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by allenu 1998 days ago
Spotify on the Mac has given me lots of little issues here and there in the last year. It's incredibly frustrating to have to restart it now and again.

I have encountered situations where I hit PLAY and nothing happens, or I hit PLAY and it says it's playing, but there's no audio, or I hit PLAY and the app says it's unable to play the track. Restarting the app seems to fix most of these issues.

There are also scroll bugs when browsing podcast episodes. The scroll position will just jump to the same spot as you try to scroll down the page, making it impossible to view the episodes in a series.

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Probably related to this 3-year-old unresolved issue with Bluetooth headphones:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Spotify-won-...

Yes! One of the issues is definitely due to switching on/off Bluetooth headphones during playback. It has actually changed my behavior. I intentionally pause playback now when I turn on headphones.
This is the main issue I had as well. I'm on Linux, and tried all Linux flavors of Spotify that exist to no avail. I switched to Amazon and haven't looked back. You press play, music plays.