Perhaps the reason for this odd behavior from Spotify’s new sleep timer feature is because it is still at a trial stage and there is not much user feedback on the feature which Spotify would rely on to make a better product. I’ve only tested this through my Echo speaker headphones or phone speaker not practical. Sometimes after the allotted time setting reverts to ‘End of track’ but still doesn’t stop playing music. To turn off the timer, simply repeat the above steps and press “Turn timer off”.įor most Spotify users, the new feature seems to work just fine at least based on some of the reviews that we have seen on Reddit, but there are some users who have reported that the performance of the feature is sporadic at best like this one: There is also the option to stop the music from playing just after a single track ends. This means that you can set Spotify to quietly go to sleep for up to one hour after the music has started playing. These timers range from 5 minutes to an hour.

Pressing the Sleep Timer will reveal several timer options that you can use.

At the very bottom, you will see the Sleep Timer option.

Go to the Now Playing screen and tap the Overflow menu.

Update Spotify to the latest available update on Play Store.

Using Spotify’s Sleep timer is both easy and intuitive. Neither does the music fade away as dreams take over, it rather just stops.

While the service does not automatically sync to users sleep patterns (our earthly technology is not that advanced), it allows users to stop playback after a set period has elapsed.

Recently, however, Spotify has slowly rolled out a sleep timer for Android in the “Now Playing” menu that stops music playback after a set amount of time. The feature wasn’t included for an inordinate amount of time, despite insistent requests from users of the streaming service It is after all, what mothers do when they sing lullabies to their loved ones and you would expect that Spotify, the music streaming service, would have long figured this out and included the “fading music” option as part of their original offering to service users.

In a perfect world, everyone falls asleep while listening to good music playing in the background, which then fades with the intensity of sleep.

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