This feels like the Spotify version of the websites you find on Google that just scrape Stack Overflow
As Spotify's recommendations become more ingrained in how people listen to music they'll have to think about how to treat "song spam"
As Spotify's recommendations become more ingrained in how people listen to music they'll have to think about how to treat "song spam"
https://blog.echonest.com/post/48943428838/how-we-cope-with-...
Spotify is actually half-decent here. The other streaming services seem to mainly compete on cutting costs, and many are little more than frontends over 7digital's services (who, surprise, also do virtually nothing to prevent spam).
To take an example:
https://www.deezer.com/search/%22From%20the%20box%22/album
That particular spammer has been doing this thing for years. He's easily recognizable: one characteristic is the way he uses colour filters. If you search qobuz (one of these terrible front-end streaming services which does no QQ) for the label "piano to go", and say, the album "Joker Games", you'll notice it's uploaded once for Bill Haley, and once for Bill Haley & his Comets. That was apparently close enough to be detected as a duplicate, so he put a blue image filter on the latter.
Most of this guy's albums eventually get deleted (or delisted), even on sites like Qobuz - probably more for lack of plays than for being detected as spam, I'd bet. So you don't get his full history. But I found out the French library service made some effort to catalogue streaming releases a while back, and with access to search in those, you can track his evolution. He was a lot sloppier in the past, for instance he didn't bother to come up with a new label name for every dump. But he's been at it since at least 2015.
Tidal still has him, though: https://tidal.com/browse/album/241125359