This year, artists and podcasters can also simply log into their Spotify for Artists or Spotify for Podcasters page to discover how their music and podcasts connected with fans across the world in 2019 Artist “Wrapped” and the brand-new 2019 Podcaster “Wrapped. Spotify Premium features. Listen to an album, playlist, or podcast without ad breaks. With Spotify you can play music by any artist, at any time on any device-mobile, tablet, or your computer. Download to listen to music offline, wherever you are. Jump back in and listen to your top of songs.
Use the app to play music files stored on your device, which we call local files.
Note: Files or downloads from illegal sources are not permitted.
For: Premium
- On desktop, import your local files (with the 'Desktop' steps).
- Add the files to a new playlist.
- Log in on your mobile or tablet using the same WiFi as your desktop.
- Go to Settings > Local Files and switch on Local audio files.
Note: You need to allow Spotify to find devices in the prompt that shows. - Download the playlist with your local files.
Didn’t work?
Make sure:
- You're logged in to the same account on both your desktop and mobile
- Your devices are connected to the same WiFi network
- The app is up-to-date on both devices
- Your device is up-to-date
- The Spotify app has access to your local network. Check in your iPhone/iPad settings under Spotify
For: Premium
- On desktop, import your local files (with the 'Desktop' steps).
- Add the files to a new playlist.
- Log in on your mobile or tablet using the same WiFi as your desktop.
- Download the playlist with your local files.
Didn’t work?
Make sure:
- You're logged in to the same account on both your desktop and mobile
- Your devices are connected to the same WiFi network
- The app is up-to-date on both devices
- Your device is up-to-date
- Click , then Settings.
- Scroll to Local Files and switch Show Local Files on.
- Switch off any sources you don't want.
- Click ADD A SOURCE to select another folder.
Music from that folder is now in Local Files in the menu on the left.
Supported file types
Note: Some of your files may be protected in restricted formats. Install QuickTime on your computer to allow most of these tracks to be played on Spotify.
- .mp3
- .m4p (unless it contains video)
- .mp4 (if QuickTime is installed on your computer)
The iTunes lossless format (M4A) isn't supported.
If your file isn’t supported, we do our best to match it with songs from the Spotify catalog. The version we match with might differ from the original.
Last updated: 24 September, 2020
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With Organize Your Music you can easily organize your saved music. Just follow these steps:
- Select what music you'd like to organize: Your Saved Music; Music you've added to playlists; Music in playlists you follow; or all of it.
- Click on Organize your Music. If this is your first visit, you will be asked to ...
- Login with your Spotify credentials. Organize Your Music will place all of your tracks into a number of bins. There are Genres, Moods, Decades, Popularity and more.
- Pick one of the bins. You can view all the properties of the tracks in that bin. You can plot the tracks. You can listen to previews of the songs in the bin.
- Select tracks that you want to add to a playlist. Selected tracks will be added to your Staging Playlist. When you are happy with the staging playlist you can
- Save the staging playlist to Spotify.
Don't worry. Organize Your Music will never modify any of the songs in your saved music or playlists. It will only save new playlists for you, and only when you explictly click on the save button.
The Track Properties
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Organize Your Music can help you slice and dice your music collection by a wide range of properties:- Genre - the genre of the track
- Year - the release year of the recording. Note that due to vagaries of releases, re-releases, re-issues and general madness, sometimes the release years are not what you'd expect.
- Added - the earliest date you added the track to your collection.
- Beats Per Minute (BPM) - The tempo of the song.
- Energy - The energy of a song - the higher the value, the more energtic. song
- Danceability - The higher the value, the easier it is to dance to this song.
- Loudness (dB) - The higher the value, the louder the song.
- Liveness - The higher the value, the more likely the song is a live recording.
- Valence - The higher the value, the more positive mood for the song.
- Length - The duration of the song.
- Acousticness - The higher the value the more acoustic the song is.
- Speechiness - The higher the value the more spoken word the song contains.
- Popularity - The higher the value the more popular the song is.
- Duration - The length of the song.