topic Re: Delayed group session in Other (Podcasts, Partners, etc.)

Delayed group session

EndruOkey — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:24:04 GMT

Hey guys,

I have issue with group session. When we are listening with my friends - i have 3 seconds song ahead.. and the others got song normally. When song end's, spotify just play me random song for those 3 seconds becouse of being ahead... No equializer, nothing... And happening all the time

Re: Delayed group session

Novy — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:52:15 GMT

Hey there @EndruOkey,

Thanks for reaching out here in the Community 🙂

Keep in mind that Group Sessions are now remote, so everyone will listen to the music on their own device and it might be expected to see some delay.

If you'd like to avoid this and you're listening with others in the same place, you can enable the option to listen on the same speaker. The session's host needs to send an invite for the speaker as mentioned in this reply.

Lastly, we really appreciate you taking the time to share your comments with us. Group Session is in Beta and it will continue to improve in the future.

Hope this helps. If anything else comes up, the Community will be here.

Cheers.

Re: Delayed group session

WellItsVince — Tue, 30 May 2023 17:54:57 GMT

Hi Guys,

My buddy and I want to listen to music without delay when he's at home and I'm at mine.

Whenever we start a Spotify session, he's 3 seconds ahead of me.

Please fix that problem.

Re: Delayed group session

Supadupaben — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 04:30:13 GMT

I'd like to second this! Not a software engineer, so I'm not aware of the limitations y'all face, but if you could find a way to significantly reduce latency, the group session feature would be dramatically more useful. (I.e. BYO headset silent disco events would be amazing)

Re: Delayed group session

HmmIdrk123 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 03:49:33 GMT

Mines a problem cause I am a minute and thirteen seconds ahead of my friend. that's not just normal "latency"

Jam has an 8 second delay behind host

Jjeraldthe2th — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:42:04 GMT

Jam has an 8 second delay behind host

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

Operating System

Windows 10 pro

My Question or Issue

When joining a jam and a new song plays after 8 seconds, it will reset for the listener but not the host, resulting in there being an 8-second delay. A temporary fix found was for the host to simply pause and play the song, but obviously, that is a pain.

cross fade and automix are disabled.

both on PC windows 10.

it was noticed in a discord call so the delay might be bit off.

not tested if a phone joining a PC works differently.

not performed a clean install.

not tested if a diffenet host works.

Justed wanted to get an issues report out ASAP as ive not seen it reported here yet

Jam session not synced for others

Speedy4324 — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 04:57:53 GMT

Everytime I play a jam session with my friend he starts at 22 seconds and I start at 0... Even when I or He puts it on 0 he jumps 22 seconds ahead, also when he goes to the next song it glitches out for 20 or so seconds till I catch up to the next song

Jam is delayed

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:29:21 GMT

PC
Win11

When i enter someone else Jam my spotify jumps 1 min ahead, just on PC.
I already uninstalled and installed again 3 times but it doesn't work.

In my smartphone the Jam works.

Re: Jam is delayed

kaworu_bloodpaw — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:53:41 GMT

Hey there!

I have an idea.

Try opening Windows Settings, and search for Time. Click on the first result, and then click the Sync Time button.

See if that helps.

Re: Jam is delayed

mayo_max — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 16:56:18 GMT

you are the G.O.A.T!

Re: Delayed group session

Drew38 — Sat, 04 May 2024 20:53:42 GMT

We have 20 boats on a lake, all in close proximity and want to play the music without the latency? Each phone will connect to each boat’s sound system and want it to all play at the same time … is that possible?

Why is jam out of sync?

kaoken — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 00:44:03 GMT

**bleep**, keeps restarting so were out of sync. No help anywwhere. Cant even submit a ticket. For real, get it together. Why am i paying for your services and i cant use them? Get back to me.

Re: Delayed group session

Elm13 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:47:28 GMT

Hi Novy, is there a way to play on 2 different set of speakers in the same home without latency, with Spotify duo?

Re: Delayed group session

flipside444 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:33:30 GMT

I think Novy is under some kind of NDA that prevents her from answering this at the moment. Hopefully, there will soon be a good solution that allows users to play music together in true real-time 😉