Solved!! How can I remove the “playing recommended songs for you” feature
I don’t want to listen to music that’s not in my playlist
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I upgraded my spotify account to premium and downloaded the app on my phone. Even after I paid the money and logged out and on several times, the app still says I have a free account and I can't listen to music offline. Did anyone else have a similar...
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Sometimes I put a song from an album in a playlist that I have made available for offline listening.When I go over to Albums and only want to view albums that are offline, the albums that contain a single offline song also show up. Even if the rest o...
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I just purchased the Taylor Swift album - the actual CD - and I have the mp3 files on my computer. I drag them into Spotify just fine, but it won't let me sync the files - just these files - to my phone! Other local files sync just fine, so I assume ...
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A new update for iOS has been released. I strongly recommend not update it if you have local files because they will vanish! This is a bug already reported but not solved yet.
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A new update for iOS has been released. I strongly recommend not update it if you have local files because they will vanish! This is a bug already reported but not solved yet.
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When will landscape mode be available for the IPhone? I found threads on the topic, but they stop in 2013?
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I have updated to version 2.5.0 in iphone 4S and the app does not open - is there something wrong with the set up? can you please check if the update does not work for these phones and fix it?
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I have updated to version 2.5.0 in iphone 4S and the app does not open - is there something wrong with the set up? can you please check if the update does not work for these phones and fix it?
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Hey, So recently, since upgrading my phone to the iPhone 6 (iOS 8.1.3) spotify has had a really peculiar bug. When I open spotify and select a song on a playlist it will be play about 3 seconds of it and then jump to the start of the playlist or some...
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Hey Spotify get it together man. Everytime you release an udpated version (iTunes) and I download it I lose all my local files on my playlists. Come on man. I thought you were better than this. Every time you drop an update I have to delete the app, ...
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I recently upgraded from an iPhone 4 to an iPhone 6. All is well and good until I noticed that my new iPhone 6 can't play local files anymore (I am a Premium user). Spotify also isn't listing my phone under "Devices" which means I can't even sync it....
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I am hoping someone can help me. My Spotify was working fine a few days ago. Now, suddenly, it won't play music. I bring up a playlist, select a song and nothing happens. I can see the album cover, the artist's name, the name of the song, but the tim...
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Hey. Sorry for my bad english, im german. I have a problem with my new soundtouch system. first it worked with spotify but we had problems with the internet radio. it stops after a few minutes. therefore we reseted the whole system and after that the...
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After every singe spotify update, I have to reinstal the app and then resync my entire music library to the app. This is because all songs which have certain special characters in the name do not sync after an update... or they just do not work. This...
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No matter the track, wifi, LTE, on line or offline.... I hit play and i hear one note and pause.... I'm not previoewing just trying to play. I have updated OS and reinstalled. Any ideas? -J
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No matter the track, wifi, LTE, on line or offline.... I hit play and i hear one note and pause.... I'm not previoewing just trying to play. I have updated OS and reinstalled. ...
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Please somebody can help me.spotfy dont sync music offline,i have 16gb in my phone and i tried a lot of times reinstalate the app but i couldnt solve the problem....sorry for my bad english,i'm brasilian and i cant write english very good ;/ help me ...
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Hey,I can hear a bit of crackling noise when I listen to songs which occurs mainly when vocals or guitars reach a high pitch. Sometimes guitars sound distorted. I tried a re-install of the app already - to no avail. Songs are synced in "extreme" qual...
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