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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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Organize messageboard

The messageboard in here is a total mess. Am I supposed to browse through 640 threads only in Android section? madness. Why aren't there mandatory sub-categories? Even only 5 or less categories would help a lot. What is the definition of 'Labels' and...

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The messageboard in here is a total mess.   Am I supposed to browse through 640 threads only in Android section?  madness.   Why aren't there mandatory sub-categories? Even only 5...

Joe

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Music/Playlists Downloading Randomly on Cellular

A few times now i've experienced my Spotify app (on android) will suddenly start updating and downloading a load of playlists when i am off Wifi (using a 4G connection) even through my settings have "Download using cellular" set to Off. Last month, a...

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A few times now i've experienced my Spotify app (on android) will suddenly start updating and downloading a load of playlists when i am off Wifi (using a 4G connection) even through my settings have ...

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1 song

Lately spotify plays one song then stops, i cant play another cause it tells me i need premium if i want ad free music? The app has been down for 10 + hours on my phone. Then other times it plays 30 seconds of a song then stops..mmkaay. hey its free ...

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Lately spotify plays one song then stops, i cant play another cause it tells me i need premium if i want ad free music? The app has been down for 10 + hours on my phone.  Then other times it pla...

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OASIS' albums cant be played

I have all the available albums downloaded on my s7, but cant manage to play them. It happen only with oasis' albums, whether they are downloaded or not, online or offline...My friends can easily play this music, so I cant really figure out whats goi...

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I have all the available albums downloaded on my s7, but cant manage to play them. It happen only with oasis' albums, whether they are downloaded or not, online or offline...My friends can easily pla...

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Can't listen to certain songs

I can't listen to songs that i've been able to hear before. My husband can listen to these songs. I have spotify premium.

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I can't listen to songs that i've been able to hear before. My husband can listen to these songs. I have spotify premium.

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Can't download music to SD card

I can't get Spotify to download music to my SD card and am running out of options. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Spotify as well as deleting downloaded music and moving com.spotify.music folder from internal storage to SD card - this gives...

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I can't get Spotify to download music to my SD card and am running out of options. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Spotify as well as deleting downloaded music and moving com.spotify.music f...

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I paid premium but it isn't working

I already paid my premium subscription and the app says that i have 29 days before go online but it gives me the option "go premium" too, what do i have to do?

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I already paid my premium subscription and the app says that i have 29 days before go online but it gives me the option "go premium" too, what do i have to do?  

Luke

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Unable to play certain Artists

Whenever i click on a song published by certain artists i am unable to play the songs. The bottom bar disappears and no music plays. When i go to artist page and click shuffle on tracks they are featured on play. These are all major artist such as Fu...

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Whenever i click on a song published by certain artists i am unable to play the songs. The bottom bar disappears and no music plays. When i go to artist page and click shuffle on tracks they are feat...

Ryan445

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Home Screen not loading

Hey everyone, So I got a new phone and ever since I started using the app on this phone, my Spotify home screen does not load and it is always showing this messsge - "Sorry, something went wrong. That didn't work. Please have another go." The rest of...

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Hey everyone,   So I got a new phone and ever since I started using the app on this phone, my Spotify home screen does not load and it is always showing this messsge - "Sorry, something went w...

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Spotify resets phone and removes all downloads

On my android phone, I have about 1,300 songs saved. One day, spotify restarted my phone while I was listening to music and all my saved songs were gone, like someone went and manually unselected all my playlists' "download" button. This happened on ...

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On my android phone, I have about 1,300 songs saved.  One day, spotify restarted my phone while I was listening to music and all my saved songs were gone, like someone went and manually unselect...

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Solved!! CAN'T PLAY SPOTIFY MUSIC ON BOSE

Suddenly I cannot play any of my spotify music on my Bose. Both Bose and spotify apps are up to date and connected to our wifi. Other family have no problem with their music, it only affects me! I have uninstalled and re-installed both apps several t...

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Suddenly I cannot play any of my spotify music on my Bose. Both Bose and spotify apps are up to date and connected to our wifi. Other family have no problem with their music, it only affects me! I ha...

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Cant listen to or queue

This is my first month of premium and its OK. It just seems buggy. Some of my music doesnt download, and the main issue is, I cant get certain songs to play. Some songs cannot be put into queue at all it just states "this content cannot be put in que...

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This is my first month of premium and its OK. It just seems buggy. Some of my music doesnt download, and the main issue is, I cant get certain songs to play. Some songs cannot be put into queue at al...

Joe

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App stops mid-song/some songs not playing

Ever since the last update, I've had all songs by some artists (The Cars, for example) stop playing. Also, in the middle of a song, it will just stop (the song, not the app) and I'll have to switch to a different song to get the app to start working ...

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Ever since the last update, I've had all songs by some artists (The Cars, for example) stop playing. Also, in the middle of a song, it will just stop (the song, not the app) and I'll have to switch t...

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Can't play specific artist

Hi, I'm unable to play any songs by Metallica on Android devices. I can see the catalogue but can't play any songs. I've tried reinstalling but to no avail. I'm running spotify v8.4.23.784 and android v8.0. Thanks.

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Hi, I'm unable to play any songs by Metallica on Android devices. I can see the catalogue but can't play any songs. I've tried reinstalling but to no avail. I'm running spotify v8.4.23.784 and androi...

Joe

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Spotify logging out and wiping files when battery dies

Whenever the battery on my Moto G5 dies when I turn it back on it's logged me out and wiped everything. I try logging in but it tells me I must be connected and to go online. I try but it just keeps looping saying I need to connect. Tried it on numer...

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Whenever the battery on my Moto G5 dies when I turn it back on it's logged me out and wiped everything. I try logging in but it tells me I must be connected and to go online. I try but it just keeps ...

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cache clearing
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Storage Issue

I was short on storage for an Android update, so instead of deleting some albums, I uninstalled the whole app. But then it just freed the amount of storage taken by the app itself, not the songs. I couldn't find the files to manually delete them. (Th...

Casual Listener

I was short on storage for an Android update, so instead of deleting some albums, I uninstalled the whole app. But then it just freed the amount of storage taken by the app itself, not the ...

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Some music not playing

Hi there! I've been trying to listen to Justin Timberlake on both my android mobile device and on my windows laptop. However, none of songs seem to be working. It does seem to only be his songs however as everything else is working normally! I have s...

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Hi there! I've been trying to listen to Justin Timberlake on both my android mobile device and on my windows laptop. However, none of songs seem to be working. It does seem to only be his songs howev...

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AUTOPLAY

Dear Spotify. Today was THEE LAST DAY I put up with your auto play on my phone while connected to the bluetooth in my car. I know £15.00 pm is not a lot of money to a big company like yourself, nevertheless, I will be cancelling my subscription with ...

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Dear Spotify.   Today was THEE LAST DAY I put up with your auto play on my phone while connected to the bluetooth in my car. I know £15.00 pm is not a lot of money to a big company like yourse...

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I bought premium but it's not working

I bought premium but I can't use it. my Spotify still look like a free acc

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I bought premium but I can't use it. my Spotify still look like a free acc 

Joe

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