topic Re: Spotify will stop playing a playlist after it gets to the end of a 10+ minute long song in Desktop (Windows)

Spotify will stop playing a playlist after it gets to the end of a 10+ minute long song

rossisdead — Tue, 29 May 2018 18:54:44 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

I've noticed this over the past month or so. If I'm listening to a playlist with a song that is 10+ minutes long, when the end of the song is reached Spotify will not continue playing. It doesn't appear paused(the pause button is still visible rather than the play button), but it does not move on to the next track. It does *not* happen if I start the ten minute track myself and then let it play through. It only seems to happen if I've already played a few songs beforehand.

This happens reliable with Jon Hopkins "Singularity" album. The track "Everything Connected" will play to the end and then stop. Also my Discover Weekly this week has the same problem.

And no, clearing my Spotify cache, restarting Spotify, or restarting my computer solves this problem.

Re: Spotify will stop playing a playlist after it gets to the end of a 10+ minute long song

rbryangreen — Wed, 30 May 2018 15:04:36 GMT

Same issue here. Very annoying.

Re: Spotify will stop playing a playlist after it gets to the end of a 10+ minute long song

rossisdead — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:43:33 GMT

This is still a problem two months later. It does not appear to matter what track plays, the problem will always appear when the song is longer than ten minutes.

Re: Spotify will stop playing a playlist after it gets to the end of a 10+ minute long song

pearljamalta-mt — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 15:08:30 GMT

Same here, I happen to mostly listen to progressive rock / metal tracks which all happen to get quite lenghty. This is becoming an annoyance as I have to frequently go and manually play the next song. I have noticed this around two to three months ago but still nothing has been done to fix the issue.

Would very like to see more comments about this.

Re: Spotify will stop playing a playlist after it gets to the end of a 10+ minute long song

Sebasty — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:22:33 GMT

Hey!

That's an interesting issue!

Have you tried disabling hardware acceleration? It's under Menu dots - View. It will also restart the client.

There was another user who had the same issue. They managed to solve it by not starting Spotify as an administrator anymore, so I'd suggest trying to run Spotify not as an admin. Compatibility Mode might help too.

Let me know how it goes 🙂

Re: Spotify will stop playing a playlist after it gets to the end of a 10 minute long song

pearljamalta-mt — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:35:06 GMT

This issue does not occur when playing Spotify on my laptop only. It is the
same on my smartphone and tablet. I use a MacBook Air and an iPhone. Also I
am uncertain as to how I can possibly run the programme not as
administrator on mac os

Regards,
Keith.

Re: Spotify will stop playing a playlist after it gets to the end of a 10 minute long song

Sebasty — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 14:10:59 GMT

@pearljamalta-mt

As I understand, the OS of the computer you have this issue on is a Mac, and the issue is present on your mobile as well?

Macs don't really run any (graphic) apps as admin / root by default and I'd hesitate running Spotify with root privileges.

I suggest removing all offline devices from your account.

You'll have to re-download your playlists on the devices, if you had them.
Also, try removing access for all apps connected to your account and hitting the 'Sign Out Everywhere' under Overview.

Spotify's own apps should return on their own, Community login apps return too. Last.fm and other external apps need to be reconnected manually.

Let me know how it goes 🙂

Re: Spotify will stop playing a playlist after it gets to the end of a 10 minute long song

pearljamalta-mt — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:36:06 GMT

Will definitely give this a try a let you know how it turns out.

Thanks,
Keith.

Re: Spotify will stop playing a playlist after it gets to the end of a 10+ minute long song

rossisdead — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:29:05 GMT

Disabling hardware acceleration didn't help. I also don't run Spotify as admin.

Re: Spotify will stop playing a playlist after it gets to the end of a 10+ minute long song

ondrowan — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 11:40:22 GMT

The same thing happens to me on both Windows 10 and MacOS. It's been happening for a while and it's especially annoying when playing playlists on shuffle. Clicking next always ends the playlist and I have to shuffle play again.