Spotify - the honeymoon is now over

[orangerful]

So, I went to listen to Lana del Rey on Spotify last night, wanted to hear something besides "Video Games" and "Born to Die". When I searched Spotify, guess what? Only "Born to Die" came up. Now, just LAST WEEK I was able to listen to her full "Video Games" EP.

Turns out, there was a 6-month caveat on my free subscription and now the
real limits are showing up. Instead of getting to test out full albums for
many bands, I'm just getting two or three songs. I can't tell if this is
because I'm a free member OR because Spotify took a hit at the end of the year losing at least 200 labels.

Any one else noticing that artists or albums are missing? Seems like if they wanted to get me to go premium, they would have left the tracks up and said "aaaw did you want to listen to that? BUY SUBSCRIPTION!" I googled around to see if I could find specifics and found one other person reporting the problem, but no follow up yet. I wonder if she switched labels and that messed up the rights?

Bah, who knows. I was having so much fun finding new music.

Comments

[ekaterin24.livejournal.com]

Spotify: marketing fail, people.

btw, you have an invalid markup.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

fixed! Thank you :) That's what I get for email posting LOL.

[plumxxjam.livejournal.com]

I haven't noticed that issue with my Spotify account, but I'll keep an eye out for it. Thanks for the heads up.

[sideflip1.livejournal.com]

I've noticed the same with spotify. it was great at first, but the honeymoon period is definitely over! so many ads/commercials now and very frequent.

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

I think one mistake they made was removing the songs you can have access to if you have Spotify premium...they used to list those grayed out but I think they must be gone now. I loaded Spotify on to a different computer and was able to stream songs it knew I owned on my home computer, but I had no way of knowing that would work because it didn't even show it had access to that artist at all! So weird!!!