This is helpful if your specific version does eventually become available on their service, but really not if otherwise. If the song properties list the Title, Artist and Album as “Smooth Criminal” “Michael Jackson” and “Bad” respectively, it’ll likely link it with the version already on their service, then try and be helpful and replace it with that. Say you’re transferring the original mix of the Bad album, the one that they stopped pressing in the late 80s. I’ve got lots of ‘local’ songs strung across various playlists.Īlso, it pays to ensure the song name is different from something already on Spotify. But if you get it working, then the actual songs tie in seemlessly with Spotify playlists on your phone. This is one aspect I wish Spotify would improve, Apple Music handles it far better and let’s you put your own music in the actual cloud, so they might be an option too. sometimes if it doesn’t work or the phone doesn’t see, I’ll fully close and reopen the app again. I hope that helps? It’s not perfect but usually does the job for me. Then I’ll navigate to the playlist and enable the download button for the whole playlist, to which it then should download the songs over your WiFi. I’ve noticed if I don't, it may not see the songs right away. Then on my phone (which is on the same Wifi network as the laptop), I will completely close the Spotify app fully, then reopen to ensure what it sees is fresh. If I’m adding a whole album, sometimes I like to make a playlist just for the album. In Spotify, I then add them to a playlist. Generally what I do is add the MP3(s) to the right folder that Spotify is watching in my computer.