

Change Locationĭid you use Spotify when you were traveling? May be Spotify’s web player hasn’t updated your device location. The option can be found under the Account overview tab under profile on the web. You can log out of Spotify from all the devices where you use the same account to stream music. The temporary switch might help you jumpstart Spotify’s web player. Try switching between different devices like Chromecast to stream Spotify. One way to fix this is by opening the app and selecting Web Player at the bottom of the screen. Are you using the same Spotify account to listen to music on a different device? Maybe one of your family members? Check it out. This can also have something to do with Spotify Connect. Multiple DevicesĪ user found out that using Spotify on multiple devices can actually confuse the web app. You can also paste this into the browser to save time. Toggle ‘Enable sites to play protected content option’ here. Go to Settings > Site settings > Additional settings > Protected content. Enable Protected ContentĪre you facing an error that says ‘Playback of protected content is not enabled’ or something similar? That’s an easy fix. Just open settings and search a little or look under the privacy menu. The steps are more or less similar for other browsers too. We have talked before about how to clear cache and cookies on Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Cookies and cached data can break web apps resulting in errors like the one you face where the Spotify web player is not working. If you are using any Ad blocker, then you’ll have to add Spotify’s URL to the whitelist or the trusted site list.

There are many like Brave and Firefox, to name a few. One quick way to check that is by using a different browser. Disable all extensions and then re-enable them one at a time to check which one is causing conflict. If yes, one of the extensions is at fault.

Open Incognito mode and view if you can run Spotify. Certain media extensions could also interfere with the Spotify web player. We will check if there is some issue with your browser or one of the extensions you installed. After all, the browser is also an app that’s been installed on Windows, right? It can use some help. You will need to download the Media Feature Pack before you can use Spotify, even in the web browser. Which version of Windows you have on your system? Microsoft notes that N versions don’t come with media functionalities and apps right of the box.
