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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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PLAYLIST IS UNAVAILABLE OFFLINE BUT IS DOWNLOAD

Hi I sorted out my playlist last night and this morning it has gone back to its original form but on my windows 8 computer it is fine and when onlineThanks For The Help

  • Newbie
  • Hi I sorted out my playlist last night and this morning it has gone back to its original form but on my windows 8 computer it is fine and when online Thanks For The Help
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Lost ability to scan thru song on iPad

I have no control over to scan to specific part of a song. Unlike on iPhone or web browser/ desktop app. I am updated to the latest iOS 9.3.2 for iPad and Spotify version 5.7.0.1050 anyone with similar issues below are screenshots for landscape and p...

  • Casual Listener
  • I have no control over to scan to specific part of a song. Unlike on iPhone or web browser/ desktop app. I am updated to the latest iOS 9.3.2 for iPad and Spotify version 5.7.0.1050   anyone w...
  • Bxbenny
  • Casual Listener
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SHARING MUSIC

so i tried sending a song to a friend on spotify and now i cannot view the message that i had sent. we both follow each other and have premium accounts. any ideas of what is going on? Thanks,Lena

  • Newbie
  • so i tried sending a song to a friend on spotify and now i cannot view the message that i had sent.   we both follow each other and have premium accounts.   any ideas of what is going o...
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Download

I have 1g of memory why can I not download any of my music on my new iPhone SE

  • Newbie
  • I have 1g of memory why can I not download any of my music on my new iPhone SE
  • jfert
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Family plan

Can more than 1 person listen at the same time with the family plan?

  • Newbie
  • Can more than 1 person listen at the same time with the family plan?
  • jfert
  • Roadie
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I can't upgrade to premium

I am on ios 9.3.2 and ive never had this problem before. I go to the account setting to try and upgrade but the option is t even there! **bleep** do i do?

  • Casual Listener
  • I am on ios 9.3.2 and ive never had this problem before. I go to the account setting to try and upgrade but the option is t even there! **bleep** do i do?
  • jfert
  • Roadie
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Renewal

My Spotify premium subscription is automatically renewed in the App Store, and my credit card had been canceled, a new hasn't come in the mail. Spotify, as one would expect, shut down my premium, and displayed the screen offering to downgrade. I then...

  • Newbie
  • My Spotify premium subscription is automatically renewed in the App Store, and my credit card had been canceled, a new hasn't come in the mail. Spotify, as one would expect, shut down my premium, and...
  • jfert
  • Roadie
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Spotify extremely slow on a clear device

I am running Spotify on my iTouch 5th Gen and it's insanely slow, freezes often and crashes regularly during usage. This device is totally dedicated to music for my car and has 0 other apps on it other than the ones it comes with. All apple apps that...

  • Casual Listener
  • I am running Spotify on my iTouch 5th Gen and it's insanely slow, freezes often and crashes regularly during usage. This device is totally dedicated to music for my car and has 0 other apps on i...
  • jfert
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Does iTunes backup songs I saved on my iPhone?

Hi. Thanks for reading this. If I saved 2000 songs on Spotify premium for offline listening on my iPhone, when I connect my phone to iTunes and it backs up my phone does it back up all the 2000 songs too as application data?

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  • Hi. Thanks for reading this. If I saved 2000 songs on Spotify premium for offline listening on my iPhone, when I connect my phone to iTunes and it backs up my phone does it back up all the 2000 songs...
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Differences between Apple and Android

Why is it that the Spotify free service, on the Apple store and Google Play store, are two different services? On Android, things like airplay and queue are available for free. I have more control over my music between my compter, playstation, and An...

  • Newbie
  • Why is it that the Spotify free service, on the Apple store and Google Play store, are two different services? On Android, things like airplay and queue are available for free. I have more control ov...
  • blake
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What is the expected startup time for Spotify on an iPhone?

Trying to determine if my experience is normal. What do you get for your startup time for Spotify on an iPhone? Are there ways to make it start faster? I'm using an iPhone 6Plus with iOS 9.3.2 and Spotify v5.7.0.1055 My startup times--from clicking o...

  • Casual Listener
  • Trying to determine if my experience is normal.  What do you get for your startup time for Spotify on an iPhone?  Are there ways to make it start faster?   I'm using an iPhone 6Plus ...
  • MattSuda
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Bit Rate In Offline Mode

If I download tracks at extreme quality and save them at that quality in offline mode on my iPad or computer, will they remain at that quality even if I switch to a lesser streaming quality later?

  • Visitor
  • If I download tracks at extreme quality and save them at that quality in offline mode on my iPad or computer, will they remain at that quality even if I switch to a lesser streaming quality later? &...
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Update

Why won't my phone allow me to download the new update where everything is on a bottom bar?

  • Casual Listener
  • Why won't my phone allow me to download the new update where everything is on a bottom bar?
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Ownership

Is the music I get from spotify mine for my monthly fee mine, or am I only renting it for as long as I keep paying?

  • Newbie
  • Is the music I get from  spotify mine for my monthly fee mine, or am I only renting it for as long as I keep paying?
  • Bittencourt
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I paid my subscrition in app store but I my account doesn't change

So I paid my monthly subscription trough the app store and my account still being free, I have used this before but it´s the fisrt time that this happen. I have the digital receipt in case it's needed

  • Casual Listener
  • So I paid my monthly subscription trough the app store and my account still being free, I have used this before but it´s the fisrt time that this happen. I have the digital receipt in case it's ...
  • Astame
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Can't log into Spotify

I'm from the US. Never left the country and I've had Spotify for a very long time but recently it says I can only use it abroud for 14 days and when I try to change my country because that's what I've been reading to do it doesn't give me any other o...

  • Newbie
  • I'm from the US. Never left the country and I've had Spotify for a very long time but recently it says I can only use it abroud for 14 days and when I try to change my country because that's what I'v...
  • Bittencourt
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3 month for 99p

I have paid my money to get the offer and they have took the money but haven't upgraded me to premium any ideas any thanks

  • Newbie
  • I have paid my money to get the offer and they have took the money but haven't upgraded me to premium any ideas any thanks
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Perpetually awaiting download.

I bought membership today solely to be able to download my playlist for when I go on holidays tomorrow. What would be nice is if there were a way to check what exactly it is waiting on. The device is recognized by the computer, and yet blank.

  • Newbie
  • I bought membership today solely to be able to download my playlist for when I go on holidays tomorrow. What would be nice is if there were a way to check what exactly it is waiting on. The device is...
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Spotify used all my battery in around an hour. Phone also got very hot.

I just noticed my phone getting very hot in my pocket. Pulled it out to find Spotify had reduced my phone from 100% to under 10% with just over an hour of streaming. Quick visit to the battery settings showed Spotify had used a large percentage in ba...

  • Roadie
  • I just noticed my phone getting very hot in my pocket.  Pulled it out to find Spotify had reduced my phone from 100% to under 10% with just over an hour of streaming.  Quick visit to the ba...
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I own two phones...Can't use both?

I own two iPhones. Both are logged into my premium account. I was listening on headphones on my work phone, and I handed my personal phone to my wife, she opened Spotify and low and behold the app won't allow me to play music on more than one device ...

  • Casual Listener
  • I own two iPhones. Both are logged into my premium account. I was listening on headphones on my work phone, and I handed my personal phone to my wife, she opened Spotify and low and behold the app wo...
  • MattSuda
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