Can't add local songs to playlists

[LuxWFC]

Description

I cannot add any songs from my computer to my Spotify playlists. If you drag the song to a playlist it will say "copy" but the song will not add. To make it clear I am dragging songs from a folder, not another device or iTunes. It did and still does work on previous versions.

A more detailed description, using numbered steps

1. I tried to add local songs to my Spotify playlists

2. I restarted my PC and have reinstalled Spotify several times.

What I expected to happen

For it to add the song to the playlist.

What actually happened

Nothing, it doesn't add the track. Depending on what I have set as my default media player, that will open up (e.g. VLC player) and the song will load on that.

The problem does NOT occur when

I downgrade Spotify to an earlier version. I've been going back to Version 0.9.15.27

When I do this I can add local songs absolutely fine, no problems.

My Operating System

Windows 8.1

Is your Operating System 32 or 64 bit?

64 bit

My Spotify version

The current one, 1.0.1.986

My internet provider and country

Virgin, UK.

Did you do a clean install of your current Windows version or did you upgrade from a previous version?

No.

My username

LuxWFC

Any help would be appreciated... thanks

[LuxWFC]

I guess nobody knows how to fix this then 😕

[bleuswift]

Having the same issue. This is an important feature for me.

EDIT: They have taken out the "drag and drop" functionality and replaced it with the "Local files" section on the left navigation. Make sure the directory with your music is added in settings and then you'll find the files there.

[MattSuda · Accepted solution]

Drag and drop support for local files is not supprted in the new version.
Spotify plans to bring some features back, but it is currently not known if the feature you mentioned will be coming back.

You can still add local files to Spotify. Go into the settings and under "Local Files" you can import the source folder that contains the local files.

After you do that, the local files will appear in the "Local Files" section.

Find the song and then drag it over to a playlist.

[markdavies]

Wow that's really annoying. Especially seeing as sometimes songs won't appear in the local files list even if you specifically include its folder in the source folder list. Restarting doesn't help...

Surely drag and drop is a relatively easy feature to add...? 🙂

[odinsn]

does anyone know how to fix the problem with songs not appearing in local files even if the folder it's in is specifically listed as a source? only about half of the songs from an album i'm trying to sync actually appears in spotify's local files.

[azz710]

Mr. Suda,

I expect you'll tell me that you don't have any connection with Spotify, but as you appear to speak for them and have some sort of pipeline to Spotify news, I'll reply to you.

This is no way to write software or, for that matter bring any product to market.  Drag and drop is trivial.  You know how to do it and it's worked for years.  When Rhapsody stopped fixing bugs in its Windows client, I switched to Spotify Premium as it had Rhapsody's features and more but appeared to function better.  I started with MTV's URGE service, which worked beautifully as it was integrated into the Windows Media Player.  When URGE folded, I was shunted to Rhapsody and, as I say, switched to Spotify.

All three services allowed me easily to mix local files with streamed content, something which is a requirement for me.  But if Spotify is going to continue to mess-up its interface, removing two features for each feature it adds, I'll just switch to Google Play Music. 

This is not rocket science.  Rather, it is, simply and plainly, bad planning and irresponsible product building.  I'm paying monthly to use Spotify and I want what I pay for.

Jeff Broido

[Besties5Ever]

on the right hand side got to Local Playlist and all of your songs should be there , if there not then go to settings and scroll down and choose the file you music is in , to add music to a playlist press on the 3 dots next to the songs and point to the "Add To Playlist" selection and choose the playlist , hope this helps ;]

[Mosquito43]

I might move to Apple music instead of Spotify if they will not fix this issue.