If you have a Spotify Premium Family plan, meanwhile, download the Spotify Kids app (Opens in a new window) to keep their tunes separate from yours.ġ8.That’s up to Spotify. So before you doze to rain sounds for 2 hours, open up a private session. Stuff you listen to in a Private Session doesn't factor into Spotify's recommendations, or Spotify Wrapped, though. In recent years, many people found that their most-streamed music of the year included the ambient sounds they listened to while falling asleep, or endless hours of 'Baby Shark' for the toddlers in the home. One benefit here? Not messing up your Spotify Wrapped. Your account will remain private until you turn it off, restart Spotify, or after a 'long period' of inactivity.

Navigate to Settings > Social > Private Session. Switch to a Private Session, which will temporarily stop music sharing.

But maybe you're having an afternoon with NSYNC's greatest hits and don't want to broadcast that fact. Spotify Friend Activity (Opens in a new window) lets you share your listening habits. If you're having trouble, make sure the phone and PC are on the same Wi-Fi network. Then open the mobile app, find the playlist with the imported songs and turn on download. First, import songs via the desktop app and add them to a playlist. To listen to these songs on mobile, you'll need to be a Premium subscriber. (The iTunes lossless format (M4A) isn't supported.)

To pull tunes from another location on your PC, click Add a Source. Files from your computer's My Music and Downloads files are automatically selected, but you can turn them off. On the desktop, navigate to Settings > Local Files. But these services don't have everything if there's something in your music library that Spotify doesn't stream, you can import local files (Opens in a new window) into Spotify. One of the benefits of music streaming is paying a monthly fee for millions of songs no more buying individual songs or albums.

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