Spotify Web-Player broken
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Hey everybody,
since two weeks I cant use the spotify web-player in my vivaldi browser.
When i start a song, the player automatically skips 4-5 songs, than starts playing a song for exactly 9 seconds and stops after that.I tried deleting cookies, cache etc. but nothing worked so far. It also doesnt seem to be a computer/driver problem because when I use the edge browser it works fine.
Any ideas what might be the problem? Are any of you having the same issue?
Im using:
vivaldi version: 3.4.2066.76 (Stable channel) (64-Bit)
operation system: Windows 10 OS Version 1909 (Build 18363.1110)
JavaScript: V8 8.6.395.16Thanks in advance
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@robsterpunch Hi, this is a known issue. It's probably been reported before but feel free to do so here:
https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/I suspect this is the kind of issue with a big site that might lead users to abandon Vivaldi...
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I started having this issue on 3.3 about 1 week ago.
I'm guessing Spotify made some changes, as for me it was working fine then after a page refresh it started having issues.
Started using Edge for Spotify instead and no issues.
I can't recall if i tested with/without an adblocker, but i'm using one with Edge and it's working fine.
@Pathduck said in Spotify Web-Player broken:
I suspect this is the kind of issue with a big site that might lead users to abandon Vivaldi...
It definitely might be for some. I've got Vivaldi tweaked mostly to how i want it, so moving to another browser isn't on my to do list.
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is this ever going to be fixed? i reported it ages ago. and got an email saying it had been acknowledged.
5 or so updates on and you guys still haven't fixed the skipping.
i have to use another browser just to play songs on spotify. it's incredibly inconvenient and i find myself using another browser instead of vivaldi because of it.
@7twenty said in Spotify Web-Player broken:
I started having this issue on 3.3 about 1 week ago.
I'm guessing Spotify made some changes, as for me it was working fine then after a page refresh it started having issues.
Started using Edge for Spotify instead and no issues.
I can't recall if i tested with/without an adblocker, but i'm using one with Edge and it's working fine.
@Pathduck said in Spotify Web-Player broken:
I suspect this is the kind of issue with a big site that might lead users to abandon Vivaldi...
It definitely might be for some. I've got Vivaldi tweaked mostly to how i want it, so moving to another browser isn't on my to do list.
ditto, i'm using edge a lot more now too.
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@paintedbird Something broke in chromium spotify DRM keys
(it affects Brave too, for example).
Sadly - at the moment - only Chrome, Firefox, Edge and MS Store Spotify app will work with it.
//EDIT: And Brave, according to some users. -
i have the same problem in vivaldi, but brave works fine
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@Gwen-Dragon I've tested with the latest version dug out from Chrome Portable, and copied into the Vivaldi WidevineCdm directory. Confirmed the version in components was updated. Still the same error, the call to
https://gew-spclient.spotify.com/widevine-license/v1/audio/license
fails with a http 403.But Spotify does works in Chrome with the same DLL, so it's a license code issue, not a Widevine version issue. The same call returns a http 200 there...
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@Gwen-Dragon Sad. So this shouldn't be considered a
wontfix
or apipeline
?Wondering if it'd be useful to keep a sticky list on troubleshoot with broken DRM sites as spotify/amazon HD to avoid having a lot of threads on the question.
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@Gwen-Dragon Nice to hear that even if the
payed access
scare me a bit ^^,
I suggested the change as the solution don't seem to be near anymore from an user point of view -
@Gwen-Dragon Thanks for the update. Did they say what the cause of the issue was?
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@Gwen-Dragon Thanks. Even though I don't use Spotify that much, I was curious what would cause the issue for such a big site in many browsers.
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I don't use Spotify often in Vivaldi, but I tried it this week and it seems to be back to the same problem.
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@Gwen-Dragon On Win10 with the current release version, so I guess there's some other variable, but the skipping is the same as 3.4.
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@rseiler Have you tried in a clean profile or a clean standalone install?
https://help.vivaldi.com/article/troubleshooting-issues/For me on Windows 10 20H2 it works fine, both my standard snapshot and stable with clean profile.
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@Pathduck Yes, but it would have been very odd if some other issue produced the same skipping result as before.
Perhaps it's the version of Windows (this is a later build), what's being played, the login, or something else. I'm sure someone else will chime in eventually, but when I use Spotify I tend to just open Firefox to avoid surprises.
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@rseiler On the page
vivaldi://components
check the version of Widevine Content Decryption Module.Mine is Version: 4.10.1610.0 If older check for updates.
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@Gwen-Dragon Yes, same here.
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@rseiler Try opening DevTools (F12) and then try to play a song. In the original problem, the XHR POST requests to
https://gew-spclient.spotify.com/widevine-license/
failed with a 403 (denied) error.Are you getting these in the log and are they failing or returning 200 (OK)?
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yeah i have this problem too, i just use opera when i want to listen on spotify, it's not a big deal. it would be nice if it were eventually fixed, though.
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Working here again.
FWIW -
Widevine Content Decryption Module - Version: 4.10.1610.0
Windows 10.19042.685