The DEVICES section no longer appears!

Hello! Happens that there was a time when, if I opened the app on my iphone and had the desktop version running, there would appear a section titled "DEVICES". I thought it was a problem with my (then) current iphone, but now even with a new one, nothing changed. The thing is that that way I could add songs from my local files to MY MUSIC list, (that's how I listened to Taylor Swift on Spotify), but now I can only add local files to separate playlists, and now if I play MY SONGS playlist on my phone, it won't include these songs. Did this feature disappear? Is there a way I can do what I intend to? Note 1. Even though the DEVICES section no longer shows up, I can stream and control the music and volume from the computer to the phone, so... the computer does detect my phone (?). Thank you so much for your help!QuechoRamirez

The devices section will be coming back in a future update.
In the meantime:
You won't be able to see an indication in the desktop client that the device is paired with the desktop client. But as long as they both are on the same WiFi network you should be able to trigger the local files sync by toggling the offline toggle on the playlist on your device. Just make sure that the local files are in a playlist of their own (not just the built in local files playlist) so that this will work.

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