Mark playlist for offline sync?

[jkelly37]

Plan

Premium

Operating System

iOS 14

My Question or Issue

I have some local files that I have on my laptop and I managed to get them in the playlist I want. However, I cannot play these songs on my iPhone despite having the playlist downloaded on both devices. My Spotify app says to "Mark the playlist containing this song for Offline Sync" but I cannot find this option anywhere. I have googled this issue a lot but nothing is working and there are no updated solutions that I can find.

[terzo333]

I'm having this exact same issue, it is ridiculous. I have local network switched to on, I have downloaded both on PC and on mobile, I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, I have tried opening and closing, I have all the right local files settings on on both devices. It still won't work. This is infuriating. 

[Yordan]

Hi folks,

As mentioned previously by @Kiril, some changes to how local files are handled were introduced in July. Currently it's no longer possible to wirelessly sync local files from your PC to your phone. Instead, the files have to be manually imported on the phone in order to be played by Spotify.

More info can be found in this article.

Hope this clears things up. Take care.

[hofvbedyzl18rjux02ff]

I am still having the same problem with one playlist yet the other one won’t download

Also when I shared the file with a friend he got the same message.

He has the original files on his phone.

so frustrating 🙈

[Wooop]

Try going to the app and allowing local files in settings. U have to allow local files to be accessed in the Spotify iOS app

[lloydt888]

Thank you, you are a gift, finally a simple solution.

[69finn]

i have done literally everything in this thread and it still will not work i just want to listen to my music maannnnn

[bai23]

Exactly the same here, it plays on my laptop and shows on my iPhone but it won’t let me play it

[PlatinumShadowRayn]

still doesnt work, its on the same wifi, with premium. with show local files on on both my phone and laptop, and it doesnt give me the option to turn on "sync" it doesnt let me turn any playlist offline, downloading the playlist doesnt work either nothing works and ive been trying for the last 4 hours

[adbie]

I converted the song from mpeg format to mp3 and finally got it to sync to my iPhone.

Before the conversion, the song could only be played on my MacBook Pro but always failed to sync to my iPhone. No error, just that same unhelpful message that everyone saw -- "mark playlist for offline sync blah blah blah".

[Jermy2]

How do I convert the songs from WAV to mp3

[Jermy2]

On MacBook btw

[owenleko]

You have left us for 2 years without a resolution to this issue, I've attempted all of you and your colleagues suggestions yet none of them work. This is a spotify premium feature, why does it not work, and if it does, why is it extremely difficult to access??