The Spotify desktop app is absolutely terrible Firstly, I recently moved to Spotify from GPM/YouTube Music to test it out and I have to say it's now my favourite streaming service. With the plethora of playlists, the daily mixes and discover weekly I feel like there's much more commitment from the Spotify team than there is with Google. C: Users AppData Roaming Spotify This got me wondering if it was a permissions 'thing' with the app trying to run from what is essentially a better-protected section of the file system. I copied the Spotify folder from there to. C: Program Files (x86) then made a new desktop shortcut pointing to spotify.exe in that location.
Go to C: Windows System32 drivers etc. Open the hosts file as administrator and add the above contents to it. (You could open notepad/Sublime/Atom as administrator and browse to open the hosts file.). Note: Incase the newly added mappings are not working try restarting Windows to take effect. Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. Download the Sonos app for iOS, Android, FireOS, Windows, and macOS. Spotify’s desktop app is already rumored to get a revamp with the web interface very soon. Before that, the streaming giant has added one of the most requested features – Google Chromecast support – to its desktop app.