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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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easy_iice
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134 replies
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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...
PlanPremiumCountryTurkeyDeviceSamsung Galaxy Note 10+Operating SystemAndroid 12 My Question or IssueThe device's Internal Storage shown 3 times as different storage options. When I choose the real SD Card, the app switches it to the Internal Storage ...
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Plan Premium Country Turkey Device Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Operating System Android 12 My Question or Issue The device's Internal Storage shown 3 times as different storage options....
Vasil
Moderator
704 Views
1 replies
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PlanPremium DeviceOnePlus 6Operating SystemAndroid 11 My Question or IssueThe spotify app took up over 20 GB on my phone and my storage was full so I wanted to delete some playlists. After deleting the downloads in the app and clearing the cache my s...
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Plan Premium Device OnePlus 6 Operating System Android 11 My Question or Issue The spotify app took up over 20 GB on my phone and my storage was full so I wanted to delete s...
MafeG
Spotify Legend
1024 Views
1 replies
0 likes
Asus Chromebook Flip C433 with latest Chrome OS. Have Premium Plan Spotify subscription. My Question or Issue I can no longer see the option to use the SD card or internal memory under the Other setting in Spotify. This worked the first time however,...
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...s follows: Inserted SD card and formatted as FAT32 Enabled it in storage management, external storage preferences Downloaded Spotify and allowed storage permission Switched storage to SD u...
HairyHippy
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1161 Views
1 replies
1 likes
PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceGalaxy S9Operating SystemAndroid Oreo My Question or IssueWhen I try to open the app, it pops up a dialog box that says the app is running out of space, yet when I check my phone I have 20 gigabytes of storage left so I kno...
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...ut of space, yet when I check my phone I have 20 gigabytes of storage left so I know that's not it. It then crashes. Re-installing the app doesn't change anything, restarting my phone doesn't help e...
Ivan
Spotify Legend
727 Views
1 replies
0 likes
Plan: Family Device, Samsung Galaxy 9Operating SystemAndroid Oreo My Question or Issue My phone ran out of juice and shut itself down. Every **bleep** time this occurs all spotify data have been moved to internal storage, making it packed. As usual I...
Music Fan
...his occurs all spotify data have been moved to internal storage, making it packed. As usual I change storage location in the spotify app, and the moving process starts.. After a couple of minutes o...
Luan
Spotify Star
19049 Views
6 replies
1 likes
None of the below information is required. However, the more you provide the easier it will be for us to try and help.PlanPremiumCountryUK DeviceSamsung, its like 3 years old nowOperating SystemThe newest android system?? My Question or IssueSuddenly...
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...perating System The newest android system?? My Question or Issue Suddenly there's no option for me to change downloads to my external storage? It was all fine and all my songs were d...
Peter
Spotify Legend
1218 Views
1 replies
1 likes
PlanPremium for FamiliesCountry New ZealandDeviceMeizu M3 NoteOperating SystemAndroid 5.1 My Question or Issue Hi, since the most recent update, my SD card is no longer being registered by the Spotify app on my phone. So far, I've tried multiple clea...
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...y downloaded songs and is trying to redownload them on my internal storage
Kassiaamily
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2667 Views
8 replies
1 likes
PlanPremiumCountryParaguayDeviceSamsung Galaxy S8Operating SystemAndroid Pie My Question or IssueAlways when update my Spotify, change the default storage, and all my songs are downloaded again.
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Plan Premium Country Paraguay Device Samsung Galaxy S8 Operating System Android Pie My Question or Issue Always when update my Spotify, change the default storage, and all my songs a...
Peter
Spotify Legend
858 Views
3 replies
0 likes
PlanPremiumCountryUsa DeviceMoto g 6 playOperating SystemAndroid 8.0.0 My Question or IssueI've performed a"clean reboot" of Spotify on my phone and am still having this issue when trying to switch storage to my micro SD card. In the settings menu, n...
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...his issue when trying to switch storage to my micro SD card. In the settings menu, neither Storage nor Other are tap-able. Nothing happens at all when I tap them. I can't choose my storage option.
BriaCF
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1078 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...
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Plan: Premium Country: United States Device Amazon Fire HD 8 (6th Generation) Operating System Fire OS 5 (Android Derived) My Question or Issue According to my se...
