

If you have more than one entry, repeat to end all the tasks listed. You can shut down certain programs and try to re-open Spotify.ġ) Right-click the taskbar at the bottom of your PC desktop and click Task Manager.Ģ) Right-click the Spotify application running and click End task. In some cases, your system will interfere with applications using too much PC resources. End Spotify tasks using too much PC resource

Note: The screen shots are shown on Windows 10, but all fixes apply to Windows 7 and Windows 8 as well.ġ) On your keyboard, press the Windows logo key and R at the same time, then type %appdata% and press Enter.Ģ) Right-click the Spotify folder and click Delete.ģ) Go to Spotify website to download the latest version of Spotify and install it again. You should do a clean reinstall of Spotify to see if the problem is resolved: One of the causes of the Spotify not responding problem can be faulty Spotify files. Leistung Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4180. If you need any non boilerplate info from me and I can actually help getting you information to replicate the issue I am happy to help though

Its clearly not an isolated problem with my system. Please fix, we are paying customers.Īlso: I am really not interested in trying to debug this. But whatever the case is, this has been persistant for years and is really annoying. My guess is this is related to an updater. I reopen Spotify, it "installs" and functions as normal until it doesnt. I kill all the Spotify processes until I seem to hit the "main" process and all others quit with it trying to reopen it leads to a "the application is not responding" prompt, I close it via a rightclick on the taskbar icon, Is anyone looking into this issue? It's starting to get a bit annoying as it's been months since it began to happen.Īfter skimming through this topic: I have the exact same problem:

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.
