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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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[COMPLETE GUIDE] How to fix most Android issues

Please read below for troubleshooting Spotify on your Android device. This guide contains fixes for most common issues as well as detail on how to create a new topic if you still are having problems. First thing to do before trying anything else is r...

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  • Daniel
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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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Superuser Contribution Downloads buffering in offline mode - podcasts

Hi. Usually, I download episodes of my favourite podcasts and music to listen to in offline mode. Sometimes the reception is very bad in my area, hence downloaded content is my prefered way of listening. However, recently I have had a problem with my...

  • Visitor
  • Hi.   Usually, I download episodes of my favourite podcasts and music to listen to in offline mode. Sometimes the reception is very bad in my area, hence downloaded content is my prefered way ...
  • AlejaR
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Superuser Contribution Download Single Track from an Album

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceOnePlus XOperating SystemAndroid 6.0.1 (Marshmallow?) My Question or IssuePreviously I was able to like a song to add it to my all songs list, then find the album I saved the song from in my library, which would have only th...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country UK Device OnePlus X Operating System Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow?)   My Question or Issue Previously I was able to like a song to add it to my all songs list, then ...
  • OscarDC
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    downloads
    Update
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Superuser Contribution some downloaded podcast episodes not visible offline or undownloading themselves

PlanFreeCountryAustraliaDeviceSamsung S10EOperating SystemAndroid 12 I have 500+ podcast episodes downloaded to listen to offline. a few weeks ago, I noticed that only 80ish episodes showed up when I looked at the "your episodes" thing with the inter...

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  • Plan Free Country Australia Device Samsung S10E Operating System Android 12   I have 500+ podcast episodes downloaded to listen to offline. a few weeks ago, I noticed that only 80ish ep...
  • Eni
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    downloads
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify doesn't retain downloads and downloads every day

PlanPremium Operating SystemAndroid My Question or IssueI have set my liked songs to download. Now whenever I open spotify on my phone, the download starts. It completes, but next day when I open the app again it starts downloading again and all the ...

  • Casual Listener
  • ...nd now I have to wait for the songs to download before I can go offline. This makes the download feature unusable not to mention uses unnecessary data every time it downloads.  
  • aneeshsharma
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App does not wait for SD Card scanning, starts to download to internal storage immediately

PlanPremium (Family) CountryGermany DeviceAll Android devices with SD card slots and support for expanded storage formatting. (In my specific case, an Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 2018) Operating SystemAndroid 9 (probably also present on Android 7, 8, 10 ...

  • Newbie
  • ...etup in Android "expanded storage" mode (the internal storage gets remapped to the SD card), Spotify downloads get stored on the SD card, which is the expected behavior.   However, when the S...
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Superuser Contribution Can't download Local Files onto Pixel 3

Hi! I'm having a problem where I can't download my playlist of 360 local files onto my phone so I can listen to them on the go. Whenever I try, it just puts a little exclamation mark with a circle around it under each song and says "Waiting To Downlo...

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  • Hi! I'm having a problem where I can't download my playlist of 360 local files onto my phone so I can listen to them on the go. Whenever I try, it just puts a little exclamation mark with a circle ar...
  • Xenia
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    local files
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Albums download disappear

I got Premium Spotify (Family plan) in Brazil, I'm using a Moto E4, running on Android 7.1.1 I can download playlists as expected and they are still there when I'm back, but if I download albums, close the app and open it again, the downloaded albums...

  • Visitor
  • I got Premium Spotify (Family plan) in Brazil, I'm using a Moto E4, running on Android 7.1.1   I can download playlists as expected and they are still there when I'm back, but if I download ...
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Superuser Contribution Downloads happens again and again and Login Issues

PlanPremiumCountryINDIADeviceSAMSUNG GALAXY A8 starOperating System Android Pie My Question or IssueI was traveling on an airplane and it so happened that as soon as I lost connectivity, I wasn't able to open the app and it asked me to log in.And it ...

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  • Plan Premium Country INDIA Device SAMSUNG GALAXY A8 star Operating System  Android Pie   My Question or Issue I was traveling on an airplane and it so happened that as soon ...
  • harry_spot
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playing my own music

Plan: PremiumCountry: The NetherlandsDevice: Huawei mate 20 lite. Also my laptop, a Toshiba satellite proPlatform: Android My Issuei uploaded some of my files own of music to my spotify account and then i put them in a playlist(all on my desktop). I ...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: The Netherlands Device: Huawei mate 20 lite. Also my laptop, a Toshiba satellite pro Platform: Android   My Issue i uploaded some of my files own of music to my spot...
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    Lokal Data
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Superuser Contribution Downloads removed

PlanPremiumCountryIndiaDeviceSamsung M30Operating SystemAndroid 9 My Question or IssueMy downloads get deleted everyday and today I clocked it , I had set the download option " on " fr my liked songs playlist and somehow everyday for like the past 5 ...

