Phone: NOKIA Lumia 625
Version: Windows Phone 8.1 Update
Spotify version: Newest (as of April 21st, 2015)
Free space on the phone: ~3.5GB
So there's a bunch of issues with the app. It's been randomly stopping playback every 5-10 minutes on a random whim even when the phone is disconnected from the internet and I'm playing from a downloaded playlist in offline mode. It's been doing that for as long as I can remember, regardless of the settings on my app or my phone apparently. It did slightly improve when I turned the music quality down to normal, but the issue still exists.
From time to time the app has randomly decided to log me out even though I'm in offline mode, and refusing to let me back in until I am connected to the internet again. What gives? I pay for premium for the sole reason of listening to my music on the go, and I do not have internet on my phone deal, I just download my stuff at home through my WiFi. If it dies in the middle of a long trip (has happened more than once) I'm left without anything to listen to for the rest of said trip.
Sometimes it also randomly chooses to give me an error of "playlist not available" even on ones that worked when I left my home - it does this without even logging me out or anything - and then randomly chooses to let me listen to them again after some time has passed or I've reset the phone.
There's also the problem that the app is apparently very crash-prone, even moreso ever since the large UI update a few months ago. Sometimes it crashes when loading a playlist (even in offline mode!), sometimes when I'm searching for music (this of course in online mode with internet access) and sometimes it just randomly chooses to crash, though less often while playing music. I noticed reducing the playlist sizes from 100's of songs to under 50 worked a little bit, but only on the crashiness when loading the playlist.
Since yesterday the app has crashed on me while loading to start up, so I haven't been able to listen to any music, fiddle with my playlists or anything. I tried soft resetting the phone which didn't work, and I reinstalled the Spotify app (a process I did two days ago for the last time, since it KEEPS BREAKING ALL THE TIME) and even that didn't seem to work.
Pretty much every other app on my phone works as per usual. What gives? I pay for Spotify premium exclusively to use my phone as an on-the-road music player with the offline playlists, and it's endlessly frustating dealing with these completely random-seeming issues I can't even choose to avoid by knowing what causes them.
Desktop and PS3 apps both work completely fine, but this WP one is a piece of **bleep**.
~William
