Local Files Being Replaced

[elston]

I was trying to sync a live Elliott Smith album to my iPhone.  I have all the files locally, and when I play the playlist on my computer through Spotify, everything is fine.

However, when I sync it to my phone, several of the tracks are pulled from Spotify; for instance, the first track, Angeles is from some single that I don't own - it's not the live track I want synced.  Other tracks are synced properly.

What's going on here, and how do I fix it?

[MattSuda]

It seems that somehow Spotify thinks that track is similar to one in their own catolog, so it might be linking it to theirs.

In the desktop app, right click on that song and see if three is an "unlink track" option. If there is see if that will unlink it in the iOS app too.

If not, you can try slightly editing the title of the song or the title of the album in the song file's metadata, and the iOS app should resync the song with the updated information. Then, it might not get replaced by one Spotify has.