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Switch Country Preference to a foreign one

Switch Country Preference to a foreign one

Plan

Premium

Country

Germany

Operating System

Android/Windows 10

 

My Question or Issue

Hey there! I've been looking for a while now to find an option to switch my country preference to the Netherlands for one of two accounts on Spotify Duo (edit profile doesn't work). Reason being that despite being registered at the same German address and the card the payment is issued from also being German, as someone listening to a large quantity of podcasts, I'd prefer to still see the Dutch recommendations first, and the German ones secondary. Currently, I can only access any sort of recommendations through the charts or those on my homepage, which of course, significantly restricts what I get to see at all. Not to mention that, whenever I look for any specific podcasts, regardless of the language used for the keywords, the German ones always get preferred, and the Dutch ones are hard to find in comparison. (I've especially noticed that looking up History podcasts, though I'm fairly sure it applies across the board).

 

Mind that this isn't about getting any sort of content unavailable in my country unlocked, but rather just having a chance to access the content that should be available to me without first having to search it out through Google and similar services, which is fairly annoying. 

 

I feel like there should be that option, but I just can't seem to find it. Switching the language used for the app itself doesn't fix the problem either.

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Hey @user-removed 

 

A similar idea has also been suggested here:

 

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Browse-Allow-to-change-Country-Origin-Suggestions/idi-p/3286802

 

Regardless of status, please vote for it, and add a comment there, so it may be considered. Any update on the matter should be posted there. 🙂

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Hey, thanks for the answer and bringing that to my attention! Considering how other services handle the matter, it came as quite a surprise that this actually wasn't possible. Really, really annoying. I can live with certain content being unavailable (though especially with scientific content, that's of course always a bit of an ick), but that's just - frustrating. 

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