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Plan
Premium
Device
iPhone 7 Plus, and web player on Windows
Operating System
iOS 12, and Windows 10
My Question or Issue
I had a very disappointing support experience with SpotifyCares on Twitter trying to troubleshoot this track-skipping Chromecast issue for days. I'm not alone in it: if you google for "spotify skipping to next song chromecast", you'll see multiple threads, some going back to 2016.
I know it's not my WiFi, or my devices (iPhone, Chromecast Audio, Chromecast video 3rd gen) as NO other apps casting to Chromecast (YouTube Music, etc.) have this problem. I had a friend over to play FLAC files off his device on my same network and Chromecast device without issue.
It's just Spotify. There's an unacknowledged bug on their end. My guess is that it's a buffer issue in the networking code, Spotify not being able to send data smoothly enough to the Chromecast, or Spotify losing contact with the Chromecast device. I've gotten the issue on the Spotify web player on Chrome on Windows (though not as often / easily reproducible) without casting, though, so maybe not. Perhaps it's just most easily seen when chromecasting.
Things I've tried:
That's just what I can remember. There's probably other things I've tried. This isn't one of those "gee, have you tried X obvious thing?" Yeah, I have.
I'm cancelling my Spotify Premium subscription today. I wanted to put this up so people googling for this issue have more data and know it's not just them.