Spotify App Wont Open Windows 10

  

Make sure the Spotify app is closed; Hold Windows key and press R; Type appwiz.cpl and press Enter; installed programs page. Locate the Spotify app from the installed programs list and select it; Click Uninstall and follow the on-screen instructions; Uninstall spotify from windows. Hold Windows key and press E. This will open the Windows Explorer. Lots of people have texted us that their Spotify is not responding on iPhone, Spotify application is not responding on window 10.If you are not familiar with Spotify then I let you know that Spotify is a very popular music application where you can stream your favorite music. In the first half hour or so after starting my PC, the Windows 10 Spotify app wont open. I get the following dialogue. However after letting my PC sit for a while, then it will open as per usual. I have reinstalled the app, however that didnt seem to fix the issue. Is there any way to reset the a. Here’s how you can uninstall Spotify: First, bring out the Start menu and search for ‘Add or remove programs’. Open the first result returned from your query. Now, in Apps & Features, utilize the search bar underneath. Search for ‘Spotify’ to immediately locate the program. When I tried to open Spotify I could see a glympse of the login windows - until it disappeared and the whole program shut down. While struggling with this problem I suddenly remembered that I changed the cache folder for offline playlists. I made an obvious move and deleted the NEW folder and now Spotify runs as smooth as ever.

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Spotify is my favorite and most used service I have, even more than TV and streaming services. Everyday I use Spotify whether I am in the car, working in the office, cooking, chores, and anytime I want tunes Spotify is on. No software or service is without its flaws and nuances but one issue got to a point I needed to address it. That issue was with the desktop app from Spotify.

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Over time the desktop app became slower and slower, less responsive to the point of taking minutes to load one playlist. Uninstalling completely and reinstalling worked for a short time but eventually the app would degrade to that level of poor performance. That told me it wasn’t my machine but something with the app.

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I searched for solutions and if others had the same problem and found may posts that did but no good solutions that worked. Until I came across a lone post with complicated steps. I went through those and those worked well.

The problem comes down to the cache management of the Spotify app. Overtime the cache files grow to a size that passed efficiency to the point of being very large and therefore more difficult the computer to use them without expending more memory and processing which becomes counter-productive. The solution is to clear out the cache files and then set a configuration setting in the Spotify setup files to cap the cache size to not bloat.

This post is to simplify those steps for both MacOS and Windows.

MacOS
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  1. Close Spotify if running. Open Finder.
  2. Under the Go menu option select Go To Folder. (Shift–Command-G)
  3. Type in or paste this ~/Library/Caches/com.spotify.client/
  4. Click Go or hit Enter on the keyboard.
  5. In this folder you should see a Browser folder, Data, fsCachedData and other files. Delete all the contents. Command-A to select all, move to trash.
  6. Go back to the Finder. Same as Step 2 and 3 go to folder ~/Library/Application Support/Spotify/
  7. In this folder, look for a file called perfs.
  8. Open perfs in a text editor.
  9. Add the text in bold at the end of the file. This will limit the cache to 1024MN or 1GB. You can set this to whatever you want but this will cap the cache and not let it grow to an unlimited size. storage.size=1024
  10. Save the file.
  11. Delete the PersistentCache folder.
Windows
  1. Note <your username> is your windows login. Go to the folder C:Users<your username>AppDataLocalSpotify.
  2. Delete these folders – Browser, Storage and Data.
  3. Go to the C:Users<your username>AppDataRoamingSpotify folder.
  4. In this folder, look for a file called perfs
  5. Open perfs in Notepad or other text editor.
  6. Add the text in bold at the end of the file. This will limit the cache to 1024MN or 1GB. You can set this to whatever you want but this will cap the cache and not let it grow to an unlimited size. storage.size=1024
  7. Save the file.

Those steps for Mac and Windows should resolve the Spotify desktop performance degradation you are experiencing. It has for me and I wouldn’t waste my time writing this out if it didn’t.

For fun here are my top personal playlists if you are so inclined –

  • Baseball Hype Music – Played music for my son’s youth baseball team before and in between innings. This is the playlist.

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