Won't sync local files, says it's pending all the time

[NolanDahl]

I updated to the latest version, and was playing around and pressed that button that said "Available Offline" at the top of the local files playlist on your iPhone, then switched it back. After that all the songs disappeared in my local files playlist on my phone. When I got home I tried to resync everything but when I go to "Devices" --> "My iPhone" and check the local files box to sync them, it just says "pending". I use the free version by the way.

I've tried reinstalling desktop/iPhone app, syncing over 3G, different internet connections, and I have 16G of free space. If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it, thanks!

[Wolftacular]

I've got the exact same problem. I'm using regular (free) Spotify, but whenever I want to sync my local files to my iPhone 4, Spotify just lists the playlist as pending. I've tried syncing different playlists, fewer songs, different WiFi networks, personal hotspot, reinstalling... I'm out of ideas. It just doesn't seem to want to work for me, which is a shame since I was considering getting a premium account

[Wolftacular]

Help? Anyone?

[MichaelJerzak]

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@Wolftacular wrote:

Help? Anyone?

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playlist pending you say? can you provide me with a screenshot?

[NolanDahl]

Here's what it looks like. It looks the same when I choose "sync all music to this device" too. Let me know if the picture is too small to read 

[KristineW]

I have the exact same problem and I have the Premium version.

I really hope someone finds a solution 🙂

[MichaelJerzak]

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@KristineW wrote:

I have the exact same problem and I have the Premium version.

I really hope someone finds a solution 🙂

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Spotify is working on it 🙂

[Adam]

If you add your local files to individual playlists, syncing those individual playlists for offline use should work just fine. It might not be ideal but it should work.

[NolanDahl]

Thanks for the help. I've tried selecting "Manually choose playlists to sync", then trying to sync one of the playlists I have in that picture above, and it still didn't work. Thanks for the idea though.

edit: When I try it it goes back to saying the local files are pending again and switches the dot back to "Sync all music to this device" option

[user-removed]

I am having the same issue and no one from Spotify has emailed me back. I pay for Spotify Premium and will be cancelling VERY soon if no one can bother to tell me how to sync my local files. It worked with my iphone 4, now that I have an iphone 5 it doesn't. With both my phone and computer on same network, it just says "pending." It won't sync local files in my playlists, if i click to play to song in the playlist it tells me I need to sync local files first. I have sent several emails to Spotify, someone please get back to me. jemappellelaura@gmail.com.

[devilinc666]

I've been having the same issue ever since the new updat of spotify for iphone/ipad. constantly on pending on both devices, not to mention when i updated, it wiped my entire sync files! And now it won't do anything.

spotify for ios 4 does sync though with no problems

[NolanDahl]

The Spoitfy iOS 4 app works for me too, thanks

[sepp0 · Accepted solution]

What sort of fixed it for me was to add all my local files to a playlist and sync that playlist!

Syncing local files that aren't in another playlist doesn't seem to work.

At least it's a workaround

[stepie9138]

hey! i see you are having the same problem i did! i have an inspiron from dell and i installed spotify on my phone apparently i have an iphone 4 and its updated to date so idk what was the problem i googled a lot of things and i finally came up with the answer! all i had to do was reset my phone and delete the full spotify app instead of downloading the one with the black background download the spotify app iOS4 then you can download playlists from local files! All you do is turn on available offline on the local files playlist and it works!! Apparently it wont work for local files you would have to make a playlist including all the songs from local files then it will work! If it doesnt im sorry but thats what worked for me i heard maybe you dont have enough storage on your phone for it i dont know but maybe this helps hopefully you solve the problem c:

~stephanie

[Nicky_Lanzz]

I did this as well, although the new spotify app looks gorgeous for IOS 7 I guess I will be using this till a fix rolls out.

[gabe487]

Hello everyone, I have been having this issue and trying to solve it for days. Somehow, today after tinkering a bit it started working in explicably. First here is my hardware:

Macbook Pro (circa 2008) with Mac OS X Lion

Iphone 4s

External Hard drive

Cisco router

Here's everything I did.

Renewed DHCP lease several times. (Open Network Preferences, click Advanced, go to TCP/IP tab, click renew DHCP lease

Connected my external hard drive to the computer where some of my music (not all) is. I hadn't done this before today. It probably had nothing to do with anything.

Updated the app on the phone through the app store, again. I had done this on Friday (4 days ago) but today there was another update available evidently, so I did it.

Made sure Itunes was not open in the background on the Macbook.

Last, went into Spotify preferences, and clicked "Disconnect from Facebook"

I'm not sure what made it work, but I think its an issue with my Macbook's wireless card and my router. I have issues with it all the time. Maybe some of you have an old macbook like me and this is the cause. I've found over the years that old wireless network adapters and new routers never get along the best.

Hope this helps someone else, and futhermore I hope mine sticks. Its seems fickle.

[gabe487]

Well I got home from work tonight to see if Spotify could still see my iphone and sure enough, it does not. 

EDIT

BUT, then I tried something that I forgot to mention in the earlier post. I created a network from my Macbook.

1) Click the Wireless icon on the top toolbar, select "Create network...."

2) Leave everything default, click OK

3) On your phone, join this network.

Now here is the nonsensical part.

4) Go back to the Wireless icon on your macbook and reconnect to your normal Router network

5) Do the same thing on your phone

6) Close Spotify on both the phone and computer (completely; on the Macbook its just Apple key+Q, on the phone, you double click the Home button, then hold your finger over the spotify icon until it jiggles with the minus sign, click the minus sign.)

7) relaunch spotify, and log out of both phone and computer, then log in

At this point my Mac started seeing my iphone.

[G-0wen]

I've had luck with the pending status by creating a new playlist (called mine 'Temp') and added all of my local files to it. Then going into sync and ticking both that playlist and local files.

Not ideal fix but it works better than all the other systems I've read. I'm not sure what happens when I delete the 'Temp' playlist after sync. I'm just going to keep it on the bottom of my playlist list as a neccesary convienience.

G

edit: Running latest desktop client on i7 iMac and latest iPhone client on iOS7 iPhone5. Local files stored in dropbox Sync folder.

[binotron]

not true, that doesn't work, I've seen this problem on many discussions but no solution

Im premium user and my problem started when I got an iphone 5 , 4 was working just fine even with ISO7

Any solution? 

[gregsyr]

Obviously it's been months, and Spotify still didn't solve the issue.