Choppy playback of downloaded music

[Dood]

So, I was helping a friend stain his patio the other day, and I was in a city that I don't have great reception in. No problem, I'll just listen to the music that's on my device, I thought...

Turns out I was very wrong. The entire day, songs native to the device would start, stop, skip, and sometimes even end prematurely. How is it that music that I have downloaded to the device, has trouble playing? This has been going on for a few weeks now, but it was most evident that day. Normally it's just once every few songs, but that day, out of six hours of playback, I think a total of three songs played in their entirety without skipping once.

This is unacceptable.

This, plus the 3,333, song per device (even though I only have one device!), plus the 10,000 saved song (library) limit, is making me seriously consider going to a competing app. I loved Spotify a year ago, but it seems like every few months there's a new feature that makes everything work worse.

[Daniel]

Have you tried a clean install to see if a refresh will help?

[Dood]

I will try that this weekend and see what happens.

I'll keep you updated.

[Daniel]

Please do

[Dood]

Still having problems. Now it's even happening when I'm on WiFi at home. It's weird though, because as soon as I switch to 4G it plays correctly, even though it should be playing from the device?

[Daniel]

Does it happen if you put the Spotify app into Offline mode and play them?

Note - Make sure you put the app in Offline mode, and not the phone (Airplane Mode)

[Dood]

Don't know. Haven't tried that. Next time it does it, I'll give that a try.

I'll let you know.

[kitchenrocking]

Did you ever resolve this? I am having the same issue. Other media apps and websites play fine, but Spotify is really choppy, even for playlsits that are available offline.

[Dood]

Never got it fixed. I had to trade the phone in and I'm using a flip phone for now until those worthless b$*%&$s at Best Buy can get me a new one. I think it's because I had such a wealth of saved music and so many playlists that it just had trouble with it.

[danielmsanchez]

I'm having the same problem here 10 months later, and I do not have a lot of songs ore playlists saved, just one...

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@Dood wrote:

Never got it fixed. I had to trade the phone in and I'm using a flip phone for now until those worthless b$*%&$s at Best Buy can get me a new one. I think it's because I had such a wealth of saved music and so many playlists that it just had trouble with it.

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