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by cissou 3627 days ago
This could actually be the source of a bug I (and others) have been experiencing for a while. I'm listening to Spotify when all of a sudden, music pauses and I get a "your account is being used somewhere else". The first few times I actually though it was true, but since then I've tried to "log out from every device" and log in again on one device, only to find the bug happening again 2 minutes later.

Seeing that, my hypothesis is that I gave Spotify access to a 3rd party app way back (maybe a Sonos sound system at a rental house, maybe the Uber app) that has been using my token to play music without my explicit consent… and there is no way for me to revoke those tokens.

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I did exactly that (use a Sonos system at a rental and specifically used the "log out of every device") to avoid an issue like this. It's been a couple months and I haven't been logged out yet, but maybe I'm just lucky.

This is really disappointing from the Spotify team, but if I'm being honest with myself that's fairly par for the course.

Do you have two or more MacBooks? Kill app nap for Spotify on all of them:

    defaults write com.spotify NSAppSleepDisabled -bool YES
My friend has been having the exact same problem. He's changed his password, logged out of all devices, etc. Still happens.