Plan
Premium
Country
Australia
Devices
Samsung Galaxy A55,
Samsung Galaxy A30s,
Desktop Spotify for Windows (64 bit) 1.2.64.408.g0a9b557c
Operating Systems
One UI v6.1 + Android v14,
One UI v3.1 + Android v11,
Windows 10
My Question or Issue
For the past few weeks, the repeat playback feature has been behaving differently for me.
Until now, I have always had repeat enabled (on all my devices), and it has continually stayed enabled - ie if I search a song and play it, that song will repeat over and over until I select a new song/album/playlist, at which point the new selection repeats over and over until a new selection, and so forth.
Recently, however, I will select a song to play, it will play once, and then stop with no repeats. When I look, repeat is disabled. So I will enable repeat, hit play and the song will start to repeat. But then at seemingly random intervals I will find repeat has turned off again.
At first I assumed it meant I had to manually enable repeat for EVERY instance, but even songs have manually turned repeat on for keep eventually disabling repeat again (which is exceptionally frustrating when I turn my music on and begin driving, only to find that once again repeat has disabled itself, and now I can't listen to music for the remainder of the drive).
Has there been any recent changes to the functionality of repeat?
I cannot see any playback settings for a global repeat option - I vaguely recall turning it on as a setting at the same time when I turned off Autoplay, but that was some time in the last 7 years, so I cannot recall if that is correct. The fact that I have suddenly run into the issue across all devices (Android and Windows) makes me think it's either a change to the repeat feature OR a change in the way Spotify handles swapping between devices.
I have recorded a video showing the issue in real time, occurring on both desktop and Android (Youtube link below). I haven't been able to pin point what triggers it - sometimes I run into the issue multiple songs/searches in a row, sometimes after pressing play from a song/album/playlist in my library, other times after resuming the currently playing track that I had been listening to on repeat hours earlier. It doesn't seem to discriminate between songs I've previously listened to or new songs.
Essentially, I just want repeat to be enabled globally on my device/s (how it has always been prior for me!). Any answers or insights would be appreciated, cheers.
Link to issue demonstration: https://youtu.be/OT5HkUVaU50?si=WWTBqlSzpKBXyKal
