[saurik]

> I can’t imagine a single Spotify user ever saying: “Please make sure you never tell me the members of the band.”

Does Spotify even know who was in the band? Is that metadata anyone attached to the tracks? Sure: if it wasn't they could have asked for it, but if they already have a ton of music without that metadata is the feature ever going to be useful as an afterthought? Does any other music platform have this feature? This example is so weird it is making it really difficult for me to concentrate on whatever point they are trying to make.

[adamauckland]

Spotify only knows what you tell it.

Currently, you can add a Bio, links to social media sites and create an image gallery, but the admin section isn't particularly smart, I can't see anywhere to set specific data like band members or timelines.

Not sure who's expected to admin all of this though, I'm published on 30+ streaming music platforms including Spotify and iTunes and I don't have time to go round adding data to all of them.

[pschuegr]

Every song on Spotify has a credits list which you can get to in a couple of clicks. Some of them have band members.

[syrrim]

They could pull it from wikidata pretty easily. This would cover all major bands and many more minor ones.

[saurik]

Oh, maybe for like, really organized groups. But even those change over time. Most of the musicians I know just work with random one-off hires when they get around to recording a track.

[swivelmaster]

That's not a member of the band, that's a session musician. Not the same thing.