App Nap and OSX 10.10.3

I thought this might be useful to those of us running spotify on OSX 10.10.3. If you have spotify in the background and the music keeps cutting out, app nap is likely the issue. 10.10.3 removed the 'disable app nap' checkbox for applications under the get info menu. There are guides online to disable app nap systemwide, but I only wanted to disable it for the spotify client. It is still possible to set the default for app nap on a per-application basis, but it has to be done from the command line. Inside of the Terminal application run this command; defaults write com.spotify NSAppSleepDisabled -bool YESThis will stop spotify from skipping, even if it's in the background. Hope this helps someone else.

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