Katerina
Spotify Legend
6182 Views
1 replies
0 likes
PlanPremiumCountry CanadaDeviceSamsung Galaxy Note 9Operating SystemAndroid 8.1.0 When my device reboots it switches from my premium 128GB Sandisk SD Card back to the default internal storage. I've seen many people with this issue and not one comment...
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...efault internal storage. I've seen many people with this issue and not one comment from Spotify. Pretty poor service and annoying bug.
649 Views
0 replies
3 likes
PlanPremiumCountry MéxicoDeviceSamsung Galaxy 8Operating SystemAndroid 7My Question or Issue I bought a new SD card and I use it in my Samsung s8. In settings -> storage I select the option "sd card" and I download some playlists. If I am in offline ...
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Plan Premium Country México Device Samsung Galaxy 8 Operating System Android 7 My Question or Issue I bought a new SD card and I use it in my Samsung s8. In settings -> storage...
Victor171
Regular
1145 Views
4 replies
0 likes
PlanPremiumCountry UkDevice Samsung A3 2017Operating System Android Oreo My Question or IssueSpotify keeps switching my storage from external to internal and now can't seem to be able to switch storage back ... stupid ... Spotify stop flipping about ...
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Plan Premium Country Uk Device Samsung A3 2017 Operating System Android Oreo My Question or Issue Spotify keeps switching my storage from external to i...
Billy-J
Spotify Star
17904 Views
5 replies
1 likes
PlanPremiumDeviceSamsung J7Operating SystemAndroid When I started to use my new phone a couple of days ago I chose the sd card option and then saved around 1000 songs but spotify magically deleted all of them today. And now the sd card storage option...
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...agically deleted all of them today. And now the sd card storage option is gone as well. When I look at the app info I can see 9 gb data. So how do I fix the sd card problem and is there a way to r...
MrKnwn2ActBad
Regular
2292 Views
6 replies
0 likes
Hey guys. I'm trying to figure out why Spotify keeps downloading music to my phone. I have gone to every playlist and removed the download option. I deleted all the data, cleared the cache and reinstalled the app. After doing all these steps Spotify ...
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Hey guys. I'm trying to figure out why Spotify keeps downloading music to my phone. I have gone to every playlist and removed the download option. I deleted all the data, cleared the cache and...
cassy33
Newbie
1287 Views
5 replies
0 likes
Dear community ! I'm owning a fresh new Galaxy S7 phone with a microSD Evo+ 128gb. This SD card is configured as "portable" and not "internal". I've selected the option inside the Spotify app to store offline playlist and data into the SD card, what ...
Music Fan
...potify app to store offline playlist and data into the SD card, what the app is doing well. BUT, I've just noticed that Spotify is taking the same amount on both storage (internal and SD c...
Gabriel1612
Newbie
5277 Views
16 replies
0 likes
I've been experiencing that the Spotify premium app on my S7 loses where I set my storage location after each and every update of the app. This has been going on for several months now. I noticed only one other recent thread and the status update was...
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I've been experiencing that the Spotify premium app on my S7 loses where I set my storage location after each and every update of the app. This has been going on for several months now. I noticed o...
Diegopuma7
Newbie
731 Views
1 replies
0 likes
I've recently bought a new SD Card because I was running out of space in my phone. since I've a lot of music on my account I decided to move it to the external storage so I could free some space in the internal one. but since I've moved the songs, th...
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I've recently bought a new SD Card because I was running out of space in my phone. since I've a lot of music on my account I decided to move it to the external storage so I could free some space in t...
479 Views
0 replies
0 likes
Hi,Lately I've been having some trouble when opening spotify. Whenever I open it, it notifies me that there is "no storage area found". I've tried different solutions like uninstalling the app, removing the file android/data/com.spotify, I've cleared...
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Hi, Lately I've been having some trouble when opening spotify. Whenever I open it, it notifies me that there is "no storage area found". I've tried different solutions like uninstalling the app, r...
arthilew
Newbie
85587 Views
77 replies
12 likes
So I've been having this problem since I downloaded the 6.0.1 android update.And before even starting, I never saw another app that does this **bleep** on my cellphone storage.So, sometimes Spotify just "delete" every music that I've saved on the sto...
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So I've been having this problem since I downloaded the 6.0.1 android update. And before even starting, I never saw another app that does this **bleep** on my cellphone storage. So, sometimes S...
674 Views
0 replies
0 likes