Can't listen to songs downloaded from pc

[ttv_seed]

Plan

Free

Country

Device

iPhone 12

Operating System

iOS 16

My Question or Issue

I can't listen to songs downloaded from pc, on my phone. Anytime I try to listen to the songs, they get auto skipped, but i can listen to them if i play them on pc first. Is there a way I can listen to the downloaded songs without using a pc first?

[Vasil]

Hey @ttv_seed,

By downloaded songs, do you by any chance mean local files?
Local Files will not sync across platforms and are not uploaded online, so switching the playback device may work, as long as the PC app is open, but you won't be able to play those tracks directly from your phone, as they are neither physically present there, nor uploaded online.

In order to fix this though, you can transfer the downloaded tunes on your mobile storage and add them to Spotify as Local Files.
More about how you can do this can be found here 🙂
Cheers!

[ttv_seed]

Thanks! i’ll try to move the files, they were on my phone’s storage before
but for some reason never showed up, but i’ll try again

[Eni]

Hey @ttv_seed, 

Thanks for your reply. 

Take your time to try that and let us know how it goes. 

Cheers 🙂