Find Liked Songs in Playlists (or under Your Library on desktop). Note: When you an album or artist, it doesn’t automatically like all the songs. Also, liking a song doesn’t automatically like the album or artist.
You may have paused your music on the sonos units and not the dot. If you are using the line-in input from the dot and hit the play/pause button on Sonos (or use the Sonos app) it will mute the speakers, However, if your dot keeps feeding music into the line-in of your Play5, then after a break between songs or a period of silence then Sonos sees it as a new line-in autoplay session.
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Occurs when the Spotify app closes randomly or rather the music stops mid-play. In other cases, the program does not respond to commands like 'reloading.' This can be solved in the following simple steps. Solution: Step 1. Reboot your phone. Once the device is on open the Spotify app and check if it crashes. If it persists go to step 2.
Since last year, we noticed that some Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus users were having trouble with their music streaming apps. Just like in a #GalaxyS9Plus case mentioned below, all of them were reporting that, for some reason, their phone stops playing music on their own after some time. Some had even tried to factory reset their phones without getting any resolution at all. In this troubleshooting episode, we bring you the possible solutions to this issue. There’s no official word from Samsung about this and, apparently, even they, don’t have an idea how to fix the bug as well. https://blinkyellow217.weebly.com/blog/spotify-app-not-opening. Since this has also started happening on S9 devices, we hope it’s not an Android coding issue because if that’s the case, it’s going to be a significant problem for a lot of people.
Problem #1: How to fix Galaxy S9 Plus music stops streaming bug
HELP! Very Frustrated. I have the new Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus. Awesome phone but having a major problem. When I play music (any App.Tune-In Radio, Google Music, Spotify, Pandora, I-Heart Radio) after 20 or 30 minutes the App will stop playing and you have to click on play again. Also if the App is in full screen, the screen will not sleep. Now I’ve spent hours in the T-Mobile store and with Samsung Support with no luck. We tried resets, uninstalling Apps and trying one at a time, checking battery functions…everything. I’ve tried it on WiFi, Network, home, car, work… They finally replaced the phone as a defect and yesterday it all worked until the new update and then back to same problem. I tried another Factory reset this morning with no luck. I’ve tried different Launchers. I’ve tried loading one App at a time. Nothing stops this problem. If you search in the Forums there are several references to this problem with the S8, but so far I can’t find anything about S9 AND any questions about the S8 music Apps have no solutions. Do you know anything about this.? The T-Mobile store said I was the only person with this problem. Thanks HOW do I find out the response? — LD Glover
Solution: Hi LD Glover. We can’t seem to replicate your issue in our own Galaxy S9 Plus so this bug may only be happening for certain firmware builds, or for certain S9 batches, which means it can be a hardware issue. We would like to think that the cause may have something to do with your phone’s power saving setup. Since you’ve already tried the basic possible solutions for this issue, we recommend that you do the following suggestions:
Turn off any power saving settings
We don’t think this is a technical problem at all. Rather, we believe it has something to do with your device’s power saving settings. Make sure your S9 is not set to stop apps automatically when you’re not actively using them by going under Settings > Battery > Power saving mode. Make sure that Power Saving Mode is set of OFF. Or, you can configure your S9 to only start Power Saving Mode only when it’s battery power is low instead of immediately.
Turn off Restrict Background Data
While still on the Power Saving Mode menu, toggling Restrict Background Data to off may also help. If Restrict Background Data is set to ON, the music app may not be permitted to connect to the internet by this feature resulting to the issue you’re having.
Set Keep wifi on during sleep to ON
Some users fixed networking issues and some app issues before by making sure that their phone remains connected to wifi even while sleeping. By default, Keep wifi on during sleep is set to always or on but if you changed it before, try turning it back on then see what happens.
Here’s how you can do that:
Open Settings app.
Select wifi.
Tap More at the upper right.
Turn on keep Wi-Fi always ON during sleep.
Check Optimize battery usage for your music app
Android Nougat and Oreo are designed to save battery power whenever possible and both have more sophisticated methods of achieving that. In order to save battery power though, apps, including the ones that you usually use like music streaming ones may be put to sleep automatically or sometime. To see if your music apps are controlled by this battery optimization feature, go to Settings > Battery. Once you’ve in the battery menu, hit Details under app power saving mode and select the music app. Then, make sure to select DISABLED to allow it to run and be exempt from Android battery optimization feature.
Wait for a patch
If the solutions above won’t help at all, this might be a coding issue. Make sure to report it again to Samsung so they can create a ticket for this bug. Then, just like when Android bugs occur, you just have to wait until it’s fixed.
