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.

[reddevil07]

Most applications have a 'Minimize to system tray when exit button is clicked'. Spotify should have this feature implemented. I'm a developer and I know how this can be done. Surely, the software wizards at Spotify can implement a feature as such!

I need spotify back in the system tray. Need. It takes up way too much space on my taskbar.

[aveius]

No notification icon anymore, and the option to "minimize to tray on close" is gone. Quite a bit of frustration recently when music stops on closing the window...

Kudos however on that default "minimize to task bar on close" was broken.

I've been updated to 1.0.1.1060.gc75ebdfd, on Windows 8.

No sight of this regression on the Linux version yet.

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zabadoo wrote:

I have to say, I much prefer this way of doing it. It makes sense and as others have said constantly, it is the standard 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.

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Or is it? The big X is indeed a "Close" button, but if you ask me, you're closing the window, not necessarily the underlying application.

Which, as you mentioned, makes a lot of sense for any "background" application, and Spotify fit well in that category IMO. So does, as you mentioned, downloading agents (e.g. torrents), communication tools (e.g. Skype), antiviruses, Steam, etc, etc, sitting in the background until you want / need to take control of those processes again.

Furthermore, it's not just about using the "Close" vs. "Minimize" button: as a power user, I make very heavy use of Alt+F4 to dispose of windows, and while there are shortcuts to minimize (Win+Down, Alt+Spacebar+N), they are not nearly as convenient to trigger as Alt+F4.

Likewise, I don't really like to see my minimized Spotify in the task bar, nor when switching apps with Alt+Tab.

Now, we obviously don't all have the same usage for Spotify, hence having it as an option (not a default) was perfectly fine (and I assume, a small development cost)?

[rob313663]

“This feature was implemented for Windows users in our latest update (1.0).”
It is not a feature. It is behaving as a standard application.

[Applemoes]

I'm completely speechless. I can't even begin to understand how the people at spotify think...

HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO MAKE THIS PROGRAM WORSE WITH EVERY UPDATE? I mean JESUS music-hating CHRIST! So now we can't minimize the program to the tray at all? It's keeping it open or **bleep** off?

This software does everything in it's power to make me stop using it. Fix ctrl-F (everywhere, not just our playlists for gods sake) and make it possible to close the window without shutting the entire program off.

[DaFunix]

It was the best feature ... now it's taking a spot in the taskbar for nothing. nobody, ever, open spotify every 5 minutes ...

I mean, you could have at least let the options in the preference panel. Disable this feature by default, m'okay, why not, but let people be able to choose ! You already had this feature ... why a complete delete ?

[coldfish]

Worst decision ever.. Where's the option to change back?

[mouthechols]

Please implement an ability to restore the old "use X to minimize to taskbar". I've been automatically shutting down my jams all day and it's really annoying.

[coranial]

What on earth were you thinking with this change? So many applications have the option in settings to minimize to tray when closed, why would you change that?! Makes no sense whatsoever! Please bring it back ASAP.

Whoever suggested or supported this... morons.

My god, your forum is terribly laggy as well!

Please don't implement more stupid ideas, forcing me to come back and complain on your crappy forum.

[Robmonster]

I have no problem with X closing the window. What I do have a problem with is that there is now no minimise to tray option. That functionality should have been moved to the minimuse button, not removed altogether.

[xreply]

I'm a software developer and I can definitely appreciate the fact that this was changed to please a few users that were complaining.

However, you completely removed a feature that I reported to Amazon Prime Music as the primary reason I would never use their software.

Now that you have removed it, I am extremely frustrated.

Also, there is no longer a right-click menu, which is leaves me at a total loss... Why?

How hard would it have been to add a single, configurable value in the Settings/Preferences page that allows you to turn the "Close to Tray" option on or off?

It seems to me like you executed more work, which also eliminated several features that your users were enjoying...

I know its frustrating to get complaints about a feature only to get more complaints after you've removed that feature, but I think a simple poll from business professionals would have returned the obvious answer: "Just make it configurable."