Player controls in my notifications panel not working ?

[STitanP]

Plan

Premium

Country

Canada

Device

Samsung Galaxy A10

Operating System

Android 11

My Question or Issue

I am not able to like/unlike, rewind, pause, or skip forward using the player controls that popup in the my notifications, example shown the image, whenever I tap them nothing happens. The only part that works is that if I already have a song playing I'm able to use the seek bar and drag to go to the part of the song I want. Also note that the player controls work when my phone is in the lock screen, this only happens when my phone is unlocked in the notification menu

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This is really frustrating as I use this feature all the time, I used to use Spotify heavily for years and everything worked fine on the exact same phone I have now but I took a break and swapped to YT Music about a year ago and now that I'm back to Spotify this basic feature isn't working properly anymore.

My app is up to date, I've cleared cache, restarted my phone, uninstalled and reinstalled, done the clean reinstall method, yet this issue still persists. Wondering if anyone else has any suggestions? This is kinda a deal breaker if I cant get it to work