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Solved!! How to play the "Eat this playlist"

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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Volume buttons on device don't work when casting

As of Spotify 8.9.xx and newer I can't control the volume on my iPhone when casting to a Chromecast device. I need to go into the slider inside the Spotify app to change the volume. This is not an iOS or apple issue:My non working version of Spotify ...

Roadie

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iOS Local Files: Easier import with the Files app

It is now easier to import Local Files into the Spotify iOS app through the Files app on your iOS device. A computer and WiFi network are not required to use this new import method. This means that you can now import Local Files into the Spotify iOS ...

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Rastereyes

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Problem with unlimited

I have a Problem. I want to buy spotify Premium, but i bought unlimited. And now they say that i have 30 days unlimited And than Premium but i want Premium now. What can i do ? Thanks

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I have a Problem. I want to buy spotify Premium, but i bought unlimited. And now they say that i have 30 days unlimited And than Premium but i want Premium now. What can i do ? Thanks

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Solved!! Playlists missing from iphone

My playlists disappeared from my iphone yesterday, I have deleted and reinstalled the program twice. They still show up on the desktop version - help!

Newbie

My playlists disappeared from my iphone yesterday, I have deleted and reinstalled the program twice. They still show up on the desktop version - help!

Peter__

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Re: Spotify Offline Mode - How does it work?

I have a variant to this problem and I cannot work out how to create a new post. I have a Premium subscription. I have synced all my songs to a iphone 5 with software version 7.0.4 some 400+ songs. (approx 2.0GB) My phone still has 7.0GB of memory le...

Newbie

I have a variant to this problem and I cannot work out how to create a new post. I have a Premium subscription. I have synced all my songs to a iphone 5 with software version 7.0.4 some 400+ song...

Joe

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Spotify keeps crashing on new iOS 7.1 update

Can't even open it at all. Tried restarting and my Spotify is the newest version. What should I do

Newbie

Can't even open it at all. Tried restarting and my Spotify is the newest version. What should I do 😕

mattnighorn

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Still commercials after upgrading to Spotify Unlimited

Hello,Today I received a gift card of the amount of 10 euro. While activating it I could choose for 1 month Spotify Premium or 2 months Spotify Unlimited. I choose for 2 months Spotify Unlimited. After I confirmed it I saw the notification that the u...

Newbie

Hello, Today I received a gift card of the amount of 10 euro. While activating it I could choose for 1 month Spotify Premium or 2 months Spotify Unlimited. I choose for 2 months Spotify Unlimited....

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Problem with Extreme Quality on iPhone app

Description I just became Premium a few days ago because I want to use the Spotify iPhone app wherever I go without adverts and with good sound quality but I in my app settings the streaming quality for Extreme and Playlist quality also in Extreme bu...

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Description I just became Premium a few days ago because I want to use the Spotify iPhone app wherever I go without adverts and with good sound quality but I in my app settings the streaming qualit...

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Solved!! Can't sync new tracks

Hello, I use Spotify with premium membership on my ipod 5. I have roughly 3000 tracks synced on it, but now when I add new tracks, I see a red exclamation mark beside the track's name. It seems to be a capacity problem because when I delete tracks, I...

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Hello,   I use Spotify with premium membership on my ipod 5. I have roughly 3000 tracks synced on it, but now when I add new tracks, I see a red exclamation mark beside the track's name. It ...

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Free Spotify local file sync to ipad

I'm trying to sync some local tracks to my Ipad but the icon in spotify on my computer keeps "pending". There is plenty of space left on the ipad. I have tried searching on google and have come across multiple threads which said that you should be ab...

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I'm trying to sync some local tracks to my Ipad but the icon in spotify on my computer keeps "pending". There is plenty of space left on the ipad. I have tried searching on google and have come acros...

Peter__

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Thumbs Down Oversight

If you run out of skips on a radio station, you are unable to thumb down a song. This is ridiculous oversight. Just let me thumb it down but keep playing the same song. It's not complicated. If Pandora can handle simple logic, so can you.

Roadie

If you run out of skips on a radio station, you are unable to thumb down a song. This is ridiculous oversight. Just let me thumb it down but keep playing the same song. It's not complicated. If Pando...

