Understanding offline playlists

[AeroZ]

Hi,

I've made a playlist and enabled available offline. After syncing/downloading some songs have the green arrow, some songs doesn't, some songs are grayed out and the playlist says waiting to download.

I've re-installed the app and nothing's changed.

Can someone explain what's going on and how all of this works? From my previous experience all downloaded songs should have the green arrow. Side note, I've also dragged some albums from local files to Songs on my Mac client to match them with albums that are unavailable for streaming. Maybe those songs shouldn't have the green arrow at all?

[AeroZ]

Nobody from spotify team can explain this?

[Dasiaw419]

Where were your local files downloaded from? I went through this last night, easy fix if you know what to look for. It's not Spotify, your software or storage. I'm thinking if your local files weren't downloaded from a trusted, verified source, you won't be able to import them in to Spotify. I used to just rip audio from YouTube using some third party site and I would also download free mix tape tracks that weren't available for purchase from a specific, verified place like iTunes or datpiff. Well long story short after going through every troubleshooting step I could think of: restarting computer; deleting and reimporting playlists, verifying wifi and even updating iTunes, I realized the only songs that were stuck waiting to download were the ones that came from the third party ripper. So I deleted those and redownloaded them all from the working source, in my case, datpiff.

Voila, music available offline. I only had 5 songs I wanted to import, (Spotify has almost no Chance the Rapper) so it didn't take too long, might be a hassle of you have much larger amount of music but that's what worked in my case. Try it with 1 or 2 and let me know.