Spotify doesn't play music

[paj0nczek]

Hello.
For some time I have been having problems playing music in a desktop application. The problem was that the different songs did not play when they should. I have relogin again but this did not solve the problem. I've reinstalled the app, but it has further ruined the issue. Now the music is not played at all. Whatever I play, it does not work. The problem occurs in an application downloaded from the official Spotify website. I use Windows 10 and the premium version. There is no such problem on my iPhone. The attached screenshot shows what is happening.

[Mantisentil · Accepted solution]

Hello there @paj0nczek !

This a known bug with the desktop app and Spotify is investigating the issue. There is a workaround which seems to be working for some users. Can you try the following steps:

1. Open Notepad as an administrator (right-click - Open as Administrator)
2. go to File - Open and navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
3. Choose "All Files" instead of "Text Documents" next to the File Name box. You'll see a handful of files. Pick hosts and click on Open
4. When the file is open, you will see a block of text with # in front of each line and might see entries like 0.0.0.0 website.com127.0.0.1 website2.com
5. Check for any entries with Spotify in the address. Examples may look like: 0.0.0.0 weblb-wg.gslb.spotify.com0.0.0.0
6. If you do find any lines with Spotify, please remove them.
7. Save your changes and restart Spotify.

Hope that solves the issue! Let me know if you have further questions. There is also an open issue about this here where you can track it and vote for it so it catches more attention. I hope this will get fixed on Spotify's end soon.

Have a nice day 🙂