Better Import of Local Files to Integrate with Your Music

I switched to Spotify because it let me import my local files. With "Your Music" this has the potential to get even better.
Spotify would be amazing if it scanned your local files and added those songs, albums, and artists to the Songs, Albums, and Artists sections in My Music automatically.
Even better, my local files are not exactly local, they're stored on an external drive, and I've love to have Spotify be able to switch to a Spotify version if the local version is not available (i.e. when I'm not connected to the drive) or it's just taking a long time to load.

If we could do this to better integrate local files with the Your Music album and artist views, I could migrate away from using iTunes on my desktop. It would be nice as well for this to integrate into the search function. I actually use the search function more than the other parts of the Your Music view (even though I love those views and gladly welcome them) because it's faster. If local files could integrate in there (for things that aren't on Spotify), I would never use iTunes.
For example. I want to listen to [Band A] that isn't on Spotify. I go to the search bar, type in their name, it appears on the results just like something on Spotify. I click on their name and am taken to an artist page to see all of their albums that are stored on my computer. This is different from the filter search for local files because that search does not give an option to better narrow down results to see only one album or all albums by one artist.

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First of, I'm a huge fan of the new layout.
But as the title says I'd like to add my own beloved local files to the "Your Music". I don't see why this shouldn't be a possibilty. This way I don't need to have one master playlist, I can just have all the music I like under "Your Music -> Songs".
Also, as suggested earlier, changing the font size could be usable to many people.

Simply put: give us a totally seamless integration of local files and subscribed albums/songs in "your music" or whichever name you choose ... Call it "the bucket" and I don't care, I'm here for the functionality, not the marketing.
I mean: ONE container, with all items displayed (album covers and so on), searchable and playable exactly the same way.
I'm a long time music passionate, and I have a personal collection of hundreds of CDs, which majority is unavailable on spotify. So ATM I'm using iTunes (and iPhone Music app) to listen to my ripped own stuff, and spotify for all the rest. Sounds like a no-brainer to anyone? It's not impossible, iTunes does that exceptionally well.
This is THE ONLY aspect that actually prevents me from subscribing.

Local files wont sync with my mobile

So I was trying to add my AC/DC songs, that I have purchased time ago, to spotify since they don't have AC/DC, I created a playlist with my local files on the desktop app, then synced the playlist with my android device. I can see the playlist on my mobile but when I want to make it available offline it never download any tracks, they just stay in a gray color and I can't even play them. How can I fix this?

Hello MDOGBD, try to access your anti-virus settings. There should be an option to disable it permanently or temporarily. Most anti-virus softwares have a small icon in your Windows tray and you should be able to right click for options to disable it (that is if you are running Windows). Your question was not very clear. You should be able to play local files straight away on your computer. For ease of understanding, the computer with your local songs shall be called computer A. If you are looking to sync those songs to another computer (computer B) then unfortunately that doesn't work. You would have to have a copy of those songs on computer A transferred to computer B and listed under the local files section to play them.
If the problem is to do with syncing the local songs on computer A to your phone, try the solutions listed by the other posters on this page. If that doesn't help try restarting your router and your phone.
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iTunes does not at present have any good feature for watching folders and automatically importing tracks you add to a folder. Using strictly iTunes, unless you drop the tracks into the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder in the iTunes Music folder, you'll have to add any such tracks manually, by dragging them to the iTunes window or by using the Add To Library command. Here are a couple of potential solutions from other developers, though:
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1. Data fields never contain the field terminator.
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/782353/sql-server-bulk-insert-of-csv-file-with-inconsistent-quotes
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