Cant play local files on mobile

Posting again and hoping for a response before I have to cancel Premium because of it. Hello, I have a Droid Razr M, and I can't play my local files on my Android phone. I have premium, and when I download a playlist/songs to my phone, they come up as (Song Name) Unknown Artist, Unknown Album, and completely grey instead of white with the Dowload Icon next to them. My Phone and my Desktop Spotify are sync'd and I switch between them often. 
I used to have success transferring files when working off my Macbook Air to my phone, but no such luck with my HP desktop. I do not have the Macbook anymore so it isn't a solution to this problem.  I have connected my phone to my PC yet it does nothing within the Spotify window. When I'm playing a local file on the PC and I try to switch to mobile using connect, it just black screens and I have to back arrow out of that to get back to my playlist, where it resumes fine playing no song. This was not a problem a couple patches ago, yet it may make me unsubscribe because it is my most essential value to my Spotify experience.  I will provide more information to solve the problem, if necessary

Yeh it won't sync local files under the latest version of Android. 
It's not that it doesnt actually sync it, but on the phone on android. There is no option for local files. 
It doesn't come up. Tho it is on the computer Spotify app. 
The only way to do it, is to make a playlist. Drag everything from local files into the playlist. Then sync. 
You can even click offline mode for what its worth. Obviously its already on the computer as its local files. 
It seems files that are not on Spotify are faded out. It is very inconsistent about it. But none the less you can play everything. 
Once you have it all on your new shiny playlist. Sync it to the phone. And just sync that playlist which just has local files. 
There is no way to work out the bitrate of the files on the spotify app for Andoid, so I can see the kbps. So I know if it is a local version or what the sound quality is either. Anyway you can sync local files only through making a playlist. 
The problem lies in the Spotify app. It has the option to click sync local files. And it actually does it, but this is useless as there is no way to search or play these files unless they are in a playlist on the latest Android App. And because it isn't in a playlist you cannot play it. 
So yeh Make playlist. Copy Local Files into Playlist. Sync Android Phone with that Playlist. You can now play local files. 

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