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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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While I was using the DJ the other day, the button to skip a set was accidentally pressed. I pressed back to listen to the set again, but since then it hasn't played a set of songs similar to that (old school hip hop) despite me having loads of it in...
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After a while of not playing music with Spotify whenever I go to press play from the pull down notification tab on my phone it will occasionally not play what it says is in the greyed out window and then start playing pop music from artists that I ha...
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Spotify plays songs not added to the queue, Smartshuffle is turned off, And it also at random starts to play music if the app is active as background process.It actually changes at random times to completely different albums and wipes my queue, To mu...
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On 2019 Shield TV Pro, when Spotify app is closed music keeps playing/pausing when play/pause button played on Shield Tv remote
On 2019 Shield TV Pro, when Spotify app is closed music keeps playing/pausing when play/pause button played on Shield Tv remote
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Since updating to v. 8.9.6.458 bluetooth device in use (BT headphones, BT speaker) no longer shown. Only "local device - this phone" is shown. No issues with the playback on the bt device.
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My Sangean Radio appears in the list of devices which can be used in the app, but it doesn't connect. Up until recently this worked fine for years...
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This is obviously in the wrong category but I didn't see where else to post it. The new car mode UI is bad. Looks great, like a desktop UI should, but is about as far away from driver friendly as you can get. The old one was was simple, the new one h...
This is obviously in the wrong category but I didn't see where else to post it. The new car mode UI is bad. Looks great, like a desktop UI should, but is about as far away from driver ...
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Some of the settings are not activated, I can't change them, not always, but right now, why?
Some of the settings are not activated, I can't change them, not always, but right now, why?
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When I opened Spotify a few hours ago on my phone, it was locked in car mode. I was only able to get the minimalist look without having the previous interface. When I tried to turn off car mode in the settings, it wouldn't turn off. I have tried disa...
When I opened Spotify a few hours ago on my phone, it was locked in car mode. I was only able to get the minimalist look without having the previous interface. When I tried to turn off car mode in th...
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Ok, so i let kids in my art class play songs from spotify, but i cant remember to turn on private session every time (well, i need to prepare my classes, so it's not a priority). So my recommendations are insane like kids on steroides with dépression...
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I was listening to songs from the "song radio" option and adding loads to my main playlist, during a car ride and using mobile data. 2ish days later all the songs I added dissappeared and none of them are in my listening history. I remember adding al...
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