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Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account

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

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Post by iamben »

The most frustrating Spotify problem for me is the link between mobile / desktop play queues. I've moaned about it many, many times on the forums and there's a giant thread of people moaning about the same thing, but it's been years without resolve.

Basically, if I don't force-close the Spotify app on my Android before I get my laptop open on the same wifi, the phone will overwrite any play queue on my desktop. I exclusively use Spotify on my phone in the gym. I'll choose one album at a time and play it through while I work out. My laptop is for work - I'll maybe spend 15 minutes every few days queueing 10 or so new albums I want to try. Utterly maddening when you forget to close the app, go to Spotify and you're blasted with gym music and you've lost your carefully curated play queue.

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

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Post by jetcata »

iamben wrote: post #51

The most frustrating Spotify problem for me is the link between mobile / desktop play queues. I've moaned about it many, many times on the forums and there's a giant thread of people moaning about the same thing, but it's been years without resolve. Basically, if I don't force-close the Spotify app on my Android before I get my laptop open on the same wifi, the phone will overwrite any play queue on my desktop. I exc…

Why not make a playlist? Seems more durable

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

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Post by ravishi »

iamben wrote: post #51

The most frustrating Spotify problem for me is the link between mobile / desktop play queues. I've moaned about it many, many times on the forums and there's a giant thread of people moaning about the same thing, but it's been years without resolve. Basically, if I don't force-close the Spotify app on my Android before I get my laptop open on the same wifi, the phone will overwrite any play queue on my desktop. I exc…

I hate this too! For me, tho, the worst part is that they're not even consistent. I never know if the computer will pick up whatever I'm playing in the phone: sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I don't want to check if my phone is connected to the same wifi for it to work.

Back when I used Rdio, the behavior was to keep all devices/tabs synced. It was consistent. It worked. When I wanted to keep diferent sessions I used playlists. I could work around it.

But with Spotify it's a mess. It doesn't sync correctly when I want, but only when I don't want.

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

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Post by fspacef »

iamben wrote: post #51

The most frustrating Spotify problem for me is the link between mobile / desktop play queues. I've moaned about it many, many times on the forums and there's a giant thread of people moaning about the same thing, but it's been years without resolve. Basically, if I don't force-close the Spotify app on my Android before I get my laptop open on the same wifi, the phone will overwrite any play queue on my desktop. I exc…

Just make a playlist. AFAIK desktop and mobile apps both have the ability to one-click add albums to saved songs or playlists.

I love the combined cue, especially when hosting parties. Let guests cue songs from laptop and then adjust the order according to whom I like more (:

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

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Post by kelnage »

hs86 wrote: post #8

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.

Nice - this trick also works for Strava (for which I originally signed up using Google)!

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

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Post by 121watts »

hs86 wrote: post #8

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.

Same here. Can confirm this method works like a charm.

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

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Post by mhjas »

hs86 wrote: post #8

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.

This also helped with reverting to username from real name after unlinking.

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

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Post by mrweasel »

A little off topic, but I believe that Facebook, and to some extend Google, have screwed over any future “free” services with their behaviour. Personally, I will be very unlikely to sign up for ANY service that doesn’t offer a paid tier, in the future. I believe that this will hold true for others who have previously been quick to adopt new services and products. This will hinder competitors from gaining traction.

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

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Post by mrweasel »

jaimehrubiks wrote: post #7

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.

To me the data breaches was just the final straw. Naively perhaps I never believed that they would be so careless with my data as it turned out. Then on top they can’t even keep it out of the hands of people who don’t have a contract with Facebook.

I think that it could be the GDPR that is now forcing Facebook to be more open about breaches, and previously they may have been keeping them secret.

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