Finally, not only can you playback Spotify on Mac, you can connect it to over 2,000 devices, such as smart speakers, TVs, gaming consoles, etc. To do that, make sure your devices are using the same WiFi network and then use the Devices Available menu at the bottom panel of your Spotify to connect them.
Does Spotify Work For Mac
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1. Open Google Chrome or Edge browser on your Mac. Visit open.spotify.com.2. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right corner once the site loads.3. Select Apps and click on Install this site as an app.4. On the popup menu, click on Install.
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However, this may not work on older machines, especially those with lower-end video cards and hardware that cannot support this feature. You may end up with stuttering, lag, or issues with playing songs.
The Spotify desktop app on Mac is beyond bad. Now, if I'm playing a song on Spotify and then pause the song and play something else on my browser, when I'm done and I press play on Spotify again the song doesn't play and after a few seconds the "Can't play current song" pops up. Also, the media keys (play/pause/skip, etc.) don't work exclusively for Spotify and they start playing random things on the browser such as ads, videos on Twitter, etc. - - Mac User from Reddit
In some cases, the issue is with the enabled Accessibility keyboard. When the keyboard is on the screen, it allows you to use your Mac without a physical keyboard. It can be opened accidentally so that cause Spotify not to work fine on your Mac.
When you open Spotify and start to play a song, Spotify says you're offline and can't play the current song. This is a common issue that many Spotify users encounter across devices, and normally it's caused by Spotify servers not working correctly or the firewall has denied Spotify to connect. To fix Spotify not playing songs on Mac issue, here is the solution.
Deleting item is relatively easy. Move VO cursor onto the song title you want to delete. Press "VO + space" to move the mouse to VO cursor, then press Delete key. There is no audio feedback but it works.
Hi Kenya, thanks a lot for your article! I didn't know about that, and from when I knew this possibility I use Spotify a lot! I have a question. In my Mac, when I want to run Spotify in accessible mode I have Always to use terminal. Which is the best way to save a file that opens the terminal and do the works for me? I've tried to save a file in apple script, but if you know an easier way tell me. And it's a Pity that Spotify doesn't allow to set an option to run the app by default in accessible view.
The point is that the flag does not actually belong to Spotify but to Chrome-like web browser embedded in Spotify application. The name is Chromium and its project page has documents about the flag. There are 1094 flags in total. There are more than 1000 pages of documentation and the flag in question is mentioned only in a few pages.
Usually the mouse pointer follows VO cursor, right? But for some UI elements in HTML contents, the mouse cursor is positioned in a wrong place: close to VO cursor but not close enough to perform actions. The song titles in playlists are one of those weird elements. In this case, "VO + space" is needed to re-locate the mouse pointer right above VO cursor as calibration purpose. ("VO + command + F5" doesn't work for the case like this)
That's interesting. Can you maybe email spotify accessibility and suggest that this be atken care of now that we have sort of a work around for accessibility? If you did or someone did email spotify asking about this have they responded?
This is a very nice plus to a very unaccessable application on the mac. thank you very much for the information.Has anyone found a way to access the playsists?I see a playlists heading, but I can't find a way to access a list. the playlist frame doesn't update when I VO space on a playlist name. even tried blicking on it using the mouse click with vO-shift-space.Ideas?
I have a question though:does anyone know if a track can be skipped through for example fast forwarding or rewinding the track?This can be done on IOS and I was wondering if it can be done on mac as well.
I also got confused when I first tried to access one of the Playlists. It requires an unusual way to simulate a mouse click. On the playlist name in the Playlists heading, first use VO+space, and then mouse click with VO+shift+space. The playlist will be shown in the main contents frame. This unusual mouse click trick can be also used for other elements. You can identify those elements when VoiceOver doesn't say "Link" or "Button". I wonder if this issue is Spotify contents-specific or it is a common issue for any other HTML contents.
Hi Kenya, thanks for your hints. The other commands you have listed work perfectly, except the forwarding and rewinding. If I play a song, and press command shift right Arrow, the song doesn't go forward. This command is specific only of the off line mode?ThanksAmbro
This terminal hack is absolutely great. I sorted out a keyboard maestro hotkey to do the Spotify launch in accessibility mode. I've also added in a keyboard maestro hotkey to the command Q keystroke when in spotify so that it closes spotify and the terminal as well, just because I got sick of having to constantly close the terminal after Spotify quits.
Hi! I really don't know what's happening here, usually I'm quite fast at understanding new layots, but this one makes me feel real slow... :)How do you e.g. get to the search results? I hit Cmd+L to go to the search field, type in something, and then hit tab. That lands me on a link called "skip to main content". If I hit VO+Space on it, it seems to me like nothing happens...I mean, this is most likely an awesome solution to the totally inaccessible standard spotify app, once you get the hang of it. It's just that I can't get my head to figure out such an easy thing as how to play a song... LolAny help?
I found the UI to be quite clean and completely usable without much problem. The key to most of these problems is to put Spotify into full screen mode. After that, the typical route mouse to VO cursor with VO+Command+F5 works every time. There are some unlabeled buttons, but they seem irrelevant because most playback such as repeat, shuffle, and play/pause can be done with the playback menu. SPACE plays/pauses a track, COMMAND+S shuffles a playlist, COMMAND+R repeats a track, COMMAND+LEFT/RIGHT goes from track to track in the list, COMMAND+UP/DOWN changes the volume, COMMAND+SHIFT+LEFT/RIGHT skipps through the track, and COMMAND+Q quits Spotify. It seems that other than a few minor workarounds, whatever VO uses in Safari for web navigation works in Spotify. I was able to do the following:
Thanks a lot for the tips! :)I'll have to try this when I'm in front of my Mac again! And perhaps fullscreen-mode also will make the layout more understandable...I really hope I can get this to work, cause right now the iPhone spotify app is the only accessible solution for me. So I will have to airplay from my iPhone over to my Mac when I want to listen to spotify on my studio-monitors. So this will definetely make my life a lot easier! :)Thanks again!
Hi Cliff, you are right. I switched from Mavericks to Yosemite and noticed that my approach did not work on Yosemite. On Yosemite, after hitting VO+Space and VO says "press skip to main content", VO+Left once and VO+Right once, here VO says "Search, frame". Now VO+Shift+Down works to enter the search results.
Hi Everyone, It seems the key to navigating the Spotify app is via frames. If you press command+L to get to the search field, (it's best to navigate the page with quick nav off), make sure to press command+A to select all and delete it, just in case there was text in the field you weren't aware of. Put in your search term and press enter. Now, to get to the search results, press control+option+command+F. (VO+F). this will move you forward to the next frame. Interact with the frame, it will say "search frame" and vo+right arrow to the artists, or albums you wish to see. there's, at first, an unlabeled link, then the name of the artist/album/song, then, depending on what you're looking for, the name of the artist. for example, if you're looking for a song, you'll see the song title as a link, and then if you vo+right arrow again, you'll see the name of the artist/band. If you want to play said song, vo+space on the link, then navigate to the next frame, (VO+Command+F), and it will get you to the specifics. Interact with this, and navigate to the "play" button. At this point, you can (if you wish), turn on quick navigation by pressing left/right arrows at the same time, and press "b" to get to the "play" button. You can also tab a few times and you will be presented with a table of songs, either from an album you're listening to, or various songs with the same title by an artist, depending on your search. I've created a short audio demo of Spotify searching, perhaps it will help: -spotify-accessibility-on-the-mac HTH! Rachel. 2ff7e9595c
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