Spotify skips every song

[aisteh]

Plan

Premium

Country

Germany

Device

Desktop

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

Since yesterday the windows client skips every single song, making it unusable. This does not occur when using either the web player or another device. Already tried a thorough clean install to no avail. Any ideas?

[davidr33584]

I am having the same issue. I have found it will only play songs when run as administrator.

[WifiAdapter]

Just tested it, also only works for me if I run it as admin. I am using the win store app and Windows 10 1903

[aisteh]

I can third this. Running as admin solves the issue.

[lucasgoulart]

how can i run as administrator? I´m having the same issue too

[PATRICELAPOINTE]

Same thing for me. Once started "as Adminitrator" it works as expected.

[Spilly]

Right click on the spotify icon, choose execute as administrator...

[Oberörd]

Same here. Reinstalled a couple of times and clearing every single file related to Spotify didn't help. Haven't made any changes to my PC/settings recently.

Running as administrator works.

[onestopsystems]

Runninng as Admin works but this needs fixing. Has anyone logged a support call?

[4Warned]

Also having this issue.  Uninstalling from "Apps" in Settings and re-install from Windows Store not resolving.

Recently updated to Windows 10 Build 2004.

Running application as administrator is resolving the issue for me

[Pand0r]

Worked for me... spotify wasnt working anymore

Thankyou !

[aisteh]

I have not. How do I open an official ticket?

[Zerestega]

Having the same issue. It's a years old issue if you look around yourself, they've had this problem since 2014. The problem is two-fold:

1. Spotify does not give the user a way to manually select their playback device, so if something changes regarding device settings the app can freak out and not find the playback device it's supposed to use. This can happen due to driver update (manually or via Windows Update) or even a minor system setting change. This is why you see scores of people rushing in here after Windows pushes an update because it breaks functionality for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people at the same time.

2. If the playback device sample rate is set too high Spotify also cannot see the playback device, it simply won't show up for the app and it behaves in the same way as above, skipping all songs endlessly whilst giving you a "This cannot be played right now" generic, useless error.

Running the app as administrator allows it to do some additional thing, and that is set the playback device's sample rate to a supported sample rate (currently 32bit, 192kHz is the highest supported even though 32bit, 384kHz is the industry standard). This is why running as admin works, as it allows Spotify to take exclusive control of the playback device and match its settings accordingly.

The only way to fix this is to have Spotify devs get off their behinds and actually allow us to manually select our playback device in the settings (it's really totally nuts that they don't allow this as many of us have multiple playback devices installed in our machines). It's either that or they add support for 32bit, 384kHz sample rate which will probably never happen.

Either way, the app behaves like garbage because it's made in Electron and isn't a native Windows application. It's about as corner-cut as you can get and scaling it to something worthy of acclaim would be impossible without rewriting the entire application in something like C++ or Rust.

[krazeike]

Same issue here and running as admin works for me too. Just wanted to add that I believe this started happening when the app was automatically updated to version 1.135.458.0 a few days ago.