SKIPPING TRACKS in my PLAYLIST

[Jazzwhatever]

Hey Guys,

I'm using Spotify for 3 years now and i'm happy about the service.

But recently i noticed alot of songs i put in playlists from 2013 and onwards are skipped when played. @Sanik007

Just now i checked my playlist spotify:user:jazzwhat:playlist:1Cb5j0CyA78Zm7kMYWBTO0

with songs from Nico, John Martyn, The Notwist, Heron, Karin Krog, Ohio Players and they were ALL skipping the original content. I searched for similar tracks. Same title, same artist, and i found the 'NEW' tracks. I had to do this HANDpicking them.

But WHY aren't the ORIGINAL tracks automatically replaced by the NEW tracks? I think this is a FAULT in the Spotify program. Please, content manager replace old tracks with the same (new) (remastered) tracks in the database. THANKS!

[user-removed]

@Jazzwhatever

Hello:

Was any of the tracks greyed out in your playlists, and when you went to those artist pages the albums was there anyway?

[Jazzwhatever]

Hey,

No the tracks were not greyed out. They look normal. And in the options i have turned off 'show non available songs in playlists".

Anyway, thanks for helping find a solution 🙂 

[user-removed]

@Jazzwhatever

Hum might consider posting a bug report if it happens again. Are you in the desktop beta for the Spotify app as well? 

[Jazzwhatever]

No i'm not in the beta. Where can i post the bug report? On the forum, or directly to Spotify?

[user-removed]

@Jazzwhatever

Here you go, there used to a standard template to fill out somewhere, you might be able to find one from one of the Help area boards for device issues, and use it for the Bugs/Ongoing Issues board when reporting this issue?

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/idb-p/Spotify_Bugs

Has it happened again? I usually have the show unplayable tracks turned on, so that I know when content becomes unavailble for an artist in my playlists. And then I can double check artist pages to see if this is not simply a case of content just begin updated or uploaded again which ends up usually creating a new URI and HTTP link to the release again sometimes. I know the desktop apps are supposed to help automate this with content going missing and/or being added back again for users with the content in playlist, but maybe this is not happening for you for some reason?

Just an FYI having the show unplayable tracks option turned on for playlists, this option does help users identify tracks as greyed out unplayable from content that might sometimes show from artist pages and/or album page views as white playable. I came across a track from a Korn rarities release called Live & Rare - the track, One - Live from MTV ICON: Metallica, the track shows white as if it is available to play but when placed in a playlist with the option of show unplayable tracks shows up grey out, not playable. I know this might be slightly different from your issue. but maybe this is tied into a bug somewhere, and users are seeing different results with unplayable content, and/or linking errors to the auto linking system to the same or similar tracks feature that used to exist with the old apps using the little chain symbols?

Also I have to state this, but have you tried doing a clean reinstall of the Spotify apps on your system? Also a log out, system and/or device reboot, and login to the Spotify apps can sometimes clear up odd issues from time to time.

[Jazzwhatever]

Here is one example @user-removed: Metallica master of puppets, 36 million plays, when i click it, it skips: Also, only two tracks of this album can be played.

spotify:track:6NwbeybX6TDtXlpXvnUOZC

Dinosaur Jr. - track 7 repulsion skips:

spotify:track:08UcMSkRAYP4nAa9O5mO57

Oasis - Definatley maybe, this version skips all tracks, the remastered version works fine.

spotify:album:5oBu6p7A3dkENZDfQGGh2G

Anyway, i will file the bug report. Thanks for your feedback.

[user-removed]

@Jazzwhatever

Strange, I did a quick look up for all of those releases using this site here: http://kaaes.github.io/albums-availability/ the site only does look ups for album links not single track links, so I had to find album links from each artist you posted the album tracks from, and I double checked availability, not sure what might be happening here, you might have a weird issue with the auto linking feature. You might try turning on show unplayable tracks for a short while and see what happens next in your playlists? Like I posted before sometimes when the content gets updated on artists pages the auto link feature does not work so well, other times it works like it should. And with multiple releases available for different listening regions due to odd licensing requirements from labels in certain markets, there is no mystery really that this does not work so smoothly as planned.

Had this happen with the release of Korn's See You On The Other Side. I had the older release that had been available from the Virgin label, but when the artist page was updated last Friday with a new album link of that release, some of the tracks auto linked over, and some tracks from the release did not. I had to drag and drop the whole release again in my artist collection playlist to get everything over to it so everything would play and not be skipped by the Spotify apps from unavailable tracks in the collection playlist I have.