Spotify stops after each local song

[BasB]

Hello,

I've got a problem with playing local files in spotify. After each song it stops playing. This weirdly enough is only the case for local songs and not for steamed songs.
I think it might have something to do with a windows update. When I found out, two days ago, I recovered my system to the state before the windows update, and then it worked again. Last night it automatically updated windows and same problem of not continuous playing occured again.

Someone with a solution? It is really annoying! 

Cheers!

[David]

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@PIkkenix wrote:

If you took this issue serious you would at least try the above suggestions. (To clarify: If you install Ace mega codec pack this problem do appear. After an uninstall of the codec pack Spotify manage to play local files without interuption again. So this is a codec-problem (I don't know wich codec though, but some codec that's bundled in the Ace mega codec pack) in Spotify (other MP3-players can play my local files continuesly without any problem with Ace mega codec pack installed)

This time I expect you to try it out.... (as I also expected the first time).

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Do you actually need this pack to run anything else on your computer? If so, could you tell me exactly what? I'm curious why you'd need this specific codec pack - would anything else suffice? 

I haven't heard back on this yet, but I also haven't really been in the office for a week. I am chasing it up. 

[mtrs]

strangle - I'm 100% sure that I posted a message here last week that isn't there anymore.

did I forgot to clic 'post' ? did I say something unappropriate and was deleted  (without notice !) ? mystery.

anyway I was proposing a temporary solution until spotify solves the problem : get back to a previous version !

I have now been using the 0.5.3 for a few days and it plays all songs without stopping, streamed and/or local... just ignore the 'restart' option at the top of the window (and if you have to restart your computer, well, just get back in time again).

this also solved my other problem (some of the music folders were not displayed, cf. post 157).

does not make me happier, but at least I can listen to my files.

[Peter__]

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@mtrs wrote:

strangle - I'm 100% sure that I posted a message here last week that isn't there anymore.

did I forgot to clic 'post' ? did I say something unappropriate and was deleted  (without notice !) ? mystery.

anyway I was proposing a temporary solution until spotify solves the problem : get back to a previous version !

I have now been using the 0.5.3 for a few days and it plays all songs without stopping, streamed and/or local... just ignore the 'restart' option at the top of the window (and if you have to restart your computer, well, just get back in time again).

this also solved my other problem (some of the music folders were not displayed, cf. post 157).

does not make me happier, but at least I can listen to my files.

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Your posts have not been removed, they are still here and here 😉 

Peter

[mtrs]

well I don't feel that distract, and as you can see I even refer in my last post to one of the two that you mentionned (157)...

no it was a third one, explaining (with more details*) what I just wrote, the idea of using an older version.

but thanks for your help.

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*for those who would like to try : you can close spotify, then launch ccleaner software (for example) and if you find - like on my computer - two versions of spotify (the first install, in my case 0.5) and a more recent (like 0.8), just uninstall the last patch, not the first install, then restart spotify.

you will not loose your playlists (well I didn't), but spotify will recheck all your personnal songs, which may take a few minutes.

[Peter__]

I don't see that other post, so I'm guessing it was never posted correctly but that you for sharing your solution again 🙂 

Peter

[xrayman2k4]

Unfortunately, installing 0.5 on my system, the app updates itself as soon as I log in, before I get a chance to run the software. Blocking it with my firewall/turning off my internet is no help - it just refuses to run. I already had a fresh install on a newly bought PC, though my codec pack of choice is by Shark007 - has been for many years, and since Spotify used to work, then stopped. My guess is YOU changed something - not me, and no ammount of messing about with codecs is gonna change that fact. You've created a great looking piece of software, but just like with the Android version, you overlooked one (probably) smally feature or setting or line of code - but that's what needs examining. Now my Android Spotify can't save to my choice of SD card, and my Windows Spotify can't play a mixture of local and remote content. But it looks great, yay!

