topic spotify links open in browser instead of desktop app in Desktop (Windows)

spotify links open in browser instead of desktop app

simsebas — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:48:48 GMT

Windows 10

Firefox 135

Spotify desktop app freshly installed (again)

When a friend posts a spotify link, I want it to open in the app, not in a browser window.

Please help. I've looked for hours and nothing works.

Interestingly, when spotify opens in the browser, I am logged in with with my premium account, but it also has a button/link to "install app". It is already installed though.

Please help and thank you!!!

Re: spotify links open in browser instead of desktop app

Joan — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:18:18 GMT

Hi there @simsebas,

Thanks for reaching out. We'll gladly help you share music freely.

When you open a link, is there no prompt to open it within the app? What do you see exactly? On a different note, where is the app you're using installed from, the Microsoft store or the Spotify website? Whichever it is, try uninstalling with these steps and then reinstall from the alternate source.

Let us know how it goes.

Re: spotify links open in browser instead of desktop app

simsebas — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:44:19 GMT

thank you!

This finally did the trick.

Uninstalled. Searched C: hard drive for spotify and deleted everything i was able to find. (culprit was maybe a spotify/firefox profile). Restarted PC and then installed from Windows app store.

Links are finally opening up in app again and not the browser.

I suddenly can't open spotify playlist links from the web on my desktop app

LolaLo92 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:59:06 GMT

I used to be able to open links to playlists from the web on the desktop spotify app, but now the links are only opened by the web player. I'm not being asked if I want the links to play in the app

Re: spotify links open in browser instead of desktop app

imark123440542 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:06:22 GMT

Same problem on MAC. Absolutely no prompt for opening the app. this is just in Firefox, If I open a link in Opera it pops up. I need to restart Firefox (135.0.1 ) but it worked a few weeks back when I copied the link to a text document. Now it's just prompting me to login and if I login it's prompting me to install. So the only thing I can think it's some thing that changed within the last update either to Spotify or Firefox.

Re: spotify links open in browser instead of desktop app

1123583055 — Tue, 27 May 2025 22:10:25 GMT

This is not a solution. I reinstalled it on windows 10 (directly from spotify, not the windows app store) according to the steps provided in the link which did not fix the problem.

I have the same problem on Linux, installed via apt. Workaround was to add the song/album/playlist/artist/whatever to my Library when opened in Firefox. Click the newly added item in the client and remove it again. This way the link is now open in the client instead of the browser. This should works on any OS.

If you're unable to implement an "open in spotify" feature, please at least provide us with a button to go to the album (or whatever you've currently open in the browser) in the client (when already opened).

Re: spotify links open in browser instead of desktop app

Cuilpantiel — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:32:31 GMT

I have the exact same problem, and the steps in the guide did nothing.

Re: spotify links open in browser instead of desktop app

Maria — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:43:08 GMT

Hey there,

Thanks for posting in this thread! And kudos for giving the steps a try @Cuilpantiel.

Just to check, do you see a pop-up in the browser where you're asked if you want to open the track in the app?

Another option is to copy the link and paste it directly in the desktop app, which will open it within the app right away. You can also open it in the app using the Web Player from the content's 3 dot menu.

Hope this helps!

Re: spotify links open in browser instead of desktop app

_mrfrz_ — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 07:46:09 GMT

If you are having trouble with open.spotify.com links opening and playing in the desktop app, when the link is clicked, it may be your browser adblock extension. I was struggling with this, and had one installed. As soon as I disabled it for the Spotify website, the open.spotify links work exactly as they should. Took me forever to find this solution, hopefully this helps someone else!