Syncing Local Files

[BouncingCzech]

Hey folks,

So I made a playlist with some local files in (a Frank Sinatra album that was not available on Spotify). I synced the Playlist ot my Android phone but when I played some of the songs on the playlist it played different recordings of the same songs, so not the ones I uploaded but another recording (with the same title and artist).

Is there any sure fire way to check what local files are synced on to your device? Is this just a case of it didn't sync those files so was just trying to find something in the Spotify catalogue that was roughly the same?

I know there's a hard limit on how many songs you can sync but I'm definitely nowhere near the limit.

Any advice would be appreciated.

BC,

[DannyFL]

You can't sync local files to a phone without having that local file on your phone as well, meaning copy the music from your computer into your phone, and it should continue playback.

[gstupak]

Neither works for me.

The first time I tried downloading Local Files for offline use, I thought it would use my phone's copy of the song being synced. Nope. Spotiy was downloading each song from the computer to my phone. So my phone ended up with 2 copies of each song. But Spotify wouldn't  play offline songs anyway.

So then I tried again, starting from scratch by deleting my phone's music library and once again letting Spotify download the songs from the computer Local Files into the phone's Spotify. Still didn't work.

So nothing works for me, not if I already have the files stored on my phone, nor if I have an empty phone and let Spotify download the songs.

[DannyFL]

I don't think that spotify CAN sync local files from your computer to your phone. You said that spotify wouldn't play offline songs anyway... would you please elaborate?

[gstupak]

I'm not sure how you can think that computer files don't sync to the phone. That's the only way you can do it through Spotify.There is no method of syncing songs that are already in your phone's music library into the Spotify Your Music section (or if there is, please let me know the secret, I haven't seen any instructions for it) . There isn't even a Local Files list available on the phone app.

The only method to get your personal music into your phone's Spotify app is to use your computer's Spotify program.... On your computer, you tell Spotify which computer folders to monitor for music, Spotify will put this music into the computer's Spotify Local Files list. Then to get those Local Files into the Spotify phone app, you have to transefer those computer Local Files songs into a Spotify Playlist on your computer. Then that coputer Spotify Playlist you made will show up in the Playlist section of the phone's Spotify app.

When I do this, the Local Files from my computer do show up in the phone's Spotify Playlist. Then if you want to play these songs Offline, you enable the Offline tab for that playlist. But the only songs that will play offline are songs that Spotify is authorized to play, the other songs (i.e. Taylor Swift) are listed in the Playlist but are greyed out and will not play.

There have already been hundreds of complaints about this not working properly by other people, so it's not that I am doing it wrong, I am doing it according to instruction. 

[Laura-Laurie]

I have the same problem, and I have to say that in the previous version of spotify it was possible to download the local files of your pc in your phone, I had them but I changed my phone and now it's impossible, they don't download now ;-;

[gstupak]

And I am having two more problems, one of which is mentioned by this OP...

1) Some of the Offline songs are grayed out and just won't play, and some of the Offline songs have been replaced by alternative songs that Spotify is authorized to play.

2) My phone's playlists that contain Local Files from the desktop keep redownloading. Spotify will go through a cycle of downloading 3000 songs where it says sownloading is in progress. Then when complete the little green arrow will be present next to the playlist and the playlist says "Offline Available." Then a few hours later it will start to download all the songs over again. This cycle happens several times a day. 

I didn't think much of it until I got a message from my home internet data supplier today saying that my home use data limit has been reached for the month.