Problem #2: Galaxy S9 can’t add contacts with more than 14 characters
Hi. Thanks for the offer of help! I have a Galaxy S9 so I can not remove the battery for a soft reset. My problem is that when trying to add names to contacts I am only allowed 14 characters to be entered and I can not fully add all names as many are longer than 14 characters. I had no problems with my previous S5 and so when my old phone transferred it’s info to the new one, all long names were added in full. So it does have the ability to add longer names but just won’t let me do it manually. Hope there is an easy fix. Thanks. — Zoe Zoemichaelagreen
Solution: Hi Zoe. What app are you using to save your contacts? We’re positive that the default Samsung Contacts app on Galaxy S9 will allow you to save names longer than 14 characters. If you’re not using Samsung Contacts, we suggest that you migrate your contact names to it so you’ll no longer find a solution for the issue you’re in right. Frankly, we have no idea what’s causing it too. It may be a limitation on the app you’re using, or there may be a setting in that app that prevents you from adding longer contact names. This issue boils down to the app in question so in order not to complicate things, stick to the stock contacts app. It’s stable and has been a reliable one for years now so we don’t think you’ll have any issues with it. If you don’t want to use it for whatever reason, then consider checking with the developer of that app to see if there’s something that they do to help.
Problem #3: How to show Galaxy S9 Calendar events on lock screen
Good morning, Droid Guy! I hope you can help me with my calendar settings in my phone. I’m struggling after having reset my phone back to factory settings. While setting up my calendar, I must have set it to hide calendar information when popping up to my main screen. So, when an event occurs, a gray screen pops up and I have to click on, ‘show hidden content.’ Whereas, before, I could just see the event. I’m hoping to not have to reset my phone again in order to resolve this issue. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks so much! — KristinaKristinalhouston
Solution: Hi Kristina. If by main screen you mean the lock screen (the screen that shows after you locked the screen, or after the phone locked the screen by itself), then here’s what you need to do:
Open Settings app.
Tap Notifications.
Tap Advanced on the upper right.
Select your calendar app.
Make sure that Allow notifications is enabled.
Tap On lock screen.
Select Show content.
Now, every time you have a new incoming calendar event and your screen is locked, you should now see the content of that event even when you don’t unlock the screen.
For years, I've had a bit of a digital pen pal.
His name is Kevin. He loves music, 'Coffee Table Jazz' in particular. He owns an Amazon Echo, through which he listens to his lovely, soothing John Coltrane trumpet croons. He doesn't often listen during the day, but at night the tunes come alive — probably while he's also hand rolling linguine next to a glass of a full-bodied cabernet. (Or at least, that's what I imagined.)
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I know all of this because Kevin and I have been linked at the hip (digitally) for years, all through a connected Spotify account. Every so often, while I'm listening to music on the app, it'll stop abruptly and I'll get a message that has become the bane of my existence: Now Playing on Kevin's Echo.
My name is not Kevin. Nor do I own an Echo. Nor do I frequent the music of Miles Davis (I mean I like it, but I do not care to listen while I am contorting my body like a Tetris figure to fit in a crowded New York City subway car). Yet, this kept happening. Some dude named Kevin kept hopping into my account and hijacking it. Did I even know any Kevins?
yo @Spotify you wanna tell me why some dude named Kevin keeps hoppin up in my account and playing shit on his echo pic.twitter.com/mW0KSdKHqw
— Brian De Los Santos (@B_Delos) September 7, 2017
It'd happen everywhere. When I was at home. When I was walking the streets of Manhattan. While I was driving down the coast of California without cell reception. As I soared 30,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean, with no access to Wi-Fi. It felt like Kevin was the one person I could never escape, an irritating grade school bully whose sole purpose in life was to hit pause on my Spotify as soon as I hit play.
At first, sure, it was a subtle annoyance. A #firstworldproblem, if you may. But as a customer of Spotify Premium, it was more annoying than anything to be paying for something that failed to work. And it kept happening, and happening, and happening. Over the course of years.
It felt like Kevin was the one person I could never escape.
I'd assumed it was someone in my apartment building whose account somehow got entangled with mine, or a random dude in North Dakota who had no idea what he was doing. Or maybe it was Russia, who knows. I did everything I could think of to make it stop. I changed my password. I dug into my devices menu and disconnected from all of them. I revoked access from all apps connected to my account. I even had Spotify customer service reset it.
Nothing worked. No matter what I did, Kevin was there, punking me with the dulcet tones of a muted trumpet.
I later realized I was not the only person with this problem. There were multiple posts on Spotify's community forum detailing this very problem, all positing solutions of varying success with no explicit fix. People had tried changing passwords, disconnecting and resetting accounts, enabling two-factor authorization. Nothing they tried worked.
