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Spotify for Windows 1.2.77.358 – The Quiet Update That Actually Matters

Let’s be honest: most Spotify updates feel like someone just rearranged the deck chairs. Not this one.

Dropped on November 18, 2025, version 1.2.77.358 is the rare “you won’t see it, but you’ll feel it” release that fixes the little annoyances that have been quietly driving power listeners nuts for months.

Here’s what actually changed (without the corporate fluff):

• Finally killed the random 2–3 second delay when skipping tracks on large local file libraries. Skipping through a 40-year-old vinyl rip now feels instant again.
• Fixed the bug where the progress bar would freeze if you touched the seek slider while a song was buffering. No more “am I broken?” moments.
• Canvas videos (those looping visuals) no longer eat your GPU alive when you’re running 20+ apps. Great for laptops that were thermal-throttling during long sessions.
• Playlist folders now remember their open/closed state even if Spotify crashes or you force-quit it. Yes, that used to reset every single time.
• Local file scanning is roughly 40% faster on first launch—huge if you keep 100GB+ of FLACs on an external drive.
• The equalizer on Windows finally respects the “preamp” slider again instead of quietly ignoring it after restart.
• Dark mode got a tiny contrast bump—album art text is actually readable now when you’re half-asleep at 2 a.m.

Nothing earth-shattering on the surface, no redesigned home page, no AI DJ yelling at you. Just the Spotify team quietly sanding down the rough edges that daily users have been complaining about on Reddit for ages.

If you live in Spotify on Windows (playlists stacked 10 deep, local files mixed with streaming, Canvas on, hardware acceleration enabled), this is the smoothest the desktop app has felt in over a year.

Update’s already rolling out automatically, or grab it straight from → spotify.com/download

(Pro move: after updating, hit Ctrl + P → Advanced → turn on “Enable hardware video decoding (H.264)” if you use Canvas a lot. Your battery life will thank you.)