Another Spotify failure.

[kiwilistener]

I was reconsidering my decision to roll back my subscription to the free version, while going through my artists list and noticed, to me a least a very big omission from the listings.
I'm referring here to Robert Plant, a musician and singer that I've enjoyed listening to for the past 54 years. Imagine my surprise when I find Spotify has omitted the first two albums of Robert Plants, namely "Pictures at Eleven" and "Principal Of Moments".

 

IMHO "Principle of Moments" is arguably his best solo album. Perhaps the Spotify curation team haven't heard of 1983 - the year this album dropped.

Fortunately, I have a copy on CD, but if I'm in the car and using Spotify for in-car sounds for example - well I'm simply outta luck. What makes this even worse is the album features a couple of all-time greats, namely Phil Collins on drums and the late great Bob Mayo on keyboards - Ex Peter Frampton band mate.  No royalties there methinks.

If I'm paying a premium rate, then I want a premium service - to date Spotify still isn't worth the money. This is the 9th time I've found albums missing, Including the likes of Alan Parsons early albums (which I note have been reinstated), previously all we had was crappy remasters that again IMHO are nowhere near as good as the original albums.

I for one would encourage Spotify users to carefully check the listings as there appears to be a vanishing albums trend currently.

[POV]

Interesting.  I just checked on Apple Music and both albums are there...

[keyse1]

39 minutes ago, kiwilistener said:

I was reconsidering my decision to roll back my subscription to the free version, while going through my artists list and noticed, to me a least a very big omission from the listings.
I'm referring here to Robert Plant, a musician and singer that I've enjoyed listening to for the past 54 years. Imagine my surprise when I find Spotify has omitted the first two albums of Robert Plants, namely "Pictures at Eleven" and "Principal Of Moments".

 

IMHO "Principle of Moments" is arguably his best solo album. Perhaps the Spotify curation team haven't heard of 1983 - the year this album dropped.

Fortunately, I have a copy on CD, but if I'm in the car and using Spotify for in-car sounds for example - well I'm simply outta luck. What makes this even worse is the album features a couple of all-time greats, namely Phil Collins on drums and the late great Bob Mayo on keyboards - Ex Peter Frampton band mate.  No royalties there methinks.

If I'm paying a premium rate, then I want a premium service - to date Spotify still isn't worth the money. This is the 9th time I've found albums missing, Including the likes of Alan Parsons early albums (which I note have been reinstated), previously all we had was crappy remasters that again IMHO are nowhere near as good as the original albums.

I for one would encourage Spotify users to carefully check the listings as there appears to be a vanishing albums trend currently.

Both on my Spotify 

[POV]

1 minute ago, keyse1 said:

Both on my Spotify 

 

LOL...yep didn't occur to me to look at spotify.    Confirm both albums available on Spotify at my place!

[MAXXX]

This is really interesting...on my Spotify (Premium) I can only see "The Principal Of Moments") under Albums (only showing 5 albums) but not "Pictures at Eleven" (my favourite).

But when I search for "Pictures at Eleven", it's still at Spotify.

[kiwilistener]

Well that just suxs. Still no sign of them on my Spotify account. 

Is it possible the search algorithm is not working correctly? Could explain a good deal.

Edited April 6, 2024 by kiwilistener

[Kaynin]

Both in my Spotify -

 

[Kaynin]

Don't want to tell you how to suck eggs, but just making sure, did you click on "Show All"?

 

[kiwilistener]

Just now, Kaynin said:

Don't want to tell you how to suck eggs, but just making sure, did you click on "Show All"?

 

 

Sure did. I wonder if its dependent on what Spotify account you have, although there were many albums I found missing when I had a premium account last year.

[Kaynin]

Odd behaviour, that's for sure.  It's given me a case of FOMO...

[oldrose]

NZ vs Aus licensing and one of the things that sux about streaming services 

[Ariki Padlie]

Had a look at my NZ Apple Music and Spotify Premium account and its definitely missing from there. Used to be there as i had a few tracks on a couple of Playlists. Lucky like you i still have the CDs. 

[Terry Beard]

Got both on my Aussie premium account.

[metal beat]

Seems to more of a user failure. 

 

Both albums on my spotify as well.

[ray4410]

i have found that when an album is missing after selecting show all if you enter the album or track into the search bar it usually shows up.

[kiwilistener]

22 hours ago, metal beat said:

Seems to more of a user failure. 

 

Both albums on my spotify as well.

Not user error. The albums are missing off my premium account.

[kiwilistener]

21 hours ago, ray4410 said:

i have found that when an album is missing after selecting show all if you enter the album or track into the search bar it usually shows up.

Yep well aware of Spotify's function, even doing an album specific search returns a blank result.

[metal beat]

2 hours ago, kiwilistener said:

Not user error. The albums are missing off my premium account.

 

But nobody else's. 

[oldrose]

1 hour ago, metal beat said:

 

But nobody else's. 

In Australia and @kiwilistener isn't located here. Licensing rights by country is very different for digital media.

[2Brix]

I guess all streaming services have some (or many and/or ever changing) gaps in their artist coverage but (imo) at AUD21 per month for a family subscription it is still exceptional value and not what i'd personally call a failure.  The low res streaming is fit for (my) casual, BGM, investigating, discovering...when i'm not able to carve out time for a dedicated listening sesh.  I don't expect to have in one source every album ever released by every artist from every country in the world and cruising around other sources can most often find the 'missing' albums.  We're so lucky to have the paid and unpaid options, although not perfect, but 'a hundred times better' compared to where we were when radio stations and record execs and importers of physical hardware decided what we could access.