Spotify for Android, playing music on my sd card

[Lostcowboy]

Plan

Free

Country

USA

Device

( Samsung Galaxy S8+,)

Operating System

( Android 9)

My Question or Issue

Getting Spotify for Android to find my local music on my SD card? I only want to do what I am able to do with Spotify for Windows, I clicked on settings, went down to local files and turned it on, then showed it where I keep my music.

With Spotify for Android, I went to setting, clicked on storage, and let it access my SD card. I could not find a setting for local files. I have 10.5 GB of music on the SD card that Spotify can't use.

I am new to Spotify, in my car I use Android Auto, so I have to use apps that are compatible with it. My main music app Google play Music worked with my SD card, but it is going away. YouTube Music will work with my SD Card. But I don't like the Ideal of new music being Video Music, seems to be a big wast of Data, as in a car I can't watch Videos anyway! I sometimes wonder what Google is thinking!

I have sent feedback on this, and I have rated Spotify on Google Play store. Spotify has had about five updates to the app and has not fixed this yet, so I lowered my rating! Look this is something that most Music apps do and do well. Also, this is something that should be easy to program. I bet that most people want to be able to play their music on their SD card, so this should make you popular!

[Lostcowboy]

Hello, I have the Beta version of Spotify for Android and was going through the setting and found the setting, Import/Show local audio files. After a few minutes in "your library", I found a new playlist of "local files". This is a great start! I could but not notice that in the Windows version of Spotify I am able to sort my list, I would like to be able to do that in the Android version of Spotify.

[Elena]

Hey @Lostcowboy!

Thanks for reaching out to us!

As you mentioned, Import Local files is still a feature that's being tested. By "sort", do you mean sorting the tracks' order (for example sorting by Recently added, or by Artist, etc), or would you like to choose which directories you can add music from?

Keep us posted on this.

Cheers!

[Lostcowboy · Accepted solution]

Hello, my last reply was as a "Free" account, with this reply I am testing out the 3-month free premium plan.

Sort and filter, Sort and filter  Should be updated to reflex the difference between "free and "Premium".

In the "Free" account mode the controls are hidden, and Shuffle play mode is forced on. Shuffle play