On: How bad is your Spotify?

[smichel17]

Unfortunately, "private session" resets every X hours.

[corobo → smichel17]

After 6 hours of inactivity or app restart specifically if you plan on utilising this

[anoncake → smichel17]

That's an awful idea for a privacy feature.

[rodiger → anoncake]

You can disable sharing altogether if you want. This is specifically for a single "session." Like if you want to listen to a guilty pleasure and don't want your friends bugging you about it

[wlonkly → rodiger]

It's also useful if you have a second musical "life" that you don't want to involve in your recommendations. Parents with kids' music, for instance. In my case, I turn on private listening when I go to bed, because my sleeping music is repetitive and nothing like the music I want to discover.

[anoncake → rodiger]

Of course. But even then I wouldn't want the session to end without confirmation. A prompt/reminder after six hours would make sense.

[Tostino → rodiger]

Wait wait wait, Spotify notifies my friends of what I am listening to (not a user, so honest question)?

[rodiger → Tostino]

No no, but in the UI you can see what your friends are listening to (if you're added as friends). Example I found online (the right bar is the friends feed):

https://miro.medium.com/max/3836/1*C_ImLXQdMOGljMRhLcV-Yw.jp...

[nsteel → rodiger]

And to be clear, this is an optional feature.

[Tostino → nsteel]

Appreciate that clarification. Good to know.