Songs won't play in App until I change audio device

[alistair88]

Plan

Premium

Country

UK

Device

Windows 10 

Operating System

Windows 10 

My Question or Issue

When I try to play songs after startup spotify just flicks through the songs rapidly and says song can't be played. I have searched the forums and found a fix that works. I go to sound, change default output to my Oculus rift headphones, press play in spotify and while music is playing change the default back to my speakers and it works. However every restart I have to do the process again. 

It's worth noting no hardware changes, It's worked fine for about 3 years then all of a sudden this issue has occured.

Any help would be appreciated. 

[OneByBoo]

Hi there @alistair88,

thanks for reaching out !

Spotify's tech team is currently investigating a similar issue which was raised here.

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Hope this helps.

Let me know if you have any further questions 🙂

[alistair88]

Thank you I will keep an eye out! 

[lownslow]

Have you fixed this issue? I am having exactly the same problem?

[Novy]

Hey there @lownslow, 

Thanks for reaching out about this in the Community, and welcome 🙂

Would you mind letting us know if you've already tried any troubleshooting steps? This will help us give you better suggestions.

Also, could you send over your device's make, model and OS version? 

We'll be on the lookout.

[eliassturim]

also having this problem, any fixes

[Eni]

Hey there @eliassturim, 

Thanks for reaching out about this and welcome to the Community!

Could you let us know if this is only happening on your PC or with other devices as well?

On another note, would you mind giving us more info of the issue you're experiencing? 

We'll be on the lookout.