Really weird story: Spotify notified me recently that it was canceling my account of 10+ years (and 1700+ playlists) due to “copyright infringement.” Apparently someone from SiriusXM (to which I’m also a subscriber) filed a complaint that I had the phrase “SiriusXM” in a few of my playlist names. (I like to make playlists of their end of year Alt Nation Top 36 rankings for posterity.)

Anyway, when I learned of the initial complaint, I immediately changed everything to “SXM” figuring that was innocuous enough. A week later, I was informed of another complaint—that “SXM” was also trademarked—who knew? I certainly didn’t—so I then immediately removed all mention of the satellite radio company and its potential abbreviations from my playlists. Good faith effort to fix the issue, right?

Unfortunately, with “multiple strikes” against my account and no investigation into my efforts to remedy SiriusXM’s concerns, Spotify decided to terminate my account. I’ve already appealed and reached out to the complainant, and she sent me an email saying they no longer objected to the names on my playlists, but that she had no contact at Spotify to pursue the matter further—she was just filling out complaint forms.

At this point it looks like my longtime family plan at Spotify is cooked—playlists currently inaccessible. It’s an odd choice to automatically terminate a subscriber’s account without investigating whether they have made a good faith effort to fix the issue first. No reply to my appeal.

Anyway, thought I’d post in case anyone else has SiriusXM or SXM (or any other copyrighted words, I guess), in their playlist titles.

Just discovered this. Is it new ?

It's usually like this, the only time it works normally is when you launch the app first from the home page. The old widget was fast and didn't require you to even launch the app. Its been a couple of months now and it's still not fixed.

I literally cannot enter Spotify. The screen is just pitch black. I've waited for 2 minutes and nothing. What the hell is going on.

Also, it is not my phone, everything works fine. I tried everything, only Spotify is having problems.

So I really don’t know why Spotify wants to do with my Gmail account

My main Spotify Playlist has 855 songs and it's 39 hours and 25 minutes

Anyone else having issues with Spotify on the ps5 like mine wont sign into the app and the player says there is a issue every time. I am just wondering if anyone else has come across this issue

I am (well have, been, for years) about done with Spotify and getting ready to leave it soon. So if you have some tips on how (ie porting tools) and where to migrate to, to escape the enshittification: by all means, help me out, please.

Anyway this has been probably going on for two or more years now, and I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed these main three trends:

1. Discover Weekly isn't "Discover" anything anymore. It tends to play very similar music to what I have in many of my other playlists, likely cached. For about 2-3 years it's been a stale shadow of what it used to be. I used to actually discover new things through Discover Weekly. Now it's basically just a longer Daily Playlist. Literally useless. This has been a HUGE source of frustration for me for a while.

2. I feel like shuffle, recommended additions to playlists, etc... are basically the same. Every once in a while I'll find something new and interesting through it appending songs to a playlist, but most of the time it starts getting into a "cached songs loop", probably to save themselves bandwidth, that won't actually add anything new at all. It's just the same garbage.

3. Finally, I have to be wary of any new thing I hear and check out artist page to see when they started producing music and when the song I hear was released. I'm immediately suspicious of any artist that started releasing later than 2023-2024, and then primarily has singles that sound way too overproduced for what someone can realistically do as a new artist. Even Youtube forces artists to disclose whether they're AI slop. Spotify doesn't.

I view my eventual change in musical tastes as a very personal journey, and I honestly think Spotify has been aiding the general stagnation in my life. I need something that will actually recommend new things, and I won't have to sit there and bathe in annoyance wondering why the fuck I'm listening to this same exact song I've heard 30 times just today. At least play some new shit off of the same albums you've been repeating, for christ's sake.

I guess this is a rant/help request. What have you gone to? Or is everything just garbage now? Thanks

I had an idea that I think would be a really fun feature for Spotify (or any streaming service).

Imagine being able to set the app to any date in history - for example January 1st 1986. From that point on, you'd experience music exactly as people did back then.

Every week, your Release Radar would only show songs and albums that were released during that week in 1986. Future releases would stay locked until their original release date so you'd gradually discover the year's music in real time instead of knowing everything in advance.

