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Android Alpha & Beta Programs

What are the Spotify Alpha and Beta programs? By signing up as an Alpha or Beta tester of the Spotify app, you will get early versions of our new releases before we roll them out to everyone else. This is an invaluable help for us, as it allows us to...

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Superuser Contribution Playlists containing only podcasts always played in Shuffle mode

Plan Premium Country Spain Device Samsung A42 Operating System Android My Question or Issue I just realized that when a playlist only contains podcast episodes, the shuffle or sequential playback icon has disappeared.All the episodes play randomly an...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country Spain Device Samsung A42 Operating System Android   My Question or Issue I just realized that when a playlist only contains podcast episodes, the shuffle...
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Superuser Contribution [Android][Playlists] Album Not Showing Song List

I First Got Spotify About 3 Weeks ago and I Was and Have Been Able to Tap an Album and the List of songs will show in Order and Where I Can Tap On One and it plays or I Hit the Play Button and it goes through the album in Order. But Today I Tap on an...

  • Visitor
  • I First Got Spotify About 3 Weeks ago and I Was and Have Been Able to Tap an Album and the List of songs will show in Order and Where I Can Tap On One and it plays or I Hit the Play Button and it goe...
  • Sumyin_ho
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Superuser Contribution Removing tracks in playlist skips the current song

PlanPremium FamilyCountryUnited Kingdom (England)DeviceSamsung Galaxy S22Operating SystemAndroid 14 (Upside Down Cake) My Question or IssueI put a couple of random tracks from a playlist into my queue. While playing them, I chose to edit the playlist...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Family Country United Kingdom (England) Device Samsung Galaxy S22 Operating System Android 14 (Upside Down Cake)   My Question or Issue I put a couple of random tracks fro...
  • Joan
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Superuser Contribution [Android][Playlists] Please bring back the date scroller in playlists on Android

I recently noticed that Spotify removed the "date scroller" in playlists on Android. Well, they removed it and brought it back briefly and axed it again recently. I find it very useful because I have huge playlists and the scroll bar on the right wou...

  • Newbie
  • I recently noticed that Spotify removed the "date scroller" in playlists on Android. Well, they removed it and brought it back briefly and axed it again recently. I find it very useful because I h...
  • Yan39
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Superuser Contribution I can't play or access anything with the android app.

PlanPremiumCountrySpainDeviceZTE Nubia Red Magic 7 16/256Operating SystemAndroid 12My Question or IssueI can't use Spotify.I tried reinstalling, updating, and everything and it just doesn't work.The app says like "Something occured. Try again?" I pre...

  • Visitor
  • ...ogged in with both, and it just doesn't work. Also, all of my playlists disappeared. And the few i can't access at home, pops the "something occured" message. If I play a song from anywhere in the a...
  • Yordan
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Superuser Contribution [Bug][Watch] Playlists in folders do not appear on watch app

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceSamsung Galaxy Watch4 (Classic)Operating SystemWearOS 3 My Question or IssueNone of my playlists that are located within folders are showing up at all on my watch under My Library. I only see the few playlists that are l...

  • Music Fan
  •   Plan Premium Country Canada Device Samsung Galaxy Watch4 (Classic) Operating System WearOS 3   My Question or Issue None of my playlists that are located within folders are s...
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Superuser Contribution Created play list not found

PlanPremium FamilyCountryCanadaDeviceGoogle Pixel 7Operating SystemAndroid 13 My Question or IssueI switched from a free plan to a Premium Family plan to try to solve my problem of Alexa not finding my created playlist, but the problem still exists.I...

  • Music Fan
  • Plan Premium Family Country Canada Device Google Pixel 7 Operating System Android 13   My Question or Issue I switched from a free plan to a Premium Family plan to try to solve my prob...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify is autoplaying random playlists every morning?

Plan: PremiumCountry: USA Device: galaxy 8 My Question or Issue So for the last week or so every morning my Spotify has chosen to start playing a random morning playlist around when I wake up. I am not subscribed to any of these and I don't want them...

  • Newbie
  • ...larm song from my own music only now its switching immediately after to one of these random playlists. I can't find a setting in either app that would turn this new annoying thing off short of (s...
  • JSURMAN
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[Android][Playlists] Have search jump to correct spot in the playlist

Plan: PremiumDevice: Samsung Galaxy S22When I do a search for a song within on of my playlists, it filters the list to only show the results. I want a way that once I have found the song in my list, I can see where in my list that song falls (like so...

