Want to upload your favorite music to Spotify? No worries! In this guide, we will cover the process of adding music to Spotify.
With time, Spotify grabs its user’s attention by introducing such features that are easy and convenient. One such feature is to allow users to upload music from their mobile or laptop to Spotify. Follow some simple steps to enjoy listening to your songs.
This blog will cover the details on:
- How to Upload/Transfer Music to Spotify on a Desktop?
- How to Upload/Transfer Music to Spotify on a Mobile Phone?
- Issues with the Local File
Let’s start the blog!
How to Upload/Transfer Music to Spotify on a Desktop?
Need all of your favorite songs in one place? You can upload the music placed on your desktop to Spotify. Let us view the steps to upload the music from your desktop to Spotify.
Step 1: Open the Spotify Application
In the first step, you need to open the Spotify application on your laptop or computer:
Step 2: Navigate to Settings
In the next step, go to the Settings from the user icon as shown below:
Step 3: Search for Local Files
Then, search for Local files from the settings and turn it on:
Step 4: Select Songs from Local Files
You will see the local files in the left pane as soon as you turn it on in the previous step:
You can play the song of your choice in the local file as shown below:
The best part is that you can add the songs to this and play on Spotify as you normally do for other playlists.
How to Upload/Transfer Music to Spotify on Mobile?
There are certain steps similar to that of the desktop when uploading songs from the local files on your phone to Spotify.
Step 1: Open Spotify
First open Spotify application:
Step 2: Open Settings
Navigate to the profile icon then click on Settings and Privacy:
Step 3: Local Files
Search for the Local Files option and turn it on as shown below:
Step 4: Go to the Library
In the next step, navigate to Library and you will see all the local files from your phone in Spotify:
Step 5: Listen to Songs
You can now listen to your favorite songs on Spotify from your mobile phone.
Issues with the Local File
When you upload the local files from your laptop or phone to Spotify, you need to keep some important things in mind:
- Spotify plays MP3 and MP4 files easily but some issues can occur when you try to play the audio files of different extensions.
- Your mobile phone and your laptop or computer must be using the same Spotify account.
This concludes the discussion on how to upload/transfer music to Spotify.
Conclusion
Now you know the method to upload your favorite music to Spotify. First, turn on the Local Files option on your laptop and mobile phone to upload the songs. In this article, we discussed in detail the method to upload music to Spotify from a laptop and phone along with the issues with the local file while uploading.
