For many years, many of us have been accumulating MP3 files to listen to music from the computer or from these portable devices. inspired on the iPod. Today, streaming is the preferred way for many to listen to music, but if you have an MP3 music collection, you’ll probably still want to enjoy it.
Whether it’s because one of your favorite artists doesn’t have all their music available in streaming, or simply because you’ve been accumulating MP3 songs for years, it’s very easy to listen to all those songs from our mobile. We can install an application or listen to them directly from Spotifyand the latter is very simple to do. Listen to them from our mobile.
Follow these steps to listen to your MP3 songs directly on Spotify
Spotify is a platform that provides access to countless songs from countless artists via streaming, as well as many podcasts. However, many users still like have access to your music locally, without needing an internet connection. Whether it’s to save data or just because they prefer it that way. Personally, I usually buy songs or entire albums in MP3 when it comes to specific versions that are not available for streaming.
There are many applications that we can use as music players on Android, some are very good and even integrate with streaming services, but if you are a Spotify user you can use this application to listen to all the music you have stored on your mobile, and not It is necessary to have a Premium subscription.
To listen to our own library of songs on Spotify we follow these steps:
- We access the application from our Android mobile and click on our photo or avatar in the upper left corner
- Then click on Settings and Privacy
- We scroll down until we find the option Local files and click on it
- Finally, we activate the switch “Show audio files from this device”
Now Spotify will have access to our local music file library. This way we can access and listen to them from Spotify:
- We click on Your library in the bottom bar of the application
- We select the file Local files
- And that’s it. Now we can listen to all the MP3 songs stored on our mobile. During my tests, I was even able to reproduce a FLAC files using Spotify
What we must keep in mind is that Spotify usually adds all the audio files on our mobile, that is, it will even show us the WhatsApp voice notes from this section, so The file is perhaps a little complicated and lots of files. To solve it, I created playlists or playlists and added the songs I want to listen to from my local library, and this way I can keep my MP3 music more organized.
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