Calm before the storm Spotify playlist gone

[chrisdmrose]

Plan

Premium

Country

Canada

Device

(Pixel 4a, Windows 10 App, Website)

Operating System

(Android 13, Windows 10,etc.)

My Question or Issue

Why is the Spotify playlist, Calm before the Storm, gone? Searching for it in the app and website only bring up user created playlists. The link to the playlsit, I included below, which Google still has indexed and is referenced in many places online, gives an error page.

Please bring back this playlist.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWWTdxbiocWOL

[bobsyeruncle]

Yes!! Please Spotify, bring back this playlist. My son and I listen to it every week on "boys night", while we mine and craft.

[AlejaR]

Hey folks,

Thanks for posting in the Community and welcome.

We could find the mentioned playlist on our side, by typing its name in the search bar and filtering through playlists. You can use this link to locate it. Just to confirm, are you able to see the other of these mixes in the Made for you section? It'd be awesome if you could check. To do it, go to search> Made for you. This is the same flow for both mobile devices and the desktop app.

On another note, we'd like to add some insights. Keep in mind that this kind of playlist is autogenerated and personalized, and it's expected they update regularly. If you can see other niche playlists in the Made for you section, then hopefully the Calm before the storm one will reappear soon there.

Keep us in the loop!

[steamboaaat]

That is not the same playlist as the one that disappeared earlier this week. There was an official Calm Before The Storm playlist that was created by Spotify, rather than a mix as the one you linked to is. Why was the curated playlist that chrisdmrose linked to removed?

[chrisdmrose]

Just to second what steamboaat said; this is not the same playlist!

Here's an archive link to the removed playlist: https://web.archive.org/web/20230315033146/https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWWTdxbiocWOL

Notice its made by Spotify, has its own fancy cover, and a description. This is not some auto-generated mix, like the one you've linked.

The questions remain unanswered: why was this playlist removed? When will you bring it back?

[Maria]

Hey there folks,

Thanks for raising this with us on the Community!

The playlists curated by Spotify updates regularly - sometimes you may see new tracks being added to a list you're following or you may notice that you can no longer find a playlist you listened to before.

We appreciate your feedback on this, and we'll keep our fingers crossed a similar one will appear again in the future.

Cheers!

[chrisdmrose]

Or maybe, we can un-delete that curated playlist?

[Drummerfrommars]

This has been my go-to-playlist for focused work every day for like 4 years (PhD student). Why can't it be brought back?

Somethings don't have to be switched up, especially not the most popular ones.

[daaags]

I was very sad to see it gone too. It is archived at an external service here, for everyone who is as sad as I was: https://spotifyplaylistarchive.com (just search for "Calm before the Storm").
If you have other playlists you like, you can ask them to archive them via "add a playlist". It only creates lists though. 

That being said, I realised quite a lot of the playlists in "my" library are gone, including ones I have listed to many, many times. I really find this a very bad call on Spotify's side, as it surely cannot take that much space to just leave curated playlists that are still being listened to online (without updating them, if you so wish). It also happened to several Latin ones I used to listen to. After over 10 years as a premium user, this really makes me think of going back to a non-streaming service, so "my" music is really owned by me, and not being taken away by bad decisions, such as this one.