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.

[user-removed]

This idea: 😃 | Spotify's interest to implement this idea: =( | Overall rating: 😐

[kennyraby]

Okay I had tried spotify before then uninstalled it, I coudn't remember exactly why but saw some messages about improvements so trying again and running into this very frustrating user experience here.  I don't care what your user experience philosophy is - this is non-standard behavior against the user experence philospy of every other program out there.  I'm not quite sure what, other than arrogance, makes you think it is okay to completely ignore the expectations of what a button can do.  Time to uninstall this again.  

[deimos814]

Wow.  I'm sorry Spotify, but "it does not fit our user experience philosophy" is not a reason to close this case and not do it.  You violated UI standards within Windows, pure and simple.  The X is a standard operating system UI element that has a standard behavior of closing the program.  Not minimizing it, not hiding it, closing it.

If you don't want the X to close the program completely, remove it.  I don't know how much more simple it can be.

While I enjoy Spotify and listen to it daily at work while coding, this type of behavior with regards to following the standards of an operating system is just blatantly arrogant.

[ChaseVG]

"We are going to mark this as "Case closed", at least for now, since it does not fit out our user experience philosophy."

Can you please at least explain what your user experience philosophy is? Because right now it just seems like "We want to piss off all the Windows users by making the x button do the wrong thing," or "Our developers are too lazy to properly port a Mac app to Windows," or "Spotify doesn't care about something all the customers clearly want fixed." 

Here's a user experience philosophy for you: "GIVE THE CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY WANT."

[DollarTwentyFiv]

You guys should get a new user experience philosophy then. The close button on the Windows OS is intended to close the program. People expect it to do one thing, and you have it do something else, and without an explanation. It's not only confusing, but it's terrible design.

[stever]

It's annoying and a poor design choice.

[Junket]

"it does not fit out our user experience philosophy" - and with that response, I have decided that Spotify does not fit MY user experience philosophy. 

Unintstalling Spotify and checking out competitors.  Absurd.

[MikeyMan]

Not closing through the X button is really the most annoying thing i have ever seen a piece of progamming do in my whole digital life...

Fix the darn button!

I'm not stupid, if i want to minimize the screen, i will press the "_"...

[MarkSG]

This isn't a design choice. It's a bug, pure and simple. The X button is for exiting programs. That's what it's for in the Windows UI. Having it do something different is just plain wrong, and trying to excuse that by saying that it's part of your "user experience philosophy" to do it wrong doesn't make it any less wrong.

[pkow]

Someone in another Ideas thread just enlightened me to the fact that you can indeed minimize the program to the system tray by clicking the X button.  Right click on the icon in the system tray while the program is running and click "Hide from Taskbar when closed."