topic Desktop app stops responding in Desktop (Windows) https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Desktop-app-stops-responding/m-p/4993467#M88388 <P><STRONG>Plan</STRONG></P><P>Premium</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>Operating System</STRONG></P><P>Windows 10 PC</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>My Question or Issue</STRONG></P><P>Downloaded the desktop app yesterday. Every time I open it I'm able to browse&nbsp; and listen to music for about 2 minutes, after which the app stops responding: I can't pause or play any song, when I search for songs the last search result appears (and not the one I typed in), and when I right-click on songs that appear on the frozen screen they are marked but I can't select "add to queue" or "go to artist".</P><P>If I close the window at this point, music will still keep on playing on my computer until I kill the process in the Task Manager.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Tried:</P><UL><LI>Reinstalling the app from the website and from Microsoft Store.</LI><LI>Restart the computer.</LI><LI>Remove Spotify-related domain in the host file -&gt; there was nothing there.</LI><LI>Change the name of the host file.</LI></UL> Thu, 09 Jul 2020 20:55:03 GMT noambd 2020-07-09T20:55:03Z Desktop app stops responding https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Desktop-app-stops-responding/m-p/4993467#M88388 <P><STRONG>Plan</STRONG></P><P>Premium</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>Operating System</STRONG></P><P>Windows 10 PC</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>My Question or Issue</STRONG></P><P>Downloaded the desktop app yesterday. Every time I open it I'm able to browse&nbsp; and listen to music for about 2 minutes, after which the app stops responding: I can't pause or play any song, when I search for songs the last search result appears (and not the one I typed in), and when I right-click on songs that appear on the frozen screen they are marked but I can't select "add to queue" or "go to artist".</P><P>If I close the window at this point, music will still keep on playing on my computer until I kill the process in the Task Manager.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Tried:</P><UL><LI>Reinstalling the app from the website and from Microsoft Store.</LI><LI>Restart the computer.</LI><LI>Remove Spotify-related domain in the host file -&gt; there was nothing there.</LI><LI>Change the name of the host file.</LI></UL> Thu, 09 Jul 2020 20:55:03 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Desktop-app-stops-responding/m-p/4993467#M88388 noambd 2020-07-09T20:55:03Z