Spotify only offers downloading service to Premium users. Make sure your Premium subscription is active.Spotify Stuck on Waiting to Download - Checklist & Fixes Ultimate Fix to Spotify's 'Waiting to Download' Part 1. How to Troubleshoot 'Waiting to Download' Issue on Spotify Part 3. Spotify Stuck on Waiting to Download - Checklist & Fixes Part 2. In the following parts, we're going to introduce 5 common methods and an ultimate solution to totally get out of the Spotify 'Waiting to Download' issue. Or sometimes the Download button can't even be changed and it always stays grey. The most common one is when adding songs to a playlist and then toggle the Download button to green, instead of showing Downloading, the Spotify app is stuck on 'Waiting to Download' and nothing start to download at all. Similar issues can be seen on Spotify Community and most of the users can hardly get a proper solution from the forum. I can see those newer songs in the playlist on my phone, but they don't have the green 'downloaded' icon below them, and the indicator at the top reads 'Waiting to download'. I have a large-ish playlist that I have set on download on the phone app, so when I add new songs to it on the desktop app or on my tablet, it's supposed to automatically add those new songs to the download on my phone when I open it.
