FLAC's Causing Spotify to Freeze and Crash

[JhinNJuic]

Plan

Premium

Country

United States

Device

PC

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

I just downloaded a bunch of FLACs and pointed spotify to their location on my HDD. Tracks all play, skip, etc. without an issue. However if I skip forward within the track everything freezes and spotify crashes.

I think this is because its on an hdd instead of an ssd/nvme. Its a minor issue because I don't really need to be screwing around within the track but its still annoying. Is this a known issue?

[Alex]

Hi there @JhinNJuic,

Thanks for reaching out about this in the Community.

Currently Spotify doesn't offer support for FLAC local files, so this is why you're experiencing the issue.

The file types that the Local Files feature is designed to work with are:

• .mp3
• .m4p (unless it contains video)
• .mp4 (if QuickTime is installed on your computer)
• .m4a (unless it’s an Apple lossless file; ALAC or ALE)

It shouldn't matter much if the files are located on an external hard drive. What you can do is change the file format if you want to play the via Spotify 🙂

Hope this info helps. 

Cheers.