Close Button Closes Spotify [Windows]

[jeff]

Or at least minimize it to a tray Icon. But I would say close it. Maybe this is more of an opinion, but I've only used 2 programs that are this bad. Skype and Spotify. And Skype is a really bad program.  So I don't know why in Spotify, the Close and Minimize button do the same exact thing. I would like a quick way to close the program and stop the musik.  This is mainly a problem for me on Windows 7 and I believe linux is very similar.

[DJ_Zephyr]

I agree, I can't stand when clicking the X does the same thing as clicking Minimize.  It's a stupid feature- if I want to minimize, then I will click the button MEANT to do that.  As a gamer, when I close a program, I want to CLOSE it- not leave it there sucking up resources.

[Liam]

Right click the tray icon and select hide on close.

[DJ_Zephyr]

@ liam_w: Yeah, I know that.  I also think it'd be nice were the function simplified, and if the X did what it's supposed to do.  We're not stupid; we just expect buttons to do the same thing on all programs, and I for one am kinda annoyed when they don't.

[Rocio]

Hello folks, first at all, sorry for the delay on updating this idea, we have a lot of them coming in every day and sometimes it takes time.

We are going to mark this as "Case closed", at least for now, since it does not fit out our user experience philosophy. So at the moment, we keep it in the way it was (just clicking on "Quit Spotify") and the program gets closed.

We might reconsider this in the future so we will update this thread as soon as we get news on this matter.

Thanks a lot for your feedback and contribution, we really appreciate it.

[lachie_h]

I'm glad that sense and progressive UI standards have prevailed on this idea.

It's stupid ideas and people who aren't open to change that prevent progression in software development.

Case Close - Good Call.

[user-removed]

Here's an idea: how about instead of stubbornly sticking to a "user experience philosophy" you listen to, I dunno, your actual users that would like to see a program behave the same way 99% of other programs on their operating system behave?

[user-removed]

@lachie_h How is it "progression in software development" to have two buttons that do the same thing?

[emmer64]

What a laughable response to close this case on such a note. How can it be part of your user experience philosophy to have two buttons next to each other that do exactly the same thing? That is just bad design.

And even worse, it is just terribly frustrating for your users to not be able to easily close the application. We are all big boys and girls that can decide for ourselvses when we want our taskbars to be cluttered or not.

If it's part of your design philosophy to frustrate users, you are succeeding. I'm just getting to know Spotify and am already thinking I probably won't extend my subscription when my trial ends (yes, over something as trivial as this).

[user-removed]

And yes, Kleerup – Thank You For Nothing, Spotify team.

I would like to see this implemented, but you know: thank you for nothing and for this useless laughable answer.

[user-removed]

"Hello there! I just merged another idea to this one since it was requesting the same thing. I have added the kudos, that is why the amount has increased. 

We are working on this idea, we will get back to you as soon as we get news.

Thanks a lot for your contribution ;)"

Working? Really? You killed the idea, Rocio.