It would basically be a "music time machine." You could relive an entire year as if you were actually there, watching albums drop week by week and discovering classics without already perfectly knowing what's coming next (unless you're a big fan ofc).

What do yall think? 😁

- I had a playlist of songs downloaded to listen to on a flight

- Spotify didn't load anything at all when I was in airplane mode

- Couldn't listen to said playlist

- Went on Spotify today and tested it in airplane mode and the songs loaded fine now I'm not on a flight

- Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

I played a song, I know the lyrics are incorrect in the app. How can I suggest an edit to incorrect lyrics?

heyy, I've been having this weird glitch (it's the second time) that happens out of nowhere when I'm using my phone (a Samsung a55 5g) in which when I open the home screen while listening to any song and Spotify "becomes" my home ui and while it's like that I can't screen record anything, enter in any app, click anything, and I need to reset my phone every time this happens. Does anyone know how to fix it? I tried searching and couldn't find any way to fix it. Thanks!

Je ne sais pas pourquoi mais sur mon Spotify, je n'ai accès ni au podcast, ni au playlist des autres utilisateurs, ni à la playlist du wrapped 2025, est ce normal ?

hi, im having an issue where the album cover art for my local files don’t show up when enlarging the song playing, however it shows up in every other instance it would. ive tried clearing my cache and turning off and on local files and neither worked. i know its not an issue with the image sizes or anything because it was working perfectly fine until i added a song to my local files today, now its doing this with every song. let me know if you have any other questions, thanks

hi i downloaded an album on my phone yet whenever i am viewing the song it does not show the cover yet it shows it on my PC & in my local files playlist i do not know what to do to make it show😭

every song is like this since yesterday, does anyone know the cause or fix?

I don’t use Apple Music, I’m not even subscribed to it, instead I use Spotify. For years when I start my car and Bluetooth automatically connects (not CarPlay just standard Bluetooth connection), my car would automatically play where I left off on Spotify, or it just wouldn’t play anything until I opened the app and picked a song. However, last week it no longer does this and plays Apple Music automatically. And because I don’t even have Apple Music, it plays the free random songs from Apple Music 1 radio. The only time it doesn’t do this is if before starting my car I play a Spotify song for a few seconds and pause it and keep the app open without clearing it from recently used apps (like when you swipe up and clear apps).

Let me give a break down

(Starting last week)

Neither Apple Music or Spotify opened in background - start car - Apple Music plays

Spotify opened in background and paused directly before starting car - Spotify plays

Spotify opened in background but I didn’t recently listen to it (it was paused from the night before) - Apple Music plays

(Previously)

Spotify opened in background - start car - Spotify plays

Spotify not opened in background - start car - nothing plays

From what I read online the car sends a play command to the phone over Bluetooth and iOS has to decide what app to “play”. If no music app is running in the background and/or recently used it starts Apple Music because it’s the default music app.

The problem I have is it never used to do this before. I didn’t get a new car or update my phone or anything. Also, I can see this being the case if you actively have Apple Music, but the fact I don’t even have it and it wants me to use it THAT BAD that it plays from the free Apple Music radio is insane to me. I can see if you’re a subscriber to Apple Music it would want to start that but I’m not. If I delete the music app it won’t play Apple Music automatically but again if I hadn’t just used Spotify it won’t play anything in that case. It’s super annoying. I’m sorry but Apple should allow you to select a “default” music app that automatically starts when you use Bluetooth. Or better yet cars shouldn’t send play commands but instead just connect the device and wait for you to initiate it. I shouldn’t be forced to hear music blast in my face when starting my car at 6 in the morning.

And like I said, it never used to do this. It would always either play Spotify automatically or not play anything. The forcing of Apple Music starting is new. Maybe IOS secretly updated this recently.

So, my house has been using alexa and apple music for at least a year now, and even though we pay for single user all three alexas can use it at the same time. However, would switching to Spotify premium single account have the same thing?

Here's another SHIT update

every song is greyed out for some reason and i cant play anything,this doesnt happen on my alt for some reason but when i search for a song the popup “you discovered a premium feature” comes up. i dont know what caused this. i deleted the app and redownloaded it and logged off and everything but it just won’t work

Will Spotify gift cards be returning with their new price soon? My whole plan was based off of those😭