What's the easiest way to be able to play "local files" that reside on my desktop device on my mobile? After bringing them in to the desktop Spotify client as a playlist I'm able to play them there, and the playlist appears on my mobile client, but the songs are grayed out and say "the track is unavailable".
Go to Solution. If you're having troubles seeing and streaming local files from your mobile device, we'd first recommend making sure of the following:.
If none of these do the trick, you can create a mobile hotspot on your mobile and connect your PC to this hotspot via wifi. Syncing the local files should then work. If you're still having troubles, don't hesitate to let us know by starting a new thread in the related Help Board. We'll be happy to lend a hand. View solution in original post.
I've done this but find that whenever the app has updated, or sometimes even when rebooting my phone I lose all synced 'local file' tracks. This is highly annoying as I cannot sync them back while at work or while traveling which I do for work I synced the playlist that i wanted, songs that aren't on Spotify but on my C drive, and it automatically downloaded them to the device. That's not really what i wanted, although it gets me part of the way there.
It's not that it doesnt actually sync it, but on the phone on android. There is no option for local files. The only way to do it, is to make a playlist. Drag everything from local files into the playlist. Then sync. You can even click offline mode for what its worth. Obviously its already on the computer as its local files. It seems files that are not on Spotify are faded out. It is very inconsistent about it.
But none the less you can play everything. Once you have it all on your new shiny playlist. Sync it to the phone. And just sync that playlist which just has local files. There is no way to work out the bitrate of the files on the spotify app for Andoid, so I can see the kbps. Spotify has 70 million tracks, with new songs uploaded every day.
Not many users are aware of this, but you can actually import your own music to your Spotify library. If the local files are all stored on your computer, and you want to listen to them on the mobile app, you should definitely consider this option.
Before we go into the details, note that you can only do this on the desktop app. On Windows, Spotify actually runs a scan on all your music folders as soon as you install the app. However, if your music files are scattered across different folders, Spotify is unlikely to locate all of them. On the other hand, Mac users have a couple of more steps to complete.
In order to add local files to your Spotify library on your Mac, you need to first enable them. But, you may not always want every file on the cloud also on your computer, or you may not want a file on your computer but instead on the cloud. You will just have to access them through your preferred browser.
On Dropbox, the first thing we want to do is create a folder in our local Dropbox folder. Uploading large files, or even many files, can take quite some time. Dropbox will warn you that once you update your selective sync settings, the folder will be deleted from your computer, but they will still be available online and other devices.
Note, make sure that when you use other devices with Dropbox installed, you update your selective sync settings because otherwise your Big Files folder will be downloaded.
Once your sync preferences are updated, the local folder will be deleted and that space on your hard drive will be reclaimed. The procedure on Drive is similar to that on Dropbox, first create your new destination in your Drive local folder. On Windows 8.
As with all our other cloud services, we create a our Big Files folder and move our cloud-only files into it. OneDrive on Windows 8. As long as the folder is online-only, whatever files you move into it will be uploaded and physically deleted from your hard drive. You can also do this with individual files or a group of files. Simply select the files inside the OneDrive folder, right-click and make them available online-only. The process for using the OneDrive Windows Store app is easy.
Long-press or right-click the folder or folders so that it is selected. Remember, all these features are already integrated into Windows 8. If you use Windows 7 or Windows 8 however, you will need to install the OneDrive desktop client just as you would Dropbox or Drive. If you use Windows 7 or are still holding out with Window 8, then you will need to download and install the separate OneDrive desktop client , which will integrate the service into your computer. Once installed, follow the same procedure as with the other services.
Create your Big Files folder in your OneDrive folder and move your cloud-only files in there. Using Google Drive, you can also drag files into the folder window, or you can click the red button with the white arrow, next to the Create button. Keep in mind, you could always use the websites to perform your online-only file uploads, however, you have to keep the browser windows open.
After you have done that give your apps a restart both on your phone and your computer and then try to access your local files on the Spotify mobile app again.
Above we showed you how to deal with local files not showing up on your phone but what to do if they are not showing on you desktop Spotify app, thee very place from where you added them in Spotify.
Uninstalling the Spotify app and then clearing its cache and then reinstalling solves most of the problems with Spotify desktop app. Unfortunately, this is a pretty tedious task and requires expertise or a lot of third-party apps. But there is one app known as IOBit Uninstaller , which does all the jobs. Spotify stores the location of your local music files in this file named as local-files.
Deleting it often fixes the local files not showing problem. Here is how you can find the file and then delete it —. In order to make Spotify refresh its local files list, you could simply move your local files and then again put them back in the same location. When you perform this action Spotify will sense it and it would refresh its local files list.
Here are the steps to do that —. Maybe your music files are in some other file format than the ones which are supported by Spotify?
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