Fixed: Spotify Keeps Skipping or Pausing [7 Ways]

By Li ZhangUpdated on December 16, 2022

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"Why my Spotify app always keeps pausing when I listen to music via it and turn my phone to another page, I even reinstall the app and update it to the newest version but it didn't work. How to fix it?"

Spotify is known as one of the popular music streaming platform which supports almost all the latest model smartphone. Until now, the number of Spotify free users is more than 198 million around the world, the number of Premium users is more than 160 million around the world. However, some Spotify users complain that Spotify app sudden skipping or pausing and interrupt the music. In this page we will provides 6 official ways with you to fix Spotify keeps skipping or pausing issue, and an extra way to fix Spotify keeps skipping/pausing songs through downloading Spotify Music to local files.

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Part 1. Why Does My Spotify Keep Skipping or Pausing Songs?

Poor Internet connection may be the main cause lead to Spotify keeps skipping or pausing issue. What's more, if you choose to play Spotify Music in high streaming quality, it may be lead to the same issue also. Thirdly, the caches of listen to Spotify Music may be result in the abnormal music playing issue. There used to be when users revealed Spotify can't play music as usual, and ultimately they find that the issue came from the Spotify itself. If you encounter the similar situations, you can read the next part to get solutions to fix Spotify keeps skipping or pausing issue.

Part 2. 6 Official Ways to Fix Spotify Keeps Skipping or Pausing Issue

1. Restart Your Device
It is the easiest way to solve your Spotify abnormal issue. Anything wrong could happen to apps on your device when it is not working well. Just restart your device when Spotify keeps skipping or pausing songs on Android/iPhone, and see what happens.

2. Check the Internet Connection
A poor internet connection could possibly cause the problem. If your Spotify keeps skipping or pausing, close the Spotify app and then go to check the Internet settings on your device. Check the Internet and see if it works while using other apps.

3. Change to Low Streaming Quality
In case you're streaming Spotify Music in high calibre, the music may get skipping or pausing when the streaming quality is too high. So try to change to low streaming quality.

4. Log out and Log in Spotify Account Again
You can log out your Spotify account or go to the Spotify web page to log out everywhere. Then log in Spotify account again.

5. Clean Spotify Cache
To fix Spotify keeps skipping or pausing issue, you can try clean Spotify cache on your device. Follow the steps to clean Spotify cache.

Step 1. Close the Spotify web player or the Spotify Music player, make sure that Spotify app is completely shut down.

Step 2. Back up your Spotify songs cache by renaming the storage folder. Simply navigate to the link below:

Windows: C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Spotify\Storage
Mac: /Users/USERNAME/Library/Caches/com.spotify.client/Storage/
Linux: ~/.cache/spotify/Storage/

Step 3. Rename the folder and then restart Spotify.

6. Optimize the Storage of Your Device
When Spotify keeps skipping/pausing songs on iPhone/Android, you should check if there is enough storage for Spotify songs. (Navigate to Settings > General > Storage.) You might see a list of suggestions for optimizing the storage of your device.

If you try these ways below and can’t fix the Spotify keeps skipping/pausing, there is an ultimate way that are recommended for you. Get Spotify Music in offline mode, it will not require an Internet connection and it will only skip songs that are unavailable offline. To overcome the Spotify abnormal issue, you can get help of a professional music converter program. After that, you can get rid of the skipping/pausing problem by downloading Spotify Music as local files for offline playback.

Part 3. Ultimate Guide to Fix Spotify Keeps Skipping/Pausing Songs (Hot)

To fix Spotify keeps skipping/pausing songs issue completely, here is the ultimate way we want to share with you, download and convert Spotify Music to MP3 files, then you can play Spotify Music offline without Spotify official platform on any devices without Internet connection. Since Spotify Music is DRM-protected, nobody can download Spotify directly as local files, including Premium users. All the music contents you downloaded from Spotify are just caches files, they will be inaccessible once without music subscription. In this way, UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter is required.

A reliable music converter for Spotify called UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter is what you need. As its name, it enables to download and convert Spotify Music to MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF with keeping original quality and ID3 tags. After running the 5X faster conversion, this program allows you to play Spotify songs offline on any device without music subscription, no Internet connection request, offline playback Spotify Music outside Spotify official platform. As a result, you can completely fix Spotify skipping/pausing songs issue, then listen to Spotify Music smoothly and get a great music listening experience.

Features of UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter

• Download and convert Spotify Music to MP3
• Keeping original quality and ID3 tags
• Fix Spotify skipping/pausing songs issue
• Play Spotify songs offline on any device
• Play Spotify songs without music subscription
• Offline playback music without Spotify app
• Quick music conversion at 5X faster speed

How to Download Spotify Music to MP3 Local Files

Step 1. Launch UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter
Install, launch UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter on computer. Then it will immediately load the built-in Spotify web player. Please log in your Spotify account by clicking "Log in" on the top right corner in program.

Step 2. Set MP3 as Output Format
Click on the gear icon button. In the pop-up window, you can set the output format (in this case select “MP3” option), you can also set bit rate, sample rate, and output path for output Spotify songs.

Step 3. Add Spotify Songs
Add the songs or playlists you want to download to MP3 in UkeySoft, by clicking the red "+" button. After select a album or a playlist, all songs in it will be default selected. Just remove the songs you don’t want.

Step 4. Download Spotify Music to MP3
Once all the settings are set, just click on the "Convert" button, and UkeySoft program will begin to download songs to MP3 and save output Spotify songs to local drive on computer.

When the conversion finishes, click on "History" to get the output MP3 Spotify songs.

Conclusion

You can fix Spotify keeps skipping or pausing using the 6 official ways we mentioned in part 2, if you want to fix this issue perfectly, try the ultimate way to fix it through downloading Spotify Music as local files. UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter help you to overcome the songs skipping or pausing issue with the best solution. After downloading Spotify Music to MP3 local files via UkeySoft program, then you can play Spotify Music offline without Spotify official platform on any device without Internet connection, listen to Spotify Music smoothly and get a great music listening experience.

Li Zhang

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Li Zhang

Li Zhang is a sophisticated editor for UkeySoft in tech blog writing, as well as a SEO and content marketing expert. She has been writing related article about multimedia conversion, streaming music and streaming video since 2018. Also, she's starting to write article about data security, including articles about file lock, USB encryption, DVD encryption, etc. Each helpful tutorial and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.

Li Zhang

Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

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