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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Do i have to get premium to do it?And i have the latest version which is 8.8.44.527 but i still cant see the option
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For the past few days the 30 minutes of add free music has not been working. I keep getting the “Watch this short video to get 30 minutes of uninterrupted listening” and then nothing would happen. I ...
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Cada que pongo una canción la letra va bien, pero de un momento a otro se traba y la letra se retrasa de la música y es con TODAS las canciones, ya cambie de celular y sigue con el mismo problema
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Cada que pongo una canción la letra va bien, pero de un momento a otro se traba y la letra se retrasa de la música y es con TODAS las canciones, ya cambie de celular y sigue con el mismo problema
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the lyrics tab is no longer available under any of the now playing tabs. PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceiPhone 13 My Question or Issue
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the lyrics tab is no longer available under any of the now playing tabs. Plan Premium Country USA Device iPhone 13 My Question or Issue
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Why are you (Spotify) still compressing the music ? I know Spotify claims they are not compressing the music if you disable the volume normalizer. Well disabling it does nothing to stop whatever compression method they are using. I was a premium memb...
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Why are you (Spotify) still compressing the music ? I know Spotify claims they are not compressing the music if you disable the volume normalizer. Well disabling it does nothing to stop whatever comp...
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I have install Spotify on an old iPhone 5c running iOS 10.3.3 I have tried to login to the app using two different Spotify account details but none of them work. The app keeps saying that it cannot recognise the account even though they work fine log...
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I have install Spotify on an old iPhone 5c running iOS 10.3.3 I have tried to login to the app using two different Spotify account details but none of them work. The app keeps saying that it cannot r...
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Please, customize the Timer button so that when we are listening to music, it says "When the song ends" instead of "When the episode ends." On Android, this is already the case. It needs to be updated on iOS.
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Please, customize the Timer button so that when we are listening to music, it says "When the song ends" instead of "When the episode ends." On Android, this is already the case. It needs to be update...
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