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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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Spotify freezes on start on Sony A1 TV (Android TV)

I downloaded today the latest version of Spotify on my Sony A1 55" TV. As soon as i open the app, it freezes. I only see black screen, no spotify logo or anything related. It just hangs there. I opened Spotify on my iPhone and it finds the TV as a de...

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  • I downloaded today the latest version of Spotify on my Sony A1 55" TV. As soon as i open the app, it freezes. I only see black screen, no spotify logo or anything related. It just hangs there. I open...
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When I try to open playlist, it bounces straight to Discover Weekly so I cant open playlists. Help

I go to hit playlists and when I do I briefly see them...maybe for a second and then Spotify bounces me straight to discover weekly. I just cannot access playlists anymore . Yesterday at 3pm all was good, then at 6 pm the Discover Weekly thing starte...

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  • I go to hit playlists and when I do I briefly see them...maybe for a second and then Spotify bounces me straight to discover weekly. I just cannot access playlists anymore . Yesterday at 3pm all was ...
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New Test Update

Is there any way to opt out when spotify tests a new update on my account? They recently are testing one that I really dislike. It has several problems including not shuffling full playlists or being able to follow my friends. Before, the shuffling p...

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  • Is there any way to opt out when spotify tests a new update on my account? They recently are testing one that I really dislike. It has several problems including not shuffling full playlists or being...
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Can't play Spotify via Bluetooth headset

Whenever I pair my bluetooth headphone (Remax RB - S5 ) with my phone (P9). Spotify doesn't play via the headphone, instead the audio can be heard on the phone speaker. It's quite odd, why there's a need for me to reboot my phone first for me to hear...

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  • Whenever I pair my bluetooth headphone (Remax RB - S5 ) with my phone (P9). Spotify doesn't play via the headphone, instead the audio can be heard on the phone speaker. It's quite odd, why there's a ...
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Solved!! Spotify instantly pausing

So I could be listening to music when it suddenly stops playing. I click resume and it can instantly pause or pause after 1 or 2 seconds. **bleep** is going on here???I reinstalled cleared cache and log out. Restarted phone and it stil happens

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  • So I could be listening to music when it suddenly stops playing. I click resume and it can instantly pause or pause after 1 or 2 seconds. **bleep** is going on here??? I reinstalled cleared cache an...
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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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