
In fact, until recently, the only way to change the address associated with your account was to delete your account and create a new one. She was right, there’s no way to see the address you entered. At first, I figured that she had just overlooked it. Did my wife type out the word “bypass” in our address, or did she use an abbreviation? Did she put our box number on the first or second line? Wanting to make sure I got it right, I asked her to check the address format on her account.Ī few minutes later, she told me she couldn’t find it. Apparently, Spotify requires address verification to try to ensure that all family members are in the same household, so presumably, those addresses need to be entered identically. In this case, I had my wife set it up and, after I entered my address, I received this ominous warning: When you invite someone else to join your plan, they’re asked to enter their address. You don’t have to give Spotify a home address unless you sign up for a family plan.

(I should have guessed something like this would happen after Adam Engst ran into an incomprehensible track limit on his account-see “ The 10,000 Track Limit: Why I Switched from Spotify to Apple Music,” 30 August 2017.) Or at least it seemed that way until we ran into the baffling and user-hostile way Spotify handles home postal addresses. The obvious choice for a music-streaming service seemed to be Spotify since it works on both platforms. I can’t justify the price of a HomePod, but my wife and I have a mix of Amazon Echo and Google Home speakers in our house.

