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Plan : PremiumCountry : FranceDevice : Samsung XCover 5Operating System : Android 13Version : Spotify 8.8.96.364 My Question or IssueHello, For 2 weeks, i often have trouble with the songs queue. Playlist is added twice in the queue, or songs from th...
PlanPremiumCountryNorwayDeviceSamsung S9Operating SystemAndroid 11 My Question or IssueWhenever a bluetooth device is connected to my phone, Spotify automatically starts playing the last song it was paused on if my phone makes any "noise". If I recie...
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cohendylan1
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On my lock screen, the Spotify controls no longer appear as a permanent notification while music is playing. They are still present when I expand the notification bar on an unlocked phone, however.I have tried closing and reopening the app, logging o...
PlanFreeDeviceXiaomi Lite 12 Operating SystemXiaomi HyperOS My Question or IssueI logged into my account and saw that I can't play a single song and absolutely all playlists are empty. I don't know what this could be connected with. Moreover, this pr...
Hello, it has happened to me a few times when starting Spotify it takes a long time to load and well also if you want to search for an artist It's also difficult (in my case in the video it's the songs I like but any playlist does it). For me basical...
Music Fan
Hello, it has happened to me a few times when starting Spotify it takes a long time to load and well also if you want to search for an artist It's also difficult (in my case in the video it's the son...
AlejaR
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hey folks, see attached image. can anyone tell me what pressing the ""clear data"" button does on my android phone? in my ""apps"" section of the settings menu, all of my mobile apps are taking up serious space when they aren't even running. and spot...
Gig Goer
...bviously, according to the image, clearing the data is different than clearing the cache, which is not risky. thanks. Adam
YoavKlausner
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PlanPremiumCountryItaly DeviceSamsung Galaxy J5sOperating SystemAndroid 6.1 My Question or IssueLoading is stuck after every listen, the only choice I have is to restart the app every time I want to change song-playlist.Never happened before, I've al...
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...estart the app every time I want to change song-playlist. Never happened before, I've already flushed my cache-removed the data and reinstalled my app (ver 8.4.94.817). *UPDATE* I've n...
Loxer
Community Legend
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Hey all, For a while I have been struggling with an issue where songs previously downloaded for offline availability show up as NOT downloaded for no apparent reason. I haven't discovered a distinct pattern yet, though I seem to notice it happening m...
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...urning it on again just downloads all the songs again. Spotify is still reported to use over 10GB of storage though, so it doesn't seem like the cached files themselves got deleted. This happens e...
Magnetron
Gig Goer
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hello. is it possible to clear song cache from app data. I noticed that Spotify caches all my plays and it takes up a lot of storage, but I need only my downloaded singles/albums to be cached in data. if I clear my app data, it clears all including m...
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hello. is it possible to clear song cache from app data. I noticed that Spotify caches all my plays and it takes up a lot of storage, but I need only my downloaded singles/albums to be cache...
onceup
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Hello together,I am new to Spotify. Just recently switched from Deezer ...I am using Spotify mainly via Android devices.First thing I recognized is, that you cannot limit spotify in collecting cache data or deleting it, without losing all your offlin...
Newbie
...ollecting cache data or deleting it, without losing all your offline data as well (via the option in the settings). In my opinion this is a great disadvantage. Certainly I understand somehow the need o...
Jauza
Music Fan
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I'm using Spotify premium on android (s7). I have a lot of albums (100s) in my library.I tend to download all my albums so i can listen to them any time.According to the article below my downloaded albums should persist. But every now and then, album...
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...ndividually... https://support.spotify.com/uk/using_spotify/collect_music/how-long-can-i-cache-offline-content/ Network coverage is poor where i live and when i do get a good data signal i d...
Joe
Community Legend
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Im starting to get really frustrated because I've had to recache 300 songs on my spotify account because without any warning or some kind of notification they all uncache on my cell phone. I have spotify premium on a Samsung Galaxy S5. Has anyone els...
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Im starting to get really frustrated because I've had to recache 300 songs on my spotify account because without any warning or some kind of notification they all uncache on my cell phone. I have spo...
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Is there an app or a way I can dump the log to find my played SONGS history? I was listening to the Radar Release playlist (which is awesome) while driving last night (Thursday) via blutooth Android and I wanted to add some of the songs on this playl...
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Is there an app or a way I can dump the log to find my played SONGS history? I was listening to the Radar Release playlist (which is awesome) while driving last night (Thursday) via blu...
Joe
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I'd like to move my music which I've downloaded onto my sd card but the only solution offered is too delete the cache and saved data. Wouldnt that mean though I'd lose my playlists? How do I move the music but avoid erasing the playlists I have?
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I'd like to move my music which I've downloaded onto my sd card but the only solution offered is too delete the cache and saved data. Wouldnt that mean though I'd lose my playlists? How do I move t...
cephalization
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