topic Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading in Desktop (Windows)

Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

OisinMoran — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 20:25:14 GMT

Hi there,

The Spotify toolbar icon in Windows 7 seems to be stuck loading (little green bar on the left). It remains like this even after restarting my computer. It does not seem to affect performance in other ways but may be indicative of a bug and is annoying so I thought it was worth mentioning.

See attached.

All the best,

Oisin

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

TygersTail — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 20:46:07 GMT

My friend and I have the same green bar on the left. I don't know that it's indicative of something stuck in loading, but I agree it's annoying whether a bug or design choice.

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

wheeloch — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 22:52:34 GMT

The same thing has been happening to me since updating this afternoon.

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

OisinMoran — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 23:05:44 GMT

Yeah the reason I think it's a loading bar is that other icons do the same thing for loading (green progress bar moving across icon) but interesting idea that it could be a design choice. I hope it's not.

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

ragemuffin — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 08:35:17 GMT

I have the same problem and it's been bugging me lately. I hope it gets fixed soon.

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

bilson220 — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 19:39:12 GMT

Also experiencing this after the latest update (Windows 7 Professional using Spotify version 1.0.75.483.g7ff4a0dc)

bug on taskbar for win7

lukaszcichocki — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 07:47:56 GMT

a progress bar appears, but Spotify (1.0.75.483.g7ff4a0dc) doesn't download anything

problem is after autoupdate

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

knockergrowl — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 09:22:30 GMT

Mine is also stuck with the green bar on the left of the icon. IIRC, with the same update I also got some semi-transparent bar on top of the window when it is maximized. It seems to me that they reworked a little on the GUI targeting Windows 10, and it affected Win 7 integration.

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

Sebasty — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:46:28 GMT

Hey @knockergrowl

I have that green bit as well since the latest update, but this transparent top bar is odd and I don't seem to get it.

I guess by reinstalling the app it might go away.

If you want to try clean reinstall - this is how it's done:

1. Close Spotify and uninstall it.

2. Go to %AppData% in Windows Explorer, and delete any Spotify folders you find in Local and Roaming folders.

3. Restart your computer.

4. Now reinstall Spotify.

Let me know what happens!

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

Looukas — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:00:21 GMT

I have the same problem. Actually reinstalled the app recently due to a whole different issue, but the taskbar progress problem persists.

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

crimd — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:59:42 GMT

My Spotify updated today and I have the same problem. Version 1.0.75.483.g7ff4a0dc Win7 x64, ThinkPad W530

Also odd note, once this updated, my volume controls on my keyboard no longer work when the Spotify window is selected or in focus. I have tried a lot of fixes for this mentioned elsewhere (disable Windows Media Network thing in services, Uninstall/Reinstall Spotify, Refreshed my keyboard driver, I don't have Google Play extension, etc).

Thanks!

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

Tobev — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:05:14 GMT

I've got the same issue on Windows 7 since the recent GUI update.

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

PatrickCox — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:35:15 GMT

I have the same issue.

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

Schadling — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:46:26 GMT

+1 have some issue (w7x64sp1)
i've get back to old desktop version (1.0.73.345) and disable auto-update (readonly clear txt file update.json > \AppData\Local\Spotify\Update\update.json)

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

mortisanti — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:17:19 GMT

Windows 7 64-bit, same issue after updating to 1.0.75.483.g7ff4a0dc.
Running Spotify as admin results in showing a normal icon in the taskbar. Closing and running Spotify without admin brings back the loading bar.

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

Erebusgr — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:05:34 GMT

Even on 1.0.77.338 version, the bug persists ffs.

Is there any other way to submit feedback to Spotify? This needs to get fixed.

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

lukaszcichocki — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 21:52:49 GMT

bug still exists in version 1.0.77.338.g758ebd78 😐

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

clang44 — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:59:56 GMT

Same issue, Windows 7. Also have the little green loading bar on the icon. It is fairly annoying.

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

derren99 — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:36:27 GMT

I thought maybe they were implementing this idea that had been posted in September 2017. They're most of the way there :). https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Desktop-Show-progress-of-song-in-Task-Bar/idi-p/2010488

Re: Toolbar Icon Stuck Loading

knockergrowl — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:46:54 GMT

Hi @Sebasty,

I followed your steps to reinstall Spotify (version 1.0.77.338.g758ebd78 is the latest I tried), but it didn't work. The window still shows this glass bar (Windows Aero) on top when it's maximized as well as the green line in the task bar icon.

Thanks, anyway.