Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

While it isn't really straightforward, Spotify support will transfer all your songs, playlists, followers and if I recall correctly also your followed artists to a new account. Another possibility is for them to delete your old Facebook-linked account so you can create it again after which they'll also transfer all your old data. It isn't an ideal solution but at least you won't have to worry about losing your collection.

Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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Post by herbstein » Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 1:16 PM UTC

I created my Facebook account with my parent's email address back in the day (when I turned 13). Today it has been completely unlinked, but Spotify is still connected with that old email account. There's no way to actually change that.

Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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Post by jaimehrubiks » Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 1:18 PM UTC

I would like to know why some people stopped using Facebook claiming that the main reason is "the recent databreach". If you don't want to use Facebook for how they handle your data in the first place, it seems perfectly fine to me. But, the data breach exploiting 3 vulnerabilities seems to be bad luck, I don't really think they're not committed to security in that sense. I'd like to know opinions from others.

Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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Post by hs86 » Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 1:21 PM UTC

I already unlinked my Spotfiy account from Facebook with this way: https://robblewis.me/convert-spotify-facebook-to-email-login...

No account migration of contacting support is needed. Just use your registered email account to reset (or in this case actually set) your account password and afterwards you can log in via your email+pw. Then in the Spotify preferences the button to disconnect Facebook becomes available.

Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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Post by dmannorreys » Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 1:31 PM UTC

I had my Facebook account linked to my Spotify account. I didn't create an account using Facebook, but linked them later on.

Even when I had a Facebook account linked, I could still login to Spotify using a username (a bunch of numbers) that I was able to dig out from the settings at some point.

I recently deleted my Facebook account, and everything went quite well. The app said my playlists was created by user "null" (they fixed this after a while and now displays the numbers which makes my username), but other than that there's been no changes. So, just deleting your Facebook account and let Spotify deal with it seems to work, but it require you to know the username (and password. I don't know how I got that, maybe it was the same password as the one I used before linking my Facebook account).

Re: Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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Post by jwally » Sun, Oct 14, 2018, 1:32 PM UTC

It’s literally the only reason I still have a Facebook account. Couple that with Alexa picking out the worst version possible of the song I requested (“Master of Puppets - live by not Metallica on Spotify”) but seems to get it right with prime music; I’m about to drop it.