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iOS Local Files: Easier import with the Files app

It is now easier to import Local Files into the Spotify iOS app through the Files app on your iOS device. A computer and WiFi network are not required to use this new import method. This means that you can now import Local Files into the Spotify iOS ...

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  • sapmi
  • Music Fan
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Solved!! Search busted - iPhone only

Ever since the latest update a few days ago, I'm unable to search at all on my iphone, always getting the generic "an error occurred, try again" message. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app, rebooted the iPhone twice, logged out and back in, and...

  • Casual Listener
  • Ever since the latest update a few days ago, I'm unable to search at all on my iphone, always getting the generic "an error occurred, try again" message. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app,...
  • bumpass1
  • Casual Listener
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Unable to search iPhone 5

Hi there, for the last 24 hours I've been unable to search on iPhone app. No problem on desktop and iPad though.I'd be grateful for your help. I've tried logging out, deleting app, etc.

  • Newbie
  • Hi there, for the last 24 hours I've been unable to search on iPhone app. No problem on desktop and iPad though. I'd be grateful for your help. I've tried logging out, deleting app, etc.
  • bumpass1
  • Casual Listener
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Local Files Sync issue for iPhone 5

Hello all, In the desktop client, I put an album of about 12 songs. All mp3 format into the local files section. I then brought up the iphone and it shows in the desktop client as a synced device. I selected manual and picked the local and starred pl...

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  • Casual Listener
  • Hello all,    In the desktop client, I put an album of about 12 songs. All mp3 format into the local files section. I then brought up the iphone and it shows in the desktop client as a ...
  • amightykumquat
  • Casual Listener
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Spotify loading songs and searches very slow on all devices

Checked my internet speed and all is fine. However, all my devices are struggling to load songs and searches via the spotify app. Everything is very slow and has been like this for a few days now. Any suggestions? Edit: I'm on Verizon Fios as well. A...

  • Newbie
  • Checked my internet speed and all is fine.  However, all my devices are struggling to load songs and searches via the spotify app.  Everything is very slow and has been like this for a few ...
  • user-removed
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Missing playlists

My playlists are gone from my iPhone 4 but on my iPad and desktop the playlists are intact. I've tried to uninstall and install. I've tried to log in and out. I've tried to log out of Facebook...Can I get help with this? Thanx a bunch!

  • Newbie
  • My playlists are gone from my iPhone 4 but on my iPad and desktop the playlists are intact. I've tried to uninstall and install. I've tried to log in and out. I've tried to log out of Facebook...Can ...
  • user-removed
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iPad playlists/songs randomly unsync/ don't display correctly

Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this issue, but it's been going on for at least a couple months now. I've noticed that my offline playlists will randomly unsync a few songs leading me to have to re-sync them. I've also been running into issue...

  • Casual Listener
  • Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this issue, but it's been going on for at least a couple months now. I've noticed that my offline playlists will randomly unsync a few songs leading me to have...
  • Peter__
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Spotify - Your iPhone app is absolute dog**bleep**

To put it bluntly. The app i currently am using less of on my iPhone sucks. Here's a real cool list of stupid **bleep** the Spotify app does on my iPhone (the same service i pay $10/month for) 1) takes forever to load (its the 21st century fellas) 2)...

  • Roadie
  • To put it bluntly.   The app i currently am using less of on my iPhone sucks.   Here's a real cool list of stupid **bleep** the Spotify app does on my iPhone (the same service i pay...
  • Mitchgo
  • Roadie
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Search will not function, but other functions will

Hello folks. My iOS (7.4, jailbroken but if that matters then I will just switch services) device Spotify began acting up recently. At any time that I use the search function (on Verizon Wireless USA LTE or WiFi) it will say "an error occurred" after...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello folks. My iOS (7.4, jailbroken but if that matters then I will just switch services) device Spotify began acting up recently. At any time that I use the search function (on Verizon Wireles...
  • Peter__
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search not working after upgrading to premium account

search runs and returns "an error has occurred. please try again" over and over tried a hard reset. uninstalled and reinstalled. deleted all my data. nothing seems to fix it worked fine before i upgraded today.

  • Newbie
  • search runs and returns "an error has occurred. please try again" over and over   tried a hard reset. uninstalled and reinstalled. deleted all my data. nothing seems to fix it   wor...
  • Peter__
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Search broken

Cant search Iphone 5s tried restarting and redownloading.

