"play" site (webplayer) redirecting to "open" site

[Arlendor]

As of this morning, attempts to visit play.spotify.com (the web player) are redirecting me to open.spotify.com. Verified on Chrome 53.0.2785.116 and Firefox 49.0 on Ubuntu 14.04.

Attached screenshot from Chrome.

[ncb2]

same - I'm being redirected from 
https://play.spotify.com
to:
https://open.spotify.com/browse/featured

Where's all the functionality of the web player gone? Can't see friends music, or decent list views of my music, radios etc.

[burnhm]

I had this problem but cleared my cookies and it seems to work again. The Web Player seems to have undergone a new design as well. 

[mogeek]

Thanks! That worked. I was wondering what was going on and why I couldn't access my playlists. Looks like the URL has changed to https://open.spotify.com/collection/playlists

[Arlendor]

I'ts been a day and play.spotify.com is still redirecting to the far-less-functional open.spotify.com. I am now able to actually play songs through it, but I am still missing a lot of things, like the weekly 'for you' playlist.

[TheWolfin]

Have to download the user agent switcher extension for Chrome and set to IE10.  Apparently, Spotify has issues with Chrome... Seriously, CHROME but works in IE....

[mattaveryca]

Still didn't work for me ... downloaded the user agent thing and switched to IE10 but still got the "oops something went wrong - reload" message ... 

Using firefox for now - which is sticking to play.spotify.com instead of bumping over to open.spotify.com

[Zednek]

Clering cookies did not help. I found an another thread (link below) where they say it is testing. Anyone can confirm that?

https://community.spotify.com/t5/forums/v3_1/forumtopicpage/board-id/001/thread-id/175204/page/2

[TheWolfin]

Only works in Internet Explorer.  What a joke... Welcome to 2017 Spotify you need to optimize for browsers people actually use...

[oliie]

Yep same issue here. All the extra functionality such as playlists, radio etc. no longer available. As I'm on a Chromebook I'm not sure what else I can do.

[soysss]

same here, there's really nothing I can do, it says "oooops, something went wrong with the playback,"

[grulmlurg]

It's been over a week now for me (Chrome). If this is a testing, as written here: https://community.spotify.com/t5/forums/v3_1/forumtopicpage/board-id/001/thread-id/175204/page/2

then they must really have some badass huge new features coming...

But seriously, this gets extremely frustrating - I use the web player at work where I am not allowed to install stuff, modify anything in the system, switch browsers and so on, so this really used to by my first and only choice. Now this is a huge step back from the level of service I agreed to pay for in the first place. Quite a bummer...

[SatanReloaded · Accepted solution]

March 31, 2017 and it's still happening to me. Extremely frustrating not to be able to see everything that I could see before, all the right click options and functionalities...

[user-removed · Accepted solution]

This happened to a friend of mine a couple of weeks ago, and now my account is doing the same. It looks like they are phasing in this redesign (but it takes away so much functionality!)
A pretty lame workaround is to use an older browser. (It works on Internet Explorer 11)

[Getbackonfeet26 · Accepted solution]

Has this been solved.
Functionality lacking:  no add to queue option
bug: right click menu on songs remain even after focus has shifted away from it