Even if you pay for Spotify, your computer is being used to upload data to other Spotify users. There is no official confirmation for this, but since Spotify uses P2P technologies to power some of its streams, it relies on users keeping the client open. Are there ways to close the Spotify client faster? You bet they are, and I have them all for your.īefore I do, it is probably a good idea to find out why Spotify makes it more difficult than it should to close the client. This is not really intuitive and requires too many clicks in my opinion.

The only apparent option to exit Spotify completely is to right-click the software's taskbar icon and use the Quit Spotify option that is displayed here.

The Spotify client has one annoying behavior: it won't quit when I hit the close icon of its window, use Alt-F4, or right-click on its taskbar entry and select close window. I have been running Spotify on one of my Windows systems for a while now, mostly for testing purposes using a free guest account since I do not listen to enough music per month to justify paying for a streaming music service.

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