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Solved!! New and Improved Android Widget

Spotify is bringing a new update to the home screen widget on Android devices. This update will help you get more out of it than before. The new widget will make it simpler and faster to access your favourite content on Spotify. So what is changing?H...

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Solved!! The version of Spotify I have has completely different features than another free user.

PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceAndroid PhonesMy Question or IssueMy dad and I both have spotify. I cannot pick songs to play and have to rely on shuffle. My dad can pick songs without issue, and probably doesn't even know that shuffle's an option. We both h...

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Solved!! Ford Sync3 isn´t working any more

Hi,since the last update to version 8.4.38.62 armV7 on my Galaxy S7 with Android 7, the App-Link function isn´t working any more!The Spotify app doesn´t appear any more, in my Ford Focus 2017.A friend of mine also has this problem with his Ford Foruc...

  • Newbie
  • Hi, since the last update to version 8.4.38.62 armV7 on my Galaxy S7 with Android 7, the App-Link function isn´t working any more! The Spotify app doesn´t appear any more, in my Ford Focus 2017. A...
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Downloaded songs won't play

Some of my downloaded songs will not play in offline mode and I do not have unlimited data.I have downloaded around 1500 songs, they are all saved and have the green tick next to them to show they are downloaded. Most of the songs play fine in offlin...

  • Casual Listener
  • Some of my downloaded songs will not play in offline mode and I do not have unlimited data. I have downloaded around 1500 songs, they are all saved and have the green tick next to them to show they ...
  • bperrins
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i cant log in with my android phone

when i want to login to my account spotify send me to the login page again and again.

  • Casual Listener
  • when i want to login to my account spotify send me to the login page again and again.
  • Joe
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Download Page

I've moved to Spotify from Apple Music and one of the only thinks missing in my opinion are a page to view the songs you're downloading at the moment and a page to view you're downloaded songs in an orginized librery (orginized like the one we have n...

  • Newbie
  • I've moved to Spotify from Apple Music and one of the only thinks missing in my opinion are a page to view the songs you're downloading at the moment and a page to view you're downloaded so...
  • phan_times
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Spotify on Android

I have noticed the ads for Spotify premium have become garbled in an annoying way. It is understandable if you have heard it before. Also I want to know why I keep getting ads for Rap and millennialpop? I don't have anything in these categories in my...

  • Casual Listener
  • I have noticed the ads for Spotify premium have become garbled in an annoying way. It is understandable if you have heard it before. Also I want to know why I keep getting ads for Rap and millennialp...
  • phan_times
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Chromecast stuck connecting

Often when I try and connect to a Chromecast audio or video Spotify will get stuck in the connecting phase.Sometimes it will play music but still says it is connecting, other times it won't connect and does not play music.Every time this happens I am...

  • Regular
  • Often when I try and connect to a Chromecast audio or video Spotify will get stuck in the connecting phase. Sometimes it will play music but still says it is connecting, other times it won't conne...
  • PTRFRLL
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long audio books

long Audio books can't be listened beyond about track 180. The Spotify App will Start again with track 1. Although the tracks can be played manualy. The following track of any track beyond about 180 will always be track 1.

  • Newbie
  • long Audio books can't be listened beyond about track 180. The Spotify App will Start again with track 1. Although the tracks can be played manualy. The following track of any track beyond about 180 ...
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help! someone else's device are connected to my spotify.

hi, when I'm logged on my spotify the music stops all the time. down in the right corner there is green speaker that shows up. when I press it it shows that my account are connected to another device, a iphone... and I can't turn it off. its like my ...

  • Casual Listener
  • hi, when I'm logged on my spotify the music stops all the time. down in the right corner there is green speaker that shows up. when I press it it shows that my account are connected to another device...
  • sleepines
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Other devices stop playback

I have a family account. We access Spotify through my wife's phone (Android), my phone (Android), my tablet (Android), my desktop (Windows 10) and Google Home.If my wife or I cast a playlist to the Google Home speaker from one of the phones or the ta...

  • Casual Listener
  • I have a family account.  We access Spotify through my wife's phone (Android), my phone (Android), my tablet (Android), my desktop (Windows 10) and Google Home. If my wife or I cast a playlist ...
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Como recuperar conta perdida! [Account Lost]

Boa noite pessoal, peço uma força de vocês para me ajudarem a recuperar minha conta no Spotify, parece que hackearam minha conta e mudaram todos os meus métodos de recuperação, não consigo recuperar minha conta pelo e-mail que uso, pois, o link de co...

