How to Disable Music Videos in Spotify

Spotify, it’s fair to say, has made immoderate weird user-experience choices.

There are a fig of panels successful the app, and the layout is confusing. The work perpetually tracks your activity. The app besides seems to person an unusual hostility to playing existent albums. This each works to make a wide feeling that Spotify’s designers are trying to propulsion you into utilizing the work successful a peculiar way.

It’s understandable, then, that immoderate radical are annoyed with the mode euphony videos person been added to the platform. For the astir part, they would commencement to play by default, successful the background, whenever an creator had uploaded a video for the song. Some euphony videos person precise antithetic audio from the archetypal tracks, peculiarly if they see sketches oregon dependable effects, which tin beryllium distracting if you similar the medium mentation of the song. And adjacent if you bask euphony videos (which I do), the determination to person videos play by default—using up bandwidth and artillery power—upset a batch of people.

There are a fewer different quirks. On Spotify’s desktop app, the videos are hardly visible; they enactment contained successful the tiny medium creation sheet until you negociate to find the hidden, highly tiny Now playing fastener that enlarges them. Also, the enactment of videos that are connected the platform, and the ones that are mysteriously absent, seems wholly random. Because of this, I cheque YouTube archetypal erstwhile I truly privation to ticker a euphony video.

The astir annoying thing, though, had been a deficiency of immoderate evident mode to disable each videos. That changed recently—there’s present a toggle successful the settings to disable euphony videos successful Spotify entirely, alongside controls that disable the Canvas diagnostic (animated medium art) and video podcasts.

On mobile you tin bash this by tapping your idiosyncratic illustration icon successful the top-left to bring up the broadside panel. Then pat Settings and privacy, followed by Content and display.

In the Videos and Canvas conception you volition spot 3 toggles: 1 for euphony videos, 1 for Canvas, and 1 for each different videos. This past toggle disables video podcasts, meaning you’ll get the audio-only mentation of podcasts instead. Turn each these off, and Spotify volition usage a batch little bandwidth.

On the desktop app, it’s a small different. Click your idiosyncratic illustration icon successful the top-right corner, past click Settings. Scroll down to the Videos and Canvas conception to find the options to disable euphony videos and Canvas.

I tested this and it worked. The euphony video icon successful playlists and albums disappeared, arsenic did the postulation of euphony videos connected Artist pages. The lone remnant of the disabled diagnostic is simply a Switch to video fastener successful the Now Playing sidebar, which appears beneath the medium art. Click it and you’ll beryllium told the video can’t play unless you crook videos backmost connected successful the settings. Odd, for sure, but for the astir portion turning this disconnected means you don’t person to deliberation astir euphony videos successful Spotify anymore.

I sincerely privation that Spotify would rotation retired euphony videos with much care. Sometimes I truly bash privation to spot a video—just not each clip I play a track. Playlists of euphony videos mightiness beryllium invited if they ran separately from the audio-only playlists. I conscionable don’t privation to get a euphony video erstwhile I’m looking for the medium mentation of a song, and I don’t deliberation I’m unsocial successful that. I tin lone anticipation that Spotify’s aboriginal interface plan choices volition support things much intelligibly separated.