Alex Moderator. Help others find this answer and click "Accept as Solution". Hey charltones , Thanks for getting back to us with the additional info. Hope this helps.
Let us know how you get on. Mihail Moderator. Reply 0 Likes. I managed to get this working, though not as I expected!
Post Reply. Preview Exit Preview. You must be signed in to add attachments. Additional options Associated Products. You do not have permission to remove this product association. Secondly, set up your Spofity apps on both of your devices. Go to your Spotify on your computer and click 'connect to device' icon. Then click on your phone name. Spotify is confident enough to use MP3s which have a. Although Spotify has a huge music library, it never feeds everyone's taste.
Thus there will always be some special tracks you won't be able to stream from Spotify. Apparently, Spotify has noticed that too. Uncovered by a developer, Spotify is now testing a new feature on Spotify for Android app that will allow you import local music tracks to Spotify on Android phone soon.
Till now, Spotify shares no details on this yet. Considering in-depth compatibility testing will be needed, it may still take weeks or months before it finally comes out. At this moment, Spotify on Android only allows users to sync offline playlists from Spotify to Android devices. In case you are new to Spotify and unfamiliar with the process of moving Spotify music offline on Android, we've collected the whole steps here to instruct you how to transfer offline local files from Spotify to Android , as well as the alternative way to download Spotify music on Android for offline listening.
With the following guide, you can copy the complete Spotify playlists and songs to Android devices in a few clicks only. Once it's done, you can listen to the Spotify music offline on Android at anytime.
Note: This solution only works for Premium users of Spotify. If you are using Spotify Free, you should skip to the other method which will show you how to download Spotify music offline on Android for free. You can either choose Sync all music to this device or Manually choose playlists to sync to manage specific playlists for syncing. The above solution is highly recommended if you have a light Spotify library. But what if your music collection is too large to be transferred to Android, like this one:.
I know I can easily install the Spotify for Android and re-download the playlists on the phone, but as my library is really a huge one, it would be time-consuming with re-downloading. So is there any easier solution to directly sync my Spotify local files to Android? Thank you in advance. I don't know why they added this or why it's disabled by default, but my problem is fixed.
The steps to sync local files from a computer to the iOS Spotify app have recently changed. Sorry for the inconvenience. From the help article :.
Also, at first the Local Files playlist will show as empty in the iOS app. Now you can still see songs even if they are not available on Spotify or for local files -- not synced over yet. I'm having this issue atm and I've turned on the setting on my iPhone but nothings gets downloaded no matter how many times I try it. FYI I'm using the Linux desktop app, does that matter? I was able to fix this by switching from my 5GHz network to the 2GHz instead.
Feels kind of crappy. I have turned on the option to download via cellular network as well but I guess that doesn't matter for local files Would you mind reinstalling the app to make sure you have the latest version of Spotify? If you've already checked those steps and the issue still persists, could you let us know what exactly you've tried from there? We recommend checking if a firewall or anti-virus software is affecting the performance of the Spotify app.
It should be whitelisted and not having any restrictions. We also suggest that you try changing the source of the local files on your device. You can create a new folder in a different directory on your device and move your local files to this folder.
Then just delete the old folder used for the local files. Now, you can try importing the files again. Since you're running Windows you can reach out to the Microsoft Customer support here. They'll gladly help you make sure Spotify is excluded from any antivirus or firewall setting.
If it's an option - could you transfer the files to another PC and check if you're able to import the local files from there? Also please keep in mind that only files obtained from official sources are supported. Can you confirm that this is the case? Local Files Won't Download. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic.
Hi, I'm having issues getting local files to play on Spotify on Android. Is there any way to do this? Thanks in advance! Hi jennahowitt , Welcome to the Community, thanks for reaching out about this and letting us know what you've tried.
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