Chrome OS Webplayer appears to be buffering

[Toff115]

There seems to be an issue with the Web Player on my Chromebook constantly buffering songs. Songs will stop for a second or two roughly once every minute or so.

I have a good internet speed (I achieve roughly 48-53mb/s) and do not experience this issue on my Android phone using the app.

I believe the issue is with loading the banner ads at the bottom of the screen as I will see a message "waiting for <advertising website> " when the song stops. Furthermore, If I'm in different tab (ie not looking at the web player for ads to appear) the problem seems significantly reduced (although not absent).

[chirb]

Same here and I agree with your analysis. Definitely seems to be ad related based on observation. Regardless, it has made Spotify unlistenable. They need to address this.

I've had this problem for a while now but it seems worse than ever today.