I just took a look at my profile and noticed that spotify displays not my name, but as my "username", which I do not like. When I signed up for spotify I connected to my facebook account and continued signing in with my email, just like I would for facebook. This caused my full name to represent my profile; which I'm okay with. Here's the thing that might have caused the problem: I just recently lost interest in facebook and temporarily deactivated my account, but I could still log in to spotify using my facebook information email and password.
I checked my account settings and what not on the spotify website and saw that I was still connected to facebook. I get that spotify is for listening to music and it shouldn't matter how your profile appears, but it still bugs me. Go to Solution. Make sure to check this Spotify Answer by Guido to find out how you can switch back to your Facebook name and avoid displaying your numerical Spotify username. If you've just decided to join Spotify or to create a new account and are wondering how you can select a personalized Spotify nickname, you'll find it very helpful to check this Spotify Answer by Kate.
If you still have questions regarding this topic, we'll be looking forward to checking them out in a new and up-to-date thread you can create by heading here. View solution in original post. Unfortunately, if you deactivated your facebook account, Spotify will revert your name to numbers as it pulls your data every so often, meaning it no longer has any data to pull so it can't display anything. Currently, there is no way to specify a Spotify username to display. The only way to display your name would be to connect to fb again.
There is an idea for creating a username somewhere on the ideas section but I can't seem to find it, sorry! Feel free to add Kudos and comment to show your support! I can confirm your public profile for " " is connected to Facebook and is now displaying your full name and profile picture.
If it hasn't updated in your client yet, it should do within the next 24 hours. If this post was helpful, please add kudos below! Are you getting any error messages at all Mundivondi? I deactivated my FB account and now my username is also random numbers.
I did activate FB again, but is seems to be numbers and it wont change to my FB name. Need help? Check out our FAQs for solutions to a wide range of topics.
I created my account in November of last year via Facebook, from the moment I finished signing up I have this username, a bunch of random numbers and letters. Since then I have unlinked Facebook, I have linked it again and despite that my username does not change.
I also tried creating a new account but had the same issue, the username I defined ended up changing to a random string Via facebook or not. Go to Solution.
Then wait 24 to 48 hours until your username is updated and an additional 24hrs until it gets indexed in the search bar. View solution in original post. Sorry to hear about this. Please refer to this link for more info on usernames. Just to add to what DanielTham had written, I'd like to clarify that usernames are now generated automatically and they cannot be changed.
For full info on this, we suggest you check out this support article. But, if you created your account through Facebook, you will have your Facebook profile name displayed in the app instead. I must have opted out of Facebook using my data because my picture and name went away and is just numbers. Over the last two weeks I have go in and allowed Facebook to use my data, logged in and out a few times and still nothing.
When I got back into settings for some reason it shows that I haven't let Facebook use my data and ill reselect it but it won't let me "save" it.
I'm so confused. Anyone know why this is happening? This will make sure you avoid issues with the cache-memory on your device. I can change the bottom to opt in to processing my Facebook data but there is no way to "save" the change so when I exit out and go back in it is deselected again. Hey sully,. There's no ' Save Changes ' button. We suggest you try a clean reinstall of the app and toggling on the Process My Facebook Data button again. I did a clean install on both my computer and my phone and it is still the same.
Don't forget to replace username with your old username the numbers and letters. Oh and by the way, If you want to use the same email address for your new account, you'll have to close your old account. You'll have 7 days to visit your old account and find your music there. We hope you'd like to try this!
It's a lot quicker than it might seem. Let us know if you have further questions. My username is just numbers. No way to change that? All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Labels: Labels: Account Login. Rock Star Hope you're doing great! Help others find this answer and click "Accept as Solution". Reply 0 Likes. Hi arnigummi , Just to confirm, was your account created through Facebook? If so, it's possible that you might have opted out for sharing data with Facebook.
Reply 2 Likes. Hi Billy-J Thank you for your answer. Hi arnigummi , If you opted out of sharing Facebook data with your Spotify Account, then the alphanumeric sequence will be your username. Casual Listener. Reply 1 Like.
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