Ridiculously slow start-up.

[The_Argentinian]

The screen stays like this for half an hour! Worst of all, it slows down my HDD reading speed to a crawl.

Windows 10. Everything updated. Local files disabled. Hardware acceleration on and off, it doesn't make a difference.

I'm going to uninstall**bleep** and switch to Deezer.

[CarlosE]

Hey @The_Argentinian,

Thanks for reaching out to the Community.

As a first step, we recommend running a clean reinstall of the app by following these steps. This is more thorough than a regular one and can be helpful to get rid of any corrupted files that might be causing trouble. We also suggest downloading the app again from the Microsoft Store.

If that doesn't do the trick, try clearing your hosts file by following the steps in this guide.

Lastly, go to the app's Settings and toggle the option Local Files on, then toggle off any sources that appear there, and toggle Local Files off again.

Hope this helps. Keep us posted on how it goes.

[Anamon]

I used to have that problem, while it didn't take half an hour, startup times were well over 5 minutes until the client became responsive, and it stayed sluggish for a long time after that. After 30-60 minutes or so, it would usually handle fine, but on the next start of the application, it would go through all of it again.

I believe that it's a problem related to the cache, and depending on how many playlists you have and how long those playlists are. I completely solved this problem for me by disabling caching entirely. Look into how to find Spotify's cache directory, and use your OS tools to prevent the Spotify client from being able to write any data to it. Then delete any data that's already there. This resolved the problem for me, and it comes back as soon as I enable write access to the cache directory again. Funny, since one would think that the cache's purpose is to make the app run faster.

You'll have to look up how to do these steps yourself, since Spotify's community managers are strongly against members showing other members how to specifically fix these kinds of problems.

[johangrimm]

Spotify, the slowest program I have ever started on my Mac.
All black for almost a full minut. Then it work fine!

Spotify för macOS (Intel) 1.2.29.605.g66a43ceb

macOS Catalina, ver. 10.15.7
Mac mini (konec roku 2012)
CPU: 2.5 GHz dual core Intel Core i5
RAM: 16 GB