber nicht da diese Option waehrend einer Wiedergabe ausgegraut ist.Wie kann ich die Weidergabe beenden? Im Player habe ich keine Moeglichkeit gefunden.Ein Neustart pausiert zwar die Weidergabe...

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Ich wuerde gern die Option Crossfading aendern. Das geht aber nicht da diese Option waehrend einer Wiedergabe ausgegraut ist. Wie kann ich die Weidergabe beenden? Im Player habe ich keine Moeglichke...

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is there any way to play "your likes" like a playlist, rather than just 10 second previews?

on the latest pc version of Spotify, I can see all of my liked music and play it like one continuous playlist. on the mobile version, however, it will only allow me to play 10-second song previews and there seems to be no way of fixing the issue shor...

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on the latest pc version of Spotify, I can see all of my liked music and play it like one continuous playlist. on the mobile version, however, it will only allow me to play 10-second song previe...

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