Android phone app, How do I stop or close the player within the Spotify app?

[keepaustinugly]

Plan: Premium

Country: USA

Device: Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G

Operating System: Android v11, One UI v3.1

My Question or Issue

How do I close or stop playback completely in the Spotify app? Not just pause it. Pausing it leaves it as an active media event and auto playback is triggered whenever a Bluetooth event happens involving a BT audio device. I want to control whether I want that to happen and closing the player in the app or stopping(not pausing) playback is not obvious in the UI.

Top attachement is the Media list showing Spotify paused, I would like this to die.

Middle is the player showing at the bottom, how to stop/close the player?

Bottom is the details of the player, pause is very obvious, the down arrow at the top left of the view minimizes the player with no option to Stop/Dismiss/Close.

[keepaustinugly]

Hey folks,

Thank you for your messages.

To continue investigating this, may we ask you to turn Off a few different settings and report back if the situation improves?

First, we'd recommend trying switching off New Media Controls on Android that displays Spotify even when it's not running. Also, could you try switching off Android Auto Autoplay feature to see if it makes any difference?

After turning these off, If the App still auto starts when you don't expect it to, then please record the time/date that occurs and let us know what time zone you're in.

If you give us this info, can you also state you are happy for us to look up your username and check the logs against your account so we can better identify the cause.

We'll be on the lookout.

[Eric28650]

Delete the app. Simple and works like a charm every time. Re-install takes a minute. 

[Eric28650]

One thing that was really bad was it stays itself and plays racist music that's not on my playlist.  That's not me!! No one wants to hear it! 

[jjchico]

Obviously, Spotify does not consider this weird behavior a bug, but a feature that gets its costumers more exposed to Spotify services than the user really wants. Very sad.

[Piotr69]

This is so annoying and Spotify has not solved it for years that I have just switched to YouTube premium.