kiwilistener Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 I was reconsidering my decision to roll back my subscription to the free version, while going through my artists list and noticed, to me a least a very big omission from the listings. I'm referring here to Robert Plant, a musician and singer that I've enjoyed listening to for the past 54 years. Imagine my surprise when I find Spotify has omitted the first two albums of Robert Plants, namely "Pictures at Eleven" and "Principal Of Moments". IMHO "Principle of Moments" is arguably his best solo album. Perhaps the Spotify curation team haven't heard of 1983 - the year this album dropped. Fortunately, I have a copy on CD, but if I'm in the car and using Spotify for in-car sounds for example - well I'm simply outta luck. What makes this even worse is the album features a couple of all-time greats, namely Phil Collins on drums and the late great Bob Mayo on keyboards - Ex Peter Frampton band mate. No royalties there methinks. If I'm paying a premium rate, then I want a premium service - to date Spotify still isn't worth the money. This is the 9th time I've found albums missing, Including the likes of Alan Parsons early albums (which I note have been reinstated), previously all we had was crappy remasters that again IMHO are nowhere near as good as the original albums. I for one would encourage Spotify users to carefully check the listings as there appears to be a vanishing albums trend currently. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POV Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Interesting. I just checked on Apple Music and both albums are there... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyse1 Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 39 minutes ago, kiwilistener said: I was reconsidering my decision to roll back my subscription to the free version, while going through my artists list and noticed, to me a least a very big omission from the listings. I'm referring here to Robert Plant, a musician and singer that I've enjoyed listening to for the past 54 years. Imagine my surprise when I find Spotify has omitted the first two albums of Robert Plants, namely "Pictures at Eleven" and "Principal Of Moments". IMHO "Principle of Moments" is arguably his best solo album. Perhaps the Spotify curation team haven't heard of 1983 - the year this album dropped. Fortunately, I have a copy on CD, but if I'm in the car and using Spotify for in-car sounds for example - well I'm simply outta luck. What makes this even worse is the album features a couple of all-time greats, namely Phil Collins on drums and the late great Bob Mayo on keyboards - Ex Peter Frampton band mate. No royalties there methinks. If I'm paying a premium rate, then I want a premium service - to date Spotify still isn't worth the money. This is the 9th time I've found albums missing, Including the likes of Alan Parsons early albums (which I note have been reinstated), previously all we had was crappy remasters that again IMHO are nowhere near as good as the original albums. I for one would encourage Spotify users to carefully check the listings as there appears to be a vanishing albums trend currently. Both on my Spotify 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POV Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 1 minute ago, keyse1 said: Both on my Spotify LOL...yep didn't occur to me to look at spotify. Confirm both albums available on Spotify at my place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAXXX Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 This is really interesting...on my Spotify (Premium) I can only see "The Principal Of Moments") under Albums (only showing 5 albums) but not "Pictures at Eleven" (my favourite). But when I search for "Pictures at Eleven", it's still at Spotify. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwilistener Posted April 6 Author Share Posted April 6 (edited) Well that just suxs. Still no sign of them on my Spotify account. Is it possible the search algorithm is not working correctly? Could explain a good deal. Edited April 6 by kiwilistener Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaynin Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Both in my Spotify - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaynin Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Don't want to tell you how to suck eggs, but just making sure, did you click on "Show All"? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwilistener Posted April 6 Author Share Posted April 6 Just now, Kaynin said: Don't want to tell you how to suck eggs, but just making sure, did you click on "Show All"? Sure did. I wonder if its dependent on what Spotify account you have, although there were many albums I found missing when I had a premium account last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaynin Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Odd behaviour, that's for sure. It's given me a case of FOMO... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrose Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 NZ vs Aus licensing and one of the things that sux about streaming services 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ariki Padlie Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 Had a look at my NZ Apple Music and Spotify Premium account and its definitely missing from there. Used to be there as i had a few tracks on a couple of Playlists. Lucky like you i still have the CDs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Beard Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Got both on my Aussie premium account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal beat Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Seems to more of a user failure. Both albums on my spotify as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray4410 Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 i have found that when an album is missing after selecting show all if you enter the album or track into the search bar it usually shows up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwilistener Posted May 2 Author Share Posted May 2 22 hours ago, metal beat said: Seems to more of a user failure. Both albums on my spotify as well. Not user error. The albums are missing off my premium account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwilistener Posted May 2 Author Share Posted May 2 21 hours ago, ray4410 said: i have found that when an album is missing after selecting show all if you enter the album or track into the search bar it usually shows up. Yep well aware of Spotify's function, even doing an album specific search returns a blank result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metal beat Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 2 hours ago, kiwilistener said: Not user error. The albums are missing off my premium account. But nobody else's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldrose Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 1 hour ago, metal beat said: But nobody else's. In Australia and @kiwilistener isn't located here. Licensing rights by country is very different for digital media. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Brix Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 I guess all streaming services have some (or many and/or ever changing) gaps in their artist coverage but (imo) at AUD21 per month for a family subscription it is still exceptional value and not what i'd personally call a failure. The low res streaming is fit for (my) casual, BGM, investigating, discovering...when i'm not able to carve out time for a dedicated listening sesh. I don't expect to have in one source every album ever released by every artist from every country in the world and cruising around other sources can most often find the 'missing' albums. We're so lucky to have the paid and unpaid options, although not perfect, but 'a hundred times better' compared to where we were when radio stations and record execs and importers of physical hardware decided what we could access. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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