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As a long time user of Spotify (almost two decades in a couple of years...), this is my biggest gripe with Spotify: https://i.imgur.com/wfSka2H.png https://i.i

As a long time user of Spotify (almost two decades in a couple of years...), this is my biggest gripe with Spotify: https://i.imgur.com/wfSka2H.png https://i.imgur.com/wfSka2H.png More and more playlists are starting to look like this, which is starting to piss me off. I don't really care if it's the record companies fault or whoever, and I blame 100% myself for getting into this situation in the first place. Started to use Bandcamp more and more lately, and feel a lot safer because of it. I'm hopeful Bandcamp won't ever need to do layoffs either, as they are not trying to take over the world with their SaaS or pivot to focusing on Podcasts, or stuff like that. But Spotify was really useful for a long time and still discovery is second to none.

yawnr 4y ago
Well they’re owned by Epic now, so that may not be up to them anymore.
- capableweb 4y ago
  That did suck big time, makes them less independent. But at least stuff I already bought and downloaded can't disappear overnight, as I have the files on disk and backup already. I learned something from Spotify after all :)
dmitriid 4y ago
> I don't really care if it's the record companies fault or whoever, and I blame 100% myself for getting into this situation in the first place. Interestingly that in a situation where it's 100% copyright holders who are at fault, you say that you 100% blame yourself, but in reality you blame Spotify be cause that's your biggest gripe with it. Somehow no one ever blames the three-four companies (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Consolidation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Consolidation) that hold 90% of the world's recorded music hostage.
npteljes 4y ago
Yeah this is what we get for relying on streaming. After 10 months of YouTube Music, I just noticed my first disappeared track. Funny thing is, the track is found in the service, just disappeared from my playlist and the album art seems a bit different. Time to create a job that saves at least the tracklists.

yawnr 4y ago

Well they’re owned by Epic now, so that may not be up to them anymore.

capableweb 4y ago
That did suck big time, makes them less independent. But at least stuff I already bought and downloaded can't disappear overnight, as I have the files on disk and backup already. I learned something from Spotify after all :)

dmitriid 4y ago

> I don't really care if it's the record companies fault or whoever, and I blame 100% myself for getting into this situation in the first place. Interestingly that in a situation where it's 100% copyright holders who are at fault, you say that you 100% blame yourself, but in reality you blame Spotify be cause that's your biggest gripe with it. Somehow no one ever blames the three-four companies (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Consolidation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Consolidation) that hold 90% of the world's recorded music hostage.

npteljes 4y ago

Yeah this is what we get for relying on streaming. After 10 months of YouTube Music, I just noticed my first disappeared track. Funny thing is, the track is found in the service, just disappeared from my playlist and the album art seems a bit different. Time to create a job that saves at least the tracklists.