The Spotify web player is a web-based application that allows users to play music from Spotify without needing to download and install any application. It was first released in 2012 and was built using web technologies, including Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) and iframes to isolate views from each other.
However, the web player had some drawbacks, such as long load times due to the need to download many resources every time the user navigated between views. In 2016, Spotify decided to improve the web player by rewriting it from scratch, following a similar architecture to the Spotify application for TV and video consoles, which uses the Spotify Web API to combine access to microservices and create a unified interface to manipulate Spotify data.
The new web player was built by a dedicated team of 5 developers, who used a single client-side stack to build the views, resulting in faster iteration and a better user experience. The web player is now maintained by a dedicated team and is available for desktop browsers.
If you're experiencing issues with the Spotify web player, you can try using a different browser or an incognito/private window, making sure your browser is updated, restarting your router, checking a different network, or cleaning up your hosts file. If none of these solutions work, you can post your question in the Spotify community for further assistance.