  • Visitor
  • Plan Premium Country India Device Samsung M30 Operating System Android 9   My Question or Issue My downloads get deleted everyday and today I clocked it , I had set the download o...
  • Petya
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  • Download bug
    Downloaded music disappears
    downloads
    downloads gone
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Show me my downloads when theres no internet.

The first thing to load should be the stuff I have downloaded. I shouldn't have to wait for a slow internet connection to view this stuff. Today when I was out of service it wouldn't show anything(see pic). Samsung S7, premium user.

  • Newbie
  • The first thing to load should be the stuff I have downloaded. I shouldn't have to wait for a slow internet connection to view this stuff.  Today when I was out of service it wouldn't show anyth...
  • jfrantz00
  • Casual Listener
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Delete Downloads?

Plan: PremiumCountry: United States DeviceAmazon Fire HD 8 (6th Generation)Operating SystemFire OS 5 (Android Derived) My Question or Issue According to my settings, downloads take up 7.0 MB of my memory, but I currently have no downloaded songs thou...

  • Newbie
  • ...ettings, downloads take up 7.0 MB of my memory, but I currently have no downloaded songs though I have saved songs to my library and I have downloaded songs before. I read in another thread that S...
  • Katerina
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Superuser Contribution Spotify just finished downloading HUNDREDS of songs I didn't ask it to.

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device Samsung Galaxy 9Operating SystemAndroid Oreo My Question or Issue Spotify has just finished downloading HUNDREDS of songs I didn't ask it to. Over 300. I restarted the phone in a panic trying to stop it but when I reboo...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country   Device  Samsung Galaxy 9 Operating System Android Oreo   My Question or Issue  Spotify has just finished downloading HUNDREDS of songs I...
  • AeroZ
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Superuser Contribution Spotify offline downloads repeatedly deleted Huawei p10

I have premium on my Huawei P10. My spotify periodically deletes all of my downloaded songs/playlists/albums and each time I have to redownload everything which takes ages. I've had two Huawei p10s and this has been a problem for both phones. I pay f...

  • Newbie
  • I have premium on my Huawei P10. My spotify periodically deletes all of my downloaded songs/playlists/albums and each time I have to redownload everything which takes ages. I've had two Huawei p10s a...
  • Alfredo
  • Roadie
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    huawei
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Local Files Not Downloading Onto Phone

Plan: PremiumCountry: USADevice: Pixel XLOperating System: ANDROID 8.0My Question or Issue: I have several playlists that contain only local files stored on my laptop. I tried downloading them onto my phone but they won't download. I tried clearing m...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: USA Device: Pixel XL Operating System: ANDROID 8.0 My Question or Issue:  I have several playlists that contain only local files stored on my laptop. I tried dow...
  • AeroZ
  • Composer
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    files
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    Playlists
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Reached maximum number of downloads at 736 songs?

I only have 736 songs (and do have plenty of space on my phone), and yet I'm seeing this error: Why am I being capped at so few songs?

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  • I only have 736 songs (and do have plenty of space on my phone), and yet I'm seeing this error:   Why am I being capped at so few songs?
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    maximum downloads
    more
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    remove
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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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Downloads Gone

This is a problem with my girlfriend's Android app. First off, she can't stream Taylor Swift's songs and the downloads were removed, then I asked her to log out and log in again hoping it would solve the problem but it just removed the downloads of A...

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  • This is a problem with my girlfriend's Android app. First off, she can't stream Taylor Swift's songs and the downloads were removed, then I asked her to log out and log in again hoping it would s...
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Solved!! Downloads taking up storage space

Lately I had been getting an error on my phone about low storage, but seeing as I don't have anything but a few pictures and apps, I knew it had to do with Spotify as I had a similar problem before, where I had downloaded too many albums. However, af...

  • Casual Listener
  • ...hecked the notifications on my phone and Spotify was giving me a download notification of 1 of 3,722 songs completed. I looked for a way to stop all of the downloads at once, but there isnt one aside f...
  • eharwy
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Offline Content - it's on SD card but Spotify does not recognize it

Hello, I purchased a 128GB SD card for the explicit purpose of being able to store offline music through Spotify. I cleared the cache for Spotify, deleted the "com.spotify.music" folder, reinstalled the app and then set the download quality to "Extre...

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  • Hello,   I purchased a 128GB SD card for the explicit purpose of being able to store offline music through Spotify. I cleared the cache for Spotify, deleted the "com.spotify.music" folder, rei...
  • woodandrew90
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    downloads
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