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Local files cannot be added to specific playlist?
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Plan
Premium
Country
USA
Device
iPhone 13 pro
Operating System
iOS 16.6
My Question or Issue
I have 52 local files i put on my spotify, they are all playable. I want to add them to a specific playlist, but they won’t show up. they do show up if i add them to any other playlist.
let’s refer to the issue playlist as “playlist boi”
- playlist boi has 1,440 songs without the local files added
- local files play and appear just fine when adding to ANY of my other playlists
- after i add them to playlist boi, they do not appear, not even in the grey unplayable way.
- they will still show they’re added to playlist boi, and the count will show 1492.
- when viewing playlist boi on my bf’s phone, the songs DO appear in the grey unplayable way.
- i tried adding the local files to their own playlist, then merging the 1440 songs into that one. this worked for the night, when i opened the app the next day, they were gone again (but still showed the song count as 1492 as if they were added)
- in the new playlist, it still has the album icons from the local files as the overall cover for the playlist
i spent a lot of time gathering music from my childhood together and those 52 songs are a part of it… i just wasted a LOT of time if this glitch can’t be fixed.
in the attachments you can see the icons. i used a generic purple moon photo as the cover for local songs that didn’t otherwise have a pic, so they’re a good point of reference
pic 1: shows songs are playable in local files
pic 2: shows that it already appears as added to playlist boi
pic 3: shows playlist boi, with the local file icons as if they were the first songs. alas, they are not the first songs (or anywhere else)



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