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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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cohendylan1
Music Fan
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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...
PlanPremiumCountryGeorgia, but I live in Portugal for now DeviceGoogle Pixel 6aOperating SystemAndroid 16 My Question or IssueI use Spotify on my laptop (MacBookPro) and on smartphone at the same timeAnd some time ago, I found out that after a long t...
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...000XM4), and the sound quality was disgustingly bad. I thought that the issue was with my phone, and I went through many instructions to make the sound better. In settings all in the best quality mode, I h...
Paula_Vi
Moderator
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Plan - PremiumCountry - United StatesDeviceFiio M9 I've been having troubles with Spotify on my (underpowered) Fiio M9 music player, so I thought that I'd give Spotify Lite a try. However, I can't seem to find any information on whether the lite vers...
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...ite a try. However, I can't seem to find any information on whether the lite version has a different audio quality range than the stock app for downloaded music—Spotify Lite only has one audio quality s...
Alex
Spotify Legend
3320 Views
3 replies
1 likes
As a musician and a music fan, I require a good sound experience. It would be great to have the Spotify's library in the Poweramp app. So we can take advantage using the Poweramp excelent equalizer, or, Spotify can provide us a good EQ and not using ...
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As a musician and a music fan, I require a good sound experience. It would be great to have the Spotify's library in the Poweramp app. So we can take advantage using the Poweramp excelent equalizer, ...
Alex
Spotify Legend
1516 Views
2 replies
3 likes
I have a few hundred songs saved for offline use that were downloaded in the "normal" quality setting, and since have changed my settings to the "extreme" quality. Will spotify automatically redownload each saved for offline song in the higher qualit...
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I have a few hundred songs saved for offline use that were downloaded in the "normal" quality setting, and since have changed my settings to the "extreme" quality. Will spotify automatically r...
brotherj4mes
Casual Listener
5092 Views
8 replies
10 likes
PlanFree/PremiumCountry NetherlandsDeviceSamsung A6 plusOperating Systemandroid My Question or Issue I recently got a family account but before this, I had a normal premium account. I always download my songs using the highest quality available. But ...
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...his, I had a normal premium account. I always download my songs using the highest quality available. But it seems like they all still sound like low quality and pretty quiet. I even reinstalled the app a...
701 Views
0 replies
1 likes
PlanPremiumCountry USDeviceSamsung Galaxy J3 My Question or IssueTitle pretty much sums it up. Web player and desktop app sound much better as opposed to mobile.
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Plan Premium Country US Device Samsung Galaxy J3 My Question or Issue Title pretty much sums it up. Web player and desktop app sound much better as opposed to mobile.
Peter
Spotify Legend
2487 Views
2 replies
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PlanPremiumCountryBrazil DeviceSamsumg Galaxy J7 So, basically I can no longer set the download quality to extreme, it has disappeared and the highest quality is now "Very High". I'm aware of the other similar thread, however, people there are talkin...
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Plan Premium Country Brazil Device Samsumg Galaxy J7 So, basically I can no longer set the download quality to extreme, it has disappeared and the highest quality...
Loxer
Community Legend
1103 Views
1 replies
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So I have a thing that connects to the cassete in my 2001 audi's stock sound deck. I have a Galaxy s5. I can play sounds on youtube using my phone and the car's speakers, this sounds great, I can hear all of the base and different subtle layers of th...
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So I have a thing that connects to the cassete in my 2001 audi's stock sound deck. I have a Galaxy s5. I can play sounds on youtube using my phone and the car's speakers, this sounds great, I can hea...
tos82
Regular
36497 Views
7 replies
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Just downloaded all the TIME CAPSULE songs over WiFi, "extreme quality." They sound like garbage, compression artifacts everywhere. It's like the "time capsule" means MP3s originally found on Napster. Am I the only one with this problem? Why am I pay...
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Just downloaded all the TIME CAPSULE songs over WiFi, "extreme quality." They sound like garbage, compression artifacts everywhere. It's like the "time capsule" means MP3s originally found o...
jmdesin892
Roadie
981 Views
1 replies
0 likes
Hello everybody, I've been experiencing this problem for a few days now. Simply stated: when I listen to music (streaming/dowlnoaded) I always hear about 1 second/0.5 second extreme quality, and then it hops over to very poor quality (while extreme q...
Newbie
Hello everybody, I've been experiencing this problem for a few days now. Simply stated: when I listen to music (streaming/dowlnoaded) I always hear about 1 second/0.5 second extreme quality...
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0 replies
0 likes
On a Z5, premium user.Everything was fine when I went to bed (playing as I go to sleep), woke up in the middle of the night and everything has a metallic sounds to it, completely messed up. Helium and slowish? Dunno how else to describe it.Plays fine...
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On a Z5, premium user. Everything was fine when I went to bed (playing as I go to sleep), woke up in the middle of the night and everything has a metallic sounds to it, completely messed up. Heliu...
osornios
Spotify Star
1435 Views
3 replies
0 likes
Normal quality works fine, the songs all download and work offline, but high or extreme doesn't. Only Around 1 in 20 songs work offline, the others need to stream.Also streaming extreme quality songs will either stop 2 seconds before the end and not ...
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Normal quality works fine, the songs all download and work offline, but high or extreme doesn't. Only Around 1 in 20 songs work offline, the others need to stream. Also streaming extreme quality s...
thattallguy65
Casual Listener
2140 Views
4 replies
0 likes
I am connected to wifi, and listening to a playlist I have saved offline. The audio quality is good, while suddenly it drastically drops to a very low quality. I can feel the change very well, and when I go back to the player and scroll back, it chan...
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I am connected to wifi, and listening to a playlist I have saved offline. The audio quality is good, while suddenly it drastically drops to a very low quality. I can feel the change very well, and w...
549 Views
0 replies
1 likes
I very recently got a new phone, I've been a big spotify user for a while and have spotify premium.I installed it on my new phone and set the audio quality to high for my downloads. When playing songs while on the home screen it sounds very nice. How...
Newbie
I very recently got a new phone, I've been a big spotify user for a while and have spotify premium. I installed it on my new phone and set the audio quality to high for my downloads. When p...
naimzulkefli
Newbie
2837 Views
2 replies
2 likes
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...
Newbie
...nd cache and doing a clean reinstall and things got worse so now songs just stop playing when I'm not in the app. I have the quality set to extreme, its set to always sync, and the problem happens both o...
Daniel
Community Legend
1087 Views
1 replies
0 likes