Playing Spotify While Other Apps Are Open

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One thing I’ve noticed in recent times is, as Spotify grows into a large, numero uno service for streaming music, it’s getting a lot buggy. That’s usual for any company but when they’re having such a huge, dependent user-base and charging for the services, you begin to get frustrated with blatant issues.

The bad news is that if you like to listen to Pandora or some other streaming radio app, it won’t work because the iPhone does not allow apps to run in the background. Treatment: For the most part, you can simply open up the iPod app to start a song, album, or play list and then choose any other app to use while your music plays. While Spotify is playing, click the + in your text box to invite your friend(s) to listen with you: You'll get a Message Preview of your invite, and you'll be able to add a comment if you like! After sending the invite, your friends will be able to click Join and listen to your sweet tunes! 5 minutes ago  You can actually stream your Spotify playlists or tracks one the PS5 while you're playing games. In doing so, you can listen to your favorite music while you're inside of a game. If that's your thing. A valid access token from the Spotify Accounts service: see the Web API Authorization Guide for details. The access token must have been issued on behalf of a user. The access token must have the user-read-currently-playing and/or user-read-playback-state scope authorized in order to read information. As it is know to all, Sony PS3/4 have already integrated the Spotify service. You can stream music with the free or premium account. However, due to the memory limitation or network connection speed, if you run multiple apps such as streaming Spotify music online while playing games, some exceptions might happen occasionally.

Whenever I Play any type of game it normally pauses the music player I am currently using (e.g. Stock music player) However, whenever I try to play a game spotify force closes and will not play unless I manually re-open the app. So, is there any way to refuse an app permission to kill spotify?Using Spotify 5.9(latest), on android 4.3. This app does not work correctly on Windows 10 S. We are working to fix the issue. The Musixmatch desktop app brings you synchronised lyrics to any song that's currently playing in your Spotify, iTunes or Windows Media Player making it easy to start singing along to your favourite tunes on your computer.

One such issue is when Spotify stops playing tracks on the iPhone and iPad after a while. This issue is notably different from the usual rigmarole where Spotify does not play a particular track(s).

If you find yourself in that odd spot, note that this might be completely a server issue at Spotify. These things keep happening a lot nowadays and right when you’ve got a lot of tracks either on your device (offline playing) or on the cloud, you might face this problem.

Spotify Stops Playing Tracks on iPhone: Fixing It

#1. App Could Be A Problem

Of late, the updates to the app have been pulling the performance down. No matter what the team says (and yes, I do appreciate the devs for developing such a wonderful app), Spotify app does have some issues of its own.

On most forums and support queries, you’ll be told to delete the app and re-install it as a last resort. That’s the usual way but with all the issues cropping up, I’ll just recommend a straightforward delete+re-install of the app.

This means you’ll lose playlists that you didn’t sync through the iPhone but if you manage the stuff from a PC/Mac, you’re safe. You can get them back on the Spotify app right after you reinstall it.

#2. Force Exit

Maybe you’re away from a PC right now and need a quick solution. This is for you.

Open
  • Open Spotify
  • Press and hold the Power button till ‘Slide to power off’ shows up
  • Now, release the power button and press (and hold) home button till the slider vanishes
  • The app should close down now
  • Open the multi-task switching bar and close Spotify (hold on the icon till it wobbles, tap on minus sign.)

#3. Check Wi-Fi+3G Settings

Oh, by the way, make sure you’re not running into trouble with your network.

There’s a considerable amount of furor over how Apple’s recent updates have led to connectivity taking a hit. If things aren’t panning out on Wi-Fi, try turning it off completely and switching to cellular. If Spotify still stops playing after a while, then you can assume – correctly – that it has got nothing to do with the network.

#4. Restart Your iPhone

Sounds silly but that’s one of the working recommendations that appear to get Spotify working normally. You can restart your phone usually, or you can do a hard reset: which means you press down the power and home button till the Apple logo appears on the screen and the phone restarts.

#5. Check Background Apps

One of the reasons why Spotify does not play tracks could be the insufficient resource. Double press the Home button and force close other apps running in the background except for Spotify.

Now give it a try to play your song and check, this time you should be able to listen to your song. Most of the users on forums have vouched for this trick to be working and thus, you should have solved the problem by now.

#6. Logout and Login again

Sometimes the Spotify issue is server sided, and the user hardly has any role to play. To be sure, try logging out of Spotify and then login back again. By doing this, the track lists are refreshed again from the server. Check again if you can play the track(s) on Spotify.

#7. Change Sync, Crossfade, Gapless and Quality Settings

Very rarely, it’s an issue with the quality of your sync/share. Tweaking these values to figure out if these are the culprits causing Spotify to stop playing the tracks can be nerve-wracking. But you can try changing:

  • Sync/Share Quality
  • Crossfade
  • Gapless
  • Offline Playlist

The issue should have been solved by now.

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Listen, game, chat, and party all at once with Discord.

You can also see and play what your friends are listening to. You can even listen together with Listen Along (Premium only).

Get started

  1. On desktop, download the Discord app and open it.
  2. Click Connections in the menu on the left.
  3. Click Spotify.
  4. A web page will open to connect. If you’re not already logged into Spotify on the device, you’re directed to log in or sign up first.
  5. Click CONFIRM to confirm.

Once you’ve connected Spotify to your Discord account, you can choose to display what you’re listening to in real time on your profile.

To disconnect

  1. Click Connections in the menu on the left of the Discord desktop app.
  2. Click Spotify.
  3. Click X in the top left of the green box.
  4. Click Disconnect to confirm.

Listen Along

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Turn your chat room into a party with your friends! Here’s how to listen together.

Note: It’s not possible to Listen Along when voice chatting. Try text chatting instead.

  1. On desktop, open the Discord desktop app.
  2. Click someone that’s Listening to Spotify from your list of friends on the right.
  3. Click the Listen Along icon .

Spotify Player App

Note: If you Listen Along with a friend who has Spotify Free, you’ll hear silence when they hear adverts.