I have used Spotify for years, in spite of the fact that they pay artists terribly - the reason for this was that out of all the streaming services, they had the largest and most complete weekly playlist of new releases.
Having a new release playlist like this is quite important for DJs (or people who curate popular playlists… or people who just like music). I searched online and found that people have made posts on reddit stating that their new release playlists have also been severely limited.
After going to the Spotify forums, I came upon the bullshit I have linked, in which a Spotify employee tells everyone complaining that the playlist has always been limited to 30 tracks, and if anyone received more it was a temporary glitch (despite people providing evidence of having 200 tracks for 5+ years), or was caused by external factors (??? lol).
Personally I hate it when companies do things like this. I am not sure whether they are trying to get their power users to quit, or if they truly believe that they can get away with lying so blatantly.
I have decided that I will no longer be supporting them. Figured I would share in case anyone needs to make a decision regarding which service to go with.
I’ve had good luck with it up until now, besides the occasional cover by a no name artist who pretended that they worked with the original creator.
Recently ran into this with an artist that did a cover of a song by a popular band from 40ish years ago and the cover artist had the gal to date their song to earlier than the original so it looked like they were the original when you searched for the song. The only clue to their trickery was to drill down into the individual song credits and the fan that they were a no name artist that self-labelled their genre as 80s rock, like no artist from the actual era would. Spotify will outright refuse to fix any of this bad metadata and tells you to contact their label, as if that will ever work.