Songs Keep Getting Deleted

[johnny00]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

My Question or Issue

Songs on Spotify keep getting deleted, usually by the artists themselves. Sometimes I’m able to find a re-upload of the same song, sometimes the artist removes their whole account. There does not seem to be any way to ensure the songs I add to a playlist are playable by any person I send it to. For a large playlist, this means that a large number of the songs in it might disappear.

Even if downloading them to my device would solve the issue for me (not that I have the storage space), this means that these songs would only exist on my device.

Why is a $60 billion company worse for sharing music than youtube-to-mp3 plus a stack of CDs?

I’m aware that this problem is likely not going to change - but it’s very unfortunate that my playlists will deteriorate over time, and that several of the songs I included in the attached image were not available anywhere other than Spotify, meaning there is now no way to ever listen to them. Does Spotify care about media preservation?

[johnny00]

One of these songs “The Ugly American” by Big Black, seems to have undeleted itself since making this post, although the band page for Big Black is clearly bugged, such that it shows a list of albums, but no songs. Makes me wonder if these bands are being deleted by the artists themselves, or due to some buggy behavior in Spotify backend.