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Bangla Lyrics Are Showing as Transliteration Instead of Bangla Script

Bangla Lyrics Are Showing as Transliteration Instead of Bangla Script

Plan

Premium

Country

Bangladesh

Device

(iPhone 15 pro)

Operating System

(iOS 18, Windows 11.)

 

My Question or Issue

Hi Spotify Team,

I’m currently using Spotify Premium on an iPhone 15 Pro, and I’ve noticed that Bangla song lyrics — which used to appear in Bangla script — are now showing in English transliteration.

As a native Bangla speaker, reading the lyrics in our original script is much more natural and meaningful. The current change has made the experience less immersive, and I’d really appreciate it if you could either revert this change or add an option to toggle between Bangla script and transliteration.

Looking forward to your support on this.

Thank you,
Towsif

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3 Replies

Hey there @towsif_xo

 

Thanks for getting in touch about this and welcome to the Community! 

 We understand where you're coming from and we appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback with us. We'll make sure to pass it onto the right team, as we always strive to improve your experience.


Keep in mind that Spotify has worked with publishing partners and Musixmatch to license lyrics, so in this case you can reach out to Musixmatch or the right holders, and you can also try becoming a curator. For any further questions about lyrics, we recommend contacting them directly. 

 

Hope this helps. If you need a hand with anything else, the Community is here for you. 

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Facing the same issue for Bangla and Hindi lyrics.

Location - India

Device - Motorola Edge 50

Plan

Premium Family

Country

Germany

Device

(iPhone 12 Pro Max, Spotify Dektop x64)

Operating System

(iOS 18.4.1,  Windows 10)

 

 

My Question or Issue

I listen to a lot of Japanese music thus having my Spotify in Japanese (on my phone and my Desktop Computer) so my songs are in Japanese and the artist name is as well.

 

Since yesterday (22.04.2025), this ANNOYING "bug?" is happening again, where it start to romanize my song titles to latin alphabet. This does happen slowly to more and more songs in my playlist and also on the search feature. If you're not sure what I mean, look at the picture attached: The title is Twilight, the "original title" in Japanese would (AND WAS) トワイライト. This is just one example of many that is slowly happening.

 

Sadly, this problem is not new to our community

 

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/Chinese-songs-title-suddenly-translated-to-ENGLIS...

 

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Japanese-text-romanized-help/m-p/4726958#M1515342

 

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Music-Discussion/Songs-are-changing-from-the-original-language/td-p...

 

I don't know if it is a bug or a feature you want to slowly implement but PLEASE let us have control over rather if we want this enabled or not. All these people in the community topics scream for a possibility to enable/disable this feature as they like. PLEASE DONT FORCE US TO HAVE THE ROMANIZED VERSION. It is AWFUL to navigate/search for/look at!!!

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