Local files are counting against my download limit (and are greyed out for the most part) –Iphone 6s

[pattisoncameron]

They are Local Files from my desktop computer that the desktop Spotify imported into it's Local Files folder. Then you transfer the desktop Spotify Local Files to a desktop Spotify playlist. Then the phone's Spotify app will see that playlist and if you want to be able to listen to those songs offline, you need to enable Offlline for that playlist. Then Spotify starts "Downloading" those songs which came from my personally owned Local Files.

Songs that were copied/downloaded from the Local Files are not supposed to count against the limit. Also all songs are supposed to be playable, even songs that Spotify does not have authorization to play, but Spotify can play them because they are my songs, not Spootify's.

Neither of these Spotify features work with me (and hundereds of other consumers that are paying for the service). 

1) Spotify is imposing limits on downloaded Local Files.

2) Spotify is not playing all songs that have been downloaded from our personally owned Local Files. Songs are listed but greyed out (not playable), and songs have been swapped with another version that Spotify is authorzed to play.

This was a post from another user that is pertinent to me. I am running into the same problem, and it's pretty frustrating. It seems as though spotify is matching my local files to their own files and then downloading those instead of my local files –– thus counting against my limit. Is there any way to change this and just have spotify download my files, and not theirs?

Thanks,

Cameron

[miyara]

Same problem here (iPhone SE), except that I didn't reach any download limit and I only have 1 local file that I want to listen on my device.

I tried to shut down the phone, create a playlist with this file only, put it available off-line on the pc, then switch on the phone and the app, wait for the playlist to showed up (both deviced were connected to the same wi-fi network), put the playlist off-line on my phone, but the file still remains gray.

I syncronized this file on my previous iPhone, without any problems, just a few months ago.

Any suggestion?