The ability to disable the Jam function.

[Lejos]

Ok so Jam function seems incredibly odd to begin with, but I suppose in a rare instance where you want to listen to love songs with someone who's far away at the exact same time, or you're running a silent Disco, there might be a use for it for a very small number of people. 

But there should be an option to disable it in your settings. Let's start with the hypothetical scenario that I don't want to run into: A crazy ex or a stalker trying to send me their sad playlist everyday. Also, and possibly more frustrating, is the automatic prompt that comes of when you and another person listening to Spotify are on the same Wi-Fi. Why am I being sent an unprompted question without an invitation from another user in my home or business if I would like to join and listen to exactly what they're listening to at the same time. If I happen to want that, would I not just play the music aloud? We obviously already started listening to what we want to listen to on our own devices by ourselves, so why would I suddenly want to listen to exactly what they want to listen to?  Automatically searching for users on the same Wi-Fi seems crazy intrusive to me what if we're on a public Wi-Fi at a mall? How many prompts would you'd be receiving to join? Anyway I don't mind if this crazy feature (that I'm willing to bet a Year's membership that under 5% of users use monthly) stays on the app,  I just want the ability to turn it off so it doesn't bother me while I'm listening to music by myself.

[BladedQueen]

Stop pushing this in the right click context menu for songs. It now occupies the former place of 'Add to Queue' for songs, interfering with muscled memory and constantly risking a misclick. I don't care about jams, I don't want to see it, stop putting it in places that aggravate users who have indicated zero interest in the feature.

[igowtf666]

It been a freaking year and "thanks for your suggestions" is the best we got bruh

[lachlan_t]

Why do security concerns require the same 500 votes that superfluous features do to even be considered....

I second all the IT people in this thread saying it was a very bad call to implement this with no opt out. Subverting other device discoverability settings is wild and makes me wonder what other bs is going on behind the scenes.

[thepretentiousw]

Seriously, Spotify?! Why are you doubling down on this jam feature?! Fine. Keep it. But keep it DISABLED by default. If I want people to take over my playlist, I will turn the feature on.

[AshAza1ea]

I’d love to be able to turn off the Spotify jam function. One of my sister’s friends connected to it without me knowing while we were in the car together(I hadn’t even known they could do that). When I dropped them off they stayed connected and were skipping songs and queuing the stupidest stuff. I was so confused and I was just really **bleep** off because I was already having a bad day. I couldn’t do anything about it until I got home and they had queued up baby shark like 15 times and I tried to skip it but it just would skip to the next baby shark. It’s just annoying random people can just hijack your playlist.  

[lilkasper]

I would like to add a link to an old thread to show this has basically been an ongoing complaint for years, it isn’t even a new issue/annoyance

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Podcasts-Partners-etc/How-to-deactivate-quot-join-session-quo...

I posted on there before i found this thread but ill copy and paste my complaint here too:

Whenever i connect to my speaker in the house, my brother or anyone else in the house has the ability to hijack the speaker kick me off and play what they want. The “jam sessions” are on by default with no way to permanently turn it off. Its a breach in privacy anytime i want listen to music. Also, to have what music i’m currently listening to broadcasted to anyone who wants to see it is very frustrating.

I know people who work in a restaurant kitchen that has a speaker that any customer is capable of connecting to unless someone remembers to manually turn off the jam session anytime they start playing music.

I understand the function. I like the idea. I absolutely despise that i have little control in when i want to use it or if i want to use it at all. Spotify do better. People have been asking for years at this point.

[Lord_Blizzard]

It's been over a year, what is the status of this issue? How many upvotes do you need to realize this is not something that people wanted? The 430+ is just people **bleep** enough to bother finding this post, logging in and voting.

I don't want any notifications, tips or suggestions I didn't specifically subscribed for.

[Natesh13]

Maybe I don't want a random person on the bus disrupting my listening experience. I've had to refuse 4 jams on this short train ride, why should I have had to do it once when I never had any intention of using the "feature"

[deadtamagotchi]

this feature ruins the user experience. please get it together and stop actively making the app worse with each new update.

[dolinsor]

To everyone I have figured this out.
Go into your device settings (I’m only doing IOS)

Settings>Apps>Spotify>Local Network>Off

This will disable the function to connect to other devices on the Wi-Fi network therefore disabling Jams