Local files are not searchable in my playlists

[sean42]

So when I'm going thru my playlists and I search up an artist or an album, the local files in the playlist made by that artist or that are on the album that I searched will not show up. The only way for the local files to show up in the search function is to look up the name of a specific song. I use the search function all the time because my playlists are huge with tons of local files, so I forget about songs all the time, which is why I prefer to search by artist rather than specific songs. This started a few days ago and this was never an issue before. The problem is on both my Mac and my iPhone. I've attached some screenshots in case it's a little confusing to understand.

Things I've done to try to fix the problem:
Restarted my laptop and phone

Closed and reopened the app

Fully deleted and reinstalled the Spotify app on my laptop

Deleted the "index.dat" file

Deleted "local-files.bnk" file

Used another Spotify account to see if the problem would repeat itself. Still wouldn't work.

[Novy]

Hey there @sean42, 

Thanks for reaching out about this in the Community, and welcome 🙂

Would you mind letting us know your device's model, OS version and Spotify version?

Also, did you make sure to follow these steps when reinstalling the app? 

Keep us posted.