Spotify recently announced a drastic change in their API: connections to your account will now expire after 6 months, starting July 20th.
If you have your Spotify account connected to ListenBrainz, this means you will have to reconnect your Spotify account every 6 months, or ListenBrainz will not be able to keep your listening history in sync.
To get us started, all users will need to reconnect their Spotify account this coming Monday July 20th.
In addition to sending you an email, you will see an error message at the top of the page in ListenBrainz:
To minimize disruption and potential loss of listening history in the future, we will send you an email a month ahead, and one week ahead of the disconnection for you to disconnect and reconnect your Spotify account in your music services settings.
This is quite the thorn in our side but alas we have no other choice as the internet continues to enshittify.
Two words: corporate greed.
*dramatically swirls apple juice in a wine glass*
Very good, but the warning prompt in the yellow box is too obtrusive. When closed with an X button, it comes up again after any page navigation or refresh. When reconnected Spotify account as advised, the prompt is still there. It’s very annoying, please make it go away and respect that if I clicked on X button, it means that I don’t want to see it.
Appreciate the emails feature though, this is super helpful.
“This is quite the thorn in our side but alas we have no other choice as the internet continues to enshittify.”
Cringe
“Cringe” – Meatboy, 2026
Is the enormous “Action required for Spotify users” intended to pop up every single time any ListenBrainz page is loaded even for users who have never connected a Spotify account? It is incredibly obtrusive.
There’s a fix underway I believe, I saw a ticket on Jira.