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Original story (published on September 22, 2021) follows:

Spotify is one of the world’s most popular audio streaming and media service used by millions of users. Gradually, it gained popularity, the reason being its quality services, a wide range of songs, and podcasts.

You can listen to any song or podcast you want, anywhere at the ease of network, create your own playlist, or choose from top genres, and much more.

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Spotify supports different devices that run Android, iOS, or Windows, hence, it’s a dynamic music player. However, some users have been facing issues while using the service in their car or watch via Bluetooth.

Well, being software, the bugs may appear often and Spotify is no exception. Recently, some of the users have reported that, while playing songs or using Spotify client on their car radio using Bluetooth they have encountered a bug in the metadata.

The metadata is basically the description of the audio you are listening to, it includes info such as song name, artist, genre, and more. And the issue is related to that metadata which isn’t changing when users change the track.

In contrast, while changing the track of the music, the application is stuck on showing previous track info, rather than changing it. While the next audio is being played perfectly.

When I use the spotify client in the car with bluetooth connection to the car radio, the track info update on the car display stops when I press the track change buttons. (Next track for example) While I don’t change the track, the update is fine, but after that it stops working. (The display will always show the title, artist and album of the current track, and this display will not change.) My current client version is 8.6.62.1029, but when I upgraded to the previous version the display went bad, before that it worked fine.

This feature works well with other player programs, e.g. Rocket player, Youtube. – Source

This same issue also seems to bother watch users. Or specifically, a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 user has also reported that the current track is not updated when skipping forward. It could be that other watch users are also facing the issue, but we haven’t come across more reports yet.

This Spotify wrong metadata on car radio doesn’t seem to be a big issue though, it might be misleading sometimes and confuse users. Affected by this bug, several users have reported on the community section of Spotify and asked for a fix as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, the wrong metadata bug has been brought into the consideration of the concerned team and they’re investigating. Furthermore, it has also promised to sort out the problem very soon.

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These kinds of problems aren’t supposed to happen often. But these are also not something to worry about. Being a regular user, if this same Spotify wrong metadata bug is also annoying you on your car radio or the watch, then let us know in the comments below.

Update 1 (November 12)

IST 11:21 am: In an email response to one of these affected persons, Spotify notes that they still have their best techs working on it.

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