Yet Another "Spotify Not Playing Music" Problem

[hdgilliam]

So the problem itself is pretty simple: Spotify will not play any local music files, radio, or any music at all. I can click on the song to play and it'll load the info in the bottom left, however the actual song timer/slider will sit at 00:00 and nothing seems to work as far as getting it to play.

Looking around it seems quite a few people are having this problem as well.

I've tried the usual disabling hardware accelerator and cross fading, neither worked.

I unistalled and did a fresh install, didn't work.

Any ideas or what information you need?

[ExplodingC]

My Spotify audio isn't working (this is for the Mac App) I click play, and the bar scrolls across, but even though the corner volume and the mac volume are full, nothing is working. Everything else has audio, except for theSpotify. Solution?

[Soltan7]

Ty to all those who suggested installing Quicktime. I have had the same issues for a long time, it would play fine for a while, then all of a sudden i would click the play button and nothing happens! i would try multiple songs, same result. I uninstalled and reinstalled, still nothing. Updated my audio drivers, blah, blah..so today i saw this suggestion and decided to give it a shot. I never had Quicktime on my pc for a long time cause I didn't think I really needed it. Now it seems I do. so ty.

[mia18 · Accepted solution]

Since I have a Mac Book Air what I did was click out of spotify, quit spotify, re-opened the app and it worked!! I hope this will work for others.

[Soltan7]

Thank you. I have a pc running windows 10 and shutting Spotify down, then restarting it works for me to. 

[kathnee19]

Is it because you have overplayed an album or certain track too many times?

[emilytex12342]

Check if your sound bar in the app is all the way down. I came here to find some help when I saw that the sound slider in the app iteself was all the way down. Hope this helped!

[slaynamjoon]

I had the same problem. I exited, undownloaded, and redownloaded. It still didn't work. But it turns out to only be the song. I was trying to play 2 songs from blackbear, but when i clicked on another song, it worked. So, my solution is to just play a different song until it works.

[Liverpoolfc63]

My spotify plays music for about 20 seconds then stops can you help me please 

[patriciageorgop]

This may not work for you but all I did was clear my browsing history. After I did that Spotify worked as normal

[Raptors32]

Log out of your account and just relog in it worked for me

[dontstealmychez]

So, I acutally had this problem this few mintues ago....The only thing I did was connect to Facebook and then the music started running instead of skipping the song every second. I hope this work because IT DID FOR ME >:D....Good luck

[Jakraur]

My Spotify has not been working for at least a month. It's driving me crazy; I always listen to Spotify. Usually the song is shown in the bottom left corner. For me it's just blank and there's nothing there. I use a Chromebook so I'm stuck with the web player rather than downloading anything. I can't reinstall, I can't find a way to fix it.

[thebunnyrules · Accepted solution]

This thread is 5 years old and they're still having this issue. IT'S PATHETIC!!! I was ready to support them with a premium account but they can't even get their act together long enough to sort a five year old issue what's the point. Even posting on this forum was a shore with a capta test that took 15 minutes to pass.

[user-removed · Accepted solution]

Seriously. Why doesn't someone fix this stupid problem. Honestly, my friend kept trying to convince me to switch to Pandora, and I was like,"Nuh-uh, sweetheart, why don't you switch to Spotify?" Right now, I'm texting her ' **bleep**, I'm so sorry. I'm switching to Pandora RIGHT AFTER I'm done sending this complaint to this dumb company.' So, Spotify, honestly, good job.

[user-removed]

And now Spotify is saying that the very commonly used O M G is a bad word.

[ellie123]

I have a problem with that too. It will load the music, pull up my playlists and any music I search, but when I press the play button, It won't work! It's been like this for a few weeks. AURGHGHGHGHGHGHHGGHGHGH!!!!!!!!

  PLEASE HELP ME

[ellie123]

what is wrong with Spotify?? I've tried everything to get it to work. a couple weeks ago I did get it to work, but every 10 seconds or so it would just stop playing, then start up for 10 seconds, then stop for 10 seconds. I used to like it way better than Pandora, but now I'm DONE.  I'm switching to Pandora. GOOD JOB SPOTIFY 😞

[pestbarn]

This isn't just a small problem, this is a quite weird and quite alarming issue.

https://streamable.com/s/gpyja/xeygtr