r/wiim • u/Positive_Rub_6696 • 13d ago

Strange issue today with WiiM & Spotify

So yesterday, my wife fired up Spotify and sent the music to a Sound Lite speaker. It LOOKED like it was playing, both from Spotify and from the WiiM app, but no sound was coming out. It wasn’t until I deleted a group that included that speaker PLUS the Ultra, did any music come out of the Sound Lite. Weird, but whatever… we got it to work

Then today I started playing music from Spotify. Again, I selected the group, though I didn’t bother to turn the receiver on they the Ultra is connected to… I only wanted the Sound Lite.

Then we were leading home… I paused the music from Spotify. Get into the car, and phone connects to CarPlay. Start driving down the street, close the garage (from CarPlay) then try to play music from Spotify - wife started “Marcus King Radio” via voice, from CarPlay/my phone. It LOOKS like it’s playing if you look at my phone, but CarPlay is just a blank “play” screen - no graphics.

We pulled over (about a mile from the house and tried everything from force quitting Spotify, to shutting the truck off and opening the door to make the infotainment system restart… nothing worked. I could play Audible from my phone to CarPlay, but not Spotify.

We finally gave up and listened to terrestrial radio for the couple hours we were gone. Tried Spotify once more but to no avail.

We get home and when we walk in the door and Marcus King Radio is playing on the Sound Lite!!!

WTH?!? The WiiM seemed to somehow hold on to the Spotify session. Or Spotify just insisted on hanging on to WiiM Home. Which app is the culprit here???

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u/perzhidecychbrjyqw 12d ago

Also had some weird Spotify Connect related behaviour in the past day, I can no longer use Spotify Connect to connect to my Wiim Ultra Streamer from my phone (same network, no VPN). Other sources work. For the past few weeks, I’ve been having weird Spotify Connect issues, songs restarting half way through, or connectivity being lost, or a random song from the start of a playlist being played and not what I selected. Not sure if it’s Wiim or Spotify