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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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  • sapmi
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Spotify as ringtone

Is it posible to aply a song from spotify as a ringtone on iPhone, if your a premium member? if not, can this be done?, by an app or otherwise? Regards.

  • Newbie
  • Is it posible to aply a song from spotify as a ringtone on iPhone, if your a premium member?   if not, can this be done?, by an app or otherwise?   Regards.
  • naticari
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Solved!! How to Disable Shuffle Play on the iPhone

This seems to be a very common issue so outside of Spotify changing the behavior, I'm going to post a separate topic based in THIS thread. The problem is once you press the shuffle button, the app will play all subsequent playlists in shuffle mode un...

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  • This seems to be a very common issue so outside of Spotify changing the behavior, I'm going to post a separate topic based in THIS thread.   The problem is once you press the shuffle bu...
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I cant sync my local files to my iPhone

Sooooooo. I've tried what spotify said to do to sync the local files from mac to iPhone but it cant seem to work. I've tried what they said on some other page if it isnt working. Please give a lending hand?

  • Newbie
  • Sooooooo. I've tried what spotify said to do to sync the local files from mac to iPhone but it cant seem to work. I've tried what they said on some other page if it isnt working. Please give a l...
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Superuser Contribution App will show nothing but logo

The app for IOS will not let me navigate anywhere and is just showing the spotify logo shown in the picture. obviously a glitch. please fix soon. the pregame is hurting

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  • The app for IOS will not let me navigate anywhere and is just showing the spotify logo shown in the picture. obviously a glitch. please fix soon. the pregame is hurting 
  • Jack
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Solved!! My public playlist doesn't show in my public playlists when viewing my own profile

I've updated and even uninstalled and re-installed. I've found other threads that mention a similar problem, some of them dating years back. It's not private, it's not collaborative. It's just my favorite playlist. I'm pretty sure that others can sti...

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  • I've updated and even uninstalled and re-installed. I've found other threads that mention a similar problem, some of them dating years back.   It's not private, it's not collaborative. It...
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Solved!! Spotify Community on Iphone

can you can spotify community on the iphone app? i don't know how to get to it, if so. can someone help me out!! thanks

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  • can you can spotify community on the iphone app? i don't know how to get to it, if so. can someone help me out!! thanks 🙂
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Program freezes after advertising

Hi all, I use the free version on iOS and over the last few weeks the program freezes after an ad has played. The next ad won’t start and I can’t change music or play anything else. The only way to get around this is to quit the program and reopen.At...

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  • Hi all, I use the free version on iOS and over the last few weeks the program freezes after an ad has played. The next ad won’t start and I can’t change music or play anything else. The only way to g...
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Artist graphics not populating on my iphone

Starting today no graphics are populating on my iphone. I tried shutting the phone off and restarting it. I deleted the app and re-installed it and still no album art, etc. What do you think is causing this problem?

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  • Starting today no graphics are populating on my iphone. I tried shutting the phone off and restarting it. I deleted the app and re-installed it and still no album art, etc. What do you think is causi...
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My music randomly pauses

Whenever I am in the app, either on LTE or WiFi, my music will randomly pause at random intervals, please help.

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  • Whenever I am in the app, either on LTE or WiFi, my music will randomly pause at random intervals, please help. 
  • avahofmann
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Bluetooth Glitch (Not showing device upon dis/connecting it)

The issue I have is that Spotify does NOT detect my bluetooth headphones under certain circumstances. Specifically, I have noticed this always happens when: 1) Spotify is already open and I don't kill the app, 2) bluetooth is disabled/bluetooth headp...

  • Newbie
  • The issue I have is that Spotify does NOT detect my bluetooth headphones under certain circumstances. Specifically, I have noticed this always happens when: 1) Spotify is already open and I don't kil...
  • avahofmann
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Songs Saved to My Library Disappear

I have had Spotify premium since some time in 2014. I noticed today that i couldnt find some songs that I know that i have saved in the past. I scrolled down to the bottom of my saved songs list and at the bottom of the list is a song I saved on 8/29...

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  • I have had Spotify premium since some time in 2014. I noticed today that i couldnt find some songs that I know that i have saved in the past. I scrolled down to the bottom of my saved songs list and ...
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Payment

I can’t pay for my account because it doesn’t accept my credit cards. What can i do plss help?

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  • I can’t pay for my account because it doesn’t accept my credit cards. What can i do plss help?
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playlist

I haven't learned how to manuveur yet so help me please. How do I create a playlist playing a mix of all the songs that an artist performs?

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  • I haven't learned how to manuveur yet so help me please. How do I create a playlist playing a mix of all the songs that an artist performs?
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Superuser Contribution Playlist issue

Hello there,I’m trying to listen to my playlist in alphabetical order by artist, however, after I listen to it for a bit it will jump back to the beginning and restart again. It’s not set on shuffle or repeat. Thank you.

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  • Hello there, I’m trying to listen to my playlist in alphabetical order by artist, however, after I listen to it for a bit it will jump back to the beginning and restart again. It’s not set on shuffl...
  • Jack
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Solved!! 100 downloads limit?

Hey everyone, for the last few years i’ve been saving songs in my offline playlist. I just figured out that the playlist is almost 33gb,is it possible to only have the 100 last added songs saved for offline?

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  • Hey everyone,  for the last few years i’ve been saving songs in my offline playlist.  I just figured out that the playlist is almost 33gb, is it possible to only have the 100 last added ...
  • Bethany_Dawn
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Playlists not loading

Ever since I updated my Spotify when I scroll through my playlists a little circle comes up that means it's loading and it either never does or takes a long time to load all my songs. Any idea why this is happening?

  • Newbie
  • Ever since I updated my Spotify when I scroll through my playlists a little circle comes up that means it's loading and it either never does or takes a long time to load all my songs. Any idea why th...
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Solved!! Iphone 10

I recenlty upgraded to an Iphone 10 and installed spotify and donwloaded my playlists. Some of my playlist are now scrambled and song titles are sitting on top of each other. See attached file. Any ideas why this is? It looks like the songs have been...

  • Newbie
  • I recenlty upgraded to an Iphone 10 and installed spotify and donwloaded my playlists. Some of my playlist are now scrambled and song titles are sitting on top of each other. See attached file. Any i...
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sizzling song in bluetooth in my car and in my helmet

hello, I have an Iphone X, and, I don t know if it's since then, but on some songs, even at low volume, some songs sizzle, whether in my car in Bluetooth or in my headphones Bose always in bluetooth ..Is there a setting with the iphone X? or in Spoti...

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  • hello, I have an Iphone X, and, I don t know if it's since then, but on some songs, even at low volume, some songs sizzle, whether in my car in Bluetooth or in my headphones Bose always in bluetooth ...
  • benny47
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Almost impossible to delete a song

Why have it been made so extremely difficult to delete songs from playlists?I have some really large playlists, and it is almost impossible.Before it was an option to delete by swiping.Now you have to remember which song to delete, open the edit func...

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  • Why have it been made so extremely difficult to delete songs from playlists? I have some really large playlists, and it is almost impossible. Before it was an option to delete by swiping. Now you ...
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