First 30 seconds of each track gets skipped when any list is played

[alexboisot]

Plan

Premium

Country

UK

Device & OS

Windows 10 PC

My Question or Issue

As stated in the title, as of this morning, any time I play music, Spotify automatically skips the first 30 seconds of the next track and appears to try and crossfade both tracks (despite the fact that crossfade is disabled in my settings).

This only happens in the desktop app; playing through a browser avoids this issue. I've tried rebooting the machine and doing a clean install of Spotify. Neither has fixed it. I would also like to add that searching for this issue reveals that it's been a known issue since at least 2018...

[Ivan]

Hey there @alexboisot, 

Thanks for searching for the answer you need here! 
 

If you've noticed the playback skips through each song on the desktop app and a clean reinstall didn't help it's possible that you're experiencing an issue that we're currently investigating. You can check out this Ongoing Issue and add your vote to it by clicking on the +VOTE button. Make sure you follow the steps provided under Status Update as well. 

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