  • Casual Listener
  • Boa noite pessoal, peço uma força de vocês para me ajudarem a recuperar minha conta no Spotify, parece que hackearam minha conta e mudaram todos os meus métodos de recuperação, não consigo recup...
  • Bittencourt
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Unable to access local files on Android

I have a few MP3s on my android that I tried to port to the Spotify app, but even after saying all my tracks were added none of them show up in my library. Do I need a desktop to do this or am I doing it wrong?

  • Casual Listener
  • I have a few MP3s on my android that I tried to port to the Spotify app, but even after saying all my tracks were added none of them show up in my library. Do I need a desktop to do this or am I doin...
  • jimaii
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Chromecast audio Spotify problem

When i connect my phone or tablet to chromecast audio i cant change track or paus. The track jumps back and paus goes back to play direct. Help!

  • Casual Listener
  • When i connect my phone or tablet to chromecast audio i cant change track or paus. The track jumps back and paus goes back to play direct. Help! 
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Spotify app changes storage.

Hello! My problem is that my app changes everytime(everyday) the storage place.I want to put it in my sd card but everytime it changes to intern storage memory phone ans then I must to download again the playlists

  • Newbie
  • Hello! My problem is that my app changes everytime(everyday) the storage place. I want to put it in my sd card but everytime it changes to intern storage memory phone ans then I must to download aga...
  • songassistant
  • Composer
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Unplayable songs

I don't know what to say... honestly. Songs stopping for no reason, and now, songs becoming unplayable... also for no reason. I want to listen to my favourite bands but I can't because songs just keep disappearing, they disappearing even from the pla...

  • Regular
  • I don't know what to say... honestly. Songs stopping for no reason, and now, songs becoming unplayable... also for no reason. I want to listen to my favourite bands but I can't because songs just kee...
  • songassistant
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S8+ Keeps opening and playing music in pocket

My Spotify keeps opening and resuming playing automatically, even in my hand. I close the app, it re opens and starts playing. I push pause from the lock screen and it automatically pushes play and keeps playing without me touching anything. I push p...

  • Newbie
  • My Spotify keeps opening and resuming playing automatically, even in my hand. I close the app, it re opens and starts playing. I push pause from the lock screen and it automatically pushes play and k...
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Spotify reports me offline

Spotify says I'm offline: search (except offline songs), browse etc. aren't working.This is happening since yesterday (7th of March). I have a working internet connection and the Sonos client is working fine with Spotify.Restarting the app and restar...

  • Roadie
  • Spotify says I'm offline: search (except offline songs), browse etc. aren't working. This is happening since yesterday (7th of March).   I have a working internet connection and the Sonos cli...
  • Rokkford
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Solved!! Only Shuffle For Albums?

Is there no way you can open up an Album and just play it? I just got premium and it seems like all I can do is shuffle albums. I can play playlists just fine but it won't let me open up the tracklist of the album to pick a song. Am I just stupid and...

  • Newbie
  • Is there no way you can open up an Album and just play it? I just got premium and it seems like all I can do is shuffle albums. I can play playlists just fine but it won't let me open up the tracklis...
  • phan_times
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logged in on 2 devices .

Hi. I have 2 galaxy s8. (1 personal, 1 work) im logged into Spotify premium on both but when i play music through 1 the other 1 shows what im playing and i can control what im playing but it drains the battery. Can i change this from happening?

  • Newbie
  • Hi.   I have 2 galaxy s8. (1 personal, 1 work) im logged into Spotify premium on both but when i play music through 1 the other 1 shows what im playing and i can control what im playing but it...
  • Jack_Murray1
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Can't login on app

I recently went to use my spotify app and had been logged out for some reason. I have tried to login using Facebook (my usual method) however I keep getting the following message "unable to login. Either the username or password is incorrect" I also ...

  • Casual Listener
  • I recently went to use my spotify app and had been logged out for some reason.   I have tried to login using Facebook (my usual method) however I keep getting the following message "unable to ...
  • Bamboofan27
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[Android] Spotify automatically starts when I connect to Bluetooth

This wouldn't be such a problem if Spotify was the last program I was running before I connected to my Bluetooth devices, or if I was on a WiFi signal so that my cloud music didn't take up data. However, even when I have closed it out and restarted m...

  • Newbie
  • This wouldn't be such a problem if Spotify was the last program I was running before I connected to my Bluetooth devices, or if I was on a WiFi signal so that my cloud music didn't take up data. Howe...
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