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Spotify adds private listening option
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 30 September 2011
Spotify has announced it is adding a ‘private listening’ button to its player, so that users can easily stop the music platform from sharing data with Facebook while still having their Spotify accounts integrated with the social network (something all new users are obliged to do).
Following ranting from a very vocal minority of Spotify users who dislike the music service’s closer ties with Facebook, and the fact that – if Facebook tracking is enabled – Spotify posts updates on every single track ever played onto the social network, Team Spot’s top man Daniel Ek announced yesterday via Twitter: “We’re rolling out a new client as we speak where you can temporarily hide your guilty pleasures. It works like a browser’s private mode. … We call it ‘private listening’ and you can find it in the Spotify/File menu and toggle it on/off”.
To use the new private listening option users will need to upgrade to the latest version of the streaming music service’s player.
