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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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AntonioGomez79
Newbie
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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...
PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceSamsung A16 5G Operating SystemAndroid 14ONEUI 7.0 My Question or Issuenotification popped up saying Spotify is "downloading 18 out of 45 (52% complete)" and shows a progress bar. It's been downloading for more than 2 hour...
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Plan Premium Country USA Device Samsung A16 5G Operating System Android 14 ONEUI 7.0 My Question or Issue notification popped up saying Spotify is "downl...
Billy-J
Spotify Star
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1 replies
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Hi. Usually, I download episodes of my favourite podcasts and music to listen to in offline mode. Sometimes the reception is very bad in my area, hence downloaded content is my prefered way of listening. However, recently I have had a problem with my...
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Hi. Usually, I download episodes of my favourite podcasts and music to listen to in offline mode. Sometimes the reception is very bad in my area, hence downloaded content is my prefered way ...
Chadillacc
Newbie
4760 Views
9 replies
3 likes
PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceOnePlus XOperating SystemAndroid 6.0.1 (Marshmallow?) My Question or IssuePreviously I was able to like a song to add it to my all songs list, then find the album I saved the song from in my library, which would have only th...
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Plan Premium Country UK Device OnePlus X Operating System Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow?) My Question or Issue Previously I was able to like a song to add it to my all songs list, then ...
OscarDC
Moderator
1272 Views
3 replies
1 likes
PlanFreeCountryAustraliaDeviceSamsung S10EOperating SystemAndroid 12 I have 500+ podcast episodes downloaded to listen to offline. a few weeks ago, I noticed that only 80ish episodes showed up when I looked at the "your episodes" thing with the inter...
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Plan Free Country Australia Device Samsung S10E Operating System Android 12 I have 500+ podcast episodes downloaded to listen to offline. a few weeks ago, I noticed that only 80ish ep...
Eni
Moderator
1325 Views
3 replies
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PlanPremium Operating SystemAndroid My Question or IssueI have set my liked songs to download. Now whenever I open spotify on my phone, the download starts. It completes, but next day when I open the app again it starts downloading again and all the ...
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...nd now I have to wait for the songs to download before I can go offline. This makes the download feature unusable not to mention uses unnecessary data every time it downloads.
aneeshsharma
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917 Views
2 replies
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PlanPremium (Family) CountryGermany DeviceAll Android devices with SD card slots and support for expanded storage formatting. (In my specific case, an Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 2018) Operating SystemAndroid 9 (probably also present on Android 7, 8, 10 ...
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...etup in Android "expanded storage" mode (the internal storage gets remapped to the SD card), Spotify downloads get stored on the SD card, which is the expected behavior. However, when the S...
442 Views
0 replies
1 likes
Hi! I'm having a problem where I can't download my playlist of 360 local files onto my phone so I can listen to them on the go. Whenever I try, it just puts a little exclamation mark with a circle around it under each song and says "Waiting To Downlo...
Regular
Hi! I'm having a problem where I can't download my playlist of 360 local files onto my phone so I can listen to them on the go. Whenever I try, it just puts a little exclamation mark with a circle ar...
Xenia
Moderator
2292 Views
6 replies
0 likes
I got Premium Spotify (Family plan) in Brazil, I'm using a Moto E4, running on Android 7.1.1 I can download playlists as expected and they are still there when I'm back, but if I download albums, close the app and open it again, the downloaded albums...
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I got Premium Spotify (Family plan) in Brazil, I'm using a Moto E4, running on Android 7.1.1 I can download playlists as expected and they are still there when I'm back, but if I download ...
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PlanPremiumCountryINDIADeviceSAMSUNG GALAXY A8 starOperating System Android Pie My Question or IssueI was traveling on an airplane and it so happened that as soon as I lost connectivity, I wasn't able to open the app and it asked me to log in.And it ...
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Plan Premium Country INDIA Device SAMSUNG GALAXY A8 star Operating System Android Pie My Question or Issue I was traveling on an airplane and it so happened that as soon ...
harry_spot
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810 Views
3 replies
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Plan: PremiumCountry: The NetherlandsDevice: Huawei mate 20 lite. Also my laptop, a Toshiba satellite proPlatform: Android My Issuei uploaded some of my files own of music to my spotify account and then i put them in a playlist(all on my desktop). I ...
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Plan: Premium Country: The Netherlands Device: Huawei mate 20 lite. Also my laptop, a Toshiba satellite pro Platform: Android My Issue i uploaded some of my files own of music to my spot...
