Spotify App - Creates ALT+TAB Bug

MtPotat — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:01:01 GMT

There is probably some issue with how the gif/video is being rendered at the sidebar where info about the currently playing title is being displayed.

The problem is that if i have some game open, in my case Sea of Thieves, and the sidebar with info about the song is open and a song is playing that has some gif/video and this video/gif is being redered in that side bar my PC starts**bleep** itself randomly or always when i press alt tab wich has the effect that one or both of my monitor experiance signal loss and if there is image its frozen. After ~5-15sek my PC gets**bleep** back together and i have some picture again but this doesnt last long. As you can imagine this makes me want to throw my pc out of the window so pls fix else it might happen some day i slept bad. I have already tried updating my GPU driver but no diffrence.

Current Spotify App verison im using:
Spotify für Windows (64 Bit)
1.2.49.439.gfae492c7

Appendix:
After disabling the Canvas the problem seemed to be "solved" but i was wrong - i had the game open and spotify was bugged and told me i should disable offline mode to listen to music. So i restarted the app and the start of it promtly caused the previously mentioned image freeze/signal loss.

Re: Spotify App - Music Video Preview Creates ALT+TAB Bug

MtPotat — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 08:53:55 GMT

If there is anyone facing the same problem just disable Canvas as a temporay fix for now.

How to? Windows Desktop app:
Click on the 3 Dots at top left corner
Go to Edit -> Settings
There disable Canvas

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Spotify App - Creates ALT+TAB Bug

Re: Spotify App - Music Video Preview Creates ALT+TAB Bug