Can't start spotify from HASS - media_player.spotify stays in "idle" mode

Hello

I have following setup: On my notebook i have spotify client installed and on my home assistant server I have correctly set up spotify player. However, I have some problems with starting spotify playing some music from home assistant. Even tough the source_list of media_player.spotify is not empty, the status of the player stays in “idle” mode. When I start playing spotify from the source directly, the status changes to “playing”. However, when I close the spotify client on my notebook and open the client again some minutes later the media_player.spotify stays in mode “idle”.
Is there a solution on how to get the spotify media player in home assistant from “idle” status to “playing” status?

Thank you

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Did you manage to find a solution for this? Having the same problem myself. Having to manually start Spotify on my phone etc before using HA to control it.

I reinstalled HASS. Could not find an other solution to this problem