How do I keep what is playing on different devices separate?

[BillTerri]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

iPhone 7, iPad (6th Generation), Windows Desktop

Operating System

iOS 12,  Windows 10

My Question or Issue

Spotify has lately started to treat all my devices as one device, continuing what I was listening to on one device to a different device when I start the new device up.  Sometimes this is okay, but more often, it's not what I want to have happen.  Mostly, I like to use my different devices in different places, and in different ways.  For example, I may want to listen to an album I found under the Spotify "Discover" heading when I'm working at my desktop, but when I get into my car, I want to resume listening where I left off the previous day to a playlist that I've downloaded to my iPhone.  Similarly, while I'm preparing my breakfast, I'm likely to want to use my iPad to continue listening to an Album that I started listening to there the previous day, not to continue to listen to what was last playing on my desktop.  This is the way Spotify used to act, but now it has changed.

Is there some setting I can change in Spotify to keep my listening choices on the different devices separate, the way I used to do? 

[BillTerri]

Hi Bill,

You can definitely have Spotify Premium on as many devices as you wish, but if only one Spotify account is accessed and used through and across these devices (e.g. accessing account "X" a song is played for 15 sec) then the use of the account (song played for 15 sec) will be the same across all devices.

If you wish to keep the actions and listening history specific in relation to each device you use, did you already consider creating multiple accounts (one for each device)?

In this way your listening history will be resumed where you left it on each device.

Hope this is helpful 🙂

[AshSH]

This is exactly my problem. Need to be able to separate the devices!!

[farsiderules]

Same. I like to listen to certain music at work vs. home vs. out walking around. I don't want the music I'm playing in the separate ways (via phone, computer, Sonos) to be overwritten by the other location.

[Zahni31]

Unfortunately, I have lost my Tesla account. I now also have a Premium subscription again. But now I have a problem: I want to listen to certain albums and playlists in the car and something else on the Ipad/Alexa. Not at the same time, of course. For example, I want my Amazon Echo to wake me up with a certain playlist that I don't want to listen to later in the car.
How can I turn off this synchronization? It's driving me crazy.

[stommsh]

Apple Music bihaves exactly like I would like and just opposite what Spotify does. If I listen somthing at home, I can listen different music in my Tesla and can also listen another thing at work with the same account. And nothing syncs between different listening places, so when I return to my car music continues where it left when I exited the car, despite I have listened something else at work before that. Different music in different places with the same account - and it is great! Spotify should also do that, not push stupid limitations to paid customers. I think I will move to Apple music because of this and stop my Spotify subscription.