topic Re: Not longer available - why? in Content Questions

Not longer available - why?

pinback666 — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:15:51 GMT

During the last months more and more of my subscribed albums are not longer available on spotify.

For example:

Warpaint - Warpaint
Dredg - Catch without arms (just the title song is available, the album is even not listed anymore)
Schnipo Schranke - Satt (only the 'EXPLICIT'-marked songs are available)

And there are many more...

What is the reason?

Why don't spotify send at least an information to me about the affected music and the reason for it?

Actually I click on a song and hope it works - this was not the deal.

If there is no solution I will change to another provider.

Other similar experiences?

One of my favors too, aaaahhhh

Love A - Irgendwie

Re: Not longer available - why?

MattSuda — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 06:30:26 GMT

Hello @pinback666

The reason is that the artist or their music label has likely decided to remove it from Spotify.

The availability of music on Spotify is up to the artist and their music label.

Spotify wants all the world's music, and they're working hard on making this happen for you. However sometimes agreements can't be reached with the artist or label or a change may happen in music ownership. Sometimes the music is only available in certain countries, while access is blocked to others. Sometimes the album or song will be unavailable temporary, and come back again later.

Re: Not longer available - why?

user-removed — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 15:47:23 GMT

@pinback666

Hello:

What is your listening region? I did a quick look up of that release Irgendwie by Love A, and it is available currently to these listening regions:

AR AU AT BE BO BR BG CA CL CO CR CY CZ DK DO DE EC EE SV FI FR GR GT HN HK HU IS IE IT LV LT LU MY MT MX NL NZ NI NO PA PY PE PH PL PT SG SK ES SE CH TW TR UY US GB AD LI MC ID

Not available

RO SI

Just asking to double check you are not a user having the play back track error issue other users have reported, the error about content that is available but not playing correctly, with the blue play bar about content not available and to add it if you have the music files locally?

As a test can you double check to see if the same content will play in the webplayer here: https://play.spotify.com/ if the content will play in the webplayer, can you list what OS and Spotify app version you currently have, that the content not available blue bar error pops up for?

Edited to add:

Did a content lookup for these releases below as well, Warpaint - Warpaint

Two Versions available:

spotify:album:09dQDtKaIuTaQvVHjFhEV4

AR AU AT BE BO BR BG CA CL CO CR CY CZ DK DO DE EC EE SV FI FR GR GT HN HK HU IS IE IT LV LT LU MY MT MX NL NZ NI NO PA PY PE PH PL PT SG SK ES SE CH TW TR UY US GB AD LI MC ID

spotify:album:6fPcMnVQsqBtHbq2CbJKES

AR AU AT BE BO BR BG CA CL CO CR CYCZ DK DO DE EC EE SV FI FR GR GT HN HK HU IS IE IT LV LT LU MY MT MX NL NZ NI NO PA PY PE PH PL PT SG SK ES SE CH TW TR UY US GB AD LI MC ID

Not available

RO SI

Release by Dredg - Catch Without Arms

Two versions available:

spotify:album:6me0om1C2yAFCIVWcu1Msx

CA MX US

spotify:album:1csjcf2pCTJiKFdYgVgmA9

AR AT AU BE BG CH CY CZ DK EC EE FI FR GB GR HK HU ID IE IS IT LT LU LV MY NL NO NZ PE PL PT SE SG SK TR TW

Not available

AD BO BR CL CO CR DO SV DE GT HN LI MT MC NI PA PY PH RO ES SI UY

Release by Schnipo Schranke - Satt

Seems only the explicit track version of this release is available currently.

spotify:album:0NKQ592NsEOyvEEqMFmVji

AR AU AT BE BO BR BG CA CL CO CR CY CZ DK DO DE EC EE SV FI FR GR GT HN HK HU IS IE IT LV LT LU MY MT MX NL NZ NI NO PA PY PE PH PL PT SG SK ES SE CH TW TR UY US GB AD LI MC ID

Not available

RO SI