Advanced search using 'label:' not working as expected (few or no results)

[AnotherMusicFan]

Hej,

sadly advanced search is not working the way it used to - if a music fan wants to check releases by a specific record label many recordings that do exist on spotify, and should be included in the search result are omitted.

why?

I stumbled on so many instances of this problem in the last time, so is this a permanent change? has it something to do with licenses? but why are results omitted that were factually releases on specified label, and also seem to be listed as such in the spotify db (if you check the album information)?

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an example:

when I used the example query string:

year:2016 label:"deutsche grammophon"

it returned few uninteresting compilations only, and COUNTLESS releases were omitted (even though they were actually released by the respective label in 2016 and are available on spotify)

you can see two of the omitted releases in the screenshots that I added - with red arrows pointing to year and label info (to show how inexplicable it must seem that they get omitted)

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sadly this new behaviour affects also results from spotify api's  "search" endpoint - query tasks (checking multiple labels) that used to find ten thousands of results are now limited to a few hundred.

makes it also impossible to search for new interesting releases by a specific label via spotify.as far as I know many music fans think that especially this issue takes a lot of value from spotify,

would be awesome if you could change this sometime,

Best regards, Antonio

[Xentrix]

Agreed! I made a similar thread addressing this issue earlier this year which has been deleted for some reason??

(https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Search-by-record-label-but-show-all-results-not-limit-to...)

Advanced search results are now been limited to 100 songs and 100 albums, even if there are more than 100 results that meet the search criteria. This did not used to be the case. Please change this back, Spotify (if you are not going to introduce any other advanced search option!)