[Your Music] Add LOCAL FILES to Your Music

[HjalteRMC]

First of, I'm a huge fan of the new layout. 

But as the title says I'd like to add my own beloved local files to the "Your Music". I don't see why this shouldn't be a possibilty. This way I don't need to have one master playlist, I can just have all the music I like under "Your Music -> Songs".

Also, as suggested earlier, changing the font size could be usable to many people.

[blakhmi]

I really hate the Google Music UI/UX though, which is enough to not go with
it.

[ericramirez]

Spotify is literally ran by bafoons. I've been making trial account under multiple emails over two years or so just so I can see if they've finally added this functionality.

It's to the point where I'm running out of emails to make trial premium accounts to check for this one simple functionality. Apple Music doesn't segregate my local files like this, and this is the only reason I cannot pay monthly for Spotify. It's PATHETIC how they *STILL* haven't added this. 

I could never switch from Apple Music to Spotify, no matter what else Spotify thinks could ever make up for it.

[vladletter]

Actually I'm still not a "real" Spotify user and this is a nogo for me for subscription if this feature doesn't exist 🙂

[Childishforlife]

You are very easily able to add local files to your music, just takes a little bit of effort.

[vladletter]

Actually I think there is maybe a misunderstanding.

I want to add artists on Spotify automatically based on what the source i have added locally. May be its not the subject of this page.

It doesn't exist and I don't want to spend my time doing that, it's why Im using soundcloud + my local source and no spotify for now.

[Childishforlife]

Spotify allows you to add a folder as a 'source`, and any music files you add to that file will be useable on Spotify (as long as you are on the same wifi network).


After they have been synced you can listen to it at any time if you have wifi/data, or have downloaded for offline play.

[vladletter]

This is not my need. My need is to get rid of local files and have everything synced with Spotify cloud sources.

For the artists Spotify cannot find equivalence in its database, it can skip this syncing by notifying me of course.

The goal of spotify is to go in full cloud right...

[Childishforlife]

To be honest I have no clue what you are trying to do.

Are you saying that you want Spotify to match all of your local file songs so you can stream them, instead of having them local?

The only point of having local songs is to have songs that Spotify does not have. Spotify doesn't have every song out there, so for songs they don't have you add them locally.  

[vladletter]

Ok let me rephrase it:

- I've never used spotify or never had any cloud subscription whatsoever

- I've a huge local music collection

- I'd like to go full cloud

How can I tell to Spotify to scan my local files and add to my favorites everything i had locally?

My question is not : "what is the point of having local files?"

My question is: "what is the point of going full cloud if Spotify doesn't scan my local music to know what I listen to like Songkick is doing for instance...?"

[Sūrreālists]

To those that have no clue: when you have a phone full of your local files, there's no point in wasting some more space (caching) and data charges to listen to stuff you already have in an app you love (let's assume it's Spotify). Switch an app every time you have an itch for a particular file, stored locally, or pay an extra via data charges?

It would only add to the funcionality if Spotify supported those 100GB of local files, and took them into account when building DB on you/your preferences in music. But Spotify has shown that they do not want to add ANYTHING to please the core user - only filthy casuals are taken care of : )