FireTV won't play personal music / says "restricted content"

[Patukka]

Plan. Premium

Country. USA.

Device. iPhone SE. 15.3.1

Operating System. MacOS Monterey. 12.2.1.

FireTV Gen 2. Spotify App 1.52

My Question or Issue:   I uploaded CDs of music not available on Spotify to my desktop and then connected the music/playlists to my iPhone.  So far so good.  I can listen to the music on my phone and in my car with CarPlay.  I then opened up my FireTV and none of the music will play.  All the tracks say "restricted content."  Tried restarting and reloading Spotify on the FireTV stick but no change.  Is there a fix to this issue?  I searched the forums and online but didn't come across this issue.

[CarlosE]

Hi @Patukka,

Thank you for posting on the Community.

At the moment, local files aren't available in TVs. However, we suggest searching in our Ideas board to see if anyone has suggested a similar idea. If there aren't any, you can submit your own idea with the steps you'll find here, so other users can then vote for it and add to the conversation to show their support.

You can read more about how feedback on ideas reaches Spotify here.

Cheers!

[Patukka]

Thank you for your response. Much appreciated.  

It's a pity that Spotify is universal across platforms.  In my case, my "TV" is my "stereo, radio, podcast" player, so as much as I am all in on Spotify, its a problem that it doesn't  work at premium capacity for home use.

[Jeremy]

Hi there @Patukka,

Thank you for your reply and feedback.

We understand that things can feel frustrating when things don't work as you'd like them to. Rest assured that we're always trying to improve as we always strive to improve our features.

There's currently an idea - [All Platforms][Connect] Listen to local files on all platforms. You can leave a +VOTE and Subscribe to the thread for any updates regarding this.

We hope for your understanding and that you continue using Spotify and find it gets better in the future.

Once again - thanks for the feedback, we appreciate it. Let us know if we can help you with anything else. 

Take care!