Tips: If you want to add local files to Spotify on iPhone or Android devices, please prepare a Spotify Premium for the following steps. To better illustrate the whole operation, we are going to take the iPhone 7 as an example of the following guide. Android users can also follow the guide below to make your own local files playable on your devices.
If you have successfully imported local files to Spotify, then you can skip this step to move to the next step. If not, please back to Part 1 above to make it. On the bottom of the sides bar, click on 'New Playlist' in the menu bar to create a new playlist for your local music files. Now in the right side, you should see your local music are listed under the 'Local Files'.
Just choose the music you want to listen to on your iPhone or Android devices, and click right to add them to the playlists that you have created. Then you can move onto the next step to make it. Make sure you have logged into your Spotify account and both your devices are connected to the same Wi-Fi network. On your devices, click on Your Library and you can see all the playlists you have on Spotify.
Find out the playlists that you have created and hit the download button to get them fully downloaded to your devices. Then you can listen to your local files on your iPhone or Android devices. The whole add local files to Spotify is completely introduced on the two parts above. However, sometimes, Spotify users will complain that the Spotify local files not playing on their devices.
So how can you do if you encountered this situation? You can take a look at the following 6 methods to fix it by yourself. Make sure your devices and your computer are on the same Wi-Fi network and are logged into the same Spotify account.
Check if you have exceeded the accessible download limit, which is 10, songs per device for 5 separate devices. Try to disable your local firewall and see if the problem is fixed. Or you can set the IP address as following port One common reason is the imported songs are not DRM-free, meaning it is restricted by copyright.
So you need to remove DRM from the music files. Q: What if you want to export Spotify music as Local files? To export Spotify music as local files, you need to convert Spotify music to MP3 and save it to your phone for playing. Besides, it allows Spotify users to adjust the music parameters, such as bitrate reach up to kbps , sample rate and more.
What's more, it is fully compatible with Windows 10, 8, 7 and macOS Is it easy to make it, isn't it? If you have other opinions or solutions, please let us know by leaving a comment below or contact us. Just enjoy your Spotify journey here. See you next time. Millions of music lovers enjoy music via Spotify. However, some users may encounter a problem that Spotify playlist is stuck on 'Waiting to Download' when they want to download the playlist to their devices for offline playing.
Some lucky users solve this problem by simply restarting their devices but the majority of the users feel quite confused by it. Therefore, we conclude a typical problem that users may encounter and offer some solutions. A Spotify user made a playlist on his desktop client and enabled the 'Available Offline' feature in order to play the playlist on his phone offline. I am using the most up to date versions of Spotify on both devices. I uninstalled and reinstalled the application on both devices.
Nothing works. Welcome to the Community, thanks for reaching out about this and letting us know what you've tried. If you're still having issues syncing your Local Files, we'd recommend making sure that the files are in a supported format.
You'll find a list of the supported formats and some additional tips here. If that doesn't do the trick, we'd suggest performing a clean reinstall of the app on both devices.
This is different than simply reinstalling and can be helpful for clearing any damaged leftover files that could be causing the issue. Fantastic news! Just to make sure, have you tried reinstalling the app directly from the Microsoft Store on your PC? Also, take a look at the steps and recommendations you'll find in this Spotify Answer about Local Files.
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. 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? If you are having the same problem, or you just want to listen to Spotify offline without Premium on Android, you should simply follow the alternative solution here.
As you should know, Spotify music are protected by DRM technology which prevents us from copying Spotify playlists from one device to the other. Then Spotify app will be opened automatically. Click menu button and choose Preferences.
Click the big 'Convert' button and TunesKit will start downloading the Spotify songs offline to Android compatible audio formats at up to 5X faster speed. After conversion, simply click the history folder to locate the downloaded Spotify songs. When it comes to the world of music, Spotify has almost all the tracks in its database you can wish for. I am a fan of Bollywood music but there are many albums that are not available on Spotify due to same issue.
So when it came to listening to songs on Spotify mobile, either I had to stick to what was available or open the stock music player to play the songs that are saved in the internal SD card.
I was desperately looking for a way to sync local music files to a mobile device in a way Spotify would recognize and play them.
After spending some time on the app and online forums I found a way to accomplish the task. Step 1: First of all, we will have to import local music to Spotify desktop application. Step 2: In preferences, look for Local Files and check the sources you want to show the local music from.
You can directly add sources like Windows Media Player and iTunes library by simply checking the respective options.
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