i know this has been a problem in the past - but i only started having it (at least with annoying frequency) with version 1.4. as far as i can tell, the problem isn't limited to local songs i have synced to my iphone. that said, i sync pretty much all my spotify playlists so i have only had this happen with synced songs (but not necessarily local - plenty of them are songs htat spotify has in its database).

probably related, the lock screen controls often stop working. if i pause spotify for more than 5 minutes or so, usually when i try to resume from the the lock screen the song name has disappeared and been replaced with just 'spotify' screen. the play/pause buttons are still there but don't do anything. i have to go bck to the app to resume playing (the app had not crashed, it was still running in the background, by the way). this problem ive had with spotify since day 1, but it's happening WAY more frequently since the update.

i've tried the clear cache/delete/reset phone/re-install/re-sync and still seem to be having the problem - so i'm guessing it's just a bug i'll have to ride out...but does anyone have any suggestions?

 
iphone 5; spotify 1.4; ios 7.1.2 (this is the brand new update from a few days ago -but was having the same problems for the few days before that that i had spotify 1.4 and the previous version of ios.