How to make all songs available offline?

[Dafool11]

Let me start off by saying I really like the new update. It works amazing on the PC and android but I do not know how to make all songs under "My Music" availible offline. It seems a bit silly that I would have to put the saved song in a playlist just so I could have it availible offline. This would make it so the removing of the star button would add more work. Maybe I'm just being an idiot and not seeing it.

[Joe · Accepted solution]

Once you have set the download switch on the songs page, there's no need to touch it again. Any music you add to your library in future will download automatically.

[roiikkata1010]

It sure does. What a great feature! Took some figuring out but now I see what you're talking about.

I like being at home and being able to concentrate on adding the music than being out and just adding stuff at random haha. Keeps the Library more organized.

Nice work, Spotify!

[Kodyj107]

That doesn't work, I slid it over and it's been several days and there is only 3 songs downloaded

[Joe]

You might want to make sure you have enough free storage space on your device if downloading has stalled. Are you trying to download over 4G or wifi?

[maxi_2013]

I dont seem to have a download switch on my songs page? Is this normal

[Liquidiz4u]

OK so how would I put all downloads I set forth in all albums to one playlist with out doing so singly? Like shown in my attachment? It's all songs I Download but I wanna put all songs downloaded into one playlist with out having to go back to choose a different album
Also running app on my Samsung Galaxy s6 active

[Koanddjs]

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@metorrite wrote:

what you can do is go to your list of songs, click any one of the (once) then press    " ctrl + a " . this will select all your songs at once, then right click and under add to playlist, click new playlist, you can then make the new playlist with all the songs that were selecteed available offline. although you will have to do the same thing each time you want new music offline (unless you add them to the playlist as you go) hope this helped.

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this is so helpful and so simple tysm

[imogen3]

I literally just pressed CMD + A (control + A for windows) and dragged into a new playlist.

Cheers

[swykhuis162]

I've struggled with getting all my music available offline/"downloaded" as well. I haven't found a way to just tell all my music to automatically be available offline. My shortcut is to have a playlist called "all my songs" & I just put all my songs in there and make the playlist available offline, so wherever any song is in my library is available.

HOWEVER, this creates a new problem (on the desktop app- would probably be okay on my android). But, let's say I add 10 new songs a day. I can't simply go to all my music, select all songs & add them to "all my songs" playlist because it will DUPLICATE all the other songs that are already there. Ugh... so, I have to sort songs by date & remember which ones I've added to the playlist already to avoid creating duplicates (although truth be told, I suppose I could have a bazillion duplicates on that playlist, since the purpose of that playlist is to make ALL my songs available offline easily, not to organize or listen to music within there). Just wish Spotify desktop version would alert me that I'm adding a duplicate song (as my android app does) & let me say "don't add duplicates". 

I like Spotify, but I think it could be way more user friendly! Just my 2 cents. 

[Sean5861]

It took me a while but the option is there (on Android).  In the song tab on library you have to ensure that the filter for downloaded songs is not selected and the option appears at the top.  No need to mess about with playlists.

[Joe]

Songs in playlists aren't automatically added to the songs section of your library though, are they?

[bhoobs · Accepted solution]

what i have found works is saving all your songs to your music and also saving it to a playlist. In that playlist (since on MAC you can download playlists) you can download all the songs. That for me has made all my songs availabe offline. 

[swykhuis162]

Oyyy, maybe you're right. Not sure why a song wouldn't be automatically added to "your music" after you add it to a playlist... seems like double work to have to add to songs AND playlist. 

[swykhuis162]

Yes, exactly- the only solution I found for Mac OS, also. 

"your songs" & "your music" are the same thing from my understanding, right? 

[MJCP]

God bless your soul

[Chelsearhi]

So back in 2014 the devs said they were adding the feature to download all your songs without dealing with a playlist. 

-stares at the timestamp of this post-

[Joe]

Hehe. You can download all songs in your library even if they aren;t in playlists so I guess they did it. They decided that songs added to playlists would not be added to the . library because of the silly limit on the max songs your library can cobtain,

[Ladylyx]

This is perfect, thank you! I am needing my entire library available this weekend and was panicing about not being able to have my library in offline mode in the PC. Now I have everything syncing in my new Playlist. 

Thank you!!!

[hytekj]

How?

[Chelsearhi]

(holy wow I don't check these things.) 

I'm able to download my library to my phone, which is great. But I, unfortunately, live in an area with no cellular data service. At the time of original comment back in April, I went through a period where my Wi-Fi wasn't working, so I had no access to my full library on my PC since only my playlists had downloaded. (which, I didn't make playlists for squat.) 

THIS ALL BEING SAID, Spotify is my life now. There isn't a single day I don't use it and it saved me from my evil pirating ways. 🙂