[Web Player] Doesn't work for Brave browser

[mos182]

Country

UK

Device

Macbook Pro 2018

Operating System

Mac OS Mojave 10.14.2

My Question or Issue

 The web player doesn't work for the Brave browser. Whenever you go to the open.spotify.com web page it asks you to visit the support site and there's no instructions there for Brave.

Here's the steps needed to get it to work for Brave: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/1391#issuecomment-435530032

[Sebasty]

Hey @mos182

Looking at the Github thread it's the missing/inactive Widevine plugin that's causing that. Did you get the web player to work in your browser?

I'll pass your feedback on. 🙂

Have a nice day!

[krasii]

The problem is not Widevine as other sites that require it play ok.

There is some restriction I guess based on the user agent or other things that block the Brave browser. Technically there should be no problem to enable it just needs to be white listed I guess.

Here is a thread on github that suggest that the issue is on your side
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/13108

It should be quite easy to replicate, just install Brave and try to open the web player.

[BarbaMan]

I have the same issue. Please, whitelist brave's user agent/client.

[Yourfavoritestrawman]

Whitelist the Brave Browser agent.  This is ridiculous, your player does not work in Brave.

[Heclalava]

Try in a private window in Brave then it works. But I'm also experiencing weird issues with a normal window, but works fine in a private window.

[mli14]

Use this link and enable the Widewine feature on Brave. It worked for me. 

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360023851591-How-do-I-view-DRM-protected-content-