  • Roadie
  • Plan: Premium Device: Samsung Galaxy S22 When I do a search for a song within on of my playlists, it filters the list to only show the results. I want a way that once I have found the song in my l...
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Superuser Contribution [Android][Playlists] Multiselecting songs in a playlist

I added 1 song to my playlist and suddenly I got about 200-400 rock songs added with it. I do not like rock songs and I need a way to easily select all of them at once and delete them.

  • Visitor
  • I added 1 song to my playlist and suddenly I got about 200-400 rock songs added with it. I do not like rock songs and I need a way to easily select all of them at once and delete them.
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Superuser Contribution [Android][Playlists] Playlist default order

I noticed my imminent request has been refused at least twice. However, as a music lover and a developer myself, and most of all, as a frequent Spotify user, I believe the playlist default order should be from the most recently added. Every time I ge...

  • Visitor
  • I noticed my imminent request has been refused at least twice. However, as a music lover and a developer myself, and most of all, as a frequent Spotify user, I believe the playlist default order shou...
  • Jeremy
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Superuser Contribution how to listen to songs from several playlists?

PlanPremium Device(Samsung tablet)Operating System(Android.) My Question or Issue Hi,Could you please tell me: 1) how to listen to all songs that have been downloaded to the device ?(it's very frustrating - tracks from playlists are not included in t...

  • Newbie
  • ...een downloaded to the device ? (it's very frustrating - tracks from playlists are not included in the "songs" folders - I can either listen to trakcs from albums or tracks from one playlist) &n...
  • CarlosE
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[Android][Playlists] playlist Auto changes mid playlist, autoplay off

I have a Playlist that is 8+ hours of songs, I have my Playlist set so it should start over when the end is reached. Also have auto play turned off. After a certain number of tracks play from my Playlist, the app automatically switches to another ran...

  • Visitor
  • I have a Playlist that is 8+ hours of songs, I have my Playlist set so it should start over when the end is reached. Also have auto play turned off. After a certain number of tracks play from my Play...
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Superuser Contribution [Playlists] Make "Liked Songs" into a section of its own instead of a playlist.

I was thinking, instead of having your liked songs playlist, maybe we could make it into a section of it's own. Like the home, search, and library sections. Because sometimes when I am in a place where I may not have much internet and I chose to play...

  • Casual Listener
  • I was thinking, instead of having your liked songs playlist, maybe we could make it into a section of it's own. Like the home, search, and library sections. Because sometimes when I am in a place whe...
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Superuser Contribution Features for free user on the mobile

PlanFreeCountryFranceDeviceRedmi Note 9Operating SystemAndroid 10 QP1A.190711.020 My Question or Issuewhy I can't listen to my playlists as I want on mobile. when can i listen à la carte to the titles of my choice in my playlists. Why Spotify does no...

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  • Plan Free Country France Device Redmi Note 9 Operating System Android 10 QP1A.190711.020   My Question or Issue why I can't listen to my playlists as I want on mobile. when can i l...
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Superuser Contribution [Android][Playlists] Differences in recommended songs on PC and smartphone

I noticed while playing selfmade playlists on PC that you can listen to whole songs in the "recommended songs" section, but on the smartphone only samples of those songs are played. Is this an intended feature? If not please also let us listen to who...

  • Newbie
  • I noticed while playing selfmade playlists on PC that you can listen to whole songs in the "recommended songs" section, but on the smartphone only samples of those songs are played. Is this an i...
  • Eni
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Superuser Contribution [Android][Playlists] Recovering the likes of a deleted playlist.

hi, there should be an option that if you accidentally deleted a playlist, the likes should be recovered when you recover that playlist.

  • Casual Listener
  • hi, there should be an option that if you accidentally deleted a playlist, the likes should be recovered when you recover that playlist.
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution [Android][Playlists] Auto-shutdown feature

How about adding an option to mark any song as "the last song for tonight" or something like that, so after that song is over, the app automatically shuts down or just stops playing. This may be convenient and useful for users that want to go to slee...

  • Newbie
  • How about adding an option to mark any song as "the last song for tonight" or something like that, so after that song is over, the app automatically shuts down or just stops playing.   This ma...
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Superuser Contribution [Android][Playlists] Emine topdaş

Hello,My name is Emine Topdaş. I use spotify and I like this app. I wanted to write down an error I saw. I am using an android phone. If the phone screen is off and you want to change the music, first the stop icon becomes active, then the icon showi...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello, My name is Emine Topdaş. I use spotify and I like this app. I wanted to write down an error I saw. I am using an android phone. If the phone screen is off and you want to change the music, fi...
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