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Very interesting! I had something that sounds similar to this a couple of years ago. My Spotify had a new music "Device" listed with a weird name. Frequently t
by tikkabhuna 8y ago
Very interesting! I had something that sounds similar to this a couple of years ago.
My Spotify had a new music "Device" listed with a weird name. Frequently the device would be selected and a song I'd never heard of would start playing, with no sound as it went to the rogue music device.
On my Spotify account I could see a new linked application that I hadn't ever setup. I deleted it, kicked out any logins that Spotify allowed me to do and the problem went away for a day or so. Then it magically reappeared!
When I set up my account I did so with my Facebook account. At one point, IIRC, you could have an account created via Facebook but that meant you always had to log in using Facebook. They later changed this to allow you to set a password and use either.
Assuming the worst I secured my Facebook account (password change/revoking access/etc). No luck. What did work was setting up a proper Spotify password. I'd always logged in with Facebook and never bothered changing the password when they added that feature. Once I changed it I could delete the application, kick out any applications, and then it never came back.
Complete speculation: When Spotify allowed Facebook linked accounts to have a separate password, they generated me a password that was "guessable" and someone used it to access my account?
- maslam 8y agoThis literally happened to me. Unfortunately with both FB and Alexa. It's concerning to say the least
- qzy 8y agoWell, concerning... I mean, it's Spotify, not your email account.
- fredoliveira 8y agoIt is still their data.
- maslam 8y agoPerhaps disorienting is a better word. It's really strange to see someone else play music on your account.
- nosefrog 8y agoThis also happened to me! I think I reported the issue to an engineer at Soptify but I never heard back. If an engineer at Spotify wants to chat about it, my email is my username @gmail.com.
- timeu 8y agoI had exactly the same issue. But in my case I setup a device password that probably was in one of the PW leaks. I was listening to spotify on my phone and suddenly it switched to a different device unknown to me and played mostly latin songs. When I changed the device pw it stopped