For the occasional listener, Spotify's default app settings might work just fine. However, if you're streaming music every hour of every day, you probably want more control over how the app behaves.
Spotify has confirmed a widespread bug that causes the app to freeze and crash on devices when connected to Wi-Fi. This is what you can do!
It's not just you: Spotify on Android freezes/crashes on some Wi‑Fi; works on mobile data. Spotify says teams are investigating the Wi‑Fi issue (mainly Samsung, Pixel); no ETA yet. Annoying fixes: ...