Go into its configuration (Addons -> uBlock Origin -> Options)Īfter all those configurations, I was able to successfully use the Spotify Web Player from my OnePlus 3T Android device.

Adding a block rule to uBlock Origin seemed to fix that. But I had a lot of Firefox crashes while testing, this setup. In theory this should suffice to let you use Spotifys Web Player. I chose a recent Firefox Version (Firefox 63.0) with Windows 7, just because it’s most likely one of the most used User-Agents.

Select a nice User-Agent from the list.

Select “User-Agent Switcher and Manager” from the 3-dot menu.

Install the already mentioned User-Agent Switcher and Manager Addon in Firefox Nightly.

Therefore we need to change the User-Agent string Firefox sends to Spotify. As your browser “admits” it’s running on an Android device, you will still be redirected to the “Download the App, hurr durr!”-site.

Spotify Web also checks your User-Agent string. Therefore I welcomed the challenge of convincing Spotifys Web player to work on Android. Especially the differentiation between PC and mobile browsers triggered me. If you can’t sell your Premium Account with a feature list, you should probably work on the list instead of artificially limiting the features on different devices. While I understand that Spotify wants to earn money, I heavily dislike the artificial limitations to push people to a paying account.

To push their Premium Account to you, Spotify additionally prevents mobile browsers from using their less limited Web player. I’m not using it a lot, but if I understood correctly, you can’t properly play a playlist or one song, you get force fed “matching” songs. If you are like me and don’t use Spotify on mobile very often, you might not know that the free version of the Spotify app is heavily castrated. So please read the comments as well until I found the time to test new ways and to update the post.Ī friend of mine asked me if it was possible to use the Spotify Web Player on his Android smartphone.

Update September 2020: While these exact instructions don’t work anymore, there are solutions in the comments.

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