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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When on my iPhone I press play on songs and sometimes it takes forever to play or sometimes it will start and stop playing and start and stop. Basically, the connection is not smooth. It is ver...
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My offline music doesn't work on latest IOS on iPhone 6 under either Albums or Artists. If I click on an Album (or Artist) 3 circles pop up as if it's loading, but nothing happens. Everything is visible (and playable) under the Songs section, but I'd...
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Hi everyone. I recently visited Spain and sync'd lots of music to my iPhone to play offline over there, to avoid data roaming charges. Much to my disappointment, I could not play a lot of the music without going online and I would like to know if I d...
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Hi everyone. I recently visited Spain and sync'd lots of music to my iPhone to play offline over there, to avoid data roaming charges. Much to my disappointment, I could not play a lot of the mus...
Christoffer
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I open Spotify, click a playlist to go on shuffle, and the player shows up, the music tracker shows up, but nothing happens. The song doesn't start, it has a symbol where the timer should be that looks like "-:--" on both sides. Please help! I've tri...
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I open Spotify, click a playlist to go on shuffle, and the player shows up, the music tracker shows up, but nothing happens. The song doesn't start, it has a symbol where the timer should be that loo...
Jason
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I have an iPhone 4s running OS 7.1.2 (afraid to install 8 because it's already got issues). I downloaded the free spotify app on the app store and tried to open it from the screen on the app store. It doesn't appear on my desktop, but it showed up on...
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I have an iPhone 4s running OS 7.1.2 (afraid to install 8 because it's already got issues). I downloaded the free spotify app on the app store and tried to open it from the screen on the app store. I...
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I have an ipad mini (non-retina) and an iphone 5s. Both are updated to ihe latest ios 8.0.2 and are running Spotify v 1.8.0.2444. When I start Spotify in one or the the other device, I can establish comm via Connect and control the playlists, stop & ...
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I have an ipad mini (non-retina) and an iphone 5s. Both are updated to ihe latest ios 8.0.2 and are running Spotify v 1.8.0.2444. When I start Spotify in one or the the other ...
Peter__
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Ever since the iOS 8 update, spotify will not play my playlists in shuffle mode. It will sometimes play one track, and then either go silent (and appear to be playing the song) or a message will pop up 'unable to play song'. This app is now useless t...
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Ever since the iOS 8 update, spotify will not play my playlists in shuffle mode. It will sometimes play one track, and then either go silent (and appear to be playing the song) or a message wil...
Peter__
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TL;DR Spotify glitched resulting in me listening to totally random, but cool songs. Wanna find the names of em but cant and want to know if there is a track list of songs ive listened to. I was listening to a song called Abyssinia by the Ghost when t...
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TL;DR Spotify glitched resulting in me listening to totally random, but cool songs. Wanna find the names of em but cant and want to know if there is a track list of songs ive listened to. &nb...
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From my iPad app I cannot access the my music playlist from my iPad app. I also cannot add music to the playlist. I have uninstalled and re-downloaded the app.
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From my iPad app I cannot access the my music playlist from my iPad app. I also cannot add music to the playlist. I have uninstalled and re-downloaded the app.
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Bonjour Depuis la mise à jour de l'iphone 4s en 8.1, je n'arrive plus à écouter les morceaux importés dans mon Iphone en mode déconnecté. Ca cherche une connexion et ça n'affiche pas les morceaux. Pourtant, il est marqué : connecté vous avant 29 jour...
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Bonjour Depuis la mise à jour de l'iphone 4s en 8.1, je n'arrive plus à écouter les morceaux importés dans mon Iphone en mode déconnecté. Ca cherche une connexion et ça n'affiche pas les morceaux...
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Today Spotify started to do strange things. I had few playlists for offline use on my iPhone 5S with iOS 8.1 and I saw that suddenly not all of the tracks are downloaded for offline use. I've decided to download them but it just keeps them "on hold"....
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Today Spotify started to do strange things. I had few playlists for offline use on my iPhone 5S with iOS 8.1 and I saw that suddenly not all of the tracks are downloaded for offline use. I've decided...
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I want to disconnect my (own) facebook from spotify on my iphone. My wife pays for premium user status and I want my phone to be one of the devices attached to her facebook account, however on my iphone it automatically connects to my facebook and I ...
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I never received a reply to previous question, so I thought I'd try again... I burned the Squirrel Nut Zippers Hot onto my computer, it is synced to Spotify, but I can only play it on my computer. I have synced my phone with Spotify on my computer, w...
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TLCONRAD
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Swiping left on a single item in the search history in order to reveal a delete button works about 1% of the time. Usually there is no response.iOS 8.1, iPhone 6
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Swiping left on a single item in the search history in order to reveal a delete button works about 1% of the time. Usually there is no response. iOS 8.1, iPhone 6
meahtenoha
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Hi everyone,I had a list of tunes available offline. I downloaded a few more tunes which were not made available offline so I deactivated the offline mode to go back ok it, I thought it would make those songs available. But it didn't, and now only 4 ...
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Hi everyone, I had a list of tunes available offline. I downloaded a few more tunes which were not made available offline so I deactivated the offline mode to go back ok it, I thought it would mak...
Peter__
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My mobile premium iphone app had been working great until as of late. I have a bunch of artists synced offline to my phone. However, I couldn't choose to play any of these songs within the artist section. However, I can shuffle play all my synced mus...
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My mobile premium iphone app had been working great until as of late. I have a bunch of artists synced offline to my phone. However, I couldn't choose to play any of these songs within the artist sec...
Peter__
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Hello! I have registered a new account just for this forum (I don't want to connect my main account to a forum board). I'm a premium subscriber and have been now for over 2 years. It took me a while to get used to Spotify, I'll be honest with you the...
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Hello! I have registered a new account just for this forum (I don't want to connect my main account to a forum board). I'm a premium subscriber and have been now for over 2 years. It took ...
smidny
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I have problems syncing songs on my iPhone5s. Some weeks ago it just didnt work anymore.. tried all the things I found on Internett but nothing has worked so far... What to do?
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I have problems syncing songs on my iPhone5s. Some weeks ago it just didnt work anymore.. tried all the things I found on Internett but nothing has worked so far... What to do?
Ainahk
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Is there some way to disable spotify from my lock screen on the iPhone? Upgraded to Premium and it controls my lock screen now. I think it should be me who's controlling it and not a 3rd party. Any ideas?
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Is there some way to disable spotify from my lock screen on the iPhone? Upgraded to Premium and it controls my lock screen now. I think it should be me who's controlling it and not a 3rd party. Any i...
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