Vocals not playing in song “Oh No!” by The Decemberists

[#1]

Over the weekend the vocals stopped playing in the song “Oh No!” by the Decemberists. The background music still plays. Previously I could hear all the sounds. This happened on my MacBook Pro and iPhone

[bwilcox25]

I am experiencing the same issue! What the heck!

[greggptx]

Same here, and confirmed with several others as well. Song was fine until Saturday afternoon ….

[Loserlizardman]

The song in question is "Oh No!" by the Decemberists.  I'd had the song downloaded for about a day, with the complete arrangement including vocals.  Yesterday, trying to play it, the vocal track is missing.  The lyrics feature still works and "syncs" with the missing lyrics, so I can tell where they're supposed to start and do not.  I do not have this issue with any other song, including songs on the same album.  I've tried removing and re-adding the song, and I'm quite sure I didn't accidentally get an instrumental version.  My version of the spotify app is current.

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

iPhone 13

Operating System

iOS 17.5.1

My Question or Issue

Has anyone else had this happen and resolved it?  Anything other than deleting and redownloading the app would be nice as then I'd have to redownload my whole library.

[Kätzchen]

This just happened to me. It played through once without the vocals while listening to the album on my partner’s account. I immediately tried playing it on my account and it was normal. We’ve tried it on my partner’s account about three more times and it’s playing normally again.

[delichon]

Same thing happened to me with this track starting yesterday after a week or so of vocals. Logging out and back in hasn't fixed it. Very strange.

[Novy]

Hey folks, 

Thanks for reaching out to the Community. 

Could any of you send over a link to this song so that we can check it from our end?

Keep in mind that if you're able to constantly reproduce this on different devices, there's a chance that the metadata of the song was changed and that's up to the artist.

We'll be on the lookout. 

[greggptx]

Just checked and it appears that the vocals are working again -- very
strange, that it switched to an instrumental version there! Here's a link
in case you want to investigate what changed (and then changed back) --
https://open.spotify.com/track/73mNS7ZeWFq0y2H8ZOUIuO?si=4fd5f6f148b14a33

[Eni]

Hey @greggptx, 

Thanks for getting back to us and letting us know. 

Great news! If you need a hand with anything else, the Community is here for you. 

Cheers 🙂