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Damn social logins. The biggest one is Spotify. They require you to make a whole new account instead of just unlinking your FB one, and then all of your playlists etc are gone.

I’m going to set aside a day to migrate all of my services, but it’s going to be a pain. Worth it.




I made the smart choice a long time ago to never use one of those social logins. It actually kept me off of Stackoverflow for a long time. I'm not even particularly socially minded or privacy conscious -- I just don't think one coordinated login is a good idea.


Smart choice, wish I didn’t make that mistake.


I did this a couple months ago. You can share playlists from your original account with your new account and copy them over. You can even make a playlist of your saved songs and and save them all at once to your new library (select all > Save to your Library)


Awesome, thanks for the tips.


You can ask the Spotify customer service to migrate your data from the old account to the new one. I did and they transferred all my content.


I actually did contact them and ask and they were the ones that told me to just open a new account as they couldn’t disconnect it (which I obviously knew to be BS).

Maybe I’ll try again asking even nicer...thanks for sharing.




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