Songs Not Importing Properly into Spotify

[oElectronic]

Hi,

So I recently started using Spotify for my music. Before this I was using iTunes, so naturally I imported a lot of the music that I already had on iTunes into Spotify.

But....it doesn't seem to be importing some songs properly? For example, one song is listed as having no album or artist, despite those details being listed within iTunes and within the file itself if you go into the file properties.

Has anyone experienced something similar or know how to resolve it?

[user-removed]

Spotify only reads DRM free music. Unfortunately, virtually all of iTunes' music has DRM; so it will not work with Spotify. The only music that will work are music purchased from Amazon.com or GooglePlay; those are both DRM free vendors. Hopes that answeres your question.

[oElectronic]

Thanks for your input! Although I'm pretty sure music bought from the iTunes store has been DRM free for a few years now - all of my purchases imported into Spotify fine.

Either way, this particular song wasn't bought from iTunes, it was from Soundcloud. I have other songs that I got through the same means but they imported fine, so I don't know why this one mp3 just refuses to import properly despite me having already filled in the song details elsewhere.

[user-removed]

No, it's not.. 'Cause I had to buy a tool to remove it. A looooong time ago, they offered users to strip the DRM for an additional 30 cents a song. But, they taken away that option ever since they moved to clould based management. I never forgave Apple for doing that dumb sh*t..... Even if they were DRM free, it doesn't matter anyway, because I don't think Spotify reads AAC

[oElectronic]

Well how old is the music that you had to remove the DRM from? Music bought more recently (as in the last couple of years) honestly doesn't have the restrictions that they used to have - unless for some reason it's different where you're from. I know this because I used to own DRM protected music from iTunes 10+ years ago and I simply redownloaded the songs again through other means because I couldn't even transfer the songs from my old computer to a new one because of it.

Either way as I stated earlier the song that isn't working wasn't bought from iTunes, and all my other iTunes purchases did work, so it must work in one way or another.

[user-removed]

I know at one time they had something called iTunes Plus, or something like that, where the songs were automatically DRM free. But you had to pay  $1.29 for them. I don't know what they're doing today, I don't keep up with iTunes anymore. I wasn't feeling their "exclusive" mindset they got going on. I haven't purchased anything from them in a while now. To be honest, I only use them now when I feel like running "Genius" on my old music.