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.

[Merowinger]

Yeah, but I use the new version and there is no option for this. 😉

This

Close Button Behaviour:
( x ) Minimize to Task Bar
(    ) Exit Program
(    ) Minimize to System Tray (Hide Taskbar Icon)

is a great solution IMHO.

[yellowamerican]

Though hitting close should actually close an application...

I see that this has been corrected in the most recent version - years later when I'm completely used to hitting close to minimize and now it's massively irritating because I constantly have to restart Spotify.

Perhaps options could be added where you could completely customize the behavior of the minimize and close buttons.

Also, maybe go back to having minimized to the to the system tray instead of always going to the taskbar in Windows?

[meahtenoha]

2015-03-12

Hey everyone. This feature was implemented for Windows users in our latest update (1.0). You can read more about this update here. Thanks for your kudos and feedback here in the Idea Exchange. 

[Corwin]

Dear Meredith and other Spotify folk,

Thank you for listening to your users. Now please listen to us again, and change this right back again.

The current behaviour of the Spotify client is a huge regression in usability and really no way to behave for a modern application. This isn't the 90's, not all running applications need to use the desktop. Please put the application back in the tray, where it belongs.

For reference, see the following (rather fast growing) threads:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/ideas/v2/ideapage/blog-id/ideaexchange/article-id/65509

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Restore-minimize-to-system-tray-functionality/idi-p/1...

There are other very impopular changes in this client version, but this is definitely the main one.

[toonczyk]

I'm really looking forward to Spotify listening to their customers and allowing us to minimize to tray after another three years of waiting 🙂

[GeertvanHorrik]

Please bring this back to what it was. I think this is a horrible breaking change.

[soowaq]

Terrible, terrible idea.  Who came up with the idea? As per original post – Skype and Spotify SHOULD run once the “x” is pressed. I cannot believe that you change the system behaviour only after ~400 voted to it. How many installations do you have? This is nonsense.. 

[Pforce_]

Extremely annoying to change a fundamental UI thing like this. I understand that for many users X should close the app but you don't even provide a UI in preferences to make it do what it used to do.

I'm sure thousands of people are very annoyed that they are accidentally closing spotify each time they go and change a track. I sure as hell am very annoyed. It's fine to change the default but please provide a preference UI to change it backto minimizing to tray. In fact is seems I can no longer minimze to tray, I'd like to keep the taskbar to apps i need to switch between more often. Spotify is a background all that runs all day long.

[isf]

x = Close

_ = Minimize

There you have kiddos, windows 101. Please behave as I enjoy my close button working as expected.

[zabadoo]

I have to say, I much prefer this way of doing it. It makes sense and as others have said constantly, it is the stanard UI design for Windows applications. The examples (in a post above) of programs that don't close like this all deliberately break that design because they either have communication/chat functionality or continue to run direct downloads or P2P in the background.

There are, of course, some valid reasons why the developers of some of those applications wouldn't want users quitting those applications. When they aren't being actively used they continue to serve a purpose "behind the scenes" (often not to the benefit of the end user, but that is another story). Having Spotify run in the background was once to the benefit of other Spotify users as it utilized "spare" (to put it politely) bandwidth for other users, this is no longer the case, so closing to taskbar is an outdated nuisance. Beyond all other considerations, it is an inneficient waste of resources.

I guess many people (including myself!) have grown so used to clicking X and the app minimising that it is a bit jarring at first. As a change perhaps it could have been implemented as an option? It doesn't bother me personally but you might have appeased the Luddites on this (and other) threads 😉

Overall I love the new design, the changes I've noticed (especially this and the duplicate warnings) are really great.

I honestly can't recommend Spotify highly enough (and believe me, I try!).