Desktop spotify is not working on my PC

[GameLover]

Plan

Free

Country

Unites States of America

Device

Desktop

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

When I reinstalled Spotify to fix a previous issue Spotify just would not work. I can't play any songs and all of my favorites and albums have disappeared. On the other hand, Spotify for my phone has been working fine and has had no issues. I am wondering if there is anything I can do outside of reinstalling to fix this problem.

[Mantisentil · Accepted solution]

Hello there @GameLover !

This a known bug with the desktop app and Spotify is investigating the issue. There is a workaround which seems to be working for some users. Can you try the following steps:

1. Open Notepad as an administrator (right-click - Open as Administrator)
2. go to File - Open and navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
3. Choose "All Files" instead of "Text Documents" next to the File Name box. You'll see a handful of files. Pick hosts and click on Open
4. When the file is open, you will see a block of text with # in front of each line and might see entries like 0.0.0.0 website.com127.0.0.1 website2.com
5. Check for any entries with Spotify in the address. Examples may look like: 0.0.0.0 weblb-wg.gslb.spotify.com0.0.0.0
6. If you do find any lines with Spotify, please remove them.
7. Save your changes and restart Spotify.

Hope that solves the issue! Let me know if you have further questions. There is also an open issue about this here where you can track it and vote for it so it catches more attention. I hope this will get fixed on Spotify's end soon.

Have a nice day 🙂