Spotify randomly stops playing while in offline mode

[user-removed]

Plan

Premium

Device

Samsung Galaxy A50

Operating System

Android 10

My Question or Issue

Spotify randomly stops playing music and podcasts. This only happens when the device does not have an internet connection. This happens regardless whether Spotify set to offline mode or not. Every other music app I have works fine offline so its definitely something wrong with Spotify. Here is what I tried so far:

1. Restart the device
2. Clear Spotify's cache
3. Deleting and redownloading music and podcasts
4. Uninstall and reinstall the app (along with redownloading 20GB of data yay)
5. Remove Spotify from the 'Optimize battery usage'

A lot of people have this problem and it really seems is some seriously misguided attempt to force the users to stay online rather than an actual bug. 

[user-removed]

Plan

Premium

Device

Samsung Galaxy A50

Operating System

Android 10

My Question or Issue

Spotify randomly stops playing music and podcasts. This only happens when the device does not have an internet connection. This happens regardless whether Spotify set to offline mode or not. Every other music app I have works fine offline so its definitely something wrong with Spotify. Here is what I tried so far:

1. Restart the device
2. Clear Spotify's cache
3. Deleting and redownloading music and podcasts
4. Uninstall and reinstall the app (along with redownloading 20GB of data yay)
5. Remove Spotify from the 'Optimize battery usage'

A lot of people have this problem and it really seems is some seriously misguided attempt to force the users to stay online rather than an actual bug.