Multiple Local File Problems

[user-removed]

I've been having some trouble with my local files, both before and after i've tried changing song titles and other metadata.

- Whole albums just won't play (One album can only play the one song that I changed the title of. All of the other songs in the album I added with their track order. Another one can't play at all after I changed it's cover art). I've tried changing the titles for the others from the first album but I can't get them to work 

- Some songs play remasters or versions from other albums (Downloaded Infinite plays remastered Infinite and Just Don't Give A **bleep** from the Slim Shady EP plays the version from the Slim Shady LP)

- Some songs have cover art and titles from other tracks on spotify (eg. instead of having Logic it's M.C Logic & Instead of One its The One). There is no way to stop Spotify trying to search for the song in their database. Even if they do get it right now I can't see which songs are playing in the playlist. The last two problems could potentialy be solved by downloading an older spotify client that could delete spotifys suggestion.

- Now my local file section is filled with multiple versions of songs, half of which won't even play. There is no way to delete them.

I don't know what to do i've been troubleshooting for hours.

[Sebasty]

Hey, yes it sounds a bit as if Spotify's cache is messed up.

Try reinstalling the program. Here's how to.

Let me know what happens!

SebVAIO

[user-removed]

Thank you so much now everything is playing and my local file section isn't a mess. I still have trouble with spotify trying to give the songs cover art or link them to remasters but I'll try to fix that now by using an older spotify client

[user-removed]

**bleep**ing great. In doing that now i've somehow managed to create this new account. I can't access TheDanx. I'm gonna see if I can try and get some help now for this issue.

[TheDanx3 · Accepted solution]

Ok so this is OP with a 3rd account from support. I would like to show my solutions for these problems incase anyone else comese from google or wherever.

- Album won't play

- Local file filled with duplicates and is cluttered

Can all be solved by reinstalling spotify (thanks SebastVAIO) and/or deselecting and reselecting the file source from local files in preferences.

- Songs changing name

- Songs being replaced by different, incorrect versions

This wasn't really solved. It could potentially be done by using an older spotify client (pre v1 i believe). But this is what led to my account being lost so I probably would say be careful. Make sure your account isn't only linked to facebook as that may have been why the problem occured. I may try later using an older client to unlink songs. These issues have been reported also.

[TheDanx3]

So you can unlink tracks in versions pre v1, but that doesn't stay once you go back to the recent client, so idk what to do.

[Yungpumpgang]

Still Works in 2020. Just turn off the local file location in settings close spotify open it back up and turn it back on. Fixes it all.