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Hi, I'm getting really frustrated here.
For over a week now some songs won't start playing when I click them or when it gets to their turn to be played.
Examples:
Heinrich Dressel - The black radiant sky
Lost years - Breeze
Everything's looks as it should, besides that the marker that moves along as the song plays, the minute counter and the track length doesn't appear. And of course there's no sound!
They're not local files - just playlists I've built here on my Spotify unlimited account.
And it's not always the same songs that have this problem. Some has started working again, while new songs gets the problem instead!
Tried reinstalling Spotify, setting back my computer, checking for viruses - nothing works and it's driving me crazy!
Really appreciate if someone could help me out!
Solved! Go to Solution.
Ok ! This Might Work !!
This is only for the Program Version !
Go to EDIT>PREFRENCES>
Scroll Down to LOCAL FILES And UN-check All the Boxes !
Don't Allow a link between your iTunes or whatever OTHER SOURCE of music you use to your Spotify !
I've Downloaded some albums and threw them on my iTunes. And Spotify would add them to it's LOCAL FILES Area.
Hope This Helps !!
It did for me !
For me, the songs that wouldn't play were the ones I've bought on itunes so I went into EDIT>PREFERENCES, THEN SCROLLED DOWN TO LOCAL FILES and turned off (slide to the left) the tab next to ITUNES, WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER, & MY MUSIC. (or whatever source you may or may not have).
that helped me, ...hope it helps you 🙂
I have the same problem.
It's not fair...
Spotify, do somthing with it, we pay you for streaming music!
For example, three pieces in a row don't play some minutes ago:
OS X 10.8.5
Spotify Premium v. 0.9.4.185.g7545a404
Same problem. :o( I'm paying a tenner a month for this? Here's one that won't play for me. I've done the recommended erasing and reinstalling. No luck.
I have the same problem.
Same problem, and it seems to work for some people when you switch high quality streaming off in the edit - preferences section. But that is not a solution. Only a bad workaround. I 'm paying 10 euro/month just to have high quality. So is there somebody with better solutions/workarouds?
windows 7
ver: 0.9.4.185
I have similar problems as you do with four of the nine songs on album Pallas - The Cross & The Crucible. The songs don't start to play at all. I tried some of the mentioned songs here and they at least started to play with my computer. I have Spotify Unlimited and HQ is thereby disabled.
I have the same problem, certain songs just won't play. I have to forward to the next track to resume playing. It's been like this for a week or so.
Vers 0.9.4.185
OS X, 10.9 Mavericks
Hello!
I am having the same problem!
I'm paying for unlimited!
But I discovered the webplayer https://play.spotify.com/user
and it saved my day! There the track worked
I can't live without music!
I tried reinstalling it didn't work
I hope it will be solved soon!!!!!
Following issues with streamed music over the weekend, deleting your spotify cache and restarting spotify should get things back to normal.
Unfortunately it doesn't work.
Just adjusting the streaming quality in Edit > Preferences > Playback and then restarting the client make a difference?
Would it be possible to catch the console output for Spotify and see if any error messages are being logged in the background?
Peter
Peter
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Same problem here. On three different Macs. Getting very annoying
Thanks for the logs @langhorn 🙂
Peter
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Sorry Peter. I´m getting these errors
12:36:08.039 I [AppManager.cpp:297 ] Keeping application artist alive because it is "playing".
12:36:16.592 I [audio_streamer.cpp:538 ] 64k-Latency: 8557 ms. Play latency: 8503 ms (ap)
12:36:27.012 I [AppManager.cpp:297 ] Keeping application artist alive because it is "playing".
12:36:31.855 I [AppManager.cpp:297 ] Keeping application artist alive because it is "playing".
12:36:32.314 I [audio_streamer.cpp:538 ] 64k-Latency: 464 ms. Play latency: 436 ms (ap)
12:36:34.093 I [AppManager.cpp:297 ] Keeping application artist alive because it is "playing".
12:36:39.337 I [AppManager.cpp:297 ] Keeping application artist alive because it is "playing".
is that enough or do you need the whole log?
@langhorn wrote:
Sorry Peter. I´m getting these errors
12:36:08.039 I [AppManager.cpp:297 ] Keeping application artist alive because it is "playing".
12:36:16.592 I [audio_streamer.cpp:538 ] 64k-Latency: 8557 ms. Play latency: 8503 ms (ap)
12:36:27.012 I [AppManager.cpp:297 ] Keeping application artist alive because it is "playing".
12:36:31.855 I [AppManager.cpp:297 ] Keeping application artist alive because it is "playing".
12:36:32.314 I [audio_streamer.cpp:538 ] 64k-Latency: 464 ms. Play latency: 436 ms (ap)
12:36:34.093 I [AppManager.cpp:297 ] Keeping application artist alive because it is "playing".
12:36:39.337 I [AppManager.cpp:297 ] Keeping application artist alive because it is "playing".
is that enough or do you need the whole log?
Would be handy if we could get the whole log - there are no error messages there 😉
Any error message will have:
12:36:39.337 E
For example.
Peter
Peter
Spotify Community Mentor and Troubleshooter
Spotify Last.FM Twitter LinkedIn Meet Peter Rock Star Jam 2014
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Is there a way to view the logs on Windows?
Hi guys,
To help us troubleshoot this, it'd be super-helpful if the more technical amongst you could post some Console outputs:
Peter, I sent the log to you as a private mess, dunno why, just felt better
Thanks @langhorn 🙂
I'll add them to the bug report in the super user area 😉
If anyone else has logs, if you can either post them here or PM them to me either is good!
Thanks guys!
Peter
Peter
Spotify Community Mentor and Troubleshooter
Spotify Last.FM Twitter LinkedIn Meet Peter Rock Star Jam 2014
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