Fix the menu on the Windows native app

[BO83]

So you have the menu, which has 5 main options, and they fit from start, right?

File, Edit,View,Playback,Help

But as soon as you move mouse down, you created a scrolling effect that leaves only 4 of them and adds an extra arrow? why?!

[BO83]

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[AlejaR]

Hey there @BO83,

Thanks for posting in the Community and welcome.

We hope you don't mind us moving your post out of the ideas section to one of our Help boards as it fits better here.

That being said, we could not replicate the behavior you kindly described. In that sense, we’d suggest you perform a clean reinstall of the Spotify app on your device. By doing that, the app can be up-to-date, and you can make sure some stored damaged cache is not leading to this behavior. You can see the steps for a clean reinstall here.

If the above doesn’t do the trick, then we’d like to gather some additional info. Please send us:

• The make/model and OS of the affected device.
• The exact Spotify version you’re running there.
• A video recording of what's happening on your side. You can attach the video in your next reply in mp4 format, or you can also upload it to YouTube or Google Drive and make it public, so we can visualize it.

Keep us in the loop!

[BO83]

To reinstall? This is the first install from your installer! Today!

Spotify for Windows (64 bit)
1.2.48.405.gf2c48e6f

It seems like this happens when "View>Reset zoom", which is the default within the app, and it affects all the submenus as well.

But if I Zoom In or Out from the Default Zoom (Reset Zoom) Level, the issue is no more. Just that then I see "artifacts" on playback progress bar (Zoomed In)

So, check that.

My display scaling is 100% and using Windows 11 x64

I will use Zoomed Out, this seems to work better, without artifacts.

Recording 2024-10-19 234640.mp4

[Dessi]

Hey @BO83,

Thanks for the additional info!

We've checked this again on our end and can confirm that it's currently the expected behavior on some devices, depending on the window resolution. Many thanks for taking the time to report this to us and sharing your workaround with the Community.

Rest assured that Spotify takes feedback like this on board as we're always looking for ways to improve the user experience. We’ll be here if you ever need anything else, or have any other feedback.

Take care.

[BO83]

It doesn't matter anyway. I know that zoomed out/in works. This reply is just because I got a remainder to mark the accepted answer, which I dont.

Is not about window "resolution", usually referred as window size, and screen resolution.

This behavior is about zoom level. 

btw, those images/recordings are just part of the window. My Spotify window was big enough to fit on a 5120x1440 screen resolution i have.

It might make sense to have scrolling effect on other components on the screen but the menu?! FGS !

• it has 5 options only
• is the smallest component on the window. if the whole window would be that small, it would be called a widget spotify, would be useless, won't fit anything
• the menu is kept same pixel size, same number of vertical divisions, but then one is replaced by an arrow? hellooo
• it works properly on zoomed in! wouldn't that imply that the dpi/vieport is smaller like on a small screen.

Anyway, you "know better" 🤭

Have a nice day, Dessi