During Spotify playback the next song stops after the first few seconds when the screen is locked (Happening again)

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Description of the issue:

Playback on spotify.com stops a few seconds into the next song when the screen is locked/turned off. When the screen is on, playback continues as expected.

This block from Spotify effectively makes Brave’s ad blocker useless for Spotify because Spotify Web is not usable on mobile without keeping the device unlocked at all times.

This is also a privacy issue, because it suggests Spotify can detect whether the user has locked the screen. That information should NOT be shared with Spotify if the user does not want to share it. It could be used for fingerprinting.

This problem happened before and was supposed to be fixed, but it is back again.

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Go to spotify.com in mobile and set it to Desktop Mode.

  2. Start playing a song and lock the screen

  3. Wait until it finishes. It will move to next song

  4. If screen is still locked and turned off, next song will play a few seconds and then it will stop.

Expected result:Spotify playback to continue playing next song.

**Brave Version( check About Brave):**1.91.168, Chromium 149.0.7827.54

Mobile Device details

Android 10

Additional Information:

May I confirm that you have Widevine enabled on Brave? Spotify plays DRM content, so if that’s disabled, the songs won’t play well (if at all).

I have it enabled look

Please wait for @Mattches to get back to you on this.

We are tracking this issue here:

I’ve added your report to the issue as well.

Its okay, I think now it works, it is strange because I tried it like some days ago and the bug happened.

But now I am trying the same and it works fine. @Mattches