diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bda78362f..914b73705 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ ver 0.21.24 (not yet released)
   - enable the decoder plugins GME, ModPlug and WildMidi
   - fix build failure with Android NDK r21
 * Windows
+  - fix stream playback
   - enable the decoder plugins GME, ModPlug and WildMidi
   - work around Meson bug breaking the Windows build with GCC 10
 * fix unit test failure
diff --git a/src/lib/curl/Request.cxx b/src/lib/curl/Request.cxx
index 75ce11eed..774066877 100644
--- a/src/lib/curl/Request.cxx
+++ b/src/lib/curl/Request.cxx
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ CurlRequest::CurlRequest(CurlGlobal &_global,
 	easy.SetUserAgent("Music Player Daemon " VERSION);
 	easy.SetHeaderFunction(_HeaderFunction, this);
 	easy.SetWriteFunction(WriteFunction, this);
-#ifndef ANDROID
+#if !defined(ANDROID) && !defined(_WIN32)
 	easy.SetOption(CURLOPT_NETRC, 1L);
 #endif
 	easy.SetErrorBuffer(error_buffer);