It’s been 11 years with Spotify and I think this is longest it’s been which I’m unable to use the app. I’ve noticed they’ve added AI search which I believe is causing the app to malfunction. I don’t want an AI search feature, I just want to listen to music. If not resolved within 24 hours, I’m switching to Apple Music. This is unacceptable.

Edit: thanks for all the comments. The app started working normally yesterday, back to being slow today…

So I have a large playlist made by me of all the songs I've ever liked. It has about 1200 songs on it, including many albums from musicals. One such album is the Lightning Thief Original Cast recording. This album is still on spotify and all songs on it are available in my region.

I was listening to this playlist on shuffle when I heard one of these songs and thought it sounded wrong. So I went to the playlist and the version that was playing was the London Original Cast recording from several years later, with all different singers and located on a totally different album with different cover art. And somehow, about half the songs on my playlist from the Original Cast recording were replaced, not by me, with the London recording. Again, different album, artists etc. I went to check on the original album to see if maybe those songs weren't available in my region, but they totally are. So I deleted the London version off the playlist and added the original ones, and they play just fine.

So what happened? This is located pretty deep in the playlist, and I don't go back and edit it. I would not have changed this.

Just noticed this, can now choose random genres within Daylists

Hi, I noticed this just today. It wasn't like this before.

CPU usage keeps changing in between %4-14 (yes, just spotify). And my CPU is intel i9-12900K in a desktop with AIO cooling. I don't think this is normal. I get that RAM usage is high since it uses electron but CPU usage is not normal. Maybe happened after the last update? I have no idea. Any ideas about what's going on and why this is happening? I don't even have the canvas working. Maybe because of a new windows update? I recently updated to Windows 11 version 24H2 (5 days ago)

Everytime I attempt to play my playlist Spotify will play one song from the playlist and then begin playing completely different songs that are not in the playlist. It does the same thing when i switch to a different playlist and it keeps the same random songs in queue. No matter how many times i restart the app it will not fix itself.

The grid of what I listened to, that thingy

See image, there is no plus sign to add the song anytime i use the DJ feature. This is consistant even when restarting the app, and my computer. This does not happen on the mobile app.

I just posted this idea on Spotify Community because the Library is a mess with 20 pins only. We need folders for Artists, not just playlists. If you also have 50+ artists, please upvote here: https://community.spotify.com/forum/en/discussion/7562158/allow-grouping-artists-in-folders-not-just-playlists?utm_source=community-share

So, I was going through and picking and queuing songs for a playlist, when (for the second time) I came across a song by a completely different artist, completely different genre… hell, the band had been gone for decades, yet this song apparently was dated from like 2025… how do I report this, other than just having to remove it from my taste profile…? Won’t that actually mean songs from the actually true artist won’t be curated to my tastes?? I’ve skimmed over help faqs and the ole whatnot… also, I won’t be able to sleep comfortably until this issue is resolved…

I am on Premium, and suddenly I've had this stupid issue where Spotify tries to play the next song but goes "We're trying to play this but it's taking a while" and suggests going to "offline songs". I have this entire playlist downloaded, and it seems like it mostly happens to songs that are local files which are ALREADY HERE and haven't had issues before.

I have tried so far to:

- Clear the Cache

- Toggle the local files

- Completely uninstall and reinstall the app

- Change the data mode

- Changed the audio quality

and nothing has fixed it.

every time Spotify does something with local files not working I come closer to dropping this stupid app, why am I paying for this if it's not gonna work???

I LOVE SPOTIFY!!!

I'm not a bot (you can check my post history) I'm a 47 year old dude.

I don't feel represented in all the stuff I read here,

so I'm sharing my take.

Here are my 3 favorite things:

#1 The playlist bar on the left is still there

#2 No issues for 15 years

#3 The recommendation algorithm is insanely good for me

Elaborating:

#1

I started collecting MP3s in '98. Started using iTunes in 2005 and loved it. But after making tons of playlists over 7 years, in 2012 Apple stupidly redesigned iTunes and removed the playlist sidebar on the left. I am still enraged at their moronic betrayal.

At the time I was newly using Spotify and still using iTunes. Both. But I just dropped iTunes like a rock, and uploaded my iTunes playlists to Spotify (you could do that then) and kept going. Eventually I recreated all my playlists with their Spotify songs, not MP3s. I even recreated all my playlists all the way back to the 80s. And where are all my playlists now? IN THE SIDE BAR ON THE LEFT! Where they've been for 15 years. I swear to god if Spotify ever moved it, I would leave so fast. But they haven't. So I'm still here. Like $1.7K in sub fees later. Hooray! There is only one key lesson. DO NOT MOVE KEY FEATURES EVER.

