New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….
Original story (published on November 16, 2021) follows:
Spotify is by far one of the best music streaming platforms on the internet. The freemium service is giving tough competition to the likes of Pandora and Apple Music. The platform has a library comparable to Apple Music with over 70 million songs.
Since it is an online service, users do sometimes encounter some bugs and issues that range from mildly infuriating to some making the service unusable at times like the recent bug that made it impossible to play downloaded songs offline.
With that being said, Spotify subscribers are reporting another glitch that prevents users from adding local files to their mobile devices. Many say that even though the files are added, they cannot see them on the Spotify app on their phone.
Old local files seem to be working just fine, which is really weird. Generic solutions such as clearing cache and reinstalling the app do not help at all. It looks like the problem lies somewhere on the backend since many are unable to use the feature.
This is really frustrating for those who have a large music collection or want to listen to songs offline.
Fortunately, Spotify has acknowledged the issue and said that they are looking into it. However, there is no ETA on when a fix will be coming.
Update 1 (November 20)
05:18 pm (IST): A Spotify community mod has confirmed that the issue with local files not being added to playlists should now be fixed. The fix seems to have been implemented via a server change hence there’s no need to update the app.
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