How To Update Spotify App On Mac

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The feature works on both cellular and Wi-Fi model. A Spotify app for the Apple Watch has been available for years but it’s only now that the company has made a standalone app. Reports say that Spotify had been testing it for a few months. Before that, the app required an iPhone to listen to music.

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Use the app to play music files stored on your device, which we call local files.

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1. On desktop, import your local files (with the ‘Desktop’ steps).
2. Add the files to a new playlist.
3. Log in on your mobile or tablet using the same WiFi as your desktop.
4. 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.
5. 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

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1. On desktop, import your local files (with the ‘Desktop’ steps).
2. Add the files to a new playlist.
3. Log in on your mobile or tablet using the same WiFi as your desktop.
4. 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

How To Update Spotify App On Laptop

1. Click , then Settings.
2. Scroll to Local Files and switch Show Local Files on.
3. Switch off any sources you don’t want.
4. 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

Community Answers

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It’s now possible to ask Siri to play music on Spotify as easily as on Apple Music — though only on iPhones and iPads, and not HomePod or Mac.

Apple has introduced a long-awaited ability to let users control Spotify music via Siri, in much the same way they already can with Apple Music. It’s limited to being used on iOS devices, however, and is not currently available via HomePod or Mac.

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To use the service, users must have the Spotify app installed on their iPhone or iPad, and must be logged in to the music service.

Thereafter, users can just say, ‘Hey, Siri, play Spotify.’ It’s also possible to make more specific requests to do with artists, albums or particular tracks.

Once you have the app installed, you can play Spotify via Siri on your iPhone

Once Spotify is playing, basic requests can now be made by just saying ‘Hey, Siri, skip,’ or pause, resume and so on. To play any artist or track, Siri needs to be told specifically to play it ‘on’ or ‘via’ Spotify.

The very first time Siri goes to play anything on Spotify, it will permission. ‘I’ll need to access your Spotify data to do that,’ it asks. ‘Is that OK?’ If a user doesn’t have the app or you do but it’s logged out of the Spotify service, Siri will prompt them to correct that.

That’s more than it will do on either HomePod or Mac, though. Asking HomePods to play Spotify just gets you the response ‘sorry, I’m unable to do that.’ This may change when the HomePod update associated with iOS 13 arrives, though.

On the Mac, invoking Siri and asking for Spotify, regardless of whether it’s installed or not, gets a reply saying, ‘That’s beyond my capabilities at the moment.’

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This move to allow a third-party app, and a rival to Apple Music, access to Siri controls directly, instead of a Siri Shortcuts workaround, follows ongoing complains from Spotify which Apple has previously refuted.

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