Spotify breaks when using symbolic link for Brave Folder

Browser Support
1

When I try to play songs on open.spotify.com I see a pop-up with:

“Spotify can’t play this right now. If you have the file on your computer you can import it.”

Until one song starts playing, but then it goes silent again.

I found the issue, but have no idea why it happens.

Replicating is really easy.

Access to Spotify (open.spotify.com), make sure everything works as intended.

Now close the browser and create a symbolic link to move browser files to a different drive like so.

First rename C:\Users-–\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser to something else.

Create the symbolic link:

mklink /d “C:\Users-–\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser” “F:\Cache\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser”

Now copy the contents of the renamed folder into the one linked. (Optional step)

Open the browser, go to Spotify (open.spotify.com) and the error starts to happen.

Is there a fix for this?

2

I had the same issue on Chrome after I symlinked the UserData folder and the main application folder in “C:\Program File” to D: drive.

I then went back to the UserData and renamed the forder to UserDataOld to see if that would fix the issue. Once Chrome was opened, it automatically created a new UserData folder. Unfortunately, this did not fix the problem.

Then I went back and also renamed the Chrome app folder in C: to see if this might be the problem, and voila this did the trick. By renaming the folder, the Chrome shortcut went directly to the source on the D: drive.

Edit: When I open Chrome directly in C: folder and play spotify, it doesn’t work. But when I open Chrome in D: drive it does.

3

This topic was automatically closed 30 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.