Daily mixes inconsistent on different devices

[D1m3b4g]

Plan

Premium

Country

England

Device

Phone 8 Plus

Chromebook/Web connection

Operating System

iOS/ChromeOS Chrome Browser

My Question or Issue

Daily mixes are not showing the same songs on different devices.

This has been reported before:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Daily-Mix-is-different-from-smartphone/td-p/4525942

but the thread appears closed and I can't add to it.

To confirm - logging out and back in again does nothing, it makes no difference the songs are still totally different on my mixes. Can this be fixed please, it makes jumping seamlessly between devices impossible.

Thanks

P

[D1m3b4g]

From what I can read above, this has been easily reproduced by users with two devices but the Spotify dev team apparently can't manage it?

Sounds like the app / interface needs a daily mix resync cycle whenever it becomes active again if it was left open. Unsure why this is such a problem to implement given it's been 5 years since I reported the issue, moderately disappointing.

[Badgersnadgers]

Just here to report that this is still an issue all these years later. Interesting that nobody at Spotify seems to care.

[Troubledmoth]

I can’t believe it’s September 14, 2024, 5 years since this issue was first reported on this thread (not even including the previous mentioned report about which was in 2018) and its still not fixed!

Spotify this is unacceptable!! How is it that so

many people can be having this issue but yall can’t seem to understand it or fix it?? Why are we paying for an app that is so buggy that you can’t even use a basic feature of said paid for app?? I’m bout to head over to pandora or something!

fix this issue!! 

[user528]

Same issue here. If I open one of my daily mix playlists in a browser, different tracks appear than in the spotify app. Guess we'll have to learn to live with that, seeing the activity on this 3y old thread. How hard can it be for a $90B company?

[164781643982]

I also have Daily Mix playlists out of sync between my devices. iPhone, Mac and web browser version are synced and work fine but Windows app is showing different tracks. If, while playing audio via the Windows device speakers, I try to play a different track by selecting it in the playlist view via one of the two Apple devices, Spotify on Windows says error "Spotify can't play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it" and stops playing music.

If I do it via the queue for the same track it's fine. It does this only when trying to play via the playlist view.

I'm also having the same issue for "[artistName] Radio" playlists.

Logging out/in, clearing cache, reinstalling, deleting folders and similar stuff doesn't work. It's not a device problem. It's a Spotify problem.

[divineraccoon]

Almost the end of January 2025. This is still a known and common defect for myself and many other users. The introduction of daylist perpetuates the defect and can now easily be visible when using the desktop app on a computer and the mobile app on a phone. The titles of daylist across the two devices can be close in the generated name but never identical. Songs on daylist across the two devices can be similar in genre but with different songs.

I'm a professional Quality Assurance tester in the IT industry with well over a decade of experience. This is definably a defect. It is common in my line of work for developers to deny and reject defects despite how easily they can be produced. Customer service representatives such as the moderators here are trained to derail and distract from known issues that developers can't fix. Developers will not fix this unless forced. They can only be forced with a project from those above them. If a project is not going to produce new revenue or prevent a loss of revenue, then it will not be pushed down to the developers.

This is a common problem in the industry and it is not surprising that there is no fix and instead the defect has extended to new features. Hilariously sad.

[victorpriest]

In my desktop app It's not syncing even inside the spotify app. If you check the playlist and the queue, they are completelly different. 

[subaiku]

Yup! Just here to confirm THIS IS STILL AN ISSUE IN 2025. 3 different devices, 3 different sets of Daily Mix. Sometimes (sometimes) 2 of the devices are in sync. My specs:

Macbook - 1.1.89.862.g94554d24

iPhone - 8.9.19

Android box - 9.0.56.591

[Ivelina]

Hey folks, 

Apologies for the radio silence and we appreciate your participation in the thread. 

We'd like to take a further look into this behavior of the inconsistency of the Daily Mixes playlists across devices and it would be very helpful if you could share with us the following details, if you've not already done so:

• Exact steps to reproduce the behavior (if you're using the Connect feature for example).
• What troubleshooting steps you've tried so far.
• Device(s) and the OS-version(s).
• Exact Spotify-version.
• Does this happen in the Web Player as well?
• Is the queue different on each device?
• Are the playlists sorted by the same order across devices?

Thanks and we'll be on the lookout.

[ARG_ON]

The issue is still reproducible. 

For me, the contents of Daily Mixes are consistent on desktop (between the app and the Web player), but in the Android app, the songs are completely different. 
Exact steps to reproduce are unclear, as the issue is quite random but consistent. 

The queue is different between devices, too. But not always. Sometimes it's the same, but gets messed up when I play the next song. 
Moreover, when I play music on desktop but then try to change the song using phone - the playback on PC stops completely (but only if I tapped the song that is present on the phone's queue, but not on the desktop). 

When I try to start playing a song on my PC using my phone, it doesn't start. In the desktop app, there's an error "Spotify can't play this right now...". So I literally can't control what I play on my PC from my phone. But only for the songs that are present on the phone's mix but are missing on PC. 

As for your question about sorting: some songs are completely missing on one device while being present on another, and vice versa, so I think sorting is irrelevant here. But the number of songs in the mix is always 50

Versions: 
Desktop: Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.74.477.g3be53afe

Android Phone: 9.0.88.1405 (latest as of the time of this post)