I ran sound at a friend's wedding recently and unfortunately the music was all on Spotify. Every time I tried to play a specific song from a playlist, "Spotify can't play this item right now" and it would skip to the next one (or the one after that). I ended up having to yt-dlp all the timeline-specific songs.

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BetterThanSober 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Probably due to business/commercial licensing, I'm sure they have separate account for playing music in a public space

	▲	mrguyorama 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But how would the App be deciding that? Listening for large crowds? Listening for it's own output from high output speakers? Spotify will keep the entry in a playlist even after they lose the rights to a song, or worse, keep the rights under a different internal database entry. That's how you get songs that they "Can't play right now", which is a horseshit error message for "Spotify doesn't have this song anymore" but they don't want you to recognize just how much their catalog is constantly rotting and rotating.