Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. Thank you for the help, I downloaded vlc and it's working great. Spotify - Web Player: Music for everyone. I thought I remembered it being the same as you said, though I'm really not sure. Otherwise you may want to go with Google Music or Samsung Music as I believe they allow you to sort MP3s into playlists.Įdit: Just want to clarify that I was able to reproduce exactly what's happening to you. I'd recommend VLC if you just want something that can play a bunch of audio (and video) formats.

Unfortunately I think the only 'fix' for this is installing another app that will play MP3s. it seems you're stuck with it auto-opening Spotify unless you have a dedicated app for playing MP3s.

After Windows 10 update, Spotify seems to have lost some permissions. Try to check all boxes in you Windows Firewall settings for Spotify.exe. I don't know why they chose to do it this way, but. If you still have the problem, I found a solution for me. I think the MP3 player in the files app is just there so you have something to play them with if you don't have anything else that can. So I uninstalled any apps that were listed as capable of playing MP3s. I have Google music I stalled but that's been disabled for a long time, that's about it. I can't even select a different app to open my files, as soon as I hit 'open with', it starts up Spotify. Normally when I play a mp3 file its in the my files app, which just loads a simple inapp player.

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