To delete your Spotify account, you can:
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Go to the Spotify website
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Click Support at the top of the page
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Go to the Account help section
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Open the Account settings tab
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Click Closing your account and deleting your data
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Click Close your account and delete your data
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Enter your Spotify login information if you’re not already logged in
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Click Close account
If you have a Premium account, you’ll need to contact Spotify
Originally Posted By u/random-sh1t At 2025-03-12 02:10:11 PM | Source
Oh heeeeell no. Now i have something to do tonight (migrating to Tidal).
It’s a lot more work, but if you love music I highly recommend hosting your own with your own collection. Navidrome is a fantastic open source server with lots of great compatible clients.
When I talk to some friends who are music lovers, I often ask them about control. Control over what is available and control over what versions are available.
I initially loved streaming. Having a bigger collection than I’ve ever had available anywhere! But two things really started to frustrate me.
One of my favorite artists is Blind Guardian and at some point they released remasters of all of their early albums. I strongly detest the remasters, but that is often your only choice on streaming services.
I love having my own collection, organized how I want, with versions that I want that won’t randomly change or disappear.
I’m not going to lie, it takes work and is not necessarily cheaper (especially when acquiring albums legitimately) but the payoff and satisfaction is worth it.
Oh i definitely want to at some point. It drives me nuts how almost everyone cuts out the full intro to Twisted Transistor or many other songs, so i totally get that aspect too. Just need the time/willpower to tackle it, already got plenty of computer(s) to throw at self hosting. The time might happen soon, the willpower is much harder to come by.
That and I want more hard drives. Big ones for my uhhh, linux iso’s 🏴☠️
Aaaand done. If you cancel premium before closing the account, you don’t seem to have to contact spotify. I deliberately specified in the Why/Other field that i will not pay money to a company supporting rapists and human traffickers. Dont care if they backtrack anything.
I used the service tidal pushes to migrate my playlists; it costs money if its over 500 songs. I switched it from annual to monthly and it costs about $5. It does try to push you into a paypal account, you can dodge it at the bottom. you can cancel it immediately after took like 5/10 minutes for a few thousand songs. If you get duplicates, add the duplicates to a folder and delete the folder.