Is it possible to revert the latest UI update?

[Joseph_J]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device/Operating System

Windows 10 Desktop

My Question or Issue

Is there an option to revert the UI to how it before the current update? The desktop app now looks the same as the webplayer. I can no longer scroll through all of an artist's songs on their page and must individually click on their albums to even see their contents. There is also less metadata displayed on the line of each song in my playlists. If I can't revert this, I think I will likely cancel my premium subscription and move on to a platform that makes exploring music easier. The old UI was MUCH better...

[82Insanity007]

I was also going to post the same thing... any help would be appreciated. I'm surprised how little Google is finding on this topic!
The new UI is horrible.

[Electronic_Dreams]

check out spotify on reddit lots of posts on this and solutions. 

3 methods i have discovered from easiest to hardest

1. change prefs files

2. change hosts file

3. disable right permissions to update folder using a pre aug2020 build

This is for method NO.1

On Windows: Go to C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Spotify\prefs

On Windows (MS Store **): $user\AppData\Local\Packages\Spotify\prefs

add the following line:

ui.experience_override="classic"

To do the reverse (update to the new UI)

ui.experience_override="xpui"

or just add both lines and add a # infront one of them to disable it, makes it easier to switch in between them. 

i have the desktop non windows store client installed and use win key and R to bring up run box and type %APPDATA%,  from there go into spotify folder and look for file named prefs and drag that into notepad and add

#ui.experience_override="xpui"

ui.experience_override="classic"

save and restart spotify, job done.

Method no2 add

 127.0.0.1 upgrade.spotify.com

to hosts file , look it up on google  if youve never done it.

method no3 is a direct route to he.ll , enough said.

[zaorish]

Thanks m8. The new UI **bleep** tbh.

[82Insanity007]

@ElectroX1 YOU ARE A LEGEND!!! It works!!! 

I changed the prefs file and it just... works... !!! 🙂

[Desiloth]

Awesome, thank you so much! Also changed the properties of the pref file to read only, hopefully that stops them from changing it back on me.

[Electronic_Dreams]

checkout spotify on reddit for latest method to revert to the real ui.
search google/reddit for ' Reverting to the classic Desktop UI '

currently using an early april build with disable rights permission to the update folder method combined with prefs method. working great atm.

[joriswitteman]

Where do you set this UI override on Mac?

When will Spotify start to take its users seriously?

[Kishiko]

It seems that changing the "prefs" file no longer works (https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/mpxwz3/comment/gxwir13/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&...).

Each time I edit the file to include `ui.experience_override="classic"`, the Spotify application undoes that edit on launch. Very disappointing.