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After that, go to Facebook settings, and navigate to the Apps and Websites section. Select the checkmark next to Spotify and click 'Remove' at the top. Facebook warns that revoking Facebook permission from Spotify may delete your Spotify account, but it didn't (at least for me). Select 'Remove' again. Tap and hold the Spotify app icon. Tap Delete App, then Delete. Go to the App Store and install the Spotify app. Go to your phone’s Settings. Find Spotify in your list of apps, tap it. For a clean reinstall, tap Storage, then Clear Data. Spotify: how to remove it from startup task? It's come to my attention that a suspicious sounding piece of software has somehow made its way to the list of startup tasks. I've looked at the usual registry locations as well as the task scheduler, but failed to find any trace of the culprit.

My friend (and 9 Clouds’ resident tech wizard), Allen Day, has taught me a lot about getting the most out of the Internet.

Recently, I asked him about some lesser-known Spotify features. Here are some things Allen said you should definitely be aware of while you listen.

Spotify Matches Apple Music's Family Plan Price Reading between the lines, it seems Spotify may have demanded Musixmatch made its services exclusive to the top music streaming app. I installed the desktop app again and as soon as I logged in it started downloading from OneDrive. I cancelled the downloading, opened settings in Spotify and your suggestion did sort of work. I activated local files and then just turned off Downloads and Music Library. So far it is behaving itself and not downloading, so thanks for this tip.

My Top 8 Spotify Hacks (by Allen Day)

1. Collaborative Playlists

I started using Spotify for shared playlists while getting to know my now-wife. We later used one for our wedding.

Collaborative playlists are a great way to mark an occasion. At 9 Clouds, when Catherine was concerned she listened to too much Maroon 5, the team rallied together and built her a playlist.

How to Do It

Want to collaborate on a playlist?

Just right-click on the playlist, and choose Collaborative Playlist. Then, share it with your future collaborators.

Check out the playlist we made for this blog post »

2. Organizing Your Playlists with Folders

If you’ve been using Spotify for a while, you’ve probably accumulated quite a few playlists.

Did you know you can organize them into folders?

I didn’t, either . . . until I grabbed my wife’s phone to change up the music on a road trip and saw how organized her lists were compared to my mess.

Mind. Blown.

You can make as many folders as you want to organize your playlists so they make sense for you. Break them down by theme or genre — make a collection of playlists for the gym, driving, you name it.

How to Do It

Just right-click on a playlist, and select Create Folder. Once you’ve created your folders, you can drag playlists into them.

Note: You cannot create or organize folders on your phone; you’ll have to use the desktop app. Once they’re set up, though, you can still see and use them on your phone.

3. Customizing Playlists with Your Own Album Art

You’ve put a lot of listening time into your favorite playlists.

Whether you want to keep them private or share them with the world, those playlists deserve to look great and stand out in your Spotify app.

The ability to update cover art and playlist descriptions used to be limited to featured partners, but now it’s available for all playlists — public or private.

How to Do It

Open your playlist in the desktop app. Click on the cover art to upload your own photo, or click on the description to write a new one.

Check out 9 Clouds’ car song playlist »

4. “Daily Mix” Playlists

Not sure what to listen to? Check out your “Daily Mix” playlists.

“Daily Mix” is a series of playlists with nearly endless playback that combines your favorite tracks with new songs Spotify thinks you’ll love — minus the effort that goes into creating the perfect listening session.

Spotify creates up to six playlists for you based on your own listening history. Each playlist is differentiated by a unique color and generally spans a single genre or theme.

When you’re playing one of your daily mixes, a couple new icons will appear in your player. You can ❤️ your favorite songs to add them to your Liked Songs.

5. Yearly Reflection: “Your 2019 Wrapped”

Each year, Spotify marks the holidays with a recap of what you listened to that year. For 2019, Spotify has released “Your 2019 Wrapped.”

Sign in to see your most-listened-to songs, albums, and artists in 2019.

Here at 9 Clouds, we love to compare stories and screenshots of our own “Years Wrapped.” Here’s mine from way back in 2017 (I listened to a lot of Alphaville — but in my defense, they released a new album for the first time in years, and I got to see them in concert after a 20-year wait):

6. Podcasts

The podcast industry has never been bigger. Podcasts have gone mainstream . . . which means Spotify is not just a music player anymore.

For years, I’ve tried recommending podcasts to friends and acquaintances. Too often, the response is that the podcast sounds interesting, but they don’t know how to use podcasts.

Now, I can just point people to Spotify. While it’s not my podcast app of choice, I am extremely excited to see Spotify offering them as a gateway to podcasts.