What is this bullshit that won't go away and keeps hijacking my @Spotify account I've revoked access to all other devices, changed my password, and still I'm getting this crap This might actually make me switch to Apple Music pic.twitter.com/YdMN4numyW
— Mike Murphy (@mcwm) February 11, 2018
Eventually, I realized Kevin had won. There was no way of getting rid of him. So I gave in. When I noticed Kevin was listening to the account at a time I didn't really need it, I let him have it. I never listened to music at night, when he often jammed to his jazz. When my headphones went silent on a crowded subway car, I didn't even check my phone — I already knew what it was going to say. I started listening to podcasts. I even became, in a way, fond of Kevin, or at least for his disregard for authority and sheer audacity to highjack another person's Spotify subscription.
Instead of fighting his interference on Spotify, I became wildly obsessed with figuring out who this Kevin was. It dawned on me that if Kevin could take over my account, it had to also work the other way around. His Echo did, after all, appear on my computer. So there had to be a way I could beam music to it. And if there was a way to beam music to it, there might also be a way to communicate. A sonic message in a bottle, if you will.
One day, while at work, I tried.
It became a group effort to a cohort of coworkers who — after hearing my tale — became as invested in the task as I was. We huddled around my desk as I attempted to play virtual DJ from afar. I knew he was near his Echo because he'd already gone back and forth with me a few times that morning, taking over the account.
At first, I wanted to be funny, but then I thought it'd be more helpful to be clear with my intent. I played 'Who Are You?' by The Who.
I knew it'd worked when I saw that he'd paused the song about 5 seconds into it. I tried again. This time it was 'What's Your Name?' by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
In my three year war with Kevin, I'd found a way to shift the tables.
He listened for 5 more seconds, then stopped it.
I finally had the upper hand. In my three year war with Kevin, I'd found a way to shift the tables. https://blinkyellow217.weebly.com/blog/download-all-spotify-songs-to-mp3-for-free. I found it comical to think that Kevin might just be lounging around in his three-bedroom suburban cottage or in Russia or wherever, and his Echo would randomly turn on to bump some tunes. After all these years, maybe I had a bit more pent-up rage than I thought — all stoked with the help of some devious colleagues.
So, I got a little carried away.
I played 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' by Shawn Mendes. He listened for 5 seconds.
'Never Gonna Give You Up,' by Rick Astley. 18 seconds. (Yes, you're damn right I rickrolled him.)
'I Will Always Love You,' by Whitney Houston. 21 seconds.
Spotify App Closes Randomly During Songs
'Kevin,' by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. 4 seconds.
'All Star,' by Smash Mouth. 6 seconds.
'All Star,' by Smash Mouth, round two. 4 seconds.
We found the experience enjoyable enough to send a few tweets.
I will uncover WHO this KEVIN is, one Rick Roll at a time https://t.co/FPkSzHNoeK
— Brian De Los Santos (@B_Delos) February 2, 2018
I didn't think much about it before halting my antics to run into a work meeting a few minutes later. I figured nothing would come of it beyond a handful of laughs — but maybe, just maybe Kevin would finally be conscious that there was someone else hiding in between his playlists.
That was until a friend I went to grad school with tagged me in this Facebook status.
Turns out, I KNOW KEVIN. We'd gone to grad school together at Northwestern in 2014. We'd been close friends while in school (for a class assignment, I actually profiled him), but after I left Chicago more than two years ago, we'd fallen out of touch. I couldn't remember how the two of us would have become digitally intertwined, or when it would have happened. But the sheer oddity of it all struck me as nothing short of improbable.
Appropriately, I conveyed this:
As fate would have it, Kevin still lived in Chicago. And just a few days after I'd stumbled upon this realization, I was taking a trip to the Windy City to reunite with a select group of old classmates who hadn't been back in years. I shot Kevin a text, and we both agreed to meet up at a party to talk over just how absurd the whole thing was.
Turns out, Kevin had a very plausible explanation. He remembered a night I had visited a few years back. After a night of brews, I'd crashed on his couch before I was set to leave to the airport. I connected my account to his Echo since I was a Premium user, which, apparently, was the only way you could listen to the music on the device. He remembered this, in particular, he said, because I was being super dramatic about the whole thing (which doesn't sound like me, but actually sounds a lot like me).
Kevin said he had no idea that all this time he'd been stealing my Spotify. It never prompted him with an alert or told him that another user on the account was also trying to listen to music. And I couldn't ever remember, for the life of me, connecting to his device.
'Well, didn't you think it was weird that when your music stopped and I'd take it back over?' I asked.
'No, I just thought it was the Echo. Or Amazon. Fucking Bezos,' he said, shaking his fist at the sky.
All of this still made no sense to me, since every time I'd contacted Spotify they'd told me they'd reset my account on every device I'd owned. That was always their fix. It'd work for a few weeks and then all of the sudden I'd be greeted with the message that my music was playing elsewhere all over again. I'd tried everything, over and over again. Spotify crack apk no root. But it wasn't until Kevin manually deleted my account off his Echo that I was finally free. That was the only fix.
After all this, we embraced, took a photo in the name of content, and called it a day.