"Well, that's all very well and good, but you've lost my trust, so for now I'm keeping my spotify account and facebook account separate. Several complaints from people who don't trust Spotify in light of its new unholy alliance with Facebook. "If I get stupidly sentimental for the musical hits of middle school, I can play Air Supply and no one has to know."Īnyway, I scrolled down to the comments, and that's when I was brought down to reality. I skipped over his Beach Boys collection, just as he would skip over my Def Leppard and Motley Crue selections. He and I love a lot of the same bands: Pantera, Megadeth, Deep Purple. When my promotion to managing editor was announced Tuesday, I celebrated by spending an hour pillaging the Spotify library of Dave Marcus, security director at McAfee. I love how you can "star" or "subscribe" to a vast ocean of music and share with your Facebook contacts. I've been using this thing for three days and I've already amassed a library with thousands of albums from all my favorite bands. You can turn it on from the File menu and it will stop sharing what you’re listening to until the next time you log in. So we’ve now added a new ‘Private Listening’ mode to our latest update. Many of our users have told us that they like to share what they’re listening to, but also want an easy way to hide their occasional guilty pleasures. If you’d rather not share, just uncheck the box. To share the music you listen to with Facebook, make sure the box is checked.
To control your sharing settings, just go to your Spotify Preferences. It’s entirely up to you what you decide to share and what you keep private. As a new convert to the Spotify music-sharing app, I'm studying the privacy settings and realizing that a lot of people find them inadequate.