Amazon Music deleting/ moving lots of content? Any way of identifying or fixing what is changed?

[Jimbob54]

I play my whole Amazon music library on shuffle (on PC app) . I have noticed recently, more so than the last couple of years of use, that lots of tracks are coming up as "cannot find/ cannot play". I am aware Amazon, like all services, sometimes change versions of albums under the hood but I suspect they might have had quite a large change recently. Can anyone confirm, or more importantly say if there is any way of looking through a 10k album library on there to find out of date links and/ or getting the service to repopulate?

Every time I have noticed it and clocked the track in question, there has been a version of the album on the servers so adding back is easy. But I dont know what I have "lost" until I notice a track error on shuffle.

It would be too much to hope Amazon would replace old version with new in users libraries, wouldn't it?

 

[Curvature]

Incredibly irresponsible of the company from an archival perspective.

 

[Jimbob54]

Incredibly irresponsible of the company from an archival perspective.

Luckily I use soundiiz to back up my favs /library (unhelpfully amazon don't grant it decent api access) plus Spotify in reserve so I would never "lose" much. But if they started doing this for whole labels /distributors there would be hell on!

 

[MaxwellsEq]

If you've paid for the tracks, it seems unreasonable for Amazon to make changes. If you have them as files, move them to somewhere else and use a different music manager.

 

[Jimbob54]

If you've paid for the tracks, it seems unreasonable for Amazon to make changes. If you have them as files, move them to somewhere else and use a different music manager.

Sorry if I mislead. I'm talking about the streaming service. Not tracks I have bought. So I have "added' content they host into my library. I haven't bought the content.