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Offline-synced devices management

Hello everyone.

 

I recently got a new laptop. Before that, I was using offline synced playlists on my home PC, my smartphone and my old laptop.
Now i wanted to enable spotify offline on my new laptop as well. and since I know that you guys just don't care and your evil software doesn't either and it just deletes the offline Storage directory, I was clever enough to turn off offline syncing on my old laptop before i switched it on on my new laptop.

To be sure my setting has been applied as expected, i logged off, logged back in, exited spotify and restarted it. several times.

At least i thought it would help.

However, spotify did the usual thing:

It selected one of the 2 other devices with offline syncing enabled (PC and smartphone), my smartphone in this case, to troll me by just deleting it's offline storage. I must say though, looking at it's job (trolling me), it clearly selected the better device, since syncing all 700 tracks to my android takes like 3 days, thanks to the buggy-as-hell implementation.

 

to protect your nice paying customers from being trolled by your product in the future, I would suggest that you do one of the following things:

  • develop an offline-sync device management platform where you can kick devices from offline-access.
  • implement a warning when attempting to activate offline sync on the 4th device with a selection of all offline devices and which one's access should be withdrawn.
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