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[Music] Warning when a Track is removed from Spotify

I use Spotify to store the music i like - saving them on Playlists. Spotify adds music continuosly but also deletes other, by licence problems or whatever. But you Spotify must warn me in that circumstances, so I can get that music from another source. It s not acceptable that you quit music from your servers and from my playlist without any kind of warning. It s a disrepect to the user of your service. Please solve this problem as soon as it s possible.

Updated on 2019-01-11

Hey folks,



 

Thanks for coming to the Community, and adding your vote to this idea!



 

We're keeping this idea to 'Not Right Now', as this isn't something we have any immediate plans to implement. We appreciate you sharing your thoughts.

 

As before, you can show unavailable track by going to Settings -> Display Options -> Show unavailable tracks in playlists. This setting also works for saved songs.

 

If we do have any new info to share, rest assured we'll check back in here with a new status.

 



Thanks.

Comments
Marco
Status changed to: Duplicate

A similar idea has already been suggested here:
http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Alert-window-that-displays-if-when-a-track-has-been-re...

Add your kudos there please! 😉
devitod

Yes this is exactly what I'm talking about!

lakoivu

Is there any insight into why this happens? I would really like to know.

I'm from Finland but live in the states, I try to listen to Finnish music on Spotify, and what little is available is often removed randomly. Why would something be available at first, and then suddenly not again?

 

And why, in this age of a global internet community, are we still restricted by country-by-country licensing? If I want to buy music from a different country, why can I not give them my money and download the track??? (I know this is a bigger question than just Spotify, and this is probably not the place to vent it, but if anyone has any insight I'd sure like to know...)

luminux

Spotify just deleted several albums from its catalog overnight. I have many playlists containing songs from albums that were deleted, and those tracks were replaced with substitute versions. For example, a playlist containing the Misfits "Static Age" from their Static Age LP was substituted with a *live* version from their "Legacy of Brutality" compilation. Also, a playlist containing several Lee Perry + The Upsetters tracks from the album "Blackboard Jungle" were substituted with tracks from a dodgy compilation called "Dub Triptych".

Not to mention, the substituted songs are of really, really poor sound quality...

What's going on?? 

elovasz

In Response to lakoivu

 

This all has to do with licensing with the record lables that hold the rights to the music. I have come accross tracks I cannot play in the US many times. Though this would never happen, I wish spotify could put a button on a track that you cannot play to directly contact the rights holder of the music to vent about not being able to listen. I can dream LOL

 

This is why I requested for an alert with a reason. Because when music disapears the fisrt thing a user would do is blame Spotify and in most cases it is not Spotify its the entinity that holds the rights to the music.

 

I see music get removed and then weeks or months later reappear. 

 

chuck_fr

Massive kudos as I just noticed one on my favorite album has been revomed from Spotify without warning 😞

yawnsymcgee

I would love this functionality.    Sadly these forums are useless .   Lets all just start pirating mp3's again.

 

At least then the music we've 'purchased' wouldn't disappear.

 

danielpacheco11

Yes, I think the same. Is a great idea. Is in fact more important than new songs added on a given playlist. 

Things

I agree to this idea.

Kudo given.

FreakyNL

@lakoivu

 

Sure, because the entertainment industry is full of assholes and people selling rights to different countries.

 

This can cause weird situations where the owner of the licensing for France will allow spotify to play it in France, but the company/person that has the license in say Germany does not.

 

Now, some tracks appear on, sorry don't know the right word, collection albums. Say top 20 track of 2010. Someone holds the rights on this, in a certain country/region, and allow spotify to use this album. 2 months later some artist/record label comes to the conclusion their track is on spotify due to the licensing of the collection album, gets pissed and demands spotify removes it.

 

By default record labels mostly work like this: artist gets a fee and all rights/licensing/royalties goes to the record company. The record company sells these rights to different companies in different regions for that specific region and for that region that company/person gets to decide what's allowed with it.

 

It's a huge friggin' PITA to maintain. The artists complaining about not enough revenue should be able to guess where most of the money is going to (and where by far the most frustration for users is coming from).

 

But until 10.000+ companies die and the entertainment industry learns that there's only 1 world (we all have internet now - so sorry for you) we're stuck with this bull**bleep**.

 

I've never caught spotify on making any public announcements on this crap, but if you track the news a bit you could see, at least some years ago, they were flying all over the place to discuss these royalties/rights per region. Now just try to imagine what maintaining that crap situation alone costs. I'm quite sure it's going to be a very shocking amount of money. Money that could have stayed in our pockets or could have gone to the actual artist. You know, the person that actually made the music.