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Shuffle play repeating songs too often

I have a 290 song playlist that I just recently totally randomized because I was having the same problem of songs repeating too often. Then today in a span of about 25 songs, I heard the same song play twice. A song should not repeat until every song...

Roadie

I have a 290 song playlist that I just recently totally randomized because I was having the same problem of songs repeating too often. Then today in a span of about 25 songs, I heard the same song pl...

TwistyMcNuts

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Missing playlists

My playlists are gone from my iPhone 4 but on my iPad and desktop the playlists are intact. I've tried to uninstall and install. I've tried to log in and out. I've tried to log out of Facebook...Can I get help with this? Thanx a bunch!

Newbie

My playlists are gone from my iPhone 4 but on my iPad and desktop the playlists are intact. I've tried to uninstall and install. I've tried to log in and out. I've tried to log out of Facebook...Can ...

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Search broken

Cant search Iphone 5s tried restarting and redownloading.

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Cant search Iphone 5s tried restarting and redownloading.

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Spotify - Your iPhone app is absolute dog**bleep**

To put it bluntly. The app i currently am using less of on my iPhone sucks. Here's a real cool list of stupid **bleep** the Spotify app does on my iPhone (the same service i pay $10/month for) 1) takes forever to load (its the 21st century fellas) 2)...

Roadie

To put it bluntly.   The app i currently am using less of on my iPhone sucks.   Here's a real cool list of stupid **bleep** the Spotify app does on my iPhone (the same service i pay...

Mitchgo

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Solved!! Search busted - iPhone only

Ever since the latest update a few days ago, I'm unable to search at all on my iphone, always getting the generic "an error occurred, try again" message. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app, rebooted the iPhone twice, logged out and back in, and...

Casual Listener

Ever since the latest update a few days ago, I'm unable to search at all on my iphone, always getting the generic "an error occurred, try again" message. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app,...

bumpass1

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cannot vote (thumbs up or down) on a song after it has finished

I like to listen to a complete song on radio mode before giving a thumbs up or down to help tune the station to my needs, but if i don't run to my IOS device within seconds of the end, it's too late -- can no longer vote on the song? what am i missin...

Casual Listener

I like to listen to a complete song on radio mode before giving a thumbs up or down to help tune the station to my needs, but if i don't run to my IOS device within seconds of the end, it's too late ...

dead_maniac

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Search will not function, but other functions will

Hello folks. My iOS (7.4, jailbroken but if that matters then I will just switch services) device Spotify began acting up recently. At any time that I use the search function (on Verizon Wireless USA LTE or WiFi) it will say "an error occurred" after...

Casual Listener

Hello folks. My iOS (7.4, jailbroken but if that matters then I will just switch services) device Spotify began acting up recently. At any time that I use the search function (on Verizon Wireles...

Peter__

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search not working after upgrading to premium account

search runs and returns "an error has occurred. please try again" over and over tried a hard reset. uninstalled and reinstalled. deleted all my data. nothing seems to fix it worked fine before i upgraded today.

Newbie

search runs and returns "an error has occurred. please try again" over and over   tried a hard reset. uninstalled and reinstalled. deleted all my data. nothing seems to fix it   wor...

Peter__

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Couldn't fast forward to next song on playlist

So I was on my way to work today listening to a chillout playlist from browse. I didn't like the current song so wanted to fast forward to the next track and noticed the buttons were greyed out. I couldn't go back or forward with the buttons. Yes, I'...

Regular

So I was on my way to work today listening to a chillout playlist from browse.  I didn't like the current song so wanted to fast forward to the next track and noticed the buttons were greyed out...

plhoward

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iOS libspotify: App Rejected for using link to Spotify sign-up page

Not sure if this is exactly the right forums forum this, but I just wanted to inform others about an issue I encountered while submitting my libspotify enabled app to Apple's app store. My app (screenshot below) included the sentence "A premium Spoti...

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Not sure if this is exactly the right forums forum this, but I just wanted to inform others about an issue I encountered while submitting my libspotify enabled app to Apple's app store. My app (scree...

jeremygoh

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