Spotify wont play music!

[Joshua152]

Plan

Premium

Country

 united kingdom

Device

Windows PC

Operating System

Windows 10 (latest update)

My Question or Issue

 my spotify just seems to be broken i would click a song on my desktop and it doesnt play i would try and play on my phone and it plays i just get what looks like a black vlynel on a black background when i click on a song or album on my desktop i have tried reinstalling about 5 times also i have tried and web player and i have also tried the non windows store version also my saved songs dont seem to be even showing up on the desktop version!

[gaijin]

I have same problem, all my play list are empty. I try contact by twitter with support, only made me questions but no solutions

[Joshua152]

i have tried everything and i mean everything and nothing will fix it PLUS i play for the **bleep** thing not very happy to be honest!

[whitestone68 · Accepted solution]

The solution on this thread fixed my issue

[gaijin]

I solved it, rename de host file on windows/system32/drivers/etc.

[Joshua152]

can you explain more?

[Joshua152 · Accepted solution]

For people who dont want to click the link this is what helped me!

Spotify-related addresses in hosts, such as 
0.0.0.0 spclient.wg.spotify.com
will very likely break your Spotify client.

Try this:

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. The file is opened. You will see a block of text with # in front of each line and might see entries like

0.0.0.0 website.com
127.0.0.1 website2.com

Check for any entries with spotify or fastly in the address. Examples may look like:

0.0.0.0 weblb-wg.gslb.spotify.com
0.0.0.0 prod.b.ssl.us-eu.fastlylb.net 

(and any variations inbetween)
5. If you do find any, you can delete the line. You can also add a # in front of the line, that's 'commenting out'.
6. Save your changes. Restart Spotify.

You can also try removing all lines to see what happens.

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