{"id":16885,"date":"2026-07-19T20:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=16885"},"modified":"2026-07-19T20:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:55:43","slug":"easy-methods-to-disable-music-movies-in-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=16885","title":{"rendered":"Easy methods to Disable Music Movies in Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Spotify, it\u2019s truthful<\/span> to say, has made some bizarre user-experience selections.<\/p>\n

There are a variety of panels within the app, and the format is complicated. The service consistently tracks<\/a> your exercise. The app additionally appears to have an odd hostility to taking part in precise albums<\/a>. This all works to create a basic feeling that Spotify\u2019s<\/a> designers are attempting to push you into utilizing the service in a selected means.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s comprehensible, then, that some persons are irritated with the way in which music movies have been added to the platform. For probably the most half, they’d begin to play by default, within the background, every time an artist had uploaded a video for the tune. Some music movies have very completely different audio from the unique tracks, notably in the event that they embody sketches or sound results, which may show distracting in the event you want the album model of the tune. And even in the event you get pleasure from music movies (which I do), the choice to have movies play by default\u2014utilizing up bandwidth and battery energy\u2014upset lots of people.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of different quirks. On Spotify\u2019s desktop app, the movies are barely seen; they keep contained within the tiny album artwork panel till you handle to seek out the hidden, extraordinarily small Now taking part in button that enlarges them. Additionally, the choice of movies which can be on the platform, and those which can be mysteriously absent, appears completely random. Due to this, I examine YouTube first after I actually need to watch a music video.<\/p>\n

Essentially the most annoying factor, although, had been an absence of any apparent technique to disable all movies. That modified lately<\/a>\u2014there\u2019s now a toggle within the settings to disable music movies in Spotify totally, alongside controls that disable the Canvas function (animated album artwork) and video podcasts.<\/p>\n

On cellular you are able to do this by tapping your person profile icon within the top-left to deliver up the aspect panel. Then faucet Settings and privateness<\/strong>, adopted by Content material and show<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Within the Movies and Canvas<\/strong> part you will note three toggles: one for music movies, one for Canvas, and one for all different movies. This final toggle disables video podcasts, that means you\u2019ll get the audio-only model of podcasts as an alternative. Flip all these off, and Spotify will use lots much less bandwidth.<\/p>\n

On the desktop app, it\u2019s a bit completely different. Click on your person profile icon within the top-right nook, then click on Settings<\/strong>. Scroll all the way down to the Movies and Canvas<\/strong> part to seek out the choices to disable music movies and Canvas.<\/p>\n

I examined this and it labored. The music video icon in playlists and albums disappeared, as did the gathering of music movies on Artist pages. The one remnant of the disabled function is a Swap to video button within the Now Taking part in sidebar, which seems beneath the album artwork. Click on it and also you\u2019ll be instructed the video can\u2019t play until you flip movies again on within the settings. Odd, for certain, however for probably the most half turning this off means you don\u2019t have to consider music movies in Spotify anymore.<\/p>\n

I sincerely want that Spotify would roll out music movies with extra care. Generally I actually do need to see a video\u2014simply not each time I play a monitor. Playlists of music movies is likely to be welcome in the event that they ran individually from the audio-only playlists. I simply don\u2019t need to get a music video after I\u2019m searching for the album model of a tune, and I don\u2019t suppose I\u2019m alone in that. I can solely hope that Spotify\u2019s future interface design selections will maintain issues extra clearly separated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spotify, it\u2019s truthful to say, has made some bizarre user-experience selections. There are a variety of panels within the app, and the format is complicated. The service consistently tracks your exercise. The app additionally appears to have an odd hostility to taking part in precise albums. This all works to create a basic feeling that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[7606,884,6101,5854],"class_list":["post-16885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-disable","tag-music","tag-spotify","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16886,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16885\/revisions\/16886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}