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  • Cant search Iphone 5s tried restarting and redownloading.
  • Peter__
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Tell us iPhone users WHY this app won't work, and what you are doing to fix it

I'd been a Spotify subscriber for around a year, until recently. I am SICK TO DEATH of this app crashing out every few minutes. Sometimes you get a tell-tale stutter, then CRASH, or just a simpe CRASH. It seems that many people running this app on an...

  • Roadie
  • I'd been a Spotify subscriber for around a year, until recently.   I am SICK TO DEATH of this app crashing out every few minutes. Sometimes you get a tell-tale stutter, then CRASH, or just a s...
  • Peter__
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Spotify Radio Not Working

Spotify radio is not working. When I try to start a radio it says "Sorry this radio station cannot be started. Please try with something else." I have tried all of my radio stations and it says the same thing for all of them.

  • Casual Listener
  • Spotify radio is not working. When I try to start a radio it says "Sorry this radio station cannot be started. Please try with something else." I have tried all of my radio stations and it says the s...
  • Sistersledge
  • Newbie
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Couldn't fast forward to next song on playlist

So I was on my way to work today listening to a chillout playlist from browse. I didn't like the current song so wanted to fast forward to the next track and noticed the buttons were greyed out. I couldn't go back or forward with the buttons. Yes, I'...

  • Regular
  • So I was on my way to work today listening to a chillout playlist from browse.  I didn't like the current song so wanted to fast forward to the next track and noticed the buttons were greyed out...
  • plhoward
  • Regular
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iOS libspotify: App Rejected for using link to Spotify sign-up page

Not sure if this is exactly the right forums forum this, but I just wanted to inform others about an issue I encountered while submitting my libspotify enabled app to Apple's app store. My app (screenshot below) included the sentence "A premium Spoti...

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  • Not sure if this is exactly the right forums forum this, but I just wanted to inform others about an issue I encountered while submitting my libspotify enabled app to Apple's app store. My app (scree...
  • jeremygoh
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My local files wont sync

I have been a member of spotifuggle and I have encountered a problem with syncing my local files. I have a iphone up to date software(7.1) and I try to sync my local files from my computer to my phone and it wont work IM on the same wifi tried connec...

  • Casual Listener
  • I have been a member of spotifuggle and I have encountered a problem with syncing my local files. I have a iphone up to date software(7.1) and I try to sync my local files from my computer to my phon...
  • Peter__
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Profiel foto veranderen

ik krijg mijn naam en foto niet veranderd ook niet als ik mijn Facebook account verander

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  • ik krijg mijn naam en foto niet veranderd ook niet als ik mijn Facebook account verander
  • Peter__
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Sync..

Hi I would like to ask how to sync my playlist to offline mode because i tried it already how the instructions should be but it seems that it is not working, it sync somehow but its always stopping and not all my songs sync.. Bottom line" i had troub...

  • Newbie
  • Hi I would like to ask how to sync my playlist to offline mode because i tried it already how the instructions should be but it seems that it is not working, it sync somehow but its always stopping a...
  • Peter__
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Liked From Radio

My liked from radio has stopped updating. Is this fixable? Can I recover the songs I've lost? I've seen other posts on the forums asking this question -- they're marked solved, but only because someone from spotify has responded and done something be...

  • Casual Listener
  • My liked from radio has stopped updating. Is this fixable? Can I recover the songs I've lost? I've seen other posts on the forums asking this question -- they're marked solved, but only because someo...
  • bridgetwoodbury
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Spotify on Iphone 5 problem.

Hello Spotify community. I have a very weird problem, when i listen to music on my Iphone 5, and then suddenly it changes songs and turns voice control on, in my pocket? Ive tried to reinstall spotify, but it didnt work. I tried to do the same thing ...

  • Newbie
  • Hello Spotify community.   I have a very weird problem, when i listen to music on my Iphone 5, and then suddenly it changes songs and turns voice control on, in my pocket? Ive tried to reins...
  • robzim737
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Can't sync music even when on wifi

For some reason a couple of days ago spotify won't let me sync tracks and/or playlists even when I'm connected to my wifi. I don't have local files because the only music I listen to is music that I get off of Spotify. Sometimes when I try to sync th...

  • Casual Listener
  • For some reason a couple of days ago spotify won't let me sync tracks and/or playlists even when I'm connected to my wifi. I don't have local files because the only music I listen to is music that I ...
  • Baybiediya91
  • Newbie
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