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Hello,
is there any way to prevent Spotify from synchronizing the currently played track to all my devices when the app is not opened?
Since today, as soon as I push play on one of my devices, Spotify will show a persistent notification in the Android notification bar on all of the other devices.
This is very annoying - being able to control another device remotely is a nice feature, but Push notifications, on every track change, without an option to disable that behavior, are really too much. I don't even want to think about the impact on battery life...
You can disable notifications from within Android.
On the devices you do not want to see notifications, go to Settings - Apps - then select Spotify from the list.. Now uncheck the box which says 'Show Notifications'.
You can also get to this if a notification is present by long-pressing the notification, then pressing 'App Info'.
I wouldn't worry about your battery life, the synchronisation really does not use much battery. If you are rooted there are options such as Greenifying Spotify if you are really worried.
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I can't believe this hasn't been fixed yet, it's a trivial bug (or bad design choice) that would be an easy win for the dev team..
Found this thread looking for the same answer. There should be an option to disable this!
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