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7. “Discover Weekly” and “Release Radar”

Spotify has a couple of weekly playlists custom-tailored just for you.

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Every Monday, the first thing I listen to is my “Discover Weekly” playlist. This playlist is a mix of familiar tunes from your own playlists, plus new music Spotify thinks you’ll like. “Discover Weekly” tends to be pretty hit-or-miss, but it hits enough that I keep coming back.

The other weekly playlist I look forward to is the “Release Radar.” Similar to “Discover Weekly,” this playlist is based on your listening history. It features the newest releases by artists you listen to or follow.

If you haven’t already, search Spotify for “Release Radar” and “Discover Weekly.” Once you find yours, click the Follow button to add them to your playlists for easy access. They update every Monday and Friday, respectively.

8. Creeping on Your Friends

Want to see what your friends or coworkers are listening to?

Check out the Friend Activity panel in Spotify on your Mac or PC desktop. (Don’t see it? Turn on the right sidebar under the View menu.)

Of course, this goes both ways — your friends can see what you’re listening to, as well.

If you don’t like the idea of broadcasting your listening preferences to your friends, you can disable it in the Spotify settings. Toggle on Private Session to temporarily hide what you’re listening to, or disable Share my listening activity on Spotify to turn off your public activity for good.

Bonus: What Does Spotify Suck At?

Sure, we’re biased — we know a thing or two about superb targeting online.

Still, despite its awesome data, Spotify’s ad targeting could use a lot of work.

Only Spotify would advertise Chick-fil-A to me in a town hundreds of miles from the nearest restaurant — and always while I’m running. It should totally know I’m running because of data . . . and my playlist with the word Running in the title. C’mon, guys.

Learn more about online targeting »

…Okay, It’s Matt Again Now

Thanks, Allen!

Before we put this post together, I didn’t know a thing about the “Release Radar,” and there are a few more features in here I definitely have to check out.

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Spotify users are turning up the volume — on their complaints.

An update to the music streamer’s premium iOS and Android apps that was intended to “streamline” music and podcast browsing also removed two beloved features that has the service’s more vocal users sounding off.

On June 13, Spotify announced the update to its “Your Library” section, describing it this way: “Everything about the reimagined Library is designed to get you to the content you want faster.” Essentially, Spotify removed its alphabetical scroll bar and ditched the Recently Played tab, replacing them with “Playlists,” “Artists,” and “Albums.” If you wanted to listen to a song you listened to recently but don’t remember its name, it is now very hard to do that on Spotify.

Over the past week, the Spotify subreddit has been awash with complaints about the software update. “BRING BACK OLD SPOTIFY,” “New mobile update sucks!,” and “Are you absolutely serious?” are a handful of the top posts that have been voted up to the top of the forum by some of its 122,000 members.

The outrage ranged from commiseration to organization about how to send feedback via official company channels.

The company promised the update would make for a “seamless, personalized experience,” but droves of audiophiles on Reddit have begged to differ.

Spotify did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the update.

1. RIP, “Recently Played”

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The ousting of the “Recently Played” was by far the most complained about change. This menu automatically compiled a list of the tunes subscribers have been bumping lately without them having to tap the “Save” button. If users didn’t save their recently played songs before they updated, they now have to manually search for them to get them back.

Multiplecommentsmentioned how the now-deleted menu was the reason they used Spotify, and one redditor even said he switched from Apple Music just because of Recently Played. But user u/Skippin101 perhaps puts it best:

The recently played tab is a huge downgrade. It’s now on the homepage, features far less artists/playlists, isn’t customizable (i.e. you can’t remove an artist or playlist from it or re-arrange it), can’t be used in offline mode, and, worst of all by a country mile, when you click on a recently played artist it takes you to their artist page instead of showing you which songs you’ve saved by that artist.”

The new update seems intended to nudge users to begin using the app’s Playlist feature, a tool that many users aren’t keen on.

2. No Alphabetical Scrolling

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Secondly, Spotify removed its alphabetical scrolling feature from every list on the app. Before the update, users could press their fingers on the scroll bars in the Songs, Artists, or Albums menus to quickly jump from letter to letter. That’s incredibly useful for a library with thousands of songs or hundreds of albums, but that’s gone now.

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Users now have to manually scroll to the bottom of their Artist list if they want to play a song by ZZ Top. That effectively renders the Songs tab useless or, at the very least, extremely frustrating to use if users have extensive libraries of music.

The change has outright ruined the app for many redditors or made it exponentially more cumbersome to find the one thing Spotify was made for: music.

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Sorry, Spotify, but the internet has spoken. This update ain’t it chief.