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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 90015, member: 27"] Talk to Spotify can process your voice, typed prompts, listening history, and account activity to shape what it plays and says back. Spotify’s current privacy policy treats voice data as audio recordings supplied when you choose to use a voice feature. It also lists prompts submitted to AI-powered features and transcripts among the data generated through use of the service, so a casual music request can become more than a temporary playback command. That matters because the assistant can answer questions about when you first played a song, how often you heard it, and which older tracks fit a new request. The [URL='https://goldmidi.com/community/threads/talk-to-spotify-and-ai-dj-now-blur-together.75450/'][B]Talk to Spotify and AI DJ overlap[/B][/URL] makes the privacy picture fuzzier, since typed and spoken requests now appear across both conversational listening and the DJ experience. [HEADING=2]Spotify voice data collection gets personal[/HEADING] Spotify voice data collection begins with a deliberate action in the published interface. You tap or press and hold the microphone, speak, then send the request or pause so it sends automatically. Spotify describes a user-triggered microphone flow rather than an always-listening wake phrase for Talk to Spotify. The important split is between the recording and the meaning extracted from it. Spotify’s data-export documentation says Voice Input may include the time of a command, its language, the transcribed utterance, the returned item and the country associated with the request. It separately says an Input or Prompts file may contain information submitted through certain features plus metadata tied to those interactions. Typing reduces one part of that exposure. A typed Spotify AI prompt does not require an audio recording of your voice, but the text and surrounding interaction can still be processed as service data. Revoking Spotify microphone permission on your phone should therefore stop voice input at the device level, while leaving typed conversation available through the text field. The murky part is retention. Spotify’s Talk to Spotify announcement and support page explain how conversations work, but they do not publish a separate retention period for Talk to Spotify recordings, transcripts or prompt history. That leaves users relying on the broader Spotify privacy policy and account-level data rights rather than a feature-specific deletion switch. [HEADING=2]Private listening cannot hide every AI prompt[/HEADING] Spotify Private Session is useful, but it solves a narrower problem. While active, your listening does not appear in Friends Activity, recently played artists do not update, and those streams are not used to personalise recommendations or Wrapped. The session ends automatically after six hours or when Spotify restarts. Nothing in Spotify’s Private Session instructions says it deletes Spotify AI prompt data, voice recordings or transcripts. It is a Spotify listening history privacy control, not an AI conversation eraser, so switching it on should not be treated as a way to make voice requests disappear. Spotify taste profile controls are also more limited than they sound. Excluding a playlist or track makes past and future streams from that item count less toward recommendations and taste summaries, but it does not remove every service record connected to that listening. Spotify says the change can take up to 48 hours, and tracks played outside an excluded playlist can still affect the profile. AI DJ privacy settings do not currently appear as a separate privacy dashboard in Spotify’s support material. The DJ page directs users into the same typed or spoken interaction model and links back to Talk to Spotify, which means the practical controls remain microphone access, Private Session, taste-profile exclusions, and account privacy tools. [HEADING=2]Spotify data rights remain the real backstop[/HEADING] The clearest way to see how Spotify stores your activity is to request a Spotify data download. Spotify says its automated tool supplies JSON files and may include streaming history, search queries, transcribed voice commands, prompts, taste-profile information, and technical logs, depending on what applies to the account. For users in Ireland and other places covered by the GDPR, Spotify also points to access and portability rights through its Account Privacy page. You can download a copy of your personal data, contact Spotify for access information, change some consent settings, and close the account when you want Spotify to stop processing data required to provide the service. Closing the account is the heavy option. Spotify says data deletion begins after the seven-day reactivation window, while ordinary privacy controls mainly change sharing, recommendations or selected processing rather than wiping the account’s full history. The sensible boundary is simple. Use text when your voice is unnecessary, keep private listening for sessions you do not want shaping recommendations, exclude misleading tracks from your taste profile, and download your Spotify data when you need to see what the conversational layer has actually retained. [/QUOTE]

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