Spotify application is not responding

[Madbadash]

I was listening to the Spotify app when I wanted to play a song from a custom Spotify playlist. after clicking play on the playlist it froze my app completely. I closed it to try and remedy this issue. When i attempt to reopen the app it just gives me the error alert that "The Spotify application is not responding". I can still listen via web player but it is missing the lyrics option and just isn't as convenient to use

[jojoil80]

Try to remove spotify of the boot apps.
Task manager / Boot Apps / Spotify / Disable

[joseph1111]

Currently battling this same issue as well. I am on Windows 11 on the windows store vers of spotify. My spotify just goes to a black screen now and before it was constantly being unresponsive and freezing whenever I played a song. I have done clean installs of both microsoft store and online downloads, cleared cache, modified my "hosts" file, disabled and re-nabled hardware acceleration, but not a single thing has worked.

[bjk1991]

In the end, it did resolve itself, not sure how or why. I uninstalled and re-installed it, the issue persisted, then one day started working again - so odd! glitch somewhere. 

[rpsc]

You need to clear the cache from the windows itself. So go to the file location of Spotify folder. You can mostly find this here 
C:\Users\XYZ\AppData\Local
Delete entire Spotify folder from this location, it might hang your desktop, fingers crossed it should not. And after you are able to end process from task manager and deleting cache from this place, reinstall the Spotify. Should work.