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I bought a Huawei Mediapad T2 7.0 Pro tablet (7 "screen)For Spotify it is not a tablet but it is a smartphone.I can no longer listen to music in free mode.How do I make Spotify understand that my is a tablet and not a smartphone?Note: In the settings...
I bought a Huawei Mediapad T2 7.0 Pro tablet (7 "screen) For Spotify it is not a tablet but it is a smartphone. I can no longer listen to music in free mode. How do I make Spotify understand that ...
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Spotify does currently not support Max/Ultra power saving mode on android devices. It would be amazing if it did.
Spotify does currently not support Max/Ultra power saving mode on android devices. It would be amazing if it did.
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I would like to report a bug in the android version of the spotify app. I have not bought spotify, thus I receive advertisements whilst using your app, which is fine. However today I was unable to search for a different artist whilst listening. When ...
I would like to report a bug in the android version of the spotify app. I have not bought spotify, thus I receive advertisements whilst using your app, which is fine. However today I was una...
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When I make a playlist private on my phone, it stays public on my laptop and vice versa. However it doesn't show up in my "public playlists". I just want to know if people can see what playlist I'm listening to and if they can access it even though i...
When I make a playlist private on my phone, it stays public on my laptop and vice versa. However it doesn't show up in my "public playlists". I just want to know if people can see what playlist...
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I was laying down ready to sleep when my Spotify starts playing music on it's own. It played the last song my brother played earlier. We have a shared account, however he was not playing the song nor was the app opened on my phone. Can anyone explain...
I was laying down ready to sleep when my Spotify starts playing music on it's own. It played the last song my brother played earlier. We have a shared account, however he was not playing ...
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Hello, i have been using spotify on my phone for a while now, but a few weeks ago the phone suddenly started dying in the middle of the day. After some testing i have pinned it down to spotify using a lot of battery (while not showing this in battery...
Hello, i have been using spotify on my phone for a while now, but a few weeks ago the phone suddenly started dying in the middle of the day. After some testing i have pinned it down to spotify using ...
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HiI have a playlist of ~1000 songs that i cant get to shuffle properly on my android device. I have tried changing the sort by but no matter what i do i cannot get a random shuffle. For instance if it's sorted by title my play queue will show songs s...
Hi I have a playlist of ~1000 songs that i cant get to shuffle properly on my android device. I have tried changing the sort by but no matter what i do i cannot get a random shuffle. For instance if...
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My whole library has gotten deleted numerous times. It does it just randomly not like when I update Spotify but just randomly.
My whole library has gotten deleted numerous times. It does it just randomly not like when I update Spotify but just randomly.
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I recently boarded a flight and prepared to listen to offline music - only to find that all of my offline music from dozens of artists had been removed from my phone.What is going on here? I saw some other posts stating that the OS could delete songs...
I recently boarded a flight and prepared to listen to offline music - only to find that all of my offline music from dozens of artists had been removed from my phone. What is going on here? I saw so...
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hi! when i exit the app n enter other apps n then come back in again, there will be an advertisement that hangs so even if i click "more info" on the ad, the ad itself doesnt move but when i scroll up or down, the app moves accordingly but the ad sti...
hi! when i exit the app n enter other apps n then come back in again, there will be an advertisement that hangs so even if i click "more info" on the ad, the ad itself doesnt move but when i sc...
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Hi, Recently I've been experiencing an issue whereby when I switch off my phone (Samsung S8+), restart it, then go to Spotify to play the first song it suggests (i.e. the one I was listening too when my phone turned off). The song won't play when I p...
Hi, Recently I've been experiencing an issue whereby when I switch off my phone (Samsung S8+), restart it, then go to Spotify to play the first song it suggests (i.e. the one I was listening...
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The playlists I create and any other playlist don't shuffle even when I hit the shuffle button. It causes me to hear the same songs or to use up all my skips.
The playlists I create and any other playlist don't shuffle even when I hit the shuffle button. It causes me to hear the same songs or to use up all my skips.
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So today, the formatting of spotify on my android was really weird. On the bottom, it only displays Home, Search, and Your Playlists. When playing music, you see the album cover of the artist and the bottom description says the song that are included...
So today, the formatting of spotify on my android was really weird. On the bottom, it only displays Home, Search, and Your Playlists. When playing music, you see the album cover of the artist and the...
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I recently downloaded some songs from youtube that weren't on spotify into an mp3 and imported them into my local files on spotify, on my laptop they play just fine. However, on my android mobile whenever I go to them they appear greyed out and I can...
I recently downloaded some songs from youtube that weren't on spotify into an mp3 and imported them into my local files on spotify, on my laptop they play just fine. However, on my android mobile whe...
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I get logged out of my account every time that I restart my phone and I cannot get into my account when I try to. The only way I can get back in is to uninstall and then reinstall the app. The last time that I had to do that I lost 100+ songs that I ...
I get logged out of my account every time that I restart my phone and I cannot get into my account when I try to. The only way I can get back in is to uninstall and then reinstall the app. The last t...
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There's a problem trying to purchase the premium subscription by PayPal , It opens the webview inside the app , It makes well the login and get the info back to app but the app doesn't make any change and the payment doesn't work
There's a problem trying to purchase the premium subscription by PayPal , It opens the webview inside the app , It makes well the login and get the info back to app but the app doesn't make any chang...
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When I click video in curated play lists, it tries to open the video then just goes back to list without playing anything 1) Your device’s make, model, and operating system:Samsung S7 Edge SM-G935TAndroid v7. 02) The version of Spotify you’re using:V...
When I click video in curated play lists, it tries to open the video then just goes back to list without playing anything 1) Your device’s make, model, and operating system: Samsung S7 Edge&n...
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My phone is claiming there is no more space to download but there should be as I have 11gb free on an SD card. There doesn't seem to be an option to download tracks to SD anymore. Help!
My phone is claiming there is no more space to download but there should be as I have 11gb free on an SD card. There doesn't seem to be an option to download tracks to SD anymore. ...
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I was wondering if it is possible to sync my local files to multiple devices?For example, if I added a playlist to download on my phone, and my tablet would automatically download the same playlist automatically.
I was wondering if it is possible to sync my local files to multiple devices? For example, if I added a playlist to download on my phone, and my tablet would automatically download the same playlist...
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My bottom bar on my spotify app is missing my library , browse , radio
My bottom bar on my spotify app is missing my library , browse , radio
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