Toggle ‘Enable sites to play protected content option’ here. Go to Settings > Site settings > Additional settings > Protected content. Enable Protected ContentĪre you facing an error that says ‘Playback of protected content is not enabled’ or something similar? That’s an easy fix. Just open settings and search a little or look under the privacy menu. The steps are more or less similar for other browsers too. We have talked before about how to clear cache and cookies on Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Cookies and cached data can break web apps resulting in errors like the one you face where the Spotify web player is not working.

If you are using any Ad blocker, then you’ll have to add Spotify’s URL to the whitelist or the trusted site list.

There are many like Brave and Firefox, to name a few. One quick way to check that is by using a different browser. Disable all extensions and then re-enable them one at a time to check which one is causing conflict. If yes, one of the extensions is at fault. Open Incognito mode and view if you can run Spotify. Certain media extensions could also interfere with the Spotify web player. We will check if there is some issue with your browser or one of the extensions you installed. After all, the browser is also an app that’s been installed on Windows, right? It can use some help. You will need to download the Media Feature Pack before you can use Spotify, even in the web browser. Which version of Windows you have on your system? Microsoft notes that N versions don’t come with media functionalities and apps right of the box.

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