Yeah, Spotify's ridiculous addition of gapless playback with no knob to turn it off made me quit them a few months ago. WinAmp still works great for my Windows machine; VLC works pretty good for my BSD machine.
I tried that. It did not work. It's too late, I deleted the app three months ago, and anyway now I have a dumb phone. I don't miss Spotify at all. Sometimes I miss maps, though.
Isn't it disabled by default?
Gapless playback was on by default when I had the app, after an update that happened sometime last summer or fall.