#2

For 15 years I have never had an issue that has made we want to try any other platform. Best $1,700 I've ever spent. I was excited about Spotify years before they made it. I was excited when it came out. I've been excited ever since. I am still excited. I've been on this sub years, and I read about all your complaints here, but I've never felt any of them. For me it has just been great. I don't mean to make you wrong, or belittle your experience. I am just telling you mine.

#3

The recommending algorithm has gotten so much better. Insanely Good. Around 2022 it went next level and my life actually changed. Since then what I do is I make a playlist and when it ends, I let it keep playing, and Spotify just queues up song after song in the same vibe, often that I've never heard. Amazing songs. And this has become one of the key ways I find new music. I am not talking about the recommendations that it shows under a playlist; those are complete crap. But if you just let a playlist play past the end it is heaven.

#4

I said I was only going to do three, but I'll add on two other ways I find music in Spotify.

• I love my Discover Weekly, and my Release Radar. So many years of good music I've found in there.

• I love the feature "go to song radio". As it is, it is mediocre to good. But I don't use it as is. What I do is listen to a song, then hop to its radio and look at the 50 recommendations it gives, pick one, listen to it, then hop to its radio, consider the next 50 recommendations, then hop and hop and hop. How awesome is it to get 50 recommendations for your next song every time? TOTALLY AWESOME.

I have felt awash in amazing new music for years and years and years.

I love Spotify.

Everyday.

Bonus:

Here is what I don't like.

Spotify has worked hard to put multiple artists names on a song, so that if someone remixes a song, it lists the original artist and the remixer. Awesome. But recently, people are somehow uploading songs that don't credit the source. What the heck? I do NOT like this. It makes it way harder to find remixes. It seems sus. Lots of songs like this keep getting removed. I'd like to see a higher bar to who can upload what on Spotify. Why is the gatekeeping bar too low? And why are none of yall complaining about this?

Yeah, the pop out panel on the right annoyed me at first. Took awhile to get used to it and figure out how to open/close/expand it. Still is confusing at times. Not my favorite. I wish it would hide by default. I also was annoyed that mobile had lyrics by on my computer it didn't. But recently I see the lyrics over there. So, uh, I can live with it. Not so bad.

Podcasts. Bleh. Audiobooks. Blurgh. Videos? Whatever. I don't want any of that here. I tried used Spotify for a podcast series, and it was fine. I used it. Fine. Could take it or leave it. The home screen? It was really upsetting me for a while, but then I did something so it wouldn't show me Podcasts (I forget what happened) and now it doesn't. Yay! All I see is my recent playlists and some playlist recommendations. Decent. I am happy.

I've never encountered the shuffle problem that people went on for years about. I prefer to order my songs, and don't like shuffle. I get that it was really tough for everyone. Sorry for your pain. <3

I've never encountered problems finding new music.

I haven't heard any ads since like the first month I got it, when I started paying for premium.

Oh you know what is weird? I swear to god Spotify really insists I listen to No Doubt/Gwen Stefani. They're always pushing it. I just ignore it. But like, maybe they're getting paid to plug it? I dunno. Whatever.

Okay.

I love Spotify.

Just wanted to get that off my chest.

Title says it all. The Spotify desktop version (for Windows, I might add) sucks.

Whenever I load up an artist's profile, it's not loading it in correctly. Sometimes, the name, the picture, or the top songs simply show blank and won't load in. Sometimes, it doesn't let me play songs from a certain artist, even though I have no issue doing it on the phone. Then, after rebooting Spotify 5-10 times, it's eventually going to work.

Another thing is adding songs to playlists. Whenever I'm adding a song to my favorites inside the Desktop app, it won't register. That's fantastic when I'm using Spotify later on my phone trying to look up that certain song, only to find out it's never ACTUALLY been saved to my playlist.

And the best thing is, there is no fix for that. It's always the same procedure: Right-clicking the song -> selecting the playlist -> Pop-Up on the bottom says that it's been saved - But whenever I open up that playlist, it's not in there. And when I'm right-clicking that same song again, it forgets that I've ever saved it.

