Spotify won't play entire song only a preview

[Kailani2]

Why did you guys' change that? My phone was workin perfectly fine with me being able to pick what song I want to listen too. It makes no sense to make us pay for a premium JUST so we can CHOOSE what song we can hear. Honestly this is annoying and frankly it won't work. I'm going to a different app to listen my music too. 

[Kipturk3883]

Did you ever get this solved. Because I have this same issue

[Kipturk3883]

I have this same issue. Any resolutions?

[AlejaR]

Hey there @Kipturk3883,

Thanks for posting in the Community and welcome.

We hope you don't mind us moving your post, as it fits better here in a new thread.

In this case, would you mind sending us more info about the issue you mentioned in the other thread? Add as many details as possible, and we'll do our best to help.

Now, we'd like to add some insights. Keep in mind that the Preview clips feature has evolved over time. Now, there are 2 ways within the app in which you can preview content:

1. Explore this playlist: it allows you to explore 30 previews of tracks inside a playlist, so you can discover new music content without playing the entire playlist per se. This feature can be find at the top of most playlists.
2. Add to this playlist: when using this option, which you can find at the top of your playlists, you'll get redirected to a menu with different sections that suggests content you can add there. There, you'll find previews of the content:

This applies for both Premium and free accounts on the mobile app version.

Hope this clears things up. If you have any questions or need a hand with anything else, we're always a post away.

[Kipturk3883]

I don’t see that option for previews of content and that entire menu is not available for the liked songs. Maybe this a screen shot of what you are referring to.

As I said ALL my liked songs will ONLY play previews. It just started a few days ago. I’m on the FREE version. My playlists play entire songs. I’m so frustrated with it, I’ve noticed many others posting this issue here there also. I talked to support 3 different times, no help at all!!!!!!!!!

[MihailY]

Hey @Kipturk3883,

Thanks for your reply.

We fully understand your frustration, but we need to confirm that Spotify's free tier comes with a certain set of limitations and playing your Liked songs on demand is one of them. 

However, you should still be able start the playlist in Shuffle mode by clicking on the green play button at the top of the page.

We hope this helps. Let us know if you have any other questions.

[user-removed]

It is not playing the full songs

[Yordan]

Hi there,

Welcome to the Spotify Community!

Sounds like you're using the free version of the mobile app and you're previewing the Liked Songs playlist.

By clicking on the individual songs, you enter a preview mode the app would play a short segment of the song. In order to play a song from the beginning, you'll have to press the big green Play button at the top.

Note: the mobile app for free users doesn't fully support on-demand playback in some regions, meaning most music will only be available in Shuffle mode. Still, there are up to 15 "special" Spotify playlists (usually found under the Made for you section) which allow you to pick and play any song.

Check out the screenshots below for a detailed view:

Spoiler

"Special" Spotify playlist
"Regular" user-made playlist

Hope this clears things up. Cheers 🤘

[Pandapopoto]

This is not answering the question

Go playlist > select song wanting to listen to > only plays a preview and does NOT start the playlist from that point 

When scroll a playlist to pick a song to listen to, you dont want a preview, you want the playlist to start from the selected song, this is how it is for 100% of media other than the spotify app.

This is what is being asked 

[New user]

When I go to Spotify. I look at my liked songs and they only give me a preview of the song and I don’t get to listen to the whole thing.

[Nikki780944]

Plan

Free

Country

Device

Samsung

Operating System

Android Oreo

My Question or Issue

The songs were listed in the text paragraph. When I checked my liked songs, only previews were available. It started when I opened my app on my phone and noticed an update. Updated the app and clicked on one of my playlists and all of the songs were gone. I panicked at first, then noticed it was still there just in the form of previews. When I tried on my computer, everything was fine. So I tried several methods. Logging out, reinstalling, checking permissions, resetting settings, resetting my network settings and so on and so on. I even made a whole new account! Nothing helped. So can someone please help? Advise something? Explain? Anything?

[Kdc2]

I have the samen issue, i get only previews. I can't play full songs in a playlist.

Spotify do you have a resolution?