Prevent Spotify playing on another device than the one I am using

[JoshSutterfield]

I do not want pressing "Play" on the Spotify Desktop app to ever start music playing on my phone. It's not even an intuitive best guess as to what should happen when I move between devices. I want control over this. I should be able to prevent this from happening before it begins, not after. 

The old answer found applies to a nonexistent section (Devices under Settings no longer exists, neither on Android or Windows Desktop or Web). Someone should be accountable for these sorts of things. It's user-hostile.

[Yordan]

Hey there, @JoshSutterfield,

Thanks for reaching out.

If the app is running in the background, it will sync across all devices you're using and the most recent one will be shown. In your case, most likely your last played device was your phone, which is why the desktop app is reminding you that you're listening on another device.

You can switch the currently playing device from the Spotify Connect menu. 

We’re always looking for opportunities to enhance the user experience for everyone though, so your feedback on this is greatly appreciated - thanks for sharing it here.

Cheers 🤘

[UnregularSpace]

This is a terrible policy. I've had to sign all other devices out of my account to protect myself from random sounds playing when in public. Can now only use service on 1 device. Unsatisfying solution. Also, the adrenaline dump when my phone just started playing across the room. I thought I was hacked. Spotify should be ashamed. No other device should ever have access to my device without my control. Bad design.

[timnolte]

Spotify is a garbage service for only allowing an account to play on 1 device, even when you are paying for the service. People need to stop using their service and show them how stupid their money grab is making people have to upgrade to a more expensive tier, or purchase multiple accounts, in order to have independent play on multiple devices.

[m1ffy]

Thanks for telling us what we already know.

We know we can manually changed the device after it has already decided to play on the other one. The problem is it shouldn't EVER do this to begin with. I don't need spotify or anything else deciding what I'm playing on. If I plug my phone into my stereo I VERY OBVIOUSLY WANT TO PLAY MUSIC FROM THAT DEVICE not from my laptop in the other room which I paused and got up and left from.

It is diabolically poor design and poor feature control from spotify. Just give us the **bleep** option to turn it off. That's all we want. A button to turn the garbage features OFF

[JC_London]

It's very annoying. My partner was in the kitchen listening via a tablet plugged into the Aux channel of a Pure radio. I started listening to something in a different room, streaming on my desktop, which interrupts the stream downstairs   in the kitchen. Very poor.

I'm trying to persuade her we should move to a different service. I'm fed up with the limited info regarding metadata i.e. which musicians are playing the **bleep**ing music.

[PHELMS]

Garbage feature. Just going to cancel this service and pirate my music again.