topic Re: Can't play current track? in Desktop (Windows)

Can't play current track?

teknotel — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:11:08 GMT

Keep getting 'Can't play current track' message randomly when I am listening to music. Stops my playlists dead (as in does not skip to the next tune) and also someitmes tunes that dont work one minute work the next. Becoming very frustrating, don't understand why this is happening.

I am premium member.

Re: Can't play current track?

LAU — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:07:14 GMT

I'm having the same issue, on PC and Mac

Re: Can't play current track?

ankles — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:41:51 GMT

I'm also getting this issue 'Can't play current track' - I'm an Unlimited member. Is anyone able to help?

Re: Can't play current track?

aegisuk — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:01:28 GMT

I'm having the same problem. It's really starting to annoy me.

Quite often it'll say can't play the current track, then suddenly work after a few tries.

Re: Can't play current track?

deusdiva — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:40:46 GMT

Yep, me too, on 2 different laptops - keeps happening - any suggestions?

Re: Can't play current track?

teknotel — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:08:09 GMT

I think this a problem a lot of ppeople are having.....

https://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/spotify_cant_play_the_current_track_why

Do not understand why they do not answer the forum posts? People seem to be very unhappy and rightly oon, is very annoying when a tune you have listened to a hundred times just won't play randomly and then works the next minute.

Please answer the question Spotify, I am paying £9.99 a month so only fair the service works as advertised.

Re: Can't play current track?

tomllm — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:51:00 GMT

I'm having this problem too, amongst others. I don't know what the devs have done to the programming, but suddenly Spotify is hugely unreliable, and the customer service is abysmal.

If these issues aren't sorted this month I'm switching to Deezer.

Re: Can't play current track?

David — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:54:05 GMT

This may be related somewhat some some connection issues we had recently. Should be fine now, however. Are you still encountering this message at all?

Re: Can't play current track?

andrewyork — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:20:04 GMT

I'm no longer getting the 'Can't play current track' message but its still not playing tracks, then suddenly it is again. I've noticed that if I select a track it won't play then any other track it will also not work. Then if I play a song from my local computer in the 'Local files' collcetion (which works) then go back to the song that wouldn't play it works fine. I am having to do this at least every 30mins 😞 I'm a premium member.

Re: Can't play current track?

dblue — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:42:54 GMT

I'm also been having this problem and I'm still encountering this every day.

Anyone else still seeing this?

I'm currently using the mac client.

Re: Can't play current track?

bonage — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:09:54 GMT

I am haveing the same problem. I am a premium user. Help?

think the severs are overloaded, to many free users.

Re: Can't play current track?

emmalennart — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:05:12 GMT

I have this problem too. Some tracks does not start at all, and some is beeing paused och then I get the message "can't play the current track". Annoying!

Re: Can't play current track?

Demongp — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 05:31:35 GMT

I am also getting this. Very frustrating - happened on Mr Brightside and Somebody Told me by The Killers.

What te hell? Is this what I pay for?

Re: Can't play current track?

neshcire — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:36:47 GMT

Same here. Aprox. every third song stops few seconds after it has begun. When I restart the song it works until next time. I am worried that there is no official statement from Spotify about this.

Re: Can't play current track?

CuriouslyHigh — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:00:07 GMT

This has been happening since I started using this program. It plays fifteen seconds of a song, and then says it can't play the current track, but if I start the track again, it'll play just fine. It's really tough to get through a playlist, or when I'm trying to get in the groove while working with the music on.

Re: Can't play current track?

David — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:24:01 GMT

This error certainly is a little odd. Try popping into the Preferences menu and turning off "Enable Hardware Acceleration" under the Playback tab.

Re: Can't play current track?

CuriouslyHigh — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:05:07 GMT

That seems to have worked for me! Thanks!

Re: Can't play current track?

neshcire — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:37:05 GMT

Spotify updated today. Right now it works. Tried to turn of hardware accelleration, and turned it back on on, doesn't make a difference. I have will have it in mind. Thanks. 🙂

Re: Can't play current track?

RunrigTim — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:30:08 GMT

Doesn't wotk here.

Re: Can't play current track?

Aquilinus — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:41:11 GMT

I'm having the same issue with "Dance Yourself to Death" (Alice Cooper, Flush the Fashion album). This problem is only occurring with this track, and it started this morning around 0900CDT. I tried deselecting "Enable hardware acceleration" but that didn't work. I also just updated my Spotify software last week.

This is really quite frustrating.

~Aq.