How to Disable Music Videos in Spotify

如何在 Spotify 中禁用音乐视频

Spotify, it’s fair to say, has made some weird user-experience choices. There are a number of panels in the app, and the layout is confusing. The service constantly tracks your activity. The app also seems to have an odd hostility to playing actual albums. This all works to create a general feeling that Spotify’s designers are trying to push you into using the service in a particular way.

不得不说，Spotify 在用户体验方面做出了一些奇怪的选择。应用内面板繁多，布局令人困惑。该服务会持续追踪你的活动。此外，这款应用似乎对播放完整的专辑有一种莫名的排斥感。这一切都让人感觉 Spotify 的设计师正试图强迫你以某种特定的方式使用该服务。

It’s understandable, then, that some people are annoyed with the way music videos have been added to the platform. For the most part, they would start to play by default, in the background, whenever an artist had uploaded a video for the song. Some music videos have very different audio from the original tracks, particularly if they include sketches or sound effects, which can prove distracting if you prefer the album version of the song. And even if you enjoy music videos (which I do), the decision to have videos play by default—using up bandwidth and battery power—upset a lot of people.

因此，有些人对平台添加音乐视频的方式感到不满是可以理解的。在大多数情况下，只要艺人上传了歌曲视频，它们就会在后台默认播放。一些音乐视频的音频与原始曲目有很大不同，特别是当视频包含短剧或音效时，如果你更喜欢专辑版本的歌曲，这会让人分心。即使你喜欢音乐视频（我个人就很喜欢），这种默认播放视频——消耗带宽和电量——的做法也让许多人感到困扰。

There are a few other quirks. On Spotify’s desktop app, the videos are barely visible; they stay contained in the tiny album art panel until you manage to find the hidden, extremely small “Now playing” button that enlarges them. Also, the selection of videos that are on the platform, and the ones that are mysteriously absent, seems totally random. Because of this, I check YouTube first when I really want to watch a music video.

还有一些其他的小毛病。在 Spotify 的桌面端应用中，视频几乎不可见；它们被限制在微小的专辑封面面板中，直到你找到那个隐藏且极小的“正在播放”按钮将其放大。此外，平台上视频的选择，以及那些神秘缺失的视频，看起来完全是随机的。正因如此，当我想看音乐视频时，我会优先选择 YouTube。

The most annoying thing, though, had been a lack of any obvious way to disable all videos. That changed recently—there’s now a toggle in the settings to disable music videos in Spotify entirely, alongside controls that disable the Canvas feature (animated album art) and video podcasts.

然而，最令人恼火的是一直没有明显的途径来禁用所有视频。这种情况最近发生了改变——现在设置中增加了一个开关，可以完全禁用 Spotify 中的音乐视频，同时还提供了禁用 Canvas 功能（动态专辑封面）和视频播客的控制选项。

On mobile you can do this by tapping your user profile icon in the top-left to bring up the side panel. Then tap Settings and privacy, followed by Content and display.

在移动端，你可以点击左上角的用户头像调出侧边栏，然后点击“设置和隐私”，接着点击“内容与显示”。

In the Videos and Canvas section you will see three toggles: one for music videos, one for Canvas, and one for all other videos. This last toggle disables video podcasts, meaning you’ll get the audio-only version of podcasts instead. Turn all these off, and Spotify will use a lot less bandwidth.

在“视频与 Canvas”部分，你会看到三个开关：一个用于音乐视频，一个用于 Canvas，还有一个用于所有其他视频。最后一个开关可以禁用视频播客，这意味着你将获得纯音频版本的播客。关闭所有这些选项，Spotify 将会节省大量带宽。

On the desktop app, it’s a little different. Click your user profile icon in the top-right corner, then click Settings. Scroll down to the Videos and Canvas section to find the options to disable music videos and Canvas.

在桌面端应用上，操作略有不同。点击右上角的用户头像，然后点击“设置”。向下滚动到“视频与 Canvas”部分，即可找到禁用音乐视频和 Canvas 的选项。

I tested this and it worked. The music video icon in playlists and albums disappeared, as did the collection of music videos on Artist pages. The only remnant of the disabled feature is a “Switch to video” button in the Now Playing sidebar, which appears below the album art. Click it and you’ll be told the video can’t play unless you turn videos back on in the settings. Odd, for sure, but for the most part turning this off means you don’t have to think about music videos in Spotify anymore.

我测试了一下，确实有效。播放列表和专辑中的音乐视频图标消失了，艺人页面上的音乐视频合集也随之不见。该功能被禁用后唯一留下的痕迹是“正在播放”侧边栏中出现在专辑封面下方的“切换到视频”按钮。点击它，系统会提示你除非在设置中重新开启视频，否则无法播放。这确实有点奇怪，但总的来说，关闭这些功能意味着你以后不必再为 Spotify 里的音乐视频而烦恼了。

I sincerely wish that Spotify would roll out music videos with more care. Sometimes I really do want to see a video—just not every time I play a track. Playlists of music videos might be welcome if they ran separately from the audio-only playlists. I just don’t want to get a music video when I’m looking for the album version of a song, and I don’t think I’m alone in that. I can only hope that Spotify’s future interface design choices will keep things more clearly separated.

我真心希望 Spotify 在推出音乐视频功能时能更谨慎一些。有时我确实想看视频，但不是每次播放曲目时都想看。如果音乐视频播放列表能与纯音频播放列表分开运行，或许会更受欢迎。我只是不想在寻找歌曲的专辑版本时被迫观看音乐视频，我想我并不孤单。我只能希望 Spotify 未来的界面设计能将这些功能区分得更清晰。