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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Hi, I've been running iOS 11 beta on my iPhone 7 the last few days and I've just noticed that when playing Spotify the lockscreen widget is no longer full screen... Now I'm aware iOS 11 is still in the beta phase and potentially things aren't set in ...
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My spotify can’t downloading any songs. It just “waiting for downloding” but, i have been waiting for an hour and the songs haven’t downloaded. What should i do now?
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My spotify can’t downloading any songs. It just “waiting for downloding” but, i have been waiting for an hour and the songs haven’t downloaded. What should i do now?
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Hello, I have an iTunes album that I have been trying to import onto Spotify for a while now. The songs show up on my Spotify's local files section but the problem is when I move this to a playlist the songs don't even show up on my iPhone. I have a ...
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Hello,Why doesn't my iPhone app have a "Downloads" folder? My friend has a folder that shows all her downloaded songs or albums. I have to manually search each song I want to hear and I'd rather have all my downloaded songs in one place.
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I've been using Spotify app for very long. Today I updated my iPhone 7 to iOS 11.2 and suddenly the app seems to be unfunctional. All what now happens is it will show me only white blank screen at the startup and after like 4-5 seconds automatically ...
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Are there any restrictions in uploading a short radio style advert as song/mp3 file and including it in a playlist?
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Are there any restrictions in uploading a short radio style advert as song/mp3 file and including it in a playlist?
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For some reason when I went to load Spotify up for music on my work commute today, it was logged out and the app continuously kept crashing. I use my iPhone 8+ with Apple car play in one of my cars, and use it also to stream to my Xbox/ps4. Up until ...
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I can remote everything from my iPhone while i listening Spotify for pc but i can not remote Spotify for iPad. Its working with pause, stop or change the songs or playlist but cant change the sound intensity. And also if i pause a song for a little t...
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I thought it was a primuim problem, or an update with my phone/app (Updated my phone and app) but i used to be able to shuffle my music from any folder/Sub folder i created. am i missing something??
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I have reinstalled the app a few times and always happens the same, it keeps downloading albums that I don’t have selected for download and then I end up reaching the limit and not having the ones I selected to download.This happens for some time, ev...
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Settings icon and user profile settings and almost impossible to hit in 4 inch iPhone SE.
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Settings icon and user profile settings and almost impossible to hit in 4 inch iPhone SE.
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the last song in my queue won’t show up, i’ve tried deleting the app and logging in again and it won’t work. if anyone knows how to help it would be appreciated!
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the last song in my queue won’t show up, i’ve tried deleting the app and logging in again and it won’t work. if anyone knows how to help it would be appreciated!
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