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PlanPremiumCountryIndiaDeviceSamsung M30Operating SystemAndroid 9 My Question or IssueMy downloads get deleted everyday and today I clocked it , I had set the download option " on " fr my liked songs playlist and somehow everyday for like the past 5 ...
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Plan Premium Country India Device Samsung M30 Operating System Android 9 My Question or Issue My downloads get deleted everyday and today I clocked it , I had set the download o...
Petya
Community Legend
1827 Views
3 replies
1 likes
The first thing to load should be the stuff I have downloaded. I shouldn't have to wait for a slow internet connection to view this stuff. Today when I was out of service it wouldn't show anything(see pic). Samsung S7, premium user.
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The first thing to load should be the stuff I have downloaded. I shouldn't have to wait for a slow internet connection to view this stuff. Today when I was out of service it wouldn't show anyth...
jfrantz00
Casual Listener
1035 Views
2 replies
0 likes
Plan: PremiumCountry: United States DeviceAmazon Fire HD 8 (6th Generation)Operating SystemFire OS 5 (Android Derived) My Question or Issue According to my settings, downloads take up 7.0 MB of my memory, but I currently have no downloaded songs thou...
Newbie
...ettings, downloads take up 7.0 MB of my memory, but I currently have no downloaded songs though I have saved songs to my library and I have downloaded songs before. I read in another thread that S...
Katerina
Spotify Legend
6163 Views
1 replies
0 likes
PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device Samsung Galaxy 9Operating SystemAndroid Oreo My Question or Issue Spotify has just finished downloading HUNDREDS of songs I didn't ask it to. Over 300. I restarted the phone in a panic trying to stop it but when I reboo...
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Plan Free/Premium Country Device Samsung Galaxy 9 Operating System Android Oreo My Question or Issue Spotify has just finished downloading HUNDREDS of songs I...
AeroZ
Composer
1552 Views
3 replies
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I have premium on my Huawei P10. My spotify periodically deletes all of my downloaded songs/playlists/albums and each time I have to redownload everything which takes ages. I've had two Huawei p10s and this has been a problem for both phones. I pay f...
Newbie
I have premium on my Huawei P10. My spotify periodically deletes all of my downloaded songs/playlists/albums and each time I have to redownload everything which takes ages. I've had two Huawei p10s a...
Alfredo
Roadie
835 Views
1 replies
1 likes
Plan: PremiumCountry: USADevice: Pixel XLOperating System: ANDROID 8.0My Question or Issue: I have several playlists that contain only local files stored on my laptop. I tried downloading them onto my phone but they won't download. I tried clearing m...
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Plan: Premium Country: USA Device: Pixel XL Operating System: ANDROID 8.0 My Question or Issue: I have several playlists that contain only local files stored on my laptop. I tried dow...
AeroZ
Composer
1143 Views
2 replies
1 likes
I only have 736 songs (and do have plenty of space on my phone), and yet I'm seeing this error: Why am I being capped at so few songs?
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I only have 736 songs (and do have plenty of space on my phone), and yet I'm seeing this error: Why am I being capped at so few songs?
639 Views
0 replies
2 likes
I've moved to Spotify from Apple Music and one of the only thinks missing in my opinion are a page to view the songs you're downloading at the moment and a page to view you're downloaded songs in an orginized librery (orginized like the one we have n...
Newbie
I've moved to Spotify from Apple Music and one of the only thinks missing in my opinion are a page to view the songs you're downloading at the moment and a page to view you're downloaded so...
phan_times
Community Legend
600 Views
1 replies
0 likes
This is a problem with my girlfriend's Android app. First off, she can't stream Taylor Swift's songs and the downloads were removed, then I asked her to log out and log in again hoping it would solve the problem but it just removed the downloads of A...
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This is a problem with my girlfriend's Android app. First off, she can't stream Taylor Swift's songs and the downloads were removed, then I asked her to log out and log in again hoping it would s...
697 Views
0 replies
0 likes
Lately I had been getting an error on my phone about low storage, but seeing as I don't have anything but a few pictures and apps, I knew it had to do with Spotify as I had a similar problem before, where I had downloaded too many albums. However, af...
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...hecked the notifications on my phone and Spotify was giving me a download notification of 1 of 3,722 songs completed. I looked for a way to stop all of the downloads at once, but there isnt one aside f...
eharwy
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1207 Views
1 replies
0 likes