Local Files on Android

[Redeucer]

I've got Spotify on 2 PCs, and on my Samsung Galaxy Note 5 phone, yet even when I download a playlist with the songs on every device, including the Note 5, they show up in the playlist on my phone as unavailable?

Any ideas?

[Joe]

Are these local files you have added to spotify on one of your PCs? If so, did you follow the steps here to make them available on your android?

[Redeucer]

Yes.  Followed the stesp there.  When they wouldn't sutomatically transfer to my Note 5, that's when I added them manually, and they still can't be found even though I've tried turning download off and on several times, restarted my phone twice, checked firewall settings.

Anything else?

[Joe]

There's only one way to do this - could you explain how you added them manually please?

[Redeucer]

Sorry, wasn't clear.  Let me start from the beginning.

1.

Fire up Spotify on my lap top.

Add files locally there.

Add songs to playlist.

Open Spotify on phone.

Select download playlist on phone.

All files download EXCEPT the local files on my laptop.

2.

Fire up Spotify on my OTHER lap top.

Add files locally there.

Songs already on playlist.

Songs play on OTHER lap top through Spotify no problem because they are in the proper local file directory.

Open Spotify on phone.

Turn off download playlist on phone.

Turn on download playlist on phone.

All files download EXCEPT the local files on my laptop.

3.

Transfer files to phone manually.

Open spotify, and songs still show as unavailable.

4.

Restart phone.

Re-do 1-3.

5.

Check firewall settings on BOTH lap tops.

Re-do 1-3.

6.

Restart phone AGAIN.

Re-try 1-3.

The files are no local on all 3 devices, yet do not show up in Spotify on my phone.

[Joe]

Thanks. Unless you have the option to import mp3 files in spotify settings, copying them to your phone achieves nothing. Do you see any sort of progress message when you try to download the playlist containing local files? It should say something like "waiting to download" or "downloading x of y". The best way to check is to create a new playlist containing a couple of the local files then tap the download button on your mobile.

One possibility which occurs to me is that these songs are in the spotify database but unavailable in your country or everywhere. Let me know what you see with the new, small playlist and we'll take it from there.

[Redeucer]

Created new play list with just 10 songs.  It says:

Waiting to download.

[Joe]

Ok, that usually happens when the mobile can't communicate with spotify on the PC. Let me throw a list of all the things to check.

• Your PC and mobile must be connected to the same Network/SSID and spotify should be running on your PC.
• In your router settings, check that UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) is enabled.
• Make sure that Windows shows your network as private and not public.
• Set exceptions for spotify in any firewall or internet security programme. If you are unsure how to do this, temporarily disable them.
• Check that you haven't already hit the limit of 3,333 downloads per device or 9,999 downloads across all devices.
• If you are using a wifi network outside of your home, there is every chance that the protocols used by spotify for downloading are blocked.

If you still can't make it work, you can create a mobile hotspot on your mobile and connect your PC to this hotspot via wifi. Syncing the local files should then work.

[Redeucer]

Tried all those as well.  Next?

[Redeucer]

I'm at home, private network, all devices on the same network.  I can pass other songs back and forth between any devices including my Amazon Tap and Echo, either lap top, and my phone.  I'm admin on my wireless router and have it all set up properly.  I have very few songs downloaded unless my local file libraries count, then I might be pushing that one device limit.

[Joe]

Did you try the mpbile hotspot solution?