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I was never a big fan of spotify since it required a Facebook account to use it. A regular email sign up process would have been enough. So I went with rhapsody

• jbeales 11y ago
  Spotify doesn't require a Facebook account. I am signed up with a regular E-mail/password.
• strickjb9 11y ago
  It doesn't require a Facebook account. I use Spotify and I never sign in with my Facebook account for anything. edit: I live in the U.S.
  • more_original 11y ago
    It used to require a facebook account initially (at least here in Germany, right after the launch). I had to create a one in order to open a Spotify account. The option to register using an e-mail address was added later and I migrated my account when this was done.
    • codezero 11y ago
      Are you sure it required one? It may have made it very easy to sign up with FB and very hard to sign up with email, but email has always been an option (in the U.S.) edit: thanks for the replies clearing this up.
      • BillinghamJ 11y ago
        Yes. There was a period of time in which it was absolutely not possible to sign up without using Facebook. This was a few years ago though.
      • more_original 11y ago
        Yes, because I really didn't want an FB account (closed it since). There were even doubts about the legality of Spotify requiring an FB account in Germany: http://www.noz.de/artikel/61551360/datenschuetzer-kritisieren-musikdienst-spotify http://www.noz.de/artikel/61551360/datenschuetzer-kritisiere...
      • Gilipe 11y ago
        It did require one. They updated it some time after, but it was a common complaint. http://www.zdnet.com/article/spotify-defends-new-facebook-requirement/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/spotify-defends-new-facebook-re...
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      • mitchty 11y ago
        Yes, in the US at least for about the first month it didn't require facebook, and then they switched that. They stopped requiring facebook logins a while back but to be honest it left a bad taste in my mouth. Glad I didn't bother with subscribing.
    • Oletros 11y ago
      It never required a Facebook account in Spain
    • prawn 11y ago
      Same in Australia. I never joined at the time because I don't use FB, and haven't checked back since.
  • lostlogin 11y ago
    Email sign up has been possible in New Zealand for a long time, years I think - billing is though Australia so I suspect we hang off them somehow. I haven't got a Facebook account.
• gnud 11y ago
  They try really hard to make you login with facebook, but you can still avoid it if you want.
• anu_gupta 11y ago
  It doesn't require an FB account, it just heavily prioritises the FB sign in UX over the email/password one.
  • fotbr 11y ago
    It did when they first launched here. I dropped them an email and asked if they had plans to allow non-facebook users to use their service, and was politely told that they had no plans to do so because the social connections were central to their business. I never gave them a second look to see if that requirement changed.
• odabaxok 11y ago
  I have signed up to Spotify with a regular email. Their signup page still offers two options ( https://www.spotify.com/en/signup/ https://www.spotify.com/en/signup/ ): Sign up with Facebook or Sign up with your email address
• fs111 11y ago
  I am a paying user for about 2 years and I don't use facebook to log in. Just email/password.