spotify shows songs to be only 0:29 second long

[alel11]

Hi, today I noticed that in some albums the songs are showed to be 0:29 seconds long (always and only 0:29) while obviously they are longer. Once I play them the right lenght appears on the playing bar, but still not in the album. This only happens in some albums.  Am I the only one who has this bug?

Plan

Premium

Country

Italy

Operating System

Windows 10

[violetcities]

I've noticed this too. When you play the songs they're the length they should be. Sometimes it's only a few songs in an album, sometimes it's all of them.

This affects last.fm scrobbling, because songs under 30 seconds won't register.

[fel_gomes]

I've noticed the same thing with this album especifically, even showing total length 06:46 minutes

[Apple242]

Hello,

for me the songs also only appear at 0:29 on some albums.

But when I play one of these the songs, it plays the entire playing time.

Can anyone help?

Thanks a lot!

[violetcities]

I was just worried about my last.fm charts being ruined, but come to think of it, this probably affects streams as well, because don't streams only count after playing a minimum of 30 seconds? So playing these glitched tracks won't count and artists won't get paid I guess? So that's at least a little bit concerning.

Some affected albums I noticed just now are Led Zeppelin III, There Is Nothing Left To Lose by Foo Fighters, The Beatles' White Album, Positions by Ariana Grande, multiple artists' Spotify Singles.

(Premium / Germany / Windows 11)

[tmeffort7]

I am seeing this same issue with Lee Brice album Hey World and Tigirlily EP and other tracks. And yes, tracks will not scrobble to Last FM like this..

[DieSystemOfficial]

Having also same issue.

Fiiiixxx it Spotify!

[LetoAtreides82]

Same here, just noticed it today.  

[DieSystemOfficial]

I just contacted Spotify Support through the chat to report this issue. They confirmed there is a bug and they try to fix it.

[chelle70-us]

Same issue. They play fully, but that 29 secs affects the total time of a playlist length. I did report it to an adviser, so hopefully w/this subject board, it'll be fixed soon. I noticed it after this most recent update. Cant remember if i updated Tues or this morning. 

[NorthStarAvalon]

Noticed a whole bunch of albums affected by this 29 second glitch when I was flicking through some of my playlists. Add these to the list:-

Tasmin Archer - Sweet Little Truths

Pat Benatar - Wide Awake in Dreamland

Blondie - Parallel Lines

David Bowie - Let's Dance and Labyrinth

Beverley Craven - S/T

Divinyls - What a Life

Duran Duran - Arena

Erasure - The Circus

Europe - The Final Countdown

Foreigner - Inside Information

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

The Hollies - Distant Light

Michael Jackson - Bad 25

Donna Lewis - Now in a Minute

Huey Lewis and the News - S/T

Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool

Jo Dee Messina - S/T

The Mighty Wah - A Word to the Wise Guy

Missing Persons - Spring Session M

The Mission - Singles

Alanis Morissette - Under Rug Swept

Nazareth - Loud n Proud

Nena - 99 Luftballons

OMD - S/T

Queen - A Night at the Opera

Runrig - Amazing Things

Donna Summer - I Feel Love: The Collection

The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmatic

Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds of the Western World

Ultravox - Vienna

The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

Wings - Band on the Run

Paul Young - The Secret of Association

[hans-jürgen]

If you want to scrobble Spotify albums and playlists showing these wrong 0:29 min. track lengths, you could use external scrobbling apps like the Web Scrobbler browser extension or Android scrobblers. Note that you will probably get duplicate scrobbles when Spotify fixes this database bug, and the usual Last.fm method for Spotify scrobbling works again which compares your last 50 Spotify tracks with your Last.fm recent tracks list via the Spotify web API. But manually deleting duplicates is easier than fixing missing scrobbles, I guess. For adding missing scrobbles, you could also use manual scrobbling apps.

Also note that there are no external scrobbling apps for iOS, so iPhone users cannot use this workaround anyhow.

I also guess this bug will probably affect Spotify's own statistics like artist payouts and Spotify Wrapped at the end of the year.

[Apple242]

Some things have been corrected. But not in the iOS-App! Only webplayer shows the correct playtimes.

The playing time on the albums is now displayed correctly.

However, the playing time of the same songs in the playlists is not yet correct...

Playlist 1h Wonderful Relaxing Chillout Music 

Track 6 and 13 is only 0:29 Min

[BradLad]

Wow lol I thought I was the only one as well. I noticed it from Plastic Beach by Gorrilaz and on Katana Zero's Original Soundtrack.

[LetoAtreides82]

Looks like Spotify is working on it because today I noticed I had much fewer songs affected by the 0:29 bug on playlists.  There's still some that are affected for example in Tokyo Rose's album Cruis'n there's still six tracks from this 16 track album that will display as 0:29 in length in playlists.  When you view the album on its album page the correct playtimes are listed, and also when you actually are playing the songs the correct playtime is shown on the time bar.  

[LetoAtreides82]

Seems to be fixed now my largest playlist containing over 4700 songs no longer contains any songs showing duration of 29 seconds.  

[Hearin]

Me to someone help us😭🙏