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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As said in the heading. I can't state a specific date when this started but it should've be approximately two to three weeks ago.For example I saved Blink-182's album California in my local storage.Everytime I want to play a song of that album it wou...
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As said in the heading. I can't state a specific date when this started but it should've be approximately two to three weeks ago. For example I saved Blink-182's album California in my local stora...
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Hi! I had a great playlist "discover weekly" last week, but then it has updated and I cannot find songs from that list. I was listening it only via iPhone. There is nothing in the history on my Mac or iPhone and I would love to extract the titles of ...
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Hi! I had a great playlist "discover weekly" last week, but then it has updated and I cannot find songs from that list. I was listening it only via iPhone. There is no...
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My music keeps stopping. Not pausing or a break in signal but it just stops and the only way to make it start again is to touch the cursor on the time elapsed bar at the bottom of the screen. I've tried everything I can think of. Anyone have any sugg...
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My music keeps stopping. Not pausing or a break in signal but it just stops and the only way to make it start again is to touch the cursor on the time elapsed bar at the bottom of the screen. I've tr...
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Went on like normal today but all my custom playlists are gone, talking about 30 separate playlists, and only about 7 generic playlists that I have never seen before are there. Can't recover them because I never deleted them... SOS
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Went on like normal today but all my custom playlists are gone, talking about 30 separate playlists, and only about 7 generic playlists that I have never seen before are there. Can't recover them bec...
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I saw on one specific song that they have a full background instead of the usual small square album image? Is this a new feature because this is pretty nice.This is not typical from the square album cover. Image by itself. When this song is played, i...
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I saw on one specific song that they have a full background instead of the usual small square album image? Is this a new feature because this is pretty nice. This is not typical from the square al...
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Even when I grey out the shuffle button on my iPhone, Spotify albums keep shuffling. Anyone have any solutions for this?
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Even when I grey out the shuffle button on my iPhone, Spotify albums keep shuffling. Anyone have any solutions for this?
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Hi, updated my account to a family account and shared (via WhatsApp) dedicated playlists with family members to their account. Unfortunately it is not possible to edit the imported playlist furthermore. It us just a static list ;-(. They cannot add f...
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Hi, updated my account to a family account and shared (via WhatsApp) dedicated playlists with family members to their account. Unfortunately it is not possible to edit the imported play...
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Hi! I have a problem. I've been trying to make a few playlists secret on my IOS device, but I can't seem to make them private, well the option is there to make the playlist secret, and when I do it says that it's secret. But if i go into the playlist...
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Hi! I have a problem. I've been trying to make a few playlists secret on my IOS device, but I can't seem to make them private, well the option is there to make the playlist secret, and when I do it s...
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I have been trying to figure out how to get premium renewed for about two weeks and cannot figure out how to renew with the iTunes money like I've been able to do previously… Can anyone help me?
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I have been trying to figure out how to get premium renewed for about two weeks and cannot figure out how to renew with the iTunes money like I've been able to do previously… Can anyone help me?
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Hello y’all. I’m experiencing this problem, that I can’t log into my NEW Spotify account at all. On the website it’s working fine. But each time I’m using the app on the iPhone, it’s telling me “You can only use Spotify abroad for 14 days“. Now here ...
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Hello y’all. I’m experiencing this problem, that I can’t log into my NEW Spotify account at all. On the website it’s working fine. But each time I’m using the app on the iPhone, it’s telling ...
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Hi, I was wondering if someone has the solution when the downloads in Spotify, for example a playlist, is stopped after the app become the background or even closed. I tried to solve uninstalling and installing again but it does not work. It is reall...
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Hi, I was wondering if someone has the solution when the downloads in Spotify, for example a playlist, is stopped after the app become the background or even closed. I tried to solve un...
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I tried to listen to Spotify while I was outside of my home. It didn't work. When I got home, my Amazon Echo was playing. I had to unplug the Echo to get it to stop. Does having the Echo linked to Spotify preclude me from using Spotify with my iPhone...
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I tried to listen to Spotify while I was outside of my home. It didn't work. When I got home, my Amazon Echo was playing. I had to unplug the Echo to get it to stop. Does having the Echo linked to Sp...
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Hi all, I'm listening on an iPad and when I try to change music quality to extreme it says it's not possible when listening on another device? im paying premium subscription ive re installed the app ive removed all devices from my Spotify account? wh...
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Hi all, I'm listening on an iPad and when I try to change music quality to extreme it says it's not possible when listening on another device? im paying premium subscription i...
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I'm a premium user, I used the sign out everywhere button, removed all offline devices, changed my password, deleted the app from my phone and re-downloaded, and I still get the "spotify has paused because your account is being used somewhere else" m...
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I'm a premium user, I used the sign out everywhere button, removed all offline devices, changed my password, deleted the app from my phone and re-downloaded, and I still get the "spotify ha...
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Hi all, A quick question. Suppose I downloaded some songs with normal quality, but I am on WIFI with extreme quality. So when I start playing those downloaded songs under WiFi, it will play on extreme or normal? Thanks.
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Hi all, A quick question. Suppose I downloaded some songs with normal quality, but I am on WIFI with extreme quality. So when I start playing those downloaded songs under WiFi, it w...
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Every time I open the app it starts up then quickly crashes
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Every time I open the app it starts up then quickly crashes 😞
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I can't view all of the buttons to play, pause, shuffle etc. when looking at album covers. I have a premium account. This is frustrating because I can't turn off shuffle. I checked but there are no updates. Suggestions? Thanks!
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I can't view all of the buttons to play, pause, shuffle etc. when looking at album covers. I have a premium account. This is frustrating because I can't turn off shuffle. I checked but there are no u...
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Hey guys - I‘m looking for the iOS - beta programm of spotify. I‘ve already send that Google Sheet and accepted the invitation from TestFlight bit I‘ve accidentally deleted the permission Is there any way to get it back ? thanks
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Hey guys - I‘m looking for the iOS - beta programm of spotify. I‘ve already send that Google Sheet and accepted the invitation from TestFlight bit I‘ve accidentally deleted the permission 😞 Is ...
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Hi, I recently bought an iPhone X and now when I run every 5-10 mins Spotify pauses the music, when I unpause the music does not start. I have to restart the app to listen to music again. Please help!
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Hi, I recently bought an iPhone X and now when I run every 5-10 mins Spotify pauses the music, when I unpause the music does not start. I have to restart the app to listen to music again. Please help!
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I updated my iOS operating system and now whenever I have my phone in my pocket or even just pick my phone the screen randomly comes on and the display to skip/pause songs comes on and keeps getting accidentally pressed. Is there any way to turn this...
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I updated my iOS operating system and now whenever I have my phone in my pocket or even just pick my phone the screen randomly comes on and the display to skip/pause songs comes on and keeps getting ...
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