Shared link opens Spotfiy - nothing happens

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Plan

Free

Country

 USA

Device

S9+

Operating System

Android Oreo

My Question or Issue

 When someone shares a link with me, it opens spotify and then nothing happens. No music plays. There's nothing to make the music play. Only way I can get anything to happen is to add the track to a playlist, then click home, then select my playlist, then tell it to shuffle play.

This can't possibly be working as intended.

Anyone else have this issue? Know of a way to fix it?