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How do I stop links from automatically playing?

victorolaitan — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:29:43 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Canada

Device

Pixel 4A

Operating System

Android 12

My Question or Issue

It's really frustrating when I'm listening to music & a friend shares a link to an album/artist/song & when I click the link (just to take a look), Spotify stops what I'm listening to & starts playing that album/artist/song.

I have looked around & can't find anything to fix this. I'm honestly so annoyed that this is an actual "feature". Please help me turn this thing off, it's really ruining my experience.

This also happens sometimes on desktop.

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

Alex — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:06:46 GMT

Hey @victorolaitan,

Thanks for the post!

Opening a link to a song on mobile will result in the app opening and playing that song.

There is no way to switch this off manually from the Spotify app settings.

Hope you find this info helpful. Don't hesitate to reach out again if you have questions.

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

jacobhanson1010 — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:34:19 GMT

That's just awful!

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

luizzeross — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:57:06 GMT

I think most of users don't like this intrusive behavior of the app. I just clicked a song on WhatsApp to look what my friend was sending me, it stopped my playlist and started playing the song from the link immediately. I was only gonna look the artist page. =/ Put an option to disable this!!!!

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

p_7b56-ogs1e — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:54:51 GMT

Losing my existing queue or spot in a long playlist is very frustrating.

Can you please change the link behavior to at least implement a prompt asking options like: "Play now", "Add to queue", "View only"?

This applies to the desktop client, as well.

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

TonySnark — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 03:13:06 GMT

Yes, super helpful... not.

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

bademche — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 05:19:37 GMT

Most annoying thing ever!!!

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

atli_freyr — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 22:32:04 GMT

This is so frustrating, why would anybody want that to happen?

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

Elomo64 — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 22:25:40 GMT

And to think this is a paid service! This behavior needs to be removed.

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

bsamyn — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 14:45:53 GMT

How is this considered "solved"?

This is so annoying!

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

MajorSkyblue — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:26:39 GMT

Hey @Alex,

Thanks for your reply!

Opening a link to a song on mobile resulting in the app opening and playing that song is awful behaviour.

There is no way to switch this off manually from the Spotify app settings but there definitely should be.

Hope you find this info helpful. Don't hesitate to reach out again if you have questions.

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

carl3y29 — Wed, 03 May 2023 23:45:59 GMT

me too!

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

iAmRoland — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 08:53:12 GMT

The provided solution is not a solution. Really annoying that this is a feature with no option to disable it or alter its behavior. As others have pointed out, often I just want to view what a friend has shared and maybe queue it, not autoplay what they share.

The real solution so far has been to open the link in incognito (and also click cancel on the annoying popup to open link in Spotify), if I then want to listen I manually search the song in Spotify and queue it. Pretty terrible user experience in other words.

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

catchformethefoxes — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 09:51:51 GMT

Hey, I didn't find if this was suggested as an idea to Spotify so I submitted it:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Idea-Submissions/Stop-links-from-automatically-playing/idi-p/5648838#M182472

Indeed it is so annoying, I had a playlist set up and opening a link just ruined it!

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

rz27 — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:06:28 GMT

It ruins my entire queue

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

AmitBeck — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:46:25 GMT

This behavior is just so annoying. I was listening to my favorite (very long) playlist, and was simply looking to observe the song, maybe queue it. How's the "solution" the fact that there's no actual solution to this?

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

salagadam — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 08:10:03 GMT

Please just solve this issue, it can't be that hard for a multi billioner company.

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

Cactus-Cat — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 01:40:19 GMT

WHY IS THIS STILL A THING??? I can't make good use of the Now Playing feature on my phone because Spotify won't let me simply open the song to SAVE IT. I DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO THE SAME SONG ASYMMETRICALLY OVERLAPPED FROM TWO DIFFERENT SOUND SOURCES!!

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

spaghetmaster — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 08:24:33 GMT

I feel you guys it's just pointless. And why don't they change it?????

Re: How do I stop links from automatically playing?

usi — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 09:41:02 GMT

Hi,

For android users:

I can recommend to turn off auto opening links in Spotify. This way you will have links opened in browser instead, which leads to not interrupt your current playing session.

To do this, you must go into system apps settings on phone, and go into apps -> spotify -> standard app setting -> turn off: "open links automatic".

For iOS users i dont know much, try to see if you can turn off such setting as mentioned above.

Hope this helped some.