Cannot play liked songs when main player is Xbox

[user-removed]

Plan

Premium

Country

United Kingdom 

Device

Xbox Series X, Samsung Galaxy Note 8, Windows 10 Laptop

Operating System

Xbox OS, Android Pie, Windows 10

My Issue

Spotify refuses to play the liked songs playlist when playing through the Spotify app on Xbox Series Consoles.

Even when playing a different playlist and then remotely using the PC or mobile app to control the music and selecting the liked playlist will not work. It will be as if the buttons on the PC or mobile app are unresponsive, as tapping on the play buttons and individual songs will do nothing while in the liked song playlist.

You are able to remotely pick any other playlists, but not the liked playlist.

You can also copy the liked playlist into a custom one and this also works, but the automatic liked playlist will not play while the Xbox is the main player.

Other Spotify community administrators are trying to fob this off as the playlists are too big. I have 1779 songs in my liked playlist, I just want to be able to listen to my songs.

Stop trying to gaslight us and fix the issue.

How to Replicate Issue

Open up Spotify app on a Xbox Series console and press play on the liked songs playlist on the Spotify app on a Xbox Series console. It won't play. It will pause anything you are currently listening to, but will not play the liked songs playlist.

Remote play while the main player is Spotify on Xbox also will not play the liked songs playlist.

[Elena]

Hey there @user-removed,

Thanks for reporting this and the detailed explanations you've included. 

We've let our developers know about it, we appreciate your post as it helps us look further into this, but just as a heads up, we’re not able to confirm if or when this will be solved. 

Now we do recommend making a separate playlist and copying over the Liked songs so that they'd play on Xbox. Sorry for the inconvenience on that.

We also recommend keeping your Spotify app up-to-date to guarantee you get the latest improvements and fixes. Thanks!

[user-removed]

You guys have still not fixed this. Seriously, does Spotify actually do anything other than take our money?

I'm seriously annoyed about this. This hasn't been fixed for more than a year. Fix this!

[Houseoffain]

I have the same issue!

[Novy]

Hey there @Houseoffain,

Thanks for reaching out.

Would you mind confirming if your Liked Songs playlist is a large one?

If this is the case, keep in mind there can be some technical limitations and performance issues with very large playlists and it is expected. We'd suggest downsizing it to avoid further trouble.

If not, you can try reinstalling the app on your Xbox to see if that makes any difference.

Keep us posted.

[ST34MY]

I’ve been having this exact issue I have reinstalled re logged and everything it happens if I’m playing games and if I’m not, kinda disappointed as I got Spotify premium to skip songs without ads and this issue makes it only repeat 1 song if you play it on Xbox.

[illusive_elk]

Update: the other issue seems to have been fixed by the latest update, but the liked songs playlist is still hidden from the recently played section of the Xbox menu. 

[BlueSideWanderer]

I am suddenly having this issue. The first time it happened was mid-November 2025 after 4 years of not having this problem. Running version 2.49.0.70. 

I have tried reinstalling the Spotify app on my Xbox several times with no success. My Liked Songs playlist isn’t large at the moment, and had been considerably larger (300+) in the past when there were no issues. On my phone, which is my primary device for Spotify, my Liked Songs playlist currently contains 39 songs. The same playlist on Xbox only displays 26 of those 39 songs. Trying to select any of the missing tracks on my phone is useless, it’s like the screen is unresponsive, but only for those 13 songs.

I have been able to “trick” the Xbox app into playing a missing track if I first start playing the song on my phone and quickly select the Xbox from the devices menu. The song must be playing in order for this to work, pausing it and then trying to choose the Xbox causes it to play one of the other songs. However, it will only play that specific song that one time (unless you put it on loop), and then will immediately default back to the 26 songs it does acknowledge the existence of. The exception to this is if you queue the missing songs one after the other on your phone before playing the first song and connecting to the Xbox. 

I hope Spotify takes note of this issue and provides some sort of fix, but it seems like this has been a persistent bug for years judging by the age of this thread… At the very least, hopefully someone will see this post!