[Connect] Disable automatic switching between devices

[HidalgoF]

Spotify Connect is great but the automatic switching is not for everyone.

Please allow us to disable automatic switching between devices. I understand Spotify doesn't like user to play in more than one device and I am happy with that, but the application shouldn't switch devices if the user does not want to do this. It clearly creates frustration amongst users.

In my particular case I work from home listening to music on my computer. I find really annoying when I plug my headphones in my phone to take a call and suddenly the music starts playing in my headphones.

This is what happens step by step:

• Spotify is in my mobile running in the back.
• Spotify is playing in my computer.
• My phone rings.
• I take the call at the same time that I get my headphones on me.
• I listed to a combination of my client/colleague and the music that I was playing in my computer, usually very loudly.
• I stop the music.
• I comment with my client/colleague how bad is Spotify.
• I finish my call.
• I go to my computer, change the playing device on Spotify to my computer and play again.
• I do this a couple of times until I get fed up of Spotify and I play music from somewhere else.

This problem has been already described here: LINK  but it has incorrectly tagged as repeated (the problems and solutions suggested are different).

[tc68]

This worked for me too. Now I can put headphones in and control which device is played on through the spotify app. Much better.

[Solomute]

I am once again asking for a way to turn off automatic device switching.

I was playing music through my laptop as background noise in my space.

I put in my earbuds to listen to something else privately on my phone.

Spotify started playing in my earbuds.

I never launched Spotify, I don't have Spotify set as a default music provider in my phone, I never pressed any buttons to indicate that I wanted Spotify to make any noises on my phone. I didn't want Spotify to play in my earbuds! If I had wanted that, I would have indicated that by opening the Spotify app and pressing a button, with my finger! I did not open the Spotify app, nor did I use my finger to press any buttons indicating to my phone that I wanted Spotify to play on my phone. Therefore, Spotify should not have played on my phone! It's that simple!

If I have Spotify making noise at a certain location, that is the place where I want Spotify to be making noise. If I want Spotify to change where it is making noise, I will indicate that by deliberately opening the app and deliberately pressing an actual button with my actual finger.

Fix this.

[Monkeyman1]

I mostly listen to Spotify using Spotify Connect on my AV receiver (Denon X2100W). This means that I'll often pause the music and switch inputs when I watch TV or a movie. What's started happening is that it randomly switches inputs and resumes playback, interrupting what I'm doing.

Is there any way to check which device is triggering the music resume? I have a feeling it's not the receiver, but another connected device. Could it be headphones connected to my laptop or something else?

[slamhound]

Solution for Android on my Pixel 5: Disable app permission for Nearby devices for Spotify.