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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My Problem on my spotify premium account is , that when i open my playlist and start a song the next that will be played isn't from my playlist (its any random song, which i don't even know ..) all buttons from shuffle or something like that are offl...
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So, the bug when I put some music in queue, the last one in the queue order is all black. I’ve noticed this some months ago, everyday hoping for a fix but untill now, no fix yet.
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So, the bug when I put some music in queue, the last one in the queue order is all black. I’ve noticed this some months ago, everyday hoping for a fix but untill now, no fix yet.
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PlanPremiumCountryUsDeviceiPhone 7Operating SystemLatest IOS My Question or Issue Is there a way to block the background videos on songs??? I hate these things and they’re on a lot of songs. I like to just see the album cover instead of a snippet of ...
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I was having trouble syncing music from my laptop to my iPhone, but I found out I could sync songs by playing them on my laptop then pressing ‘switch to iPhone’ On the available devices tab. It worked for a whole, but now when I try switching from la...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceiPhoneXOperating SystemiOS 12 My Question or Issueeverytime I try to play a playlist or an artist, it plays one song then the quene or next song is something random. even if i go to an artist page to play just their songs,...
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The album of Steve Perry, Street Talk (Expanded Edition), have some songs showed at Spotify, but cannot be played. Some examples: "My my my", "Makes no difference", "If only for the moment". These songs cannot be played. I would like to know why... T...
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USA - IOS - Apple CarPlayMy wife's phone is controlling my spotify when she's no where near my car. If I change to radio in my truck it changes to radio in her car. Why is the service linked on both phones?
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I just clicked on the spotify app to open it up and it had logged me out. I tried to log back in but it said that I have been travelling abroad for more than 14 days, when I haven't left Canada in over a year. I deleted the app and reinstalled it, bu...
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Premium PlanU.S.iPhone XSiOS 12.2 When trying to add a single song from an album to my library, the entire album is saved and not just the single song I wanted. The basic functionality of adding songs (that has existed on Spotify for years) is now go...
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Hello, i don’t understand why is Spotify changed my interface. It’s been a while now, and i’m not very comfortable with the new one. It used to be like this : (image from google, not mine) Now it’s like this : The thing is that it constantly switches...
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I literally have full bars of data and will be connected to WiFi and sometimes it’ll still won’t say it’s connected even tho it definitely is and I won’t be able to listen to music. PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSADeviceIphone XOperating SystemMost updated...
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