One day very soon I'll be playing all my music in something else entirely again. While it's impossible to brush off the value of streaming services like Spotify, it's a huge step backwards on many levels.
We must demand better.
They don't randomly delete things. They remove content due to licensing expiring. Thank our backwards media licensing system for that.
Personally, if you don't own the content I don't think you can whine when it goes away.
We did?
It's a subscription service. Of course you don't own access.
I've suffered the same, as content agreements have changed, tracks have been made unavailable in playlists.
There's a setting in Spotify to see this; you can disable "hide unplayable tracks in playlists". You'll then see all the affected songs return, but greyed out.
> services like Spotify and Apple Music incourage extra data usage, and randomally delete music as they see fit
I certainly wouldn't use a service that deletes my music.
Now with Apple Music you don’t have the option to choose between WiFi/Cellular for downloaded music but Spotify doesn’t have that problem.