Learn how to listen to your local files on Spotify for Android in just a few easy steps. Take your music experience to the next level with this simple guide.
How to listen to local files on Spotify for Android
If you already use Spotify to listen to streaming music, you might want to use the same app to listen to the music you also have stored on your phone in the form of mp3, wav, etc. files. The Spotify app offers the option to Show local files, so you can activate this option and you will be able to play your songs saved on your phone from Spotify itself or also add these songs to your Playlists.
In the Spotify app for Android, proceed as follows:
- Tap on your round profile icon (the initial of your name at the top left). The side menu will open.
- Select Settings & privacy.
- Local files
- Turn on the Show audio files from this device option
If you go back to your Library, you’ll see a new playlist called Local Files, where you’ll find all the music stored on your Android device. If there are a lot of audio files, it may take a couple of minutes to display all of those files.
Please note that Spotify scans all audio files on your phone and shows them to you in said local folders. This is a problem if you have call recordings, ringtones, etc. There is no way to choose only certain files or folders on your device unfortunately. You could try the nomedia file trick to prevent directories you don’t want from being scanned, although I haven’t tested this. What I have done is install Spotify in the secure folder or also in the work profile , so that the app can scan only the audio files existing in those environments.
People who have Spotify Premium have the advantage of being able to sync music from their computer to their mobile. This means that if they have added songs saved on their PC to their playlists, these songs will be uploaded to the Spotify cloud so that the user can access them from other devices. These songs will appear disabled in the playlists when the user loses Premium access. If you downloaded these songs to your mobile during your Premium period, you can find them in the path Internal storage/Music/Spotify/Synced files .