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Win10 Desktop app unresponsive after using mobile player on Android

Win10 Desktop app unresponsive after using mobile player on Android

Brief description of the issue:

I use the Win10 desktop app in the morning. At lunch time I take android spotify with me when I'm out. When i return to my desktop spotify shows a green bar (spotify connect?) along the bottom which says i am listening on {MY DEVICE}. Having closed spotify app on my android device I try to toggle the green bar back to desktop to continue listening but the app is unresponsive/frozen. I close the desktop app and relaunch, but it will not relaunch until I open task manager and crash the (3 or more) spotify processes.

 

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Steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Listen on Desktop
  2. Listen on Android
  3. Return to Desktop, find it unresponsive

Windows 10

Spotify Premium

Version: Desktop 1.0.32.96.g3c8a06e6

 

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Just realized this was an old question. Sorry to resurect this.

 

Have you closed the app on your device; by that I mean, have you opened the recent apps feature and swiped it away? I have had the same issue before and I had to make sure that I had it completely shut off, in my phone before the computer would recognize it as free to connect. 

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