Lyrics don't stay on the screen when changing songs

[AshNazg]

Plan

Premium

Country

Brazil

Device

Motorola Moto G8

Operating System

Android 11

My Question or Issue

Currently, when visualizing lyrics either through the box below the play/pause button or through the dedicated full screen lyrics page and another song starts, the app stops focusing on the lyrics and the screen goes to the album art+progress bar above the lyrics. This makes hands-free listening (and singing along) somewhat annoying, since I have to manually scroll to the lyrics every time the song change. Before suggesting a change as an idea, I'd like to confirm if this is the intended action and not just a bug or an issue being looked at.

[CarlosE · Accepted solution]

Hi there @AshNazg,

Thanks for reaching out to the Community and welcome!

We can confirm that this is the expected behavior of the app. However, as you mentioned, we suggest checking our Idea Exchange to see if there's already an idea about this. If there isn't you can submit your own so other users can add their votes and show their support. You can find the steps to submit an idea here.

You can also read more about how feedback on ideas reaches Spotify here.

Hope this helps. If you need a hand with anything else, the Community is here for you.

Cheers 🙂

[ezdizzy]

Carlos.  Can you please provide additional info on this?  It has been nearly 2 full years since this post and the app still does NOT provide true hands free playback.  This appears to be a glaring bug, particularly as someone who just moved to Spotify Premium.  I used YouTube Music previously and as terrible at some things as it is, they at least keep their lyrics screen up with switching from song to song. If Spotify is going to market itself or its settings as being able to enable true 'hands free playback' then this needs to be addressed.  Please advise.  Thanks for your time. 

edit:  Apologies, I didn't realize this was a thread dedicated to an Android device. I have an iOS device, but the behavior and sentiment are the same.  If I need to post this to another thread or submit in some other way to someone else, please let me know. Thanks. 

[ezdizzy]

This is not a solution.  

[jerocom]

You are right and I hope this gets some traction.

Just change the default behavior of the app to stay on whatever screen I left it at, be it the artwork, behind the lyrics or lyrics themselves.