Checking Task Manager's detail tab often shows one Spotify process as 'Suspended' and the only way to solve the issue is to kill the entire tree and relaunch Spotify from scratch. Hitting pause through either Windows' own interface nor Spotify's would pause playback. It also makes me unable to control the media playing. Sometimes I notice it while trying to open a playlist (it just loads forever and then stops responding) and at other times it dies when trying to load the landing page.

The issue for me is almost exactly as OP describes in his second post: Often after a 'fast boot' I find that I can play music just fine but at some random interval after the boot some part of the app gets suspended and Spotify seems unable to load in data.

If you can could you please share the reason behind this so we (the users) can help troubleshoot better? The more info we get, the better we can help. I have not used the Microsoft Store version yet, but why would the builds differ enough between your site download and Store download that this wouldn't be an issue on the Store version? I also have this issue and it persists after a clean reinstall (with cleared cache) of Spotify. Is anyone looking into this issue? It's starting to get a bit annoying as it's been months since it began to happen. I've got a laptop with Mac OS Big Sur and it runs flawlessly there (also no bugs regarding the songs). I would say there's some bug when closing the Electron app that makes it not fully close on Windows. This has been happening for a while (3+ months), I have not only reinstalled Spotify but completely reinstalled Windows 10 (for other reasons) and it still happens. I usually fix it opening Task Manager and closing the spotify.exe manually. Whenever I close Spotify there's a really high chance (lately almost 100% of the times I close it) that it doesn't close fully, if I try to open it again it says 'The Spotify application isn't responding'. Hi! I've been getting this message after I close Spotify (it usually bugs and I can't search for any music nor see my music inside Liked Songs or playlists).

The Spotify application is not responding.

Spotify is not responding windows 10