Spotify is a popular app for playing music and podcasts on Windows 11 and 10.
However, some Spotify users encounter issues when they make a run at play songs.
Users cant listen to music for which that Spotify issue occurs.
Its an error that can affect playback for some or many songs in the app.
Disable Hardware Acceleration in Spotify
Hardware acceleration is enabled by default in Spotify to offload processing tasks to GPUs.
However, disabling hardware acceleration in Spotify is a simple potential fix to apply some users have said works.
These are the steps for disabling that feature:
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Therefore, its recommended Spotify users check for app updates.
This is how you might update Spotify:
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Erasing the local-files.bnk file will clear Spotifys cached data.
you might delete the local-files.bnk file in Explorer like this:
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Reduce the Crossfade Songs Setting to Zero
Crossfade is a transitional fading effect for Spotify songs.
However, a high setting for that effect can also cause playback errors to arise in Spotify.
Try reducing the Crossfade options value to zero in the following steps:
5. you might lower the streaming quality setting in Spotify as follows:
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Set the Output rig Setting for Spotify to Default
verify theOutputdevicesetting for the Spotify app is set to default.
Some Spotify users have said theyve fixed Spotifys playback error by doing that.
Many users have resolved that playback issue with them.
So, maybe one of those resolutions will also get you back into the Spotify groove again.
