Is Spotify stealing my music?

[davaloseven]

I've been an paying user for awhile, and today i notice a related artist appear in my feed, so I clicked on the name, and played my favorite song of his, and I noticed something familiar about this song. I own the 7" of this song which i ripped, and added to my music collection, and when I played the Spotify instance of this song it was the same as my local ripped from vinyl version.

Is Spotify allowed, or supposed to be doing this?  Sounds fishy to me.

[MauriceMV]

You sure you're not just playing the local version you've added and are you sure they dont just sound exactly the same? As far as we as a community know, Spotify doesnt steal music and it doesnt need to since it has deals with most (major) record labels. 

[tapenoon]

Is the song added to your local files? If it is it could be that Spotify is just playing your local file instead of streaming the version in their catalogue. I've had this happen before, and yes the song was available on Spotify, specifically it was Hole's "Violet". I know because instead of the album version that i have in my local files it played a live version from a live bootleg (album tag missing, also added in my local files). The problem was solved when i unsynced the folders - then it streamed the album version from their catalogue. 

[MauriceMV]

If the local file is added to a playlist, Spotify plays that one instead of the one from their library. 

[tapenoon]

@MauriceMV: in my case I'd tried to listen to the song on the artist's page not in a playlist. Maybe it was a bug at the time, dunno, it happened a while ago, maybe a year? 

[MauriceMV]

If it was about a year ago it might have been a bug indeed. They've since released a completely new client.

[davaloseven]

I'm positive. My local copy appears as well as the Spotify version as part of an album I don't know. When you rip from vinyl there's a pretty distinct sound. You can hear the popping in my copy and when in play the spotify version I hear the same popping and to top it off there's a significant delay before the song starts which also happens with the Spotify version.

[davaloseven]

I bet this is the issue. It must be playing my local file to save the bandwidth. How can i unsync my folders?

[Skellingtor]

Go to your Settings and turn off all local files locations there. Restart the app just to make sure they go away.