Issue enabling spotify web player for google chrome on Mac

[JerryGuy]

Hello,

I'm using a mac computer with google chrome version 49 and get this screen whenever I try to login to the spotify web player:When I go to the support site it brings up this page:

The issue is, when I enter the link into my address bar "Protected content" does not appear anywhere under content section of settings and therefore I can not make sure "Allow site to play protected content" is enabled. I have instead allowed plugins from spotify through the plugin section which does appear under the content section of settings, but it does not enable the web player.

Is it possible to run the spotify web player through google chrome on a mac? If so how can I enable it?

Thank you

[Sebasty]

Hey @JerryGuy

You're having a pretty old Chrome - my version is 63. That aside, Chrome is supposed to have the DRM plugin installed by default, and it's actually permanently on starting from version 57.

Since you're on a version so sold, I believe you can access chrome://plugins and see if you have Content Decryption Module, and if it's enabled.

Let me know how it goes! 🙂

[JerryGuy]

So I checked chrome/plugins & I don't see anything with that name. Just pdf viewer and flash player

[Sebasty]

@JerryGuy

I couldn't find any (official or safe) places to download this plugin from, so at this point all I can suggest is updating/reinstalling Chrome to a newer version. It should come with the browser now.

You can also try Firefox. It relies on the same plugin, but the browser comes with it.

Keep me posted. 🙂

[vnguyen1]

I had the same issue. This is what I did:

I clicked the 3 dots on the type right of the browser --> more tools --> extensions --> scrolled down to 'Spotify' --> selected 'devloper website' --> I went to #2, and made sure my Adobe Flash player was enabled. 

After doing that, I was able to use the web player.