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PlanPremiumCountryNorwayDeviceSamsung Galaxy s23 UltraOperating SystemAndroid 15 My Question or IssueI can't edit song positions on my phone anymore. Clicking edit doesnt let me move around my songs at all.
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Plan Premium Country Norway Device Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra Operating System Android 15 My Question or Issue I can't edit song positions on my phone anymore. Clicking edit doesnt let...
Billy-J
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited States of AmericaDevicePixel 6aOperating SystemAndroid 13 (the most recent version) I am not asking for help on this issue, as I’ve already tried everything I possibly can for my issues months before, and have been repeating ...
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Plan Premium Country United States of America Device Pixel 6a Operating System Android 13 (the most recent version) I am not asking for help on this issue, as I’ve already tried every...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry USADevice(Samsung Galaxy Operating System(Android 8.0.0 Oreo) My Question or IssueI have a Galaxy Note 8 and when I start scrolling on a playlist when the scroll bar appears and the three dots are next to it. I am unable to gr...
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Plan Free/Premium Country USA Device (Samsung Galaxy 😎 Operating System (Android 8.0.0 Oreo) My Question or Issue I have a Galaxy Note 8 and when I start scrolling on ...
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Plan Premium Country USofA Device Google Pixel (the OG one) Operating System Android 9 Pie, Fedora Linux 28 My Question or Issue Why on Zeus's good Earth does Spotify not rep...
Peter
Spotify Legend
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Hello, A friend has a problem with storing his music library. This one is supposed to be on the SD card depending on the settings selected in Spotify settings. However, the music library sometimes disappears (as if the music was deleted [not moved] f...
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Hello, A friend has a problem with storing his music library. This one is supposed to be on the SD card depending on the settings selected in Spotify settings. However, the music librar...
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My offline music keeps getting removed after spotify updates. It happened randomly before, but recently it was specific to the update. I noticed that the "allowed offline device" was filled with my android phone at a week apart or so (perfectly match...
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...his issue seems close to this other one https://community.spotify.com/t5/forums/v3_1/forumtopicpage/board-id/spotifyandroid/page/1/thread-id/59595, I don't think it's the same.
Ibonsall14
Gig Goer
743 Views
3 replies
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Hi! I'm getting some problems using spotify:When I play my music on android, often after two or three songs it suddenly stops playing. 1. I open the program2. then I played music offline or online (it can be from a specific playlist or from the root ...
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Hi! I'm getting some problems using spotify: When I play my music on android, often after two or three songs it suddenly stops playing. 1. I open the program 2. then I played music offline...
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I have a premium account and everything was working fine. Now everytime I hit the play button it immediately pauses. So I can't listen to the track. I've already unistalled it but the bug continues. What should I do?
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I have a premium account and everything was working fine. Now everytime I hit the play button it immediately pauses. So I can't listen to the track. I've already unistalled it but the bug continues. ...
luisskitter
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2 replies
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I installed spotify on my Huawei Honor 7 with all latest updates installed. I started listening to some music, then stopped it, closing all apps. Then suddenmy, inconveniently at 7am my phone starts blaring out the last song I listened to from the be...
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I installed spotify on my Huawei Honor 7 with all latest updates installed. I started listening to some music, then stopped it, closing all apps. Then suddenmy, inconveniently at 7am my phone starts ...
Bittencourt
Spotify Star
658 Views
1 replies
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Recently spotify has been acting up a bunch on my phone and I am considering not renewing my subscription as a result. When I select a song to play spotify immediately chooses the next song under it. Sometimes it doesn't even play that one and will s...
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Recently spotify has been acting up a bunch on my phone and I am considering not renewing my subscription as a result. When I select a song to play spotify immediately chooses the next song under it....
Daniel
Community Legend
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I have a premium account. I notice this mostly on the android app, but see it on the Windows desktop player too. I play an album and do not turn on shuffle, but it still plays the tracks in a shuffled order. When I look at the shuffle toggle, it is o...
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I have a premium account. I notice this mostly on the android app, but see it on the Windows desktop player too. I play an album and do not turn on shuffle, but it still plays the tracks in a shuffle...
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The music player controls were working in S-view before but seem to be intermittent now (sorry, can't remember exactly when they stopped working properly), most of the time they're not working but they seem to appear on a few random occasions...They ...
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The music player controls were working in S-view before but seem to be intermittent now (sorry, can't remember exactly when they stopped working properly), most of the time they're not working but th...
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I posted this yesterday. Got the advice to clear all app data and this solved it.. .. For ten hours. No the same problem again. Any advice? Many thanks! "After upgrading to 1.6.0.952 there are issues with three things: - the lock screen spotify contr...
Gig Goer
I posted this yesterday. Got the advice to clear all app data and this solved it.. .. For ten hours. No the same problem again. Any advice? Many thanks! "After upgrading to 1.6.0.952 there ar...
flunknewstead
Gig Goer
1160 Views
5 replies
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As a free user on mobile, I accidentally swiped Spotify from my recent apps, stopping the music. When I went back into the app, I noticed that the song had switched to a new one and started in the middle instead of the beginning. Nothing bad happened...
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As a free user on mobile, I accidentally swiped Spotify from my recent apps, stopping the music. When I went back into the app, I noticed that the song had switched to a new one and started in the mi...
Daniel
Community Legend
1086 Views
4 replies
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I have Sony Xperia Z1 Compact with stock lock screen. Recently I've noticed that the lock screen widget does not show up anymore (technically it does, but in a fraction of second it flickers and disappears). Thanks to another discussion here I unders...
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...peria, however, as we can see from this report: http://community.spotify.com/t5/forums/mobileforumtopicpage/board-id/spotifyandroid/thread-id/30814/ ,the problem itself is with other software as well. A...
lastguru
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1 replies
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