Mac HighSierra latest

ios12.1

Spotify latest

I have a bunch of local files that I drop in a folder and set spotify to read.  I drag them to a playlist, then select the downloaded button and they all show as downloaded.  I open spotify on my iphone, see the playlist and it shows "14 songs" on the playlist screen, but when I open the playlist none of the songs are there -- just the stupid "suggestions" below.  Have reinstalled the desktop version, closed and re-opened the ios app, and no joy.

I will add that this seems to be a recurring theme with spotify -- every few months my local stuff just fails to populate the ios version, and I need to "reinvent" it to get it to work.  Thats bad enough, but this is the first time that it has just failed outright. 

It would be great if Spotify could please figure out how they want to deal with local files, then leave it the heck alone for a few years!  Anyway, any help greatly appreciated ...