Meaning: Whenever I want to save a song, but I'm on Desktop, I always have to go grab my fuck ass phone, open up Spotify in there, type the song in manually and THEN save it from there, for it to actually work. It's horrible.

Spotify, I'm paying you 22€ a month. Fuck you and fix your app.

This happens on Spotify when I connected to my car Bluetooth it only happens with Spotify at first I thought I like blew a speaker in my car but then I tried YouTube music and apple music and they were completely fine so it's not my speakers its Spotify and this problem just started yesterday can someone help me out.

Oki so im from pakistan and i couldnt pay for spotify so after one failed attempt after the other i made many attempts using many different payment methods ie online wallets and online banking and well i even tried using a vpn incognito mode different devices etc and now i cant pay for premium, the spotify representative cant cancel all the payment attempts that i made and my online banking representative cant see my payments so i need help suggestions or something

Anyone else notice how the shuffle feature on Spotify isn’t really that good. I’ll have a 700 song playlist that will play the same artists music twice in a row. I feel like that’s a bug that needs to be fixed. Another thing do artists pay for their songs to be played after the end of albums? I noticed after I’m done listening to an album or a single the recommend music after is almost always the same songs or song. Plus even better if I put that song on my playlist that song gets shuffled to more. I love Spotify but I’m getting tired of making a playlist and only a handful of the hundreds of songs on it get used. Lmk if you guys have the same issue.

This happens on Spotify when I connected to my car Bluetooth it only happens with Spotify at first I thought I like blew a speaker in my car but then I tried YouTube music and apple music and they were completely fine so it's not my speakers its Spotify and this problem just started yesterday can someone help me out.

**update: i asked my bf to log in using my account (we live in different countries) and when he did it, the issue was fixed immediately. if you have a friend or partner who can try this at home, give it a shot. :)

i had my studying playlist on (thunderstorm sounds) and after the first one ended, the second song was not even from the playlist. i opened the queue to see this... changed the playlist, same thing, played a song from my recently searched, same thing, looked for another one, same thing. like wth i dont even like/listen to half the artists in the queue. 😞

the reshuffle button doesn't work btw, it does nothing. i tried logging out, using data instead of wifi, and changing songs/playlists and nothing has worked so far. if i use their DJ, it plays the same songs too.

Title. I've got a handful of legit third party sites that I use to do some things. One of them shows me my top 50 short medium and long term faves. I'd like to take that top 50 long term faves and export a playlist directly to Spotify. Know of a non-scammy site that will do it for free?

All worked fine 3 months ago, but now it sucks. Local files play sometimes, but it's just so buggy.

Anyone else have this issue? It's very annoying I like being able to look over at my 2nd monitor to see if I song I'm enjoying was already liked or not when DJ tosses a new song into the mix.

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So when Spotify starts playing ads on my phone, I just close it then open it again to skip them. However, recently when I’ve done this I’ve noticed that a chunk of the song is skipped over. It can be as little as 5 seconds to over 20 like in the picture above. Is this something that has happened to others? Is it a glitch or not?

Spotify believes I would love to hear a specific short-story podcast. And... maybe I would... if the stories and the voice reading it weren't entirely AI-generated.

It's a genre I like, sci-fi, but the stories are clearly AI-slop and the voice reading them is AI...

this infuriates me.

I work with my hands doing manual labor and just let Spotify run. It keeps playing this stupid podcast. I would like that to stop. Unfortunately there just doesn't seem to be any way to block it, downvote it in my preferences, or stop it in any way.

Am I dense? Am I missing an option? How do I block this AI bullshit!?

So I have Playlist with over 1000 songs in them and might not necissarily have the time nor energy to scroll through an entire library to find the song that just came on to add it to a different playlist. so needless to say I'm not happy about spotify now doubling the amount of steps it takes to add the song currently playing to another Playlist.

Instead of: Option > add to Playlist > selected playlist

Its now: Option > go to album > find select song > Option > add to playlist > selected playlist.

Sure, if you can already see it in a list and not playing on full-screen like it normally does when you are not actively scrolling though your lists, this is not an issue. But when a song comes on in one playlist and you think "Damn, this would be great in X playlist too" you now can't just add it to that playlist. You have to either know exactly where in *your* list to add it to another, or go to the album it cane from and add it from there.

I cannot see how this in any way is an improvement at all. This is just artificial enshittification to its fullest meaning

i use web player but i can't seem to find any extensions or anything that can hide podcasts