Songs randomly stop playing in the middle of the track

[c2q]

Hi.

I just recently signed up for premium on the 3 month promo. I was previously on Google Play Music.

Running Spotify on my Galaxy S5 with Android 5.0, non rooted & stock.

Basically the problem is as follows. I will have some song playing and then it will constantly just randomly stop in the middle of the track or something. Pressing pause/play doesn't do anything and the seeker is just "stuck" moving it to any time during the track doesn't do anything until I restart the track. It's really annoying and it happens even after I have saved said track for offline use. I'm streaming on Wifi.

Things I have tried:

Uninstalling/reinstalling the app

Saving the album to offline

Clearing data/cache

"Nuplayer" is already turned off in dev settings

I'm not really sure what else I can try at this point. Pretty disappointing experience so far 😞 

[Daniel]

Please read the guide linked below for details on the most common issues and how to fix them. Usually a clean install is the first step to take and resolves most of the usual issues; the guide details the steps to take to ensure a full 'clean installation' is achieved - This includes checking redundant folders and a REBOOT!

[COMPLETE GUIDE] How to fix most Android issues

[c2q]

Well I just tried the solutions in that post. Uninstalled / made sure folders are deleted / rebooted / reinstalled. It was actually working fine for about an hour and then the problem started again...

This is really annoying because I can't play a single track without it just randomly pausing in the middle, and I can't resume it either until I skip forward a track and then go back to restart.

If this keeps happening I'll probably move back to Google Play Music. It's unfortunate because I did want to try Spotify, but the time it takes troubleshooting is just not worth it. 

Some other notes.

I have a 64 GB SD card with ~40 GB free. Maybe it's failing to cache stuff there? I don't know...

Is there a way to change the cache location to internal memory..?

[c2q]

So is there going to be any more support on this bug? I've tried the clean install etc as suggested and the problem is still there.

Also I'm getting a black screen whenever I try to run Spotify without a connection. Can't even access the downloaded music.