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.