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Can't see Your 2023 Wrapped - check out this guide

Hey folks, We're receiving reports that Your Wrapped 2023 isn't appearing for some users. There are a few possible reasons as to why this might be happening: You're using an outdated version of the Spotify app - your app needs to be at least on 8.8.8...

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Your 2023 Wrapped feedback thread

Hey there, Once again, the long awaited Wrapped experience is here! We value the feedback that we receive everyday from our users, so we want to hear all your thoughts on this year's Wrapped: How is your Wrapped experience going? What did you like ab...

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Watch Feed on the Home tab

Hey folks, You might have spotted a new feature we rolled out to some of our users. We're launching a new feed which will help you expand your musical horizons and dive into content discovery through a Canvas video. You can spot that feed under your ...

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Spotify Takes Listening With Friends to Another Level with Jam

Spotify is introducing a more fun, intuitive, and collaborative social listening experience with Jam. Whether you’re together or apart, joining a Jam with your loved ones is now simpler than ever by tapping phones, scanning a QR code, or sharing a li...

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Desktop: New Your Library sidebar

Spotify is introducing a new Your Library sidebar in the desktop app and Web Player. The new Your Library sidebar improves navigation and makes it easier and faster to collect and retrieve all types of content, bringing new features to desktop that y...

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Introducing Smart Shuffle!

Introducing Smart Shuffle! We know that our users love creating their own playlists to capture key moments in time – in fact, playlists created by users often become their most-streamed playlist for the first several months but listening to these pla...

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The Heart button is being replaced with a (+) Plus button

Starting in March 2023, the ♡ Heart button will start being replaced with a (+) Plus button for saving things to Your Library. Things that have been saved to Your Library will now show a green ✔ Check icon instead of a green Heart icon. This new expe...

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Superuser Contribution Certain local files won't play in queue

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDeviceSamsung Galaxy S21 / Lenovo Yoga 7iOperating SystemAndroid 11 / Windows 11 My Question or IssueSome of my local files do not function properly on my Samsung Galaxy. These local files work perfectly fine on my Leno...

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  • Plan Premium Country United States Device Samsung Galaxy S21 / Lenovo Yoga 7i Operating System Android 11 / Windows 11   My Question or Issue Some of my local files do not functio...
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Superuser Contribution Downloaded local file wont play on phone iOS

My Question or IssueI have a lot of local files in my playlists and they all have been working for years. But now recently there is just one song that appears to be unavailable, even though it had been in my playlist since 2017. Out of nowhere I can’...

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  • My Question or Issue I have a lot of local files in my playlists and they all have been working for years. But now recently there is just one song that appears to be unavailable, even though it had ...
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Superuser Contribution Local Files not fully Syncing

PlanPremiumCountrySwitzerland Device(iPhone 12 Pro, PC)Operating System(iOS 10, Windows 10) My Question or IssueI am unable to sync some of my local MP3s as per the instructions here.Each time the same 10 songs (roughly) sync to my phone from a my pl...

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  • Plan Premium Country Switzerland   Device (iPhone 12 Pro, PC) Operating System (iOS 10, Windows 10)   My Question or Issue I am unable to sync some of my local MP3s as per the in...
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Superuser Contribution Local files not syncing from computer to iphone

PlanPremiumCountryUS Deviceiphone 7 and windows pc My Question or IssueI have 3 local files that I got onto my pc that play fine and have been downloaded fine on there. However I would also like to play them on my phone and they only show up as grey ...

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  • Plan Premium Country US   Device iphone 7 and windows pc   My Question or Issue I have 3 local files that I got onto my pc that play fine and have been downloaded fine on there. Ho...
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Superuser Contribution Can't sync local files from Macbook Air to Android

Plan: PremiumCountry: USDevice: Samsung Galaxy S9+/Macbook Air 2020Operating System: Android 10/Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6 So I've been syncing local music from my Windows PC to my phone for a couple of years and it worked fine. However, I recently swit...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: US Device: Samsung Galaxy S9+/Macbook Air 2020 Operating System: Android 10/Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6   So I've been syncing local music from my Win...
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Thumbnails missing in Liked songs page

Hi! I put some songs not available on Spotify over to my iOS devices via Local Files. All songs have cover arts, and the thumbnails appear in Playlists and when I open one particular song but they are not showing up in the Liked Songs page.I am not s...

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  • Hi! I put some songs not available on Spotify over to my iOS devices via Local Files. All songs have cover arts, and the thumbnails appear in Playlists and when I open one particular song but they ar...
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Local files iPhone but with a twist

PlanPremiumCountryNetherlandsDeviceWindows 10 PC and iPhone 7 (128gb)Operating SystemiOS 13.3 My Question or IssueSo after a while of actually thinking that my troubles with local files and iPhones were over, I got the following:iPhone doesn't downlo...

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  • Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device Windows 10 PC and iPhone 7 (128gb) Operating System iOS 13.3   My Question or Issue So after a while of actually thinking that my troubles with ...
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How to Save Local File as a Podcast

Hi there, I have a downloaded a number of podcasts from the internet in MP3 format, which I have now added to my Spotify as local files. My one remaining issue is that Spotify registers these local MP3 files as songs, as opposed to podcasts. This mea...

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  • Hi there,   I have a downloaded a number of podcasts from the internet in MP3 format, which I have now added to my Spotify as local files.   My one remaining issue is that Spotify regis...
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Local Files keeps being added to liked songs

Hello there.Im using Spotify from an Android mobile and sometimes on desktop.For some reason one day, without any permission the app added all my local files to my library, turning it to a complete mess. I had 30 easy finding Liked Songs which I coul...

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  • Hello there. Im using Spotify from an Android mobile and sometimes on desktop. For some reason one day, without any permission the app added all my local files to my library, turning it to a comple...
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