Spotify Travel Guide: Android

If you are a Spotify Premium subscriber with an Android you can easily install Spotify, sync your playlists and enable Offline mode so not to use data traffic. You can have 3,333 songs per device (on up to 3 devices)

This guide is for the Android. Check out our guides for iPhone and Symbian.

  1. Connect your Android to a WiFi
  2. Install Spotify from the Android Market space (using your Google username and password) or browse to http://m.spotify.com and follow the instructions
  3. Open Spotify and log-in with your Spotify username and Password
  4. When you’ve logged in Spotify will show all your playlists
  5. Make sure the top bar is Green (indicating that you are Online) and not Blue (offline)
  6. If your top bar is Blue Spotify could not connect, please try another WiFi.
  7. Click the “Offline Playlists” button
  8. Mark all playlists you wish to make available offline and click “Done”
  9. In the upper right corner of the “Offline playlists” button, you will see how many songs are
    10. pending sync (that are left to download) 
  10. As long as Spotify is running it will sync to make your playlists available offline
  11. You can abort this sync at any time by closing Spotify, but all songs aren’t synced until the counter is gone.
    12.  

Now Spotify has saved all your songs locally on your device. To make sure Spotify doesn’t use any data traffic please (while having Spotify open):

  1. Click the “More” tab in the bottom right.
  2. Select “Settings”
  3. Check the “Force offline” checkbox.
  4. The top bar will turn Blue and you will see “Go online within: 30 days”

This means Spotify now operates in Offline mode and does not consume any data. After 30 days however you will have to go online to make sure you are still a valid Spotify Premium subscriber.

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