Spotify web site and account language

[Zorq]

Problem:

The Spotify app does have a language setting, but when I click on the View Account button in the app, a web page is open in the default browser that is in the language of the country the subscription is bound to.

Suggestion:

Please provide a way to change the language of the Spotify web site, and when I click on the View Account button in the app, by default please open the web page in the same language as the one set in the app.

[Dreadlord]

Hey @Zorq,

You can post your idea here.

If you gather enough kudos the idea is going to get reviewed by Spotify.

Until then as a workaround you can change the country abbreviation manually in the URL like this:

• For single language countries:

         https://www.spotify.com/de/

         https://www.spotify.com/it/

         https://www.spotify.com/en/

• For multi language countries:

         https://www.spotify.com/be-nl

         https://www.spotify.com/be-fr

Hope it makes sense to you 🙂

~DreadlordGG

[Zorq]

Thank you, I will post it there. However, this is such a trivial thing to implement (an extra option in the URL), and such a niche feature that suggesting it needs a critical kudos mass for implementing is actually denying the feature. Although there are quite many expats in various countries I suppose - let's see.

When I set the language in the URL as you suggested, it automatically changes back to the country language, so this doesn't work.

[Dreadlord]

Hey @Zorq,

That's odd. I am switching between languages with no issues and looks like there is cookie, so it remembers the last geo-targeted page I opened.

Do you mind sharing the country code you used and the country you are from? 🙂

[Zorq]

When I enter https://www.spotify.com/en, the site indeed recognizes the cookie, signs me in and then switches to https://www.spotify.com/fi/.

When I open the same in incognito window,  the site doesn't sign me in, but switches to https://www.spotify.com/fi/ nevertheless.

So this is not about the existence of a cookie, but I guess the policy implemented in the page script.

By the way thank you for the communication and guidance.

[Dreadlord]

Hey @Zorq

"When I open the same in incognito window,  the site doesn't sign me in, but switches to https://www.spotify.com/fi/ nevertheless."

Chrome is using brand new cookies nor session data for incognito mode.Since there is no cookie when starting the incognito session you are getting redirected to fi country code.

[Zorq]

The behaviour is the same on Chrome and Safari on Mac, and on Chrome and Firefox on Linux.