TL;DR
- Spotify is crashing for those listening to tracks at the “lossless” setting on a desktop.
- Spotify posted that it’s aware of the issue.
- Switching media quality to “very good” seems to be the solution for now.
Spotify outages happen almost as regularly as New Music Friday, and now we’ve got a fresh issue to deal with. This time, Spotify users have been crashing out over the desktop version of the app, well, crashing out when they went to play some of their favorite songs with the media quality set to “lossless.” Spotify said it is working on the problem, which is now on its second day.
Early this morning, a Spotify staff member posted on the Spotify Community Forum, “We’ve received reports that the app frequently crashes during playback when the audio quality is set to ‘Lossless’. This occurs mainly on desktop.”
