Mac - Spotify prevents the display from going sleep

[zhanggoo]

After the recent upgrade to MacOSX - my monitors stop going into the sleep.   At first, I thought it was OS update.

I changed 'Energy Saver' setting to default and reboot and it continued to prevent.   Then I investigate futher - using "pmset -g" 

 displaysleep         10 (display sleep prevented by Spotify)

I did not even start any application.  I noticed that spotify was started minimized (which I did not ask to do) but previously spotify did not prevent display from sleeping. 

Then I noticed that Spotify opens to "Browse" - which has fancy banner about Coldplay.   If I switch to the regular playlist without any heavy graphic, it won't prevent to go sleep. 

Seriously - Spotify should not prevent display from going sleep.   I understand prevent idle while music is playing but display.  Especially, it is already minimized and no music is playing.

Please fix.

[chrstphrtsng]

Having the exact same problem. Closed Spotify and display sleep works fine. This is ridiculous.

[DJRoland]

I have this problem still in 2024! 😐

[DJRoland]

Ok if your mac user is admin you can use this command: "pmset sleepnow"!

This will sleep although spotify is open. Even works if playing music currently.