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

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Post by kingosticks »

ravishi wrote: post #53
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 sessio…

Could you disable Spotify Connect? I don't actually have this problem myself. The playlists always remain separate until I explicitly select the other device via Spotify Connect.

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

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Post by sporiff »

Spotify is an interesting one. A long time ago I had an Outlook account which was linked to my Facebook which was linked to my Spotify. I later deleted my Facebook and my Outlook account as well, completely forgetting about my Spotify account. This year I re-registered for Outlook and was able to get exactly the same address (I guess it had just been long enough?) and was then able to reset my password for Spotify and log straight back in.

Needless to say I no longer use Spotify at all.

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

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Post by majewsky »

sporiff wrote: post #142

Spotify is an interesting one. A long time ago I had an Outlook account which was linked to my Facebook which was linked to my Spotify. I later deleted my Facebook and my Outlook account as well, completely forgetting about my Spotify account. This year I re-registered for Outlook and was able to get exactly the same address (I guess it had just been long enough?) and was then able to reset my password for Spotify an…

> A long time ago I had an Outlook account which was linked to my Facebook which was linked to my Spotify.

I suppose you mean it the other way around? The way you're describing it suggests that you could use Spotify to reset your Facebook password, which is either confusing or terrifying. :)

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

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Post by qwerty456127 »

daveFNbuck wrote: post #104
qwerty456127 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The recent data breach made many people realize that you're always just 1 instance of bad luck away from having a bunch of aggregated personal data stolen. There is no such thing as data stolen but from the files on your hard drive. As soon as you upload something to the Internet you publish it and have no guarantee but hope people you don't want to see it won't notice it.

Data breaches make the news because the data wasn't supposed to be published. Just because a third party has my data on a computer doesn't mean it's public. Under your logic I've published all my banking data, whether I've used online banking or not.

All I've meant is that nobody should ever feel surprised when the data they've uploaded leaks. Now the people have realized it can leak, what amazes me is that they supposedly didn't realize it in advance. Just don't upload your naked pictures anywhere if you are going to feel seriously upset for longer than a couple of seconds once everybody sees them. That's just "a rule of a thumb". I absolutely don't mean companies like Facebook should not bother to protect users' data, I mean users should never actually take this protection seriously. The Facebook problem did not affect me because everything I've ever uploaded/written there is what I would not mind showing/saying on a TV.

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

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Post by daveFNbuck »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #144
daveFNbuck wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Data breaches make the news because the data wasn't supposed to be published. Just because a third party has my data on a computer doesn't mean it's public. Under your logic I've published all my banking data, whether I've used online banking or not.

All I've meant is that nobody should ever feel surprised when the data they've uploaded leaks. Now the people have realized it can leak, what amazes me is that they supposedly didn't realize it in advance. Just don't upload your naked pictures anywhere if you are going to feel seriously upset for longer than a couple of seconds once everybody sees them. That's just "a rule of a thumb". I absolutely don't mean compani…

> The Facebook problem did not affect me because everything I've ever uploaded/written there is what I would not mind showing/saying on a TV.

Does that include everyone who you've friended and everything they've put on Facebook, plus all the data they've inferred about you and your friends through tracking and other third-party sources?

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

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Post by daveFNbuck »

zrobotics wrote: post #117
ReverseCold wrote: post #82

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It's hardly a reason to leave home, but it's definitely a reason to, for example, not go skydiving. You obviously can't remove all risk, but you sure can reduce it.

That might not be the best example, though. You are more likely to die driving to the airport than you are to die while skydiving. That is an activity which is similar to riding a roller coaster: it seems much more dangerous than it actually is.

> You are more likely to die driving to the airport than you are to die while skydiving.

Can you back that up? I thought this was true too but did a quick check anyway and I found skydiving death rates are 8 in a million but driving death rates are 7.1 per billion kilometers. Driving to the airport is probably more dangerous than your average drive, but it still looks like the car trip is less likely to kill you.

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

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Post by tra3 »

always_good wrote: post #137
mithr wrote: post #75

Spotify has some really strange "won't fix" issues... I'm on a Spotify family plan. I recently bought a Spotify gift card on sale, because you can usually apply those for a credit on subscription services. Well, it turns out unlike the rest of their plans, Spotify Family doesn't support gift cards. I didn't even consider that it might not apply to all plans, and didn't check the fine print. Disappointed, I contacted…

Another bizarre Spotify #wontfix is how you have (or at least had, this was two years ago) no recourse against someone with access to your account. e.g. Changing your password doesn't invalidate other sessions. My friend had her password guessed (you can buy hundreds of hacked premium Spotify accounts online for We emailed Spotify about this as it was happening and there was no way to lock this person out. Sorry! The…

There's a big "signout everywhere" button in settings now.

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

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Post by softawre »

drb91 wrote: post #113
auxym wrote: post #110

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No. Saved means it appears when you browse to "My Library".

That is very odd. Why limit that at all?

With 10+ years experiencing designing software, my motto is to limit everything and then test at those limits. If you're not limiting things because "why limit this?", then you're going to run into some unhappy conditions in production (and once a user has added 1m songs, it would suck to just delete them out from under them).

Also, you can always raise the limit later if it really matters..

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

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Post by midwestcode »

softawre wrote: post #148
drb91 wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is very odd. Why limit that at all?

With 10+ years experiencing designing software, my motto is to limit everything and then test at those limits. If you're not limiting things because "why limit this?", then you're going to run into some unhappy conditions in production (and once a user has added 1m songs, it would suck to just delete them out from under them). Also, you can always raise the limit later if it really matters..

but the problem with Spotify is that they have not touched this arbitrary limit, there's no option to increase limits, and this has been this way since 2012, so it is by design.

And quite frankly, from a Software perspective, 10k entries in a database as a limit in 2018 feels small... especially when you consider how many people even listen to 10k entries in the first place. most have no clue about this arbitrary limit because they never hit it.

All I'm saying is that changing 10k to 100k is a significant difference in terms of music, and doesn't feel like it should be a significant difference in terms of data storage.

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

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Post by blatherard »

MetallicCloud wrote: post #131
blatherard wrote: post #41

Also, it would be nice if Spotify could bring back the ability to follow friends without requiring Facebook.

You can still do it. I follow 10 or so friends, and I've never linked facebook. The mechanism for adding friends is needlessly obtuse though. You need to add spotify:user: in the search box to find them, then you can follow. My biggest gripe is they removed the ability to send songs to friends.

Super, thanks!
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