topic Re: Support for High-DPI screens Windows in Desktop (Windows)

Support for High-DPI screens Windows

cartergk — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 07:45:14 GMT

This was posted two months ago by someone else, but I feel that it is too important to be ignored. I have a QHD resolution Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop, and I use Spotify almost constantly. However, I almost never use the desktop app; with DPI scaling, the scaling is fine, but the resolution is horrrible. With my display, I would hope for 1080p resolution (at least), but apparently it will never happen. My question is: is it possible for the Spotify developers to create a Windows program with high DPI support? Or maybe a Windows 8 app? Pretty please?

Re: Support for High-DPI screens Windows

Jordi — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:13:47 GMT

Hi there,

I guess you are talking about this idea, I do agree that this idea is very important.

As soon as an idea reaches 100 kudos it will reach the spotify team and they will change the status. To learn more about the processing of ideas read this post "How your feedback reaches Spotify"

If would suggest to add your kudos and support in that idea, and keep sharing it on sites like Facebook, Twitter...

Re: Support for High-DPI screens Windows

ShotSkydiver — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:45:02 GMT

Dissappointed this didn't get many kudos, I'd love to see this, spotify could look so beautiful on my high DPI screen!

Re: Support for High-DPI screens Windows

emilyrrobinson — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 03:24:53 GMT

Yeah seriously, mine looks the same. The way different programs look on my yoga 2 pro almost makes me wish I bought something with a lower DPI which is disappointing, I have the same issue with iTunes and Chrome at first. So annoying, and I love spotify too! Please fix this

Re: Support for High-DPI screens Windows

user-removed — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:25:23 GMT

The latest desktop beta has support for High DPI screens. How ever the beta is still missing several features. I would only install if you really need because it is a beta and may be buggy. Here's a link to the post for the beta https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/Welcome-to-the-Desktop-Beta/td-p/932803

Hope this helps.

Re: Support for High-DPI screens Windows

PhilipGyasi — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:52:13 GMT

How did you fix the issue with Chrome?

Re: Support for High-DPI screens Windows

agraham — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 06:10:18 GMT

I'm running the beta but in order to enable High-DPI support I had to turn on "Disable display scaling on high-DPI screens" in the compatibilty tab of the app shortcut's properties. Otherwise it looks just as scaled/blurry as the non-beta version.

Also, the Ctrl-plus shortcut key doesn't work, so I have to manually select "Zoom in" from the view menu ten times or everything is super tiny.

Re: Support for High-DPI screens Windows

user-removed — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 09:54:54 GMT

It's almost 2016 and still no high DPI support. Although it isn't surprising, iTunes still has no high DPI support. **bleep** windows and their users I guess, there is no money in updating their software for high DPI displays.

Re: Support for High-DPI screens Windows

loozerr — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:16:46 GMT

Indeed, it still looks rather terrible at 150% scaling.

Re: Support for High-DPI screens Windows

ogarza — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 23:22:20 GMT

One year later and Spotify is a blurry mess, so far it is the only app that looks like garbage on my secondary monitors, it only looks decent if you set the scaling to the same value on all monitors, which is useless.