Spotify Connect/Cast no longer working properly

[jamal01]

Plan

Free/Premium

Country

Canada

Device

Windows, Android, Alexa, Google

Operating System

Android 12, Windows 10, latest google, alexa firmware

My Question or Issue

Spotify connect seems to be broken. Whenever I cast my playlist, it often just stops after 1 second. Other times, it will keep playing but when I open spotify on my device (either windows or Android), it shows it as connected but the playback track and position will be wrong (it will still show as the first song that played) 

This seems to only have been happening since the most recent update

For example, using the screen shot I attached, I am casting my playlist to my speaker group called "speakers". The song that was playing when I started casting (the first song) was "Flip a Bird". However I am now three songs in, now listening to "Coming Back For You", but the Spotify app on both my desktop and my phone have not updated and instead show it as playing the first song with a playback position stuck at "0:00". If I try and click anything it does not work. Even if I just leave it, after a few songs it will automatically just stop and not play the next song. I have to stop casting and recast.

If I want to change the song I have to stop casting, play the song I want, and then recast. This also occurs with Alexa devices. 

[SoundAdvisor]

Hi Yordan,

          The way I see it, SPOTIFY made the change that stuffed this up for everyone else, and what pray tell me, what did this so called change, in anyway benefit Spotify subscribers ?

Whatever Spotify did, they should undo perhaps.

Anyone else think we all should be credited a month or two of our subscription fees our more until this is resolved ?

To all you NuVo customers...one word  Deezer.. it works native inside the app as opposed to the Spoity Connect nonsense. 

Easy to transfer over your Spotify playlist PLUS Deezer has HiFi quality

Deezer.com

How to transfer my playlists from Spotify to Deezer?

To transfer your playlists from Spotify to Deezer, simply follow the steps mentioned above.

Once you click on "Transfer now" you will need to log in to Deezer or create an account.

Select Spotify among the listed music providers and transfer your music library, including playlists, albums, artists, and songs.

Alternatively, if you're already a Deezer user, you can access this feature in Settings within the mobile and web app

[PaulV2]

Hi!

I have the same problem, it is not possible to use Spotify Connect on the Sony STR-DN1080 anymore. Google Chromecast is working, but the sound quality is much less than with Spotify Connect. I have cleared the AV-receiver, re-install Spotify on my iPhone, nothing works. It is really annoying, because untill 4 weeks ago it worked fine. What is causing this problem and how can it be solved?

Regards,

Paul

[NuvoDev2022]

@paulv2 We believe something Spotify changed something in their DNS records that caused various audio players from different manufacturers to start to fail.  If you change your router to use DNS 8.8.8.8 instead of the default one, you might be able to work around the erroneous DNS records.

[PaulV2]

Thanks, works like a charm now!

[psanchesjr]

My problem is happening in the Echo Studio.

See minutes 1:01, 1:09 e 1:17.

https://twitter.com/psanchesjr/status/1517292433175986176?s=20&t=fTaIvRxLHvpV-xtTKsEwvA

[Kiril]

Hey everyone,

Thank you for your posts here. 

We appreciate all the info you've submitted about issues you're having with the Connect feature in regard to using third-party audio systems. Going forward, we'd like to refer you to the following ongoing issue thread here for any further feedback you might have. Please check out the status message there, leave your vote, relevant details and follow the thread for updates.

Hope it gets sorted out soon. If you need anything else, the Community is here for you.