Turn off autoplay videos

[StoneD_Baphomet]

Setting option where i can DISABLE videos.
I pay spotify premium for music / no ads! Since this s**t att where video become avaiable, it starts automatically. 
I searched trought setting and didnt find a way to turn'em off.

One specific scenario, podcasts. 99% the podcast I listen, are from YT. If i DO WANT to see video, i go for yt, since im on AUDIO APP thats what i want, not video! And i hate the fact it autoplay everytime!

I need the setting option to disable videos ASAP. (Then if u want video i mannualy turn on, not the oposite)

[jannekecj]

We really want to be able to completely turn off music videos. We don't want our 4-year-old daughter watching unnecessary videos. It's also distracting when we have friends over and we're trying to have a nice conversation. We have Spotify for music. Because of the lack of this option, we're now trying out Deezer, but I'd really like to keep my Spotify premium account, I've been a user for so many years. It's frustrating and I can't wrap my head around it, why not give your customers a simple choice? 

[legidstyles]

I cannot use Spotify on Android TV anymore thanks to not having the option to turn the music videos off. The whole TV crashes when a video starts playing so pressing the "turn video off" button is not even an option. I now have to use an aux cable to my receiver from my phone to get normal sound which is really annoying because it was working just fine before the music videos, that nobody wants, started showing up. Please for the love of god allow us to disable them before i have to switch to another service.

[gdenaeyer]

Hi,

I have been using Spotify on the Chromecast App for a while now but recently, everytime I open the app, and choosing a song it defaults to playing the music video if there is on available until I choose to play audio only. This is infuriating, I can't find any settings to change this default, am I missing one or does this need submitting as a feature request/bug/reason to jump ship to Apple Music?

Plan

Premium

Country

UK

Device

Chromecast

Operating System

Android

My Question or Issue

[Fabioaa]

I quitting Spotify exactly because of this issue. Going to Apple Music. It was impossible to listen to music on my TV because everytime it changes music in the playlist, comes a stuttering bad quality video to ruin all the experience. 

[YansM]

Please implement the option to turn off videos by default on the Spotify app.

I use Spotify via Google TV, often with my display turned off as an alternative to a Hi-Fi setup, and I have recently had to manually switch to audio mode every time I've started a session.

This is not ideal because the video versions of tracks are very often different to their audio versions, interrupting the listening experience and requiring an unnecessary level of input where none was previously required.

[Potato95]

Listen, it's been over a year and nothing has been done. Can we get some answers here?

[Emmaxjae]

I have no problem with video being available on the app but I want to option to turn it off in settings also when I'm on wifi. It's annoying to have to constantly keep switching to audio only on an audio app. I prefer Spotify to YouTube because I want audio only. 

[Renatoo]

How many more votes and comments do Spotify needs to stop these annoying videos?

[Wiia]

Im using Spotify over various devices, phone and computer no problems. But the Chromecast TV is frustrating due to no ability to turn off the video auto play. If I wanted videos I'd watch YouTube. Please have a toggle or switch off! why "switch to audio" only last that one song!? I find the videos to distracting when I'm trying to have some music in the background for cleaning or socialising.

[ddoeth]

For me the worst thing after the buffering is that some songs are different in the video version than in the album version and I use my TV box for listening to music with the TV off, so sometimes there is just a worse version of the song playing with some random video noises, just why