Spotify stops playing music after remote desktop connection toggle.

[1266860027]

Reports can't play song. Need to start task manager and close any spotify apps. Then restart to get it working. Win10 Surface Pro 4.

[theFOHguy]

Bug still exists. Tried using RDP connection from a Dell 2-in-1 to an older desktop. Both machines running Windows 10. The music stops playing after successful connection and will not play out to peripheral audio devices connected to the 1/8" output. To restart playback, RDP session has to be ended and Spotify application restarted on target computer. One particular instance, after closing an RDP session, the Sptofy app would not stop skipping songs. It would start to play one then skip to the next in less than a second and would not stop until app terminated.

[gsxrjjordan]

Yup, this has been driving me nuts.

I used to use a Squeezebox API to stream at home, but Spotify disabled support for that, so now I'm running Spotify directly on a Windows Server connected to multi-room audio controller.  The only way to control it is via Spotify Connect, which doesn't always work (weirdly I can see some devices on my cell phone, connected by wifi, and all the others on the server, connected via wired ethernet).  In those cases I would Remote Desktop in to the server, where I get the "can't find file" error and it skips every song.

I'd thought this was an artifact of the Remote Desktop session bringing it's own audio drivers into the mix, so I disabled audio on the RDP session - I feel like this helped some ancillary problem, but doesn't fix the main issue.

I deleted the local files cache, as well as %appdata%\roaming\spotify\users\ localfiles file, no change.

The only way to get back on track is hook up a monitor and keyboard to the server itself, log in, and restart the Spotify application.  I know there are lots of people trying to use Spotify via a "headless" setup, and this has been reported FOR YEARS. 

Unbelievable.

[gsxrjjordan]

See earlier reply about this still being infuriating (especially after Spotify removed support for Squeezebox, which had fantastic device/remote control).

I've tried to get around this by opening Spotify Web Player in a browser, but my phone doesn't always see the server/web player as an option to "Connect" to.  In the interim, this is the only way I can play Spotify on my server besides logging in locally - as soon as a Remote Desktop session starts, the local Spotify executable **bleep**s the bed and starts doing what's well described in this thread.

[theFOHguy]

An update (since I have forgotten to since posting that):

Playback still stops momentarily but does resume. Happens only for about 2-3 seconds. Haven't tried with downloaded vs streamed songs though as it may be a networking thing that is unavoidable. The playback stops on both connect and disconnect.