20/25 seconds to display the music player ? (probably related to spotify connect)

[Tetsuo6995]

Context:

• Phone: LG Nexus 5
• Android version : 6.0.1, build M0B30M
• Spotify App Version: 5.7.0.781armV7

Hello,

I have been experiencing an issue recently with the Spotify app on my Nexus 5 phone.

When opening Spotify to play music, the player may take up to ~20 seconds before being displayed. The issue happens both when I start Spotify and also everytimes I simple click on the minimized music player to make it fullscreen.

I think this issue is related to Spotify Connect because once the player finally loaded and I open the Spotify Connect manager I get a list of what looks like ~80 close by Google Cast devices. I don't own personally a Chromecast so I guess there must be some kind of auto discovery mechanism. Well in the middle of Paris, there seems to be a lot of Spotify Connect devices. That or the app got crazy as some point and registered countless of pointless devices for Spotify Connect.

Either way, none of this devices accepts to stream music apparently, and are not mine, and their appearances coincides with the recent very laaaagy Spotify experience I had.

Spotify is usually too slow (the nexus 5 is old, but come on, it surely has the specs for this type of application), but now it makes it borderline impossible to use.

This morning also, I unplugged my headphones and the music simply didn't pause by itself and since I couldn't intereact with the player because of the aforementionned bug, well I had to explain to colleagues that the Spotify app can sometimes get "out of control".

Just on a side note, I wish more time were dedicated to optimizing and polishing the Spotify experience on Android rather than adding new features. Spotify was always "that app" that will destroy my phones battery in a few hours of streaming, even with offline playlists... And also one of the slowest app on my phone. It's especially sad seing the original Spotify experience on desktop when the service opened long ago was amazing. The desktop client using P2P was blazingly fast and reactive and was very cool to interact with. Now it seems like some overcomplicated app that will do a **bleep** ton of stuff in the background and secondly try to play music. Get back on the core experience !

Enclosed are screenshots of the screen I'm stuck on when I experience this very long laaag.

The "black screen" screenshot is what I can see when I simply click on the minimized player to enlarge it. Just a black screen for around 20 secs before seeing anything related to the music I'm listening to.

As you can see in the last screenshots the list of "Spotify connect devices" is pretty long, like ~80 devices long. I don't need that if that's what slowing down the app.

I will be happy to provide logs if necessary to investigate this issue.