I got Spotify Premium a week ago.

Everytime I go too play a complete album, or playlist,it stops after one song and plays another artist.

I deleted the interfering artist's album and it still appears and plays after the one song of someone's else's album.

Next to the song there is either and -X- or a checkmark. What do they stand for?

Why don't they set it up where you can number the songs that you want to play in a row or can you do that already?

I just need a brief recap on how you play a certain artist's songs and how many albums and playlists can you save.

The only thing I can think of here is that you're pressing "Start Song RADIO" or "Start Artist RADIO" which basically works like Pandora (you select a song, and it plays a bunch of stuff like it). I don't know if you're using a PC or phone, but on PC, find the album you want to play and just double-click on the first song. Also make sure the "shuffle" icon is off.
If this behavior is happening when you do that, then maybe something else is wrong. Not sure.
Also, check your "Play queue" to see if that identifies what's going on.

I think you mean + or a checkmark. Basically, this is how you add songs or albums to "Your Music". All this does is it makes it easier, on your phone, to keep track of Artists or Albums that you've flagged. I think it's Spotify's way of discouraging people from creating a playlist with just an album in it, but I'm not sure. I still find it confusing.


Yeah, just create a playlist and add the songs you want to play. It should work.

See above on how to play the songs. It really should be that simple, unless something is wonky. Again, not sure if you're using a PC or phone or whatever. If my explanations aren't good enough, try a youtube search maybe.
as for "how many" well, you have unlimited artists, songs, albums, playlists that you can add to your music or whatever. BUT, on your phone, you can only store something like 3000 songs "offline" for later use (ie: if you don't want to use your mobile data on the go)

I am on a laptop .

If you play the first song of an album,shouldn't it play the entire album or do you have make a playlist for everything.

It should definitely play the full album, start to finish, assuming you don't start another album or playlist afterwards. You do not need to make a playlist. Are you hitting play when you're on the artist's main page, or are you doing it from the search screen? That might make a difference, but I'm not sure...

Yeah-I hit play. What I'd like too do is play three or four albums in a row with the same artist.

Another thing I'd like too do is take 10-15 artists and play three songs in a row with each artist but that looks like something that would take a lot of work.

You would have to create playlists to accomplish those.

Is there a way to erase everything and start over?

I keep getting one artist playback no matter who I decide(ArtistRadio,etc).

I sent them an email.

Uninstalling does no good because everything goes back to square one.

Update:They responded to the email fairly quickly.

Edit
Preferences
Playback
uncheck enable hardware acceleration
do a clean re-install

That seems to have taken care of the problem.

What Spotify isn't clear on is that you have a queue. You can see your queue by clicking the "three horizontal bars" button in the lower right corner between "lyrics" and the shuffle button. By default, your queue is supposed to clear when you exit the app, and any album you double-click on should automatically appear in the queue (in order). You can click on the three dots (to the right of a song) and choose "Add to queue" to add the song to your list. This page has a pretty good explanation for what Spotify has done a poor job explaining, IMHO.

I would like them too be more clear on re-recording of songs. Maybe put an * next to the song. Or put re-recordings in their own section.