Spotify won't start

cllmestorm · 2025-11-30

Plan

Premium

Country

Belgium

Device

Laptop (Lenovo)

Operating System

Windows 11

My Question or Issue

whenever i try to start spotify it opens for a split second on a black screen and then it closes, ive tried everything and nothing is helping.

Jose_M · 2025-11-30

Hello @cllmestorm!

Thanks for coming to the Spotify Community. I'll be here to help you out. It sounds like there might be something wrong with your Spotify installation. Can you try having a clean reinstall of the app following these steps?

Let me know how that goes!

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kingkhan67

Hey there im facing the same issue but on a different laptop running windows 11 i tried the clean install and it still persists
Thanks.

Joan

Hi @kingkhan67,

Thanks for the reply.

Consider trying the following:

Clearing the hosts file.
Installing both the version from our website and the version from the Microsoft store.
Disabling any VPN you may be using.

Hope this helps.

JoanModerator

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