[mtrs]

sorry that it doesn't work for you xrayman2k4 - have you tried another older version ? (like one of these : http://www.filehorse.com/download-spotify/old-versions/)

and I agree with the 'update design'  question : the 0.5 looks older (well it looks like one year old, will I survive to that ?) (yes I will) but it works.

how come spotify forces the upgrades ? if a version works fine on a specific computer/environnement, we should be adults enough to decide if we upgrade or not - I mean, if we are considered adults engouh to pay for a service, we should as well decide by ourselves what we do with it.

and not forced to upgrade.

another example : with the 0.8, when I want to search for a band or song, it takes seconds for the software to try to be smarter than me, erase my typing and  after I retype... suggest dummy unwanted answers !

and I do not know where to turn that off - with the 0.5, I type my search, press enter, and it goes faster for me to choose within the results...

my point is : spotify, please stop thinking that your marketing feelings/thoughts will fit everyone - propose us improvement, but let us decide if we want/need new version every two weeks.

[xrayman2k4]

After much rebooting and testing, I finally found a version that doesn't immediately update itself - Spotify 0.6.2.240. Might not be as pretty, but so far so good - but I'll reserve further comment until I've done a more vigorous test.  Now I just have to cross my fingers/hold thumbs that Windows doesn't do a reboot demanding update anytime soon 😕

[xrayman2k4]

It works like it used to - funny that, innit? I do miss the Last.FM App - and a few of the other apps, but I can live without them if it means my music is uninyerrupted - now I can put Warcraft back to Full Screen and stop tabbing into Spotify to skip songs, since Spotify has never liked my keyboard's media keys 😞

[yandle]

Is there a way I can get this version? Can you put it on a download site or something? ...Is that appropriate to ask? haha

[mtrs]

@ yandle - as I mentionned in my previous post, you can get older versions here : http://www.filehorse.com/download-spotify/old-versions/

[Dawntje]

xrayman2k4

Thanks for this temporary solution. I'd discovered the same thing with version 0.6.1. last year, but sadly that one would auto-update as well. Giving yours a try and so far it's played 2 continuous songs (which is better than the up-to-date version of Spotify can manage). 🙂

See my previous post from October last year:

Re: Spotify stops after each local song

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‎03-10-2012 08:05 PM - edited ‎03-10-2012 08:07 PM

I already posted this elsewhere, but no reply...

I have the exact same problem. Spotify used to work fine, but about a week ago it suddenly seemed to have "lost" a lot of my local songs and since then it won't automatically play my local playlists. All of my local songs were suddenly grey and it had to add them one by one again, even though I hadn't moved them or changed them in any way.

As for the playlist problem, it plays one song, then highlights the next one and does nothing. I have to skip one song forward or backward in order for it to start playing again. After finishing the next song, it just stops again.

This is highly annoying!

I'm using Spotify 0.8.4 on a Windows 7 computer.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both Spotify and Quicktime. I have cleaned the cache and have unchecked the hardware acceleration option as well as streaming in high quality. I have downloaded the codec that is recommended elsewhere on the forum.

My local files are on my hard drive, not an external one.

When streaming songs, it plays continously. It's only with local files that it refuses to keep playing.

I reverted back to version 0.6.1. and it plays local files continuously in that version. Of course as soon as I shut that version down, Spotify installed the latest version and it's back to not working! This needs to be fixed.

[Dawntje]

I already posted this elsewhere, but no reply...

I have the exact same problem. Spotify used to work fine, but about a week ago it suddenly seemed to have "lost" a lot of my local songs and since then it won't automatically play my local playlists. All of my local songs were suddenly grey and it had to add them one by one again, even though I hadn't moved them or changed them in any way.

As for the playlist problem, it plays one song, then highlights the next one and does nothing. I have to skip one song forward or backward in order for it to start playing again. After finishing the next song, it just stops again.

This is highly annoying!

I'm using Spotify 0.8.4 on a Windows 7 computer.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both Spotify and Quicktime. I have cleaned the cache and have unchecked the hardware acceleration option as well as streaming in high quality. I have downloaded the codec that is recommended elsewhere on the forum.

My local files are on my hard drive, not an external one.

When streaming songs, it plays continously. It's only with local files that it refuses to keep playing.

I reverted back to version 0.6.1. and it plays local files continuously in that version. Of course as soon as I shut that version down, Spotify installed the latest version and it's back to not working! This needs to be fixed.

[Dawntje]

I have the exact same problem. Spotify used to work fine, but about a week ago it suddenly seemed to have "lost" a lot of my local songs and since then it won't automatically play my local playlists. All of my local songs were suddenly grey and it had to add them one by one again, even though I hadn't moved them or changed them in any way.

As for the playlist problem, it plays one song, then highlights the next one and does nothing. I have to skip one song forward or backward in order for it to start playing again. After finishing the next song, it just stops again.

This is highly annoying!

I'm using Spotify 0.8.4 on a Windows 7 computer.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both Spotify and Quicktime. I have cleaned the cache and have unchecked the hardware acceleration option as well as streaming in high quality. I have downloaded the codec that is recommended elsewhere on the forum.

My local files are on my hard drive, not an external one.

When streaming songs, it plays continously. It's only with local files that it refuses to keep playing.

I reverted back to version 0.6.1. and it plays local files continuously in that version. Of course as soon as I shut that version down, Spotify installed the latest version and it's back to not working! This needs to be fixed.

[xrayman2k4]

It's already on the internet 🙂

http://www.filehorse.com/download-spotify/8838/

[GaryCN]

Half of my local files are greyed out, I am wondering if the  Ace mega codec pack that is mentioned in quite a few previous posts is part of the VLC player installation? My local files is behaving very very oddly I'll get continous play with shuffle switched on but not with it switched off. Some albums have 1/2 the tracks greyed out. When shuffle is on play will stop when it comes to a track greyed out or partially greyed out. Highlighed track is not greyed out but will not play.

 

[xrayman2k4]

The beauty of VLC is that it doesn't install codecs - doesn't rely on externals. By doing this, it doesn't install any codecs on your system to mess with WiMP or anything that DOES rely on them.

I've never heard of this mega codec thing, but my guess it's something similar to the old codec packs popular on a file sharing platform begginning with K - one pack to play all formats old and new. Something of a sledgehammer to crack a nut IMO, I prefer Shark007's codecs for my A/V needs - I've never been faced with a missing codec since I started using them, and the appear to co-exist peacefully with Microsoft's own codecs - a feat other packs don't seem to manage.

Do the greyed out tracks play? It could be they are not being identified/matched with Spotify's records. Lots of mine are greyed out, but play just fine - they are either not listed by Spotify, or badly tagged by me 😕

[GaryCN]

I have not tried them all, even some that are not greyed out do not play, is there a way to delete them all and then have spotify re index my local files? 

[mtrs]

note for the users of the 'backintime' technique - I confirm that using the 0.6 version as proposed by xrayman2k4 works well (http://www.filehorse.com/download-spotify/8838/).

(with the greetings of microsoft) I unfortunately had to restart my computer twice this morning and found a very fast way to switch from the 0.8 (that was of course twice automatically updated, when restarting spotify) to the 0.6 : just close spotify, and rerun the downloaded file - it takes only a few seconds, and when restarting spotify, you have the 0.6, and it even remembers the local files...

the whole process doesn't tke much more time than just restarting spotify after a computer start.

[Dawntje]

I can confirm the same. It is working perfectly still. Local and streaming files are all playing continuously.

I have also had my computer reboot twice due to Windows updates, but shutting down Spotify and running the installer is indeed the fastest way to get 0.6 back up and running again as I discovered a few days ago.

[rbrands]

So now it's February 15 and the problem's still not solved. Okay, the older version tactic works, but if I have to reinstall Spotify after each and every startup, I wouldn't call that a solution. If Spotify forces their users to update automatically, they just need to fix this problem via one of their updates already.

[xrayman2k4]

That's good news! so far no updates for my Windows 8 system, and Spotify/iTunes have been playing nicely - they often don't and Spotify will throw it's toys out of the pram after I grab some podcasts or something in iTunes - but it's good to know the road back is not as rocky as  before 🙂 Thanks for testing!!