I was using Spotify for a while, the premium version, to get the mobile goodies and I rather liked it...
A while back I saw that they did some joined (joint?..) thing with Facebook and it didn't look really interesting to me as an end user but it did look as a major move in the industry and as a professional, it did catch my attention, at least for a little while.
The other day I got some upgrade and suddenly I couldn't log in. Being used to playing around with Facebook integration of things, I accepted my faith and assumed I just (as always) forgot to read what i agreed to when accepting some licence agreement or whatever. Being a good sport, I clicked what they asked me to do and got into my account, seemingly unharmed by the speed bump some programmer put in my way.
Another few days passed, including some speed bumps and requirement to log in after being idle for a day or two. Then, suddenly, I got into my account, but my playlists were gone along with favorites etc.
Again, being a good sport and fellow programmer, I just assumed they used the same QA team Skype used last year and tried to find if I did something wrong, or just different for that matter.
After some playing around, sometimes being successful, I finally isolated it..
When I use the same username but with different passwords, I get into my Facebook connected account, or my initial (paid) account. The Facebook one being the empty one and the paid one being the one holding my playlists etc that I actually spent some time setting up.
Obviously, my inconvenience is not the major point here. The fact that Spotify store and use my data in a manner that allows my password to control whether I get into one account or the other, just because they have the same user name is *major understatement ahead* outrageous.
I'm left with one thought: are they evil? or just vastly incompetent?
A while back I saw that they did some joined (joint?..) thing with Facebook and it didn't look really interesting to me as an end user but it did look as a major move in the industry and as a professional, it did catch my attention, at least for a little while.
The other day I got some upgrade and suddenly I couldn't log in. Being used to playing around with Facebook integration of things, I accepted my faith and assumed I just (as always) forgot to read what i agreed to when accepting some licence agreement or whatever. Being a good sport, I clicked what they asked me to do and got into my account, seemingly unharmed by the speed bump some programmer put in my way.
Another few days passed, including some speed bumps and requirement to log in after being idle for a day or two. Then, suddenly, I got into my account, but my playlists were gone along with favorites etc.
Again, being a good sport and fellow programmer, I just assumed they used the same QA team Skype used last year and tried to find if I did something wrong, or just different for that matter.
After some playing around, sometimes being successful, I finally isolated it..
When I use the same username but with different passwords, I get into my Facebook connected account, or my initial (paid) account. The Facebook one being the empty one and the paid one being the one holding my playlists etc that I actually spent some time setting up.
Obviously, my inconvenience is not the major point here. The fact that Spotify store and use my data in a manner that allows my password to control whether I get into one account or the other, just because they have the same user name is *major understatement ahead* outrageous.
I'm left with one thought: are they evil? or just vastly incompetent?
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