Bingo bango bongo.
Add to that settings are taking forever or not loading; app is crashing; minutes to load images for playlists etc. App hangs and entire phone freezes until Spotify reports a crash. Google Play reviews same thing - yet not seeing more complain here.
Took a while but was able to turn on "offline" but that didn't solve all the issues. I then decided to (gulp - since I have to waste time/bandwidth downloading many GBs) uninstall and reinstall - to no avail. I uninstalled Thursday evening - and reinstalled this evening - same performance issues.
If I were to guess - they migrated an untested version to production and rolled it out and now we suffer. That is one giant PITA with Google Play. First, you either turn off auto-update and manually deal with hundreds of apps - or you let it auto-update and this happens. I prefer they allow us to disable auto-updates for specific apps PLUS give us the ability to go back to a previous version (back to 1-3 older versions where practical).
My issue with it being slow and crashing was so bad, that my regular music player (Neutron) was constantly pausing/playing the music - where Spotify was hogging all resources. I uninstalled eventually (after force stopping many times) and it even took out all bluetooth connects (the system was negatively impacted that much). I reinstalled tonight to post a message on play - but if it is killing the unit otherwise, I will again uninstall and wait.
One wonders (I do) - what about all the employees of Spotify - don't they not immediately see this issue and do something about it? To me Spotify should roll out a previous version and fix the problem.
