Spotify keeps pausing mid song and continues to do so even if I have connection

[hollythea]

I am so frustrated and angry with this.

My stream quality is on Extreme and every time I play a song that I haven't added to a playlist and made avaliable offline, it pauses throughout EVERY SINGLE song I play. Even when I have FULL NETWORK COVERAGE. It stops and starts throughout the WHOLE song for EVERY song. It's really annoying me. I have Premium and I can't even listen because it does this every time. What do I do?

[user-removed]

You need to define 'FULL NETWORK COVERAGE.'

Do you have 'full bars' on your cellphone?  If so - what are you download speeds?  Download the Speedtest app and see what your speeds are.  Even 'full bars' on LTE on a cellphone may yield dramatically slow speeds spending on the cell providers speed capabilities as well as airlink saturdation.

If you stream on 'Normal' quality - is the pausing as bad as when in 'Extreme' ?  If no - then you definately have a speed issue with your ISP or Cell service provider.

For reference - a speed test I just ran is below.  This is with the cell provider Sprint and I only have 3 